Bartow Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Bartow Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Westwood |
| Bryn Mawr Avenue (until 1922) | |
| Origin of name | Bryn Mawr College |
| Kenyon Avenue (until 1927) | |
| Origin of name | Kenyon College |
This street appears as Kenyon Avenue (north of Noblestown Road) and Bryn Mawr Avenue (south of Noblestown Road) in the 1905 Hopkins atlas as part of the Westwood Plan,[1] laid out by C. B. Harmon.[2] These two avenues were named for Kenyon College and Bryn Mawr College, respectively. Nearly all of the avenues in this plan were originally named for colleges and universities;[3] in addition to Kenyon and Bryn Mawr Avenues, the plan included the following:[1]
- Amherst Avenue, today Highman Street
- Brown Avenue, today part of Jerome Street
- Cambridge Avenue, today Elmdale Road
- Columbia Avenue, today Colescott Street
- Cornell Avenue, today Queensbury Street
- Delaware Avenue, today Dale Street
- Denison Avenue, today Denisonview Street
- Harvard Avenue, today Hartwell Street
- Lehigh Avenue, today Lynch Street
- Oberlin Avenue, today Vinemont Street
- Oxford Avenue, today Oxford Street
- Pennsylvania Avenue, today Warriors Road
- Princeton Avenue, today Ledgedale Street
- Vassar Avenue, today Vare Street
- Yale Avenue, today Clearview Avenue
After the annexations of parts of Westwood into the city of Pittsburgh, these streets were renamed: Bryn Mawr Avenue was changed to Bartow Street in 1922 to fix the duplication with Bryn Mawr Road in the Hill District,[4] and Kenyon Avenue was made part of Bartow Street in 1927.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Real Estate Plat-Book of the Southern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 18. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1905-plat-book-southern-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1905
- ↑ Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 7, plate 22. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1917, revised 1928. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1917-volume-7-plat-book-pittsburgh-south-side-southern; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1917-vol-7
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, p. 60. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of various streets, avenues, lanes, roads, alleys and ways in the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth Wards (formerly Chartiers Township)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1922, no. 336. Passed Oct. 2, 1922; approved Oct. 3, 1922. Ordinance Book 33, p. 604. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the year 1922, appendix, pp. 238–244, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Google Books -UEtAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223972; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1922). [view source] ordinance-1922-336
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes, alleys and ways in the Twenty-eighth Ward (formerly Westwood Borough)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1927, no. 244. Passed Mar. 28, 1927; approved Mar. 31, 1927. Ordinance Book 38, p. 448. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh: For the year 1927, appendix, pp. 211–212, Smith Bros. Co. Inc., Pittsburgh (Google Books cZfgUddPQR0C; HathiTrust uiug.30112109819802; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1927). [view source] ordinance-1927-244
- ↑ "Street names in Westwood are changed: Thirty-one given new designations to avoid duplication." Pittsburgh Post, Mar. 29, 1927, p. 5. Newspapers.com 88713819. [view source] street-names-in-westwood
