Notes:Summerlea Street
1872-12-23, Common Council (Source:Municipal-record-1872, p. 126): "New Surveys. ¶ Mr. John Fleming presented the report of the Survey Committee. Report received and filed. ¶ Business accompanying the report was disposed of as voted. Profiles of the following streets: . . . , Sewer street, . . . , all of which were approved."
- Also "Pittsburgh Councils," Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, 1872-12-24, [p. 4] (Newspapers.com 89459511).
"Street surveys," Pittsburgh Commercial, 1873-07-14, [p. 4] (Newspapers.com 85643520): "Mr. Duff, from the sub-committee on change of grade of Ellsworth avenue, reported that the committee agreed to recommend a change of 1.17 to the hundred feet from Ivy street to Oak, and from Oak about two feet to the hundred to Aiken avenue. On motion of Mr. Morgan it was ordered that a drop of eighteen inches be made at Oak street, making a uniform grade from Oak to Sewer street east, and from Oak west to Aiken avenue at the grade line."
"Survey Committee," Pittsburgh Gazette, 1873-07-14, p. 1 (Newspapers.com 86342206): "On behalf of the sub-committee on the change of grade of Ellsworth avenue, Mr. Duff reported that they had agreed to reconsider [sic] a change of 1.17 to the hundredth [sic] feet from Ivy street to Oak, and from Oak about two hundred [sic] feet to the hundred to Aiken avenue. On motion of Mr. Morgan it was ordered that a drop of eighteen inches be made at Oak street, making a uniform grade from Oak to Sewer street, and from Oak west to Aiken avenue at the grade line."
Source:Robert-b-craig-plan (Oct. 1873): The northernmost segment appears at the edge of the plan, labeled just "Street 50 Ft."
- "Summerlea street, from Holden street to P. R. R., formerly Sewer street, Twentieth ward."
- Note also "Seward street, from Rutledge street to Property line, formerly Sheridan street, Thirty-fifth ward."
Source:Hopkins-1882, plate 18: "Summerlea St." in the plan of "Mrs. A. McFarland." Maybe this is the plan that laid it out and named it Sewer Street. It seems likely that this plan was never recorded. It soon became obsolete anyway: Source:Db-maxwell-et-ux-plan was laid out in 1886 in much the same place.
Source:Ordinance-1882-1883-9: "Establishing the location of Vista, Harriett, Villa, Amber, Coral, Fairmount, Negley, Beatty, Sewer, O'Hara, Whitfield and Baum streets and Centre, Friendship and Euclid avenues, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth wards."
Source:Ordinance-1887-1888-252: "Locating Summerlea street, from Elmer street to Walnut street. ¶ . . . ¶ . . . Summerlea street, formerly Sewer street, . . . ."
Source:Ordinance-1894-1895-116: "Approving, confirming and locating certain streets and avenues in the City of Pittsburgh, as laid out in a certain plan, known as 'McFarland's Grove Plan,' Twentieth ward, approved by Councils December 28, 1870; the names of said streets being as follows: . . . , Sewer (now Summerlea) street, . . . ."
Source:Ordinance-1894-1895-117: "Approving, confirming and locating certain streets and avenues in the City of Pittsburgh, as laid out in a certain plan known as 'Property lying between Shady lane and Roup street, Fifth and Ellsworth avenues, Twentieth ward,' approved by Councils December 29, 1871; the names of said streets being as follows, to wit: . . . , Sewer street (now Summerlea street), . . . ."
