Homewood Avenue
From Pittsburgh Streets
See also Northumberland Street, which was part of Homewood Avenue from 1881 to 1901.
| Homewood Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Homewood North, Homewood South, Point Breeze, Point Breeze North |
| Origin of name | Homewood, the Wilkins family estate |
The 1862 map of S. N. and F. W. Beers shows an unlabeled road in the location of modern Homewood Avenue between Penn Avenue and Frankstown Avenue, crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad at Homewood Station.[1] The full street, labeled Homewood Avenue, appears in the 1872 Hopkins atlas.[2]
It is named for Homewood, the estate of William Wilkins (1779–1865).[3] The Homewood neighborhood (officially divided into Homewood North, Homewood South, and Homewood West) is also named for this estate.[4]
Homewood Avenue was officially split into two streets, North Homewood Avenue and South Homewood Avenue, on either side of Penn Avenue, by a city ordinance in 1915.[5]
References
- ↑ S. N. & F. W. Beers. Map of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Smith, Gallup & Hewitt, Philadelphia, 1862. LCCN 2012592151; https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/31783; 1862 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] beers
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, pp. 65, 67. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1872. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1872-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1872
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 61. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ Annie Clark Miller. Early Land Marks and Names of Old Pittsburgh: An Address Delivered Before the Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution at Carnegie Institute, Nov. 30, 1923, pp. 46–48. Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. Historic Pittsburgh 00awn8211m; Internet Archive earlylandmarksna00mill. [view source] miller
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets and ways in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1915, no. 117. Passed Apr. 28, 1915; approved Apr. 29, 1915. Ordinance Book 26, p. 615. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1915, appendix, pp. 99–103, Arlington Printing Co., Pittsburgh, 1915 (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1915). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, May 7, 1915, sporting section, p. 4 (Newspapers.com 88028157), May 8, p. 15 (Newspapers.com 88028802), and May 10, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 88030672). [view source] ordinance-1915-117
