Notes:McPherson Boulevard

1871: Source:Wl-jones-plan: No cross streets parallel to Penn Avenue.

1872-11-04: Common Council (Source:Municipal-record-1872, [p. 111]): "New Surveys. ¶ Mr. John Fleming presented the report of the Survey Committee for the months of July and September. Received. The following business was disposed of as noted: ¶ . . . Plan of streets in Twenty-first and Twenty-second wards; approved."

1872-11-11: Select Council (Source:Municipal-record-1872, p. 113): "In all business not otherwise noted S. C. concurred in the action of C. C."

1873-05-01: Source:John-kennedy-plan: McPherson Street from Homewood Avenue to Lang Avenue, continuing on both ends.

1881-03-04: Source:Ordinance-1880-1881-33: "McPherson street, from Fifth avenue to City line, Twenty-first ward."

1881-12-31: Source:Ordinance-1881-1882-53: "That the City Engineer be and he is hereby authorized and directed to survey and open within sixty days from the date of the passage of this ordinance McPherson street, from Park street to Richland street, at a width of sixty feet, in accordance with a plan of streets in Twenty-first and Twenty-second wards, on file in the Engineer's office, approved by Councils eleventh day of November, 1872."

1882: Source:Hopkins-1882, plate 19: "McPherson St." from Fifth Avenue to Brushton Street.

1886: Source:Hopkins-1886, plate 31: "McPherson St." from Fifth Avenue to Brushton Street.

1887-10: Source:Boulevard-place-plan: "McPherson St." from Fifth Avenue to Dallas Avenue (continuing past Dallas).

1888-10-27: Source:Transactions-in-real-estate-1888-10-27: "Black & Baird, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold lot No. 53 in Boulevard place, East End, fronting 50 feet on McPherson boulevard, being second lot from the Linden circle, and 140 feet in depth, for $3,500. The purchaser was A. V. D. Watterson, Esq."

1889-08: Source:Fahnestock-place-plan: "McPherson St." from Homewood Avenue to Lexington Avenue.

1910-04-05: Source:Ordinance-1909-1910-716: "McPherson, from Fifth av. to city line, 12th wd."

1915-05-30: Source:Fleming-civil-war: "We have those beautiful thoroughfares in the Homewood district, McPherson, Meade and Thomas, named for successful leaders, of whom McPherson fell 'dead upon the field of honor.'"

1944-02-12: Source:Love-titles: "After the Civil War, the names of prominent Union generals were given to several East End streets—Thomas, Meade, McPherson, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan."

1966-02-06: Source:Carlin: "Wars have a way of reflecting on street names. After the Civil War came Thomas, McPherson, Meade, Sherman, Sheridan Sts."

1983-09-28: Source:Browne-streets: "Civil War heroes are memorialized in such streets as Thomas, Sheridan, Meade, Sherman and McPherson."

1993-09-07: Source:Municipal-record-1993, p. 1602: "Also, ¶ No. 3102 Resolution changing the name of McPherson Street to McPherson Boulevard, which is located between Fifth Avenue and North Homewood Avenue in the 14th Ward, 9th Voting District of the City of Pittsburgh. This request is made on behalf of the residents of this street who petitioned the City for this change. ¶ . . . ¶ Which were severally read and referred to the Committee on Public Works."

1993-09-30: Source:Resolution-1993-1102 changed McPherson Street to McPherson Boulevard.

2014: Source:Law

• p. 41: "Real estate entrepreneurs took advantage of the growing real estate market. In 1885, the area known as the Boulevard Park Plan was laid out. The original plan of boulevard streets, with grassy islands planted with ornamental trees, still exists today; an ornamental wrought-iron gate at the start of McPherson and now Washington Boulevards was removed in the 1980s."
• p. 42: "A graduate of West Point, Gen. James Birdseye McPherson became a Civil War general, taking command of the Army of Tennessee [sic] under Sherman. Due to his rapid and decisive movement of troops, McPherson earned the nickname 'the Whiplash of the Army.' In 1864, McPherson was killed at Kennesaw Mountain, near Atlanta. Sherman wept when the body of McPherson was brought to him."
• p. 43: "Real estate magnet [sic] G. D. Simen is credited for naming many of the streets in North Point Breeze, including Thomas, McPherson, and Simonton. Although Simen never lived in Point Breeze, plat book maps reveal that he owned four houses: three in the island blocks of the boulevards and one at the former site of Rockwell International."