O Way

From Pittsburgh Streets
Not to be confused with Zero Way.
O Way
Neighborhood Lincoln Place
Origin of name Continuation of a series of lettered ways begun in the Calhoun Park plan

This alley was laid out in the Brierley plan of lots in 1902, though that plan did not give it a name. It ran from Maple Avenue (today Kinley Avenue) to Clifton Avenue (today Lougean Avenue), parallel to and south of Walnut Street (today Lindberg Avenue).[1]

Lincoln Place was annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1929.[2] The next year, a city ordinance named all of the unnamed alleys in the annexed district; this alley became O Way.[3] The names M Way through Z Way assigned in 1930 continued a series of consecutively lettered alleys in the Calhoun Park plan of 1917, which had B Way (later Oakleaf Way) through L Way.[4]

O Way does not exist today.

References

  1. "Brierley plan of lots: Situate in Mifflin Twp, Alleg. Co. Pa.: Laid out by Brierley Bros." Laid out Sept. 1902; recorded Sept. 27, 1904, Plan Book 22, pp. 24–25. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3782217. [view source]brierley-plan
  2. Mark A. Connelly. "Pittsburgh City Ordinance 58." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/pittsburgh-city-ordinance-58/. [view source]lgeo-lincoln-place-annexation
  3. "An ordinance designating names for the unnamed streets and alleys, laid out in the various plans of lots, and the unnamed township roads, in the Thirty-first Ward of the City of Pittsburgh (formerly a portion of Mifflin Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1930, no. 99. Passed Mar. 24, 1930; approved Mar. 31, 1930. Ordinance Book 42, p. 385. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1930, appendix, pp. 138–139, City Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1930). [view source]ordinance-1930-99
  4. "Calhoun Park plan of lots: Situate in Mifflin Twp. All'y. Co. Pa.: Laid out by Homestead Realty Co." Laid out June 1917; recorded Aug. 22, 1917, Plan Book 27, pp. 174–175. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3783253. [view source]calhoun-park-plan-1917