Grandview Avenue
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| Grandview Avenue | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Duquesne Heights, Mount Washington |
| Origin of name | Its magnificent view of Pittsburgh |
| High Street (ca. 1830 – 1874) | |
| Origin of name | Its height above the Monongahela River and Pittsburgh |
This street appears in the 1830 map of Jean Barbeau and Lewis Keyon as High Street.[1]
Grandview Avenue was opened by a city ordinance in 1874, following the route of High Street.[2]
See also
- High Street, for other streets that have had that name
- Rue Grande Vue
References
- ↑ Jean Barbeau and Lewis Keyon. Map of Pittsburgh and Its Environs. N. B. Molineux, Pittsburgh, 1830. Historic Pittsburgh DARMAP0576; https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/36c3ab00-57aa-0136-8f4f-08990f217bc9. [view source] barbeau
- ↑ "An ordinance opening Grandview avenue." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1874, no. 149. Passed May 11, 1874; recorded May 20, 1874. Ordinance Book 3, p. 491. In The Municipal Record: Containing the proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh, together with the ordinances, &c.: With an index, vol. VII, p. 55, Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Pittsburgh, 1874 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1874, pghmunicipalrecord1872). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, Feb. 26, 1874, [p. 4] (Newspapers.com 86344573). [view source] ordinance-1874-149
