Race Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
For other streets that have been named Race Street, see Race Street (disambiguation).
| Race Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Homewood North |
| Origin of name | Laid out through a former horse-racing track |
Race Street was laid out in 1899 in the Homewood Driving Park Plan[1] on land that was formerly the Pittsburgh Driving Park (or Homewood Driving Park), home of a one-mile track for horse racing.[2][3][4] This street runs right through the middle of the old oval track, along its major axis.
References
- ↑ "The Homewood Driving Park Plan: As laid out by the Pittsburgh Trust Co.: 21st & 37th Wards, Pittsburg, Pa." Laid out Mar. 1899; recorded Mar. 24, 1899, Plan Book 17, pp. 48–49. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3781418. [view source] homewood-driving-park-plan
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny, plate 20. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1882. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1882-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1882 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1882
- ↑ Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 3, plate 19. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-3-atlas-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1890-vol-3
- ↑ Rich Gigler. "When horses raced at Homewood: Nearly $200,000 changed hands at this horse race, an amount still 'never equaled in this city.'" Pittsburgh Press, Sept. 13, 1981, Roto, pp. 4, 7. Newspapers.com 146726694, 146726703. [view source] gigler-horses
