King Avenue
| King Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Highland Park |
| Origin of name | Alexander King |
King Avenue is so named because it was built through the property of Alexander King to Baywood, his estate.[1]
Bob Regan includes "King" in his "Streets of Pittsburgh" crossword puzzle, clued as "A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom."[2] Unfortunately this is just a dictionary definition of the word king and gives no information about the origin of the name.
Similarly, in a 1937 newspaper column about Pittsburgh street names, Charles F. Danver quipped, "There's a Card lane and an Ace way, a King avenue, a Queen street and a Jack way. (Oh, yes—and Riffle way.) Your correspondent looked hopefully for a Deuces Wild way, but with his usual luck. It's too bad when a guy can't even find a deuce on the map!"[3] Pittsburgh still has no Deuces Wild Way, but it does have One Wild Place.
See also
- Kenney Way in Polish Hill and the Strip District, originally named King Alley
References
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 2, plates 27, 36. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1904-volume-2-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1904-vol-2
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, pp. 183–186. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ Charles F. Danver. Pittsburghesque. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 12, 1937, p. 8. Newspapers.com 90316941. [view source] danver-1937
