McKeever Avenue

From Pittsburgh Streets
McKeever Avenue
Neighborhood Perry South
Origin of name R. McKeever

McKeever Avenue was laid out in the City Savings Bank's Columbia Park plan, recorded in 1891.[1] It appears in the 1890 Hopkins atlas.[2]

It is named for R. McKeever, who had owned the land on which the Columbia Park plan was laid out.[3][4] McKeever's name appears on maps as early as 1852.[5][6]

References

  1. "City Savings Bank: Columbia Park plan: 10th. Ward, Allegheny." Recorded Feb. 28, 1891, Plan Book 11, p. 105. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3780512. [view source]columbia-park-plan
  2. Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Allegheny, vol. 2, plate 17. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1890. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1890-volume-2-plat-book-allegheny; included in the 1890 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1890-allegheny-2
  3. Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh, Allegheny, and the Adjoining Boroughs, pp. 52–53. 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
  4. Atlas of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny, plate 36. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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