St. Xavier Street
| St. Xavier Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | East Carnegie |
| Origin of name | Francis Xavier |
| Fate | Vacated in 1967 |
In the westernmost part of East Carnegie, itself the southwesternmost neighborhood in Pittsburgh, there was once a street named St. Xavier Street. It was laid out in 1873 in the Homestead Park plan of lots, which included parts on both sides of Chartiers Avenue in what are today the city of Pittsburgh and the borough of Crafton.[1] The district north of Chartiers Avenue became the third ward of Crafton in 1901,[2] and East Carnegie, south of Chartiers Avenue, was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1921.[3]
The name St. Xavier Street must have referred either directly or indirectly to Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552), a Spanish Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
The portion of the street within Pittsburgh was vacated by a city ordinance in 1967, which called it Xavier Street.[4] This was probably an error caused by a misreading of the Homestead Park plan, perhaps because one of the street labels in the plan was split across two pages, with "St." on one page and "Xavier St." on the next.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Homestead Park: Situate in Chartiers Township Allegheny Co. Pa.: Laid out for the Homestead Bank and Life Ins. Co." Laid out Apr. 1873; recorded June 26, 1873, Plan Book 5, pp. 134–137. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3779145. [view source] homestead-park-plan-chartiers
- ↑ Betsy Martin. The Story of Crafton: 1740–1992, p. 53. Crafton Historical Society, 1992. Historic Pittsburgh 31735055766921. [view source] martin
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Chartiers Township–Pittsburgh City 1921 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/chartiers-township-pittsburgh-city-1921-merger/. [view source] lgeo-chartiers-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance vacating Maple Street, from Turner Road to Railroad Avenue; an Unnamed Way, 20.00 feet wide, from Xavier Street to Railroad Avenue; Xavier Street, from Maple Street to the easterly line of Bell's Run Road; also a portion of an Unnamed Way (inadvertently called Water Alley), between Xavier Street and Federal Street, lying without the line of Bell's Run Road, all as shown in the Homestead Park Plan of Lots in the Twenty-eighth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1967, no. 385. Passed Aug. 4, 1967; approved Aug. 7, 1967. Ordinance Book 69, p. 102. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the Year 1967, appendix, p. 277, Park Printing, Inc., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1967). Reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 16, 1967, p. 36 (Newspapers.com 88194825), and Aug. 17, p. 38 (Newspapers.com 88194882); and in the Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 16, 1967, p. 80 (Newspapers.com 148663907), and Aug. 17, p. 45 (Newspapers.com 148665536). [view source] ordinance-1967-385
