45th Street

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See also 44th Street, which was named 45th Street for less than a month in 1868.
45th Street
Neighborhood Central Lawrenceville
Origin of name Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River
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St. Mary Street (until 1868)
Origin of name St. Mary's Church and St. Mary Cemetery
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Harris Street (until 1868)
Portion Northwest of Butler Street
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Cemetery Street (until 1868)
Portion Southeast of Davison Street
Origin of name St. Mary Cemetery
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46th Street (1868)
Origin of name Sequential numbering up the Allegheny River, including Fisk Street

The original name of 45th Street was St. Mary Street or St. Mary's Street, after St. Mary's Church and St. Mary Cemetery on the hill near Penn Avenue.[1][2][3][4][5] St. Mary's Church was founded in 1853 and dedicated in January 1854. The present building was dedicated on April 19, 1874.[6] See also 46th Street, which was originally named Church Street for the same church.

The portion of this street southeast of modern Davison Street was part of Cemetery Street, a right-angled street that bent around the westernmost corner of St. Mary Cemetery.[1][7][2]

The part northwest of Butler Street was laid out as Harris Street in 1859 in a plan of lots for R. L. Ewalt.[8]

In 1868, Pittsburgh's modern sequence of numbered streets was created by renaming all the streets perpendicular to the Allegheny River; St. Mary Street (and implicitly Harris Street too) became 45th Street.[5] The original renaming ordinance included Fisk Street in the list of streets to be renamed, which made "St. Mary avenue" 46th,[9][10] but this was apparently a mistake. Less than a month later, a supplementary ordinance repealed all of the name changes east of 40th Street and redid the numbering with Fisk Street omitted, which put "St. Mary avenue" at 45th.[11] This numbering apparently applied to the northwest–southeast portion of Cemetery Street too.[12][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 R. E. McGowin. Map of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny and of the Boroughs of South-Pittsburgh, Birmingham, East-Birmingham, Lawrenceville, Duquesne & Manchester etc. Schuchman & Haunlein, Pittsburgh, 1852. https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/32269. [view source] mcgowin-1852
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 S. N. & F. W. Beers. Map of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Smith, Gallup & Hewitt, Philadelphia, 1862. LCCN 2012592151; https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/31783; 1862 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source] beers
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, pp. 58–59. 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
  4. ↑ Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, pp. 72–73. 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
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bruce S. Cridlebaugh. "Field notes: Changing Pittsburgh street names—from downtown to Lawrenceville." Pghbridges.com: Bridges & tunnels of Allegheny County & Pittsburgh, PA, Feb. 9, 2000. http://pghbridges.com/articles/fieldnote_pghstnames.htm. [view source] cridlebaugh
  6. ↑ Joann Cantrell and James Wudarczyk. Lawrenceville, pp. 33, 47. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C., 2015, ISBN 978-1-4671-2330-3. LCCN 2014958031. [view source] cantrell-wudarczyk
  7. ↑ "Plan of lots laid out in the Borough of Lawrenceville by John Chislett Jr." Recorded Feb. 13, 1857, Plan Book 2, p. 95. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778372. [view source] john-chislett-jr-plan
  8. ↑ "Plan of building lots: Laid out for R. L. Ewalt, Esq. in the Borough of Lawrenceville." Laid out Mar. 1859; recorded June 30, 1859, Plan Book 2, pp. 131–132. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778405. [view source] ewalt-plan-1859
  9. ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of streets." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1868. Passed Aug. 31, 1868. In The Municipal Record: Containing the Proceedings of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Pittsburgh: 1868, Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1868_20200904_2014; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_28c148db-e06a-4196-aa79-1a9a32e9812e/). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Gazette, Sept. 2, 1868, p. 5 (Newspapers.com 86347563), Sept. 3, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86347623), and Sept. 4, p. 3 (Newspapers.com 86347714). [view source] ordinance-1868-name-changes
  10. ↑ Sarah H. Killikelly. The History of Pittsburgh: Its Rise and Progress, p. 534. B. C. & Gordon Montgomery Co., Pittsburgh, 1906. DonsList.net HistPgh1909M; Google Books kXmloex-vr8C, poRU0YjqrzsC; HathiTrust 100122020; Historic Pittsburgh 00adc8925m; Internet Archive historyofpittsbu00kill, historypittsbur00killgoog. [view source] killikelly
  11. ↑ "An ordinance supplementary to an ordinance changing the names of streets." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1868. Passed Sept. 28, 1868. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Gazette, Oct. 1, 1868, p. 7 (Newspapers.com 86349783), and Oct. 2, p. 7 (Newspapers.com 86349850). [view source] ordinance-1868-name-changes-supplement
  12. ↑ "Plan of lots of Jno. Chislett Sr decd.: Situate in the 17th Ward City of Pgh." Recorded Mar. 26, 1870, Plan Book 4, p. 21. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3778789. [view source] john-chislett-est-plan
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