Notes:Ebdy Street
Source:Hopkins-1890-vol-4, plate 22: parcel owned by Maria L. Eddy [sic].
Source:Ordinance-1919-427 established opening grade.
Source:Ordinance-1920-26 approved the Ebdy Orchard plan, accepted the dedication of Ebdy Street, opened and named it, and established its grade.
Source:Hopkins-1923-vol-2, plate 28: Ebdy Street. The western part of the street is in plan I, "Ebdy Orchard Plan, V. 28 p. 123," while the eastern part is in plan H, "Thos. B. Sutch, V. 3 p. 88." What is that Sutch plan? I can't find it.
Extension eastward to Beechwood Boulevard
1926-12-13: Source:Municipal-record-1926, p. 883: "No. 2531. An Ordinance providing for the opening of Ebdy street, in the Fourteenth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, from its present easterly terminus to Beechwood Boulevard."
1926-12-20: Source:Municipal-record-1926, p. 902: "No. 2600. Communication from I. H. Aaron protesting against passage of ordinance accepting the dedication of Ebdy street, Fourteenth Ward." (Source:Hopkins-1923-vol-2, plate 28, shows I. H. Aaron at the corner of Beechwood Boulevard and Caton Street.)
1926-12-21: Source:Bill-to-open-irwin: "PROTEST STREET OPENING. ¶ A petition, protesting against the opening of Ebdy street, on the ground that the new street is useless, was filed by I. H. Aaron."
1927-01-04: "Yesterday in Council," Pittsburgh Gazette Times, p. 20 (Newspapers.com 86498834): "An ordinance accepting the dedication of property for the opening of Ebdy street, Fourteenth Ward, was received. The Planning Commission submitted a letter protesting the opening of the thoroughfare from its eastern terminus to Beechwood boulevard. The commission believed, according to the letter, that opening streets into main traffic arteries such as Beechwood boulevard at intervals of 150 feet is 'wrong in principle, especially in locations where a better and more profitable development could be obtained without such opening.'"
1927-01-05: "Council pat on purchase of playground site," Pittsburgh Post, p. 5 (Newspapers.com 86806408): "The ordinance for the opening of Ebdy street into Beechwood boulevard was held over for a hearing to be given next Wednesday. The city planning commission opposes the opening on the theory that opening streets onto a main artery at intervals of 150 feet is not good practice."
1927-01-13: "Ebdy street project is fought in Council," Pittsburgh Gazette Times, p. 14 (Newspapers.com 86499042)
1927-01-13: "Planning commission blocks Ebdy street opening," Pittsburgh Post, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86806660)
1927-01-25: "Council exempts Central Y. W. C. A. from water rents," Pittsburgh Post, p. 9 (Newspapers.com 88189331): "Marie [sic] L. Ebdy submitted a communication relative to the proposed opening of Ebdy street into Beechwood boulevard. The opening is opposed by the city planning commission. The many property owners of the Ebdy plan, formerly a large tract in the Fourteenth ward, the communication states, have understood that the opening to the boulevard would be made, since the boulevard was but a road."
1927-02-06: "Petition Council on street opening: Ebdy street owners want opening on boulevard," Pittsburgh Sunday Post, sec. 1, p. 2 (Newspapers.com 86676154)
1927-02-08: "Planning board asks increases in schedule of city salaries," Pittsburgh Post, pp. 1, 8 (Newspapers.com 86676245, 86676252): "EBDY STREET PETITION UP. ¶ Petitions were presented for the acceptance of the dedication of Ebdy street, Fourteenth ward, into Beechwood boulevard; . . . ."
1927-02-20: "Bill aims to codify city planning laws," Pittsburgh Gazette Times, [p. 2] (Newspapers.com 86468825): "Ebdy Street Rejection Recalled. ¶ The principal item in which the commission would be shorn of its power is the opening of new plans of lots, involving the opening or dedication of streets. An example of this was seen in the recent attempt to open Ebdy street, in the Fourteenth Ward. ¶ Plats for a new plan of lots in the vicinity of Ebdy street, which now extends from Shady avenue to a property line, were submitted to the commission with the proposition that it be opened to Beechwood boulevard. The commission rejected it on the grounds that it was unnecessary and would create a traffic hazard at the boulevard. ¶ Later a dedicating ordinance was presented to council. It was found that body could not approve the proposal, since the planning commission had the final word. By the change to be made in the codification the proposition could be accepted in council, if it gained a three-fourths vote."
1927-04-18: Source:Ordinance-1927-315 located Ebdy Street from the easterly boundary line of the Ebdy Orchard Plan of Lots to Beechview Boulevard.
1927-05-02: Source:Ordinance-1927-411 opened Ebdy Street from the easterly boundary line of the Ebdy Orchard Plan of Lots to Beechwood Boulevard.
Genealogy
Maria L. Ebdy
Source:Ebdy-obit-sun-telegraph: Born 1850-10-16 in Sixth Ward, died 1939-12-16. Widow of Charles T. Ebdy.
Edward Schenley Ebdy
Source:Edward-schenley-ebdy: Son of Charles D. and Louise M. Ebdy.
Source:Edward-schenley-ebdy-findagrave: Gravestone says "Died April 21 1880: in the 23rd year of his age."
