35th Street

See also South 35th Street, which was named 35th Street until 1881.

35th Street
Neighborhood	Lower Lawrenceville
Origin of name	Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River
➤ Lawrence Street (until 1868)
Portion	North of Butler Street
Origin of name	Probably James Lawrence
➤ Reed Street (until 1868)
Portion	Between Butler Street and Penn Avenue
➤ Race Street (1868–1881)
Portion	Between Butler Street and Penn Avenue

The original name of 35th Street north of Butler Street was Lawrence Street. It was probably named for James Lawrence (1781–1813), for whom Lawrenceville had been named earlier.

In 1868, Pittsburgh's modern sequence of numbered streets was created by renaming all the streets perpendicular to the Allegheny River; Lawrence Street became 35th Street.

Between Butler Street and Penn Avenue, this street was originally named Reed Street. After the annexation of Lawrenceville in 1868, this name conflicted with Reed Street in the Hill District, so it was changed to Race Street. In 1881 a city ordinance, establishing the names of all streets in Pittsburgh, listed "Thirty-fifth street, from Penn avenue to Allegheny river, Fifteenth ward," which clearly included the old Race Street too (though the ordinance did not explicitly indicate that it was renaming that street). This ordinance listed a different Race Street: "Race street, from Butler street to St. Andrews street, Twenty-first ward," which later became Pace Street.

See also

• Lawrence Street
• Race Street (disambiguation), for other streets that have had that name
• Reed Street