Slagle Street

Slagle Street
Neighborhood	Shadyside
Origin of name	Jacob Frederick Slagle
Fate	Vacated in 1950

Slagle Street was named for Jacob Frederick Slagle (1830–1900), associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1887–1900). He rose to the rank of major in the 149th Pennsylvania Regiment of Volunteers in the American Civil War.

There is no Slagle Street today. The G. M. Hopkins plat map of 1890 shows a Slagle Street running for one block from Howe Street to Walnut Street, between Shady Avenue and Denniston Avenue (now Denniston Street). The street still appears, unnamed, on the 1899 plat map, next to the Hotel Kenmawr. But the street is gone from the plat map of 1904. In 1915 George T. Fleming mentioned Slagle Street in a newspaper column about military namesakes, and in 1924 Annie Clark Miller included Slagle Street in a list of streets named after judges, but the street seems to have disappeared years before. It is not listed in the 1947 Bloom's Street Guide. It existed formally until it was vacated by a city ordinance in April 1950, upon recommendation of a report by James S. Devlin, director of the Department of Public Works, who wrote, "This street is unsuited for development of the abutting properties and is of no value to the general public." Today the site is occupied by the Kenmawr Apartments; the north–south axis of the apartment building lies directly atop the path of the old Slagle Street.