Montooth Street
| Montooth Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Beltzhoover |
| Origin of name | Borough of Montooth, named for Edward A. Montooth |
| West Street (until 1898) | |
| Portion | South of Freeland Street |
| Origin of name | Western boundary of the first Beltzhoover plan and later of Beltzhoover Borough |
| West Alley (until 1898) | |
| Portion | North of Freeland Street |
| Origin of name | Western boundary of the first Beltzhoover plan and later of Beltzhoover Borough |
This street was laid out in 1874 as West Street (and West Alley north of modern Freeland Street) by Benjamin McLain and Thomas S. Maple in their first plan of Beltzhoover, so called because it was the western edge of the plan.[1] The next year it became the western boundary of the newly created Borough of Beltzhoover.[2]
The Borough of Beltzhoover was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1898.[3] The city already had a West Street downtown, so the street in Beltzhoover was changed to Montooth Street by a Pittsburgh ordinance that same year.[4] This name referred to the Borough of Montooth, which had been formed to the west of this street in 1897.[5] The renaming ordinance mentioned only West Street, not West Alley, but it seems to have had the effect of renaming both.
According to George T. Fleming, the borough and street were named for Major Edward A. Montooth, adjutant of the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry in the American Civil War, later an attorney for many years. Fleming described him as "a gentleman by instinct, an eloquent orator and a friend that typified all that is to be conveyed by the word friendship."[6]
References
- ↑ "McLain and Maple's 1st plan of Beltzhoover, being the first plan of lots laid out on the Murray Farm, Lower St. Clair Tp., 32nd Ward City of Pittsburgh: formerly Borough of Mt. Washington." Recorded May 25, 1874, Plan Book 5, pp. 298–299. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3779260. [view source] mclain-maple-beltzhoover-plan-1
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Beltzhoover Borough 1875 Creation." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/beltzhoover-borough-1875-creation/. [view source] lgeo-beltzhoover-creation
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Beltzhoover Borough–Pittsburgh City 1898 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/beltzhoover-borough-pittsburgh-city-1898-merger/. [view source] lgeo-beltzhoover-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets and alleys in the Thirty-eighth ward of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1898, no. 19. Passed May 2, 1898; approved May 3, 1898. Ordinance Book 12, p. 70. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Select Council of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1898–99, appendix, p. 7, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1899 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecordselect1898). Reprinted in the Pittsburg Post, May 14, 1898, p. 6 (Newspapers.com 86413903), and May 16, p. 6 (Newspapers.com 86414393). [view source] ordinance-1898-19
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Montooth Borough 1897 Creation." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/montooth-borough-1897-creation/. [view source] lgeo-montooth-creation
- ↑ George T. Fleming. "Names recall Civil War heroes: Soldiers of national and local fame well commemorated in Pittsburgh: Battles also live." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, May 30, 1915, sec. 5, p. 2. Newspapers.com 85758872. [view source] fleming-civil-war
