Oxford Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Oxford Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Westwood |
| Origin of name | Oxford University |
This street appears as Oxford Avenue in the 1905 Hopkins atlas as part of the Westwood Plan,[1] laid out by C. B. Harmon.[2] It is named for Oxford University.[3] Nearly all of the avenues in this plan were originally named for colleges and universities;[3] in addition to Oxford Avenue, the plan included the following:[1]
- Amherst Avenue, today Highman Street
- Brown Avenue, today Jerome Street
- Bryn Mawr Avenue, today part of Bartow Street
- Cambridge Avenue, today Elmdale Road
- Columbia Avenue, today Colescott Street
- Cornell Avenue, today Queensbury Street
- Delaware Avenue, today Dale Street
- Denison Avenue, today Denisonview Street
- Harvard Avenue, today Hartwell Street
- Kenyon Avenue, today part of Bartow Street
- Lehigh Avenue, today Lynch Street
- Oberlin Avenue, today Vinemont Street
- Pennsylvania Avenue, today Warriors Road
- Princeton Avenue, today Ledgedale Street
- Vassar Avenue, today Vare Street
- Yale Avenue, today Clearview Avenue
In 1927, after the annexation of Westwood into the city of Pittsburgh, Oxford Avenue was renamed Oxford Street.[4][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 18. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1905-plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1905
- ↑ Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 7, plate 22. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1917, revised 1928. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1917-volume-7-plat-book-pittsburgh-south-side-southern; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1917-vol-7
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, pp. 60, 66. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes, alleys and ways in the Twenty-eighth Ward (formerly Westwood Borough)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1927, no. 244. Passed Mar. 28, 1927; approved Mar. 31, 1927. Ordinance Book 38, p. 448. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1927, appendix, pp. 211–212, Smith Bros. Co. Inc., Pittsburgh (Google Books cZfgUddPQR0C; HathiTrust uiug.30112109819802; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1927). [view source] ordinance-1927-244
- ↑ "Street names in Westwood are changed: Thirty-one given new designations to avoid duplication." Pittsburgh Post, Mar. 29, 1927, p. 5. Newspapers.com 88713819. [view source] street-names-in-westwood
