Medina Alley
| Medina Alley | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Bloomfield |
| Fate | Vacated in 1900 |
Medina Alley formerly ran between and parallel to Mathilda Street and Millvale Avenue, from Corday Alley (today Corday Way) to Comrie Alley (today Comrie Way). Today this is the site of West Penn Hospital.
A plan of lots in the Friendship Park area, laid out by Augustus H. Gross, for whom Gross Street is named, was approved by City Councils in 1869. This plan included an unnamed alley from Corday Alley to Comrie Alley between Mathilda Street and Fitch Street (today Millvale Avenue).[1]
The Friendship Park plan, recorded in 1887, separated the northern and southern halves of this alley; it named the southern half Medina Alley (and the northern half Marble Alley, today Marble Way).[2]
Medina Alley, as located in the 1869 plan, was vacated by a city ordinance in May 1894.[3]
However, Medina Alley was included in a revised plan of Friendship Park that had been laid out in April 1894 and was approved that October.[4] This had the effect of "reinstating" the alley.
Medina Alley was vacated a second time in 1900.[5]
References
- ↑ "An ordinance approving, confirming and locating certain streets, avenues and alleys in the City of Pittsburgh, as laid in Dr. A. H. Gross' plan of lots, Twentieth ward, approved by Councils May 31, 1869, the names being as follows: Elm (now Edmond) street, Mathilda street, Fitch street, Gross street, Winebiddle avenue, Evaline street, Conrad (now Pacific avenue) street, Herman (now Atlantic avenue) street, Rebecca street, Coral street, Liberty avenue, Penn avenue, Archon alley, Amboy alley, Darwin alley, Comrie alley, and Corday alley and unnamed alleys lying between Gross street and Fitch street and Mathilda street and Fitch street and Elm (now Edmond) street and Mathilda street." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1893–1894, no. 286. Passed Oct. 9, 1893; approved Oct. 12, 1893. Ordinance Book 9, p. 286. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1893–4, appendix, p. 91, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1893–1894 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1893; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_6cd4d954-8bdf-4af2-90b4-4c26e96c1a0f/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_4199c61c-7206-4139-b267-cdee45c1d712/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_8f160190-9c39-435e-8d70-e5cef777d9a8/). [view source] ordinance-1893-1894-286
- ↑ "Plan of Friendship Park: 20th Ward, Pittsburg." Recorded Feb. 12, 1887, Plan Book 7, p. 257. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3779839. [view source] friendship-park-plan
- ↑ "An ordinance authorizing the vacation of Medina alley, from Myron alley to Corday alley." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1894–1895, no. 34. Passed May 14, 1894; approved May 17, 1894. Ordinance Book 9, p. 540. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1894–5, appendix, p. 11, J. M. Kelly Printing Co., Pittsburgh (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1894; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_02d953aa-8e1a-428b-bf40-cf7df22d8fb0/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_f7a09c13-d2ea-4072-b9a9-c4d4d9e635e3/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_1965ca5b-fa46-42fe-b0bb-15c577b29a4b/). [view source] ordinance-1894-1895-34
- ↑ "Revised plan of Friendship Park: 20th Ward · Pittsburg." Laid out Apr. 1894; recorded Oct. 13, 1894, Plan Book 15, pp. 42–43. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3781096. [view source] friendship-park-rev-plan
- ↑ "An ordinance authorizing the vacation of Medina alley, in the Twentieth (20th) ward, extending from Corday alley for a distance of 428.88 feet, more or less, northerly, and to a line 150 feet southwardly from Friendship avenue, as located in the revised plan of Friendship Park and plan of Friendship Park." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1899–1900, no. 420. Passed Feb. 26, 1900; approved Feb. 28, 1900. Ordinance Book 13, p. 62. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1899–1900, appendix, p. 137, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1900 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecordcommon1899; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_9bb80372-dbc2-40c2-b95a-fd9b7938048d/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_e864e5bd-0303-4273-a628-fc38c34516f5/). [view source] ordinance-1899-1900-420
