Notes:Thomas Boulevard

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

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

1874-05-11: Select Council (Source:Municipal-record-1874, p. 43): "Mr. Adams, petition for establishing grade of Thomas street. Referred." But this may have been for modern Telescope Street.

1879-09-08: Select Council (Source:Municipal-record-1879-1880, p. 86): "Also, ¶ [417.] A petition for the erection of public lamp, corner Thomas and Josephine streets. ¶ Which was referred to Committee on Gas Lighting." This was definitely modern Telescope Street.

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

1882: Source:Hopkins-1882, plate 19: "Thomas St." from Fifth Avenue to Brushton Street (continuing past Brushton). Some plans of lots are shown: "Mrs Penn" to the northwest of Penn and Dallas; "Fannestock" [sic] bounded by Penn, Dallas, McPherson, and Galena (east of and parallel to Dallas); "W. L. Jones" on the east side of Lang, from Penn to Thomas; "Kennedy" around McPherson between Lang and Homewood; and "Dithridge Plan" bounded by Penn, Park (Braddock), railroad and Brushton.

1886: Source:Hopkins-1886

• Plate 31: "Thomas St." from Fifth Avenue to Brushton Street (continuing past Brushton).
• Plate 14: Unlabeled continuation from Brushton Street to Alfred Street, Wilkinsburg; possibly part of North Street on the other side of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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

1888-10-20: Source:Transactions-in-real-estate-1888-10-20: "Black & Baird, No. 95 Fourth avenue, sold to Harry Brown, Esq., lot No. 82 in Boulevard place, East End, fronting 55 feet on Thomas boulevard, by 142 feet in depth. Mr. Brown will erect, in the spring, a stone house on this lot, and there will also be 15 other stone houses, in the same plan, erected next year."

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

1910-04-05: Source:Ordinance-1909-1910-716: "Thomas, from Fifth av. to city line, 14th wd."

1948-12-01: Source:Ordinance-1948-498 (Source:Municipal-record-1948, appendix, p. 271): "An ordinance setting asside, annulling and vacating the location of Thomas street from North Lexington street to the west line of former North Richland street as laid out and located in a certain plan, known as 'Parts of Twenty-first and Twenty-second Wards Plan of Streets, etc.', approved by Common Council November 4, 1872, and by Select Council November 11, 1872."

1975-12-31: Source:Ordinance-1975-825: "VACATING Thomas Street from a point 213.40 feet northwest of North Braddock Avenue to the westerly line of North Richland Street as vacated in the Fourteenth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh"

1989-08-30: Source:Flaherty: "And [the city has heard] from folks along Thomas Boulevard in Homewood – it came out Thomas Street – . . . ."