Hilton Street

Hilton Street
Neighborhood	Elliott
Origin of name	Modification of its former name, Hill Street
➤ Applegate Way (until 1893)
Portion	From Herschel Street to Wymore Street
Origin of name	William Applegate
➤ Hill Way (until 1893)
Portion	From Wymore Street to Harker Street
➤ Hill Street (1893–1905)
Portion	From Herschel Street to Harker Street
➤ Hilton Way (1905–1910)
Portion	Southwest of Herschel Street
Origin of name	Its status as an extension of Hilton Street

This street was first laid out as the western boundary of a plan of lots by William Applegate, recorded in 1851, though that plan did not give it a name. In a neighboring plan of lots, laid out by Samuel Colvin and recorded in 1869, the street was named Applegate Way from Green Avenue (today Herschel Street) to Colvin Avenue (today Wymore Street), and Hill Way from Colvin Avenue to the township road (today Harker Street).

The portion of Hilton Street southwest of Herschel Street was laid out in 1885 in a plan of lots for Thomas P. Hershberger, though that plan did not give it a name.

In 1893, an ordinance of Elliott Borough changed both Applegate Way and Hill Way to Hill Street.

Elliott Borough was annexed by Pittsburgh on January 2, 1905. That May, a city ordinance named or renamed many of the streets and alleys in the former borough. Pittsburgh already had a Hill Street (later Horace Street), so the name of Hill Street in Elliott was modified to Hilton Street (and the unnamed street southwest of Herschel Street was named Hilton Way). Hilton Way was made part of Hilton Street by another ordinance in 1910 that established the names of all thoroughfares in Pittsburgh: it listed just "Hilton, from Mertz to Harker, 20th wd.," and declared that "all names not otherwise designated in this Ordinance shall be and the same are hereby fixed as 'streets.'"

See also

• Hill Street and Hill Way (disambiguation), for other streets that have had those names