Orator Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Orator Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Chartiers City |
| Ontario Street (until 1908) | |
| Origin of name | Lake Ontario |
This street was laid out as Ontario Street in 1901 in the Chartiers City plan. This plan calls the adjacent segment of Middletown Road "Superior Street,"[1] which suggests that these streets were named for two of the Great Lakes.
Sheraden Borough, including the neighborhood of Chartiers City, was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.[2] The following year, a Pittsburgh city ordinance renamed many streets to fix duplicates. There was another Ontario Street on the North Side (and a third in Swisshelm Park, today Onondago Street), so this street in Chartiers City was changed to Orator Street.[3]
See also
- Ontario Street (disambiguation), for other streets that have had that name
References
- ↑ "Chartiers City plan of the Chartiers City Home Building Co.: Situated in the Borough of Sheraden Ally Co. Pa." Laid out July 1901; recorded Aug. 2, 1901, Plan Book 19, p. 5. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3781738. [view source] chartiers-city-plan
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Sheraden Borough–Pittsburgh City 1907 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/sheraden-borough-pittsburgh-city-1907-merger/. [view source] lgeo-sheraden-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing and establishing the names of avenues, streets and alleys in the Forty-third ward (formerly the Borough of Sheraden) of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1907–1909, no. 393. Passed July 9, 1908; approved July 13, 1908. Ordinance Book 19, p. 496. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1907–'08–'09, appendix, pp. 210–214, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1909 (Google Books gMBEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598897; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecordselect1907, Pghmunicipalrecordcommon1907). [view source] ordinance-1907-1909-393
