Fairfax Street

Fairfax Street
Neighborhood	Homewood South
Fate	Vacated in 1900
➤ Fourth Street (until 1881)
Origin of name	Sequential numbering from Penn Avenue

Fairfax Street formerly ran from Homewood Avenue to Dunfermline Street, parallel to Tioga Street. It overlapped modern Hamilton Avenue.

It was laid out in a plan of lots by the Mellon brothers, recorded in 1868. It was originally named Fourth Street because it was the fourth street in the plan, counting from Penn Avenue. This name conflicted with Fourth Street downtown (later Fancourt Street), so in 1881 a city ordinance renamed it Fairfax Street. The other parallel streets in the plan, originally First, Second, and Third Streets, were renamed Finance Street, Susquehanna Street, and Tioga Street, forming one of Pittsburgh's F–S–T sequences.

Fairfax Street was vacated in 1900.

See also

• Fourth Street, for other streets that have had that name