Carnegie Place
| Carnegie Place | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Point Breeze |
| Origin of name | Thomas Carnegie and his wife Lucy |
Of all the places and institutions bearing the name Carnegie in and around Pittsburgh, Carnegie Place may be the only one not named after Andrew Carnegie. Instead, it is named for his brother Thomas Carnegie (1843–1886) and his wife Lucy, whose estate was here on Penn Avenue.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Lucy was the eponym of the Lucy blast furnace, built in 1871 on 51st Street in Lawrenceville, which was the Carnegie brothers' first venture into the manufacture of iron. The Lucy furnace, in a rivalry with the Isabella furnace across the Allegheny River, repeatedly set new production records, eventually reaching 300 tons per day. A second Lucy furnace was built in 1877.[9][10][11]
Nearby Dunfermline Street is named for the Carnegie brothers' birthplace, the town of Dunfermline in Scotland.
References
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1872. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1872-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1872
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1876. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1876-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; included in the 1872 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1876
- ↑ Atlas of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1882. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1882-atlas-pittsburgh-allegheny; 1882 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1882
- ↑ Atlas of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 4. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-4-atlas-pittsburgh; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1890-vol-4
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 1. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1898. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1898-volume-1-plat-book-pittsburgh-east. [view source] hopkins-1898-vol-1
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 1. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1904-volume-1-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1904-vol-1
- ↑ Atlas of Greater Pittsburgh. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1910. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1910-atlas-greater-pittsburgh; 1910 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] hopkins-1910
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 4. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1911. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1911-volume-4-plat-book-pittsburgh. [view source] hopkins-1911-vol-4
- ↑ James Howard Bridge. The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A romance of millions, pp. 55–63. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1991, ISBN 0-8229-1166-3, 0-8229-6095-8. Historic Pittsburgh 31735057892535. First published as History of the Carnegie Steel Company, Aldine Book Co., New York, 1903. [view source] bridge
- ↑ "Furnace built by Carnegie, Lucy No. 1, is torn down: Historic iron producer erected in 1871 was 'Steel King's' first venture into that industry." Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 24, 1937, p. 17. Newspapers.com 146914612. [view source] lucy-torn-down
- ↑ Les Standiford. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America, p. 84. Three Rivers Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4000-4768-0. [view source] standiford
