Notes:Morrowfield Avenue

From Pittsburgh Streets

1893-12: Source:Midway-plan: "Midway Ave." from Murray Avenue to Shady Avenue.

1896-03-13

1896-07-13: Source:Ordinance-1896-1897-77 authorized the opening of McClure Avenue.

1901-08: Source:Squirrel-hill-plan has McClure Ave as its northern boundary.

1909-06: Source:Morrowfield-plan

1909-07-28: Source:Citizens-will-be-strangers: "McClure av [changed to] McComber av"

1910-01-22: Source:Fifth-avenues-name: "Other changes agreed upon were: . . . Midway avenue and McClure avenue, in the Squirrel Hill district, changed to Morrowfield avenue, as requested by a resident of that thoroughfare."

1910-04-03: Source:Morrowfield-on-beechwood

1910-04-05

  • Source:Ordinance-1909-1910-715: "Midway av., from Murray av. to Shady av., old 22d wd., changed to Morrowfield av., 14th wd. ¶ . . . ¶ McClure av., from William Pitt blvd. to Shady av., old 22d wd., changed to Morrowfield, 14th wd."
  • Source:Ordinance-1909-1910-716: "Morrowfield av., from Shady av. to William Pitt blvd., 14th wd., formerly Midway av. and McClure av."

1911-03-21: "Sections near Elwyn figure in day's sales," Pittsburg Press, p. 10 (Newspapers.com 142718607): "Investors in high class residential sites continue to be drawn to Morrowfield, the development of the Shadyside Land Co. on Squirrel Hill. The latest move in this field was made yesterday when Dr. John R. Morrow, of the Continental Trust Co.'s real estate department delivered a deed to Mrs. Margaret Laughlin Marshall, . . . ."

1934-06-28: Source:Jr-morrow-dies

1934-06-29: "Plan funeral of financier," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 9 (Newspapers.com 89490617)

1934-06-29: "Ex-bank head to be buried on Saturday," Pittsburgh Press, p. 43 (Newspapers.com 146680616)

1954-12-06: Source:Js-morrow-obit: "His father, the late Dr. John R. Morrow, a Pittsburgh banker, sold the land on which the Morrowfield Apartments are located in Squirrel Hill."

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