Mend Way
| Mend Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Bloomfield |
| Myron Alley (until 1910) | |
| Portion | Segment perpendicular to Millvale Avenue |
| Mound Alley (until 1910) | |
| Portion | Segment parallel to Millvale Avenue and Gross Street |
| Mend Alley (1910–1914) | |
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 (today Corday Way) to Comrie Alley (today Comrie Way) between Fitch Street (today Millvale Avenue) and Gross Street.[1]
The Friendship Park plan, recorded in 1887, showed several alleys, including one named Myron Alley south of and parallel to Friendship Avenue, from Edmond Street to Gross Street, and another named Mound Alley running perpendicular to Myron Alley southward to Corday Alley (today Corday Way).[2] This plan was revised in 1894 to include the space in the middle of Friendship Avenue that is now called Friendship Park. This revised plan no longer showed a continuous Myron Alley; instead it included only two short segments of an unlabeled 15-foot alley, one of which connected Mound Alley to Fitch Street.[3]
The part of Myron Alley from Mathilda Street to Millvale Avenue was officially vacated in 1900,[4] leaving only the short piece from Mound Alley to Millvale Avenue.
After Allegheny City was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907,[5] over 900 streets and alleys in the enlarged city were renamed to fix duplicates. There was another Mound Alley on the North Side, and perhaps the city clerks found the name Myron to be too similar to that of Meyran Avenue in Oakland, so the two alleys were together renamed Mend Alley.[6]
Mend Alley became Mend Way in 1914, when a city ordinance changed all alleys in Pittsburgh to ways.[7]
Current street signs indicate that Mend Way runs from Millvale Avenue to Gross Street and that the alley running south from the middle of Mend Way is part of Corday Way. It is unclear when this north–south segment was changed from Mend Way to Corday Way—perhaps when Mend Way was extended eastward to Gross Street.
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
- ↑ "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 Myron alley, in the Twentieth (20th) ward, extending from Mathilda street to Millvale avenue, as located in the plan of Friendship Park." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1899–1900, no. 422. Passed Feb. 26, 1900; approved Feb. 28, 1900. Ordinance Book 13, p. 64. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1899–1900, appendix, pp. 137–138, 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-1899-1900-422
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Allegheny City–Pittsburgh City 1907 Consolidation." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/allegheny-city-pittsburgh-city-1907-consolidation/. [view source] lgeo-allegheny-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain avenues, streets, lanes and alleys in the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1909–1910, no. 715. Passed Mar. 31, 1910; approved Apr. 5, 1910. Ordinance Book 21, p. 342. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1909–1910, appendix, pp. 312–328, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1910 (Google Books doQzAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223832; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1909; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_0e903fff-f7d8-4eb5-9d15-f91b56e69396/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_ef39b3f8-fdd8-4ad7-a239-10b67a3c2bff/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_b7df2ed5-228d-4c8e-8d80-77fa7b457528/). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Apr. 19, 1910, pp. 10–11 (Newspapers.com 86611990, 86612022), Apr. 20, pp. 10–11 (Newspapers.com 86612278, 86612297), and Apr. 21, pp. 10–11 (Newspapers.com 86612601, 86612625). [view source] ordinance-1909-1910-715
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the name 'alley' on every thoroughfare in the City of Pittsburgh to 'way.'" Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1914, no. 402. Passed Nov. 10, 1914; approved Nov. 16, 1914. Ordinance Book 26, p. 360. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1914, appendix, p. 226, McClung Printing Co., Pittsburgh (HathiTrust uiug.30112108223899; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1914; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_a82f1363-0512-40c8-b4e5-f02b090b761d/; https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_bf8a4f10-7526-4a96-8943-6a220d361293/). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 11 (Newspapers.com 86505785), and Nov. 24, p. 12 (Newspapers.com 86505809). [view source] ordinance-1914-402
