Vilsack Street

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Vilsack Street
Neighborhood Morningside
Origin of name L. Vilsack

Vilsack Street is named for L. Vilsack, who owned the land north of this street and for whom a plan of lots was laid out in 1904.[1][2][3][4] It was dedicated in 1908.[4]

Villanova Road was originally part of Vilsack Street, but it seems that the city believed that the street beyond Chislett Street was not officially named, and it became Villanova Road in 1925.[5]

References

  1. Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 2, plate 36. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1904-volume-2-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1903–1906 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1904-vol-2
  2. Atlas of Greater Pittsburgh, plate 12. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1910. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1910-atlas-greater-pittsburgh; 1910 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1910
  3. Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, vol. 3, plate 22. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1924. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1924-volume-3-plat-book-pittsburgh; included in the 1923 layer at Pittsburgh Historic Maps (https://esriurl.com/pittsburgh). [view source]hopkins-1924-vol-3
  4. 4.0 4.1 "An ordinance approving and accepting the plan of lots in the Eighteenth ward, Pittsburgh, laid out for Mr. L. Vilsack, and approving and accepting the streets and alleys shown therein." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1908, no. 131. Passed Mar. 18, 1908; approved Mar. 23, 1908. Ordinance Book 19, p. 163. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the years 1907–'08–'09, appendix, p. 57, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1909 (Google Books gMBEAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust chi.096598897; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecordselect1907, Pghmunicipalrecordcommon1907). [view source]ordinance-1908-131
  5. "An ordinance establishing the name of Villanova road and changing the name of Drake way in the Vilsack Plan of Lots, Tenth Ward, of the City of Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1925, no. 255. Passed June 22, 1925; approved June 25, 1925. Ordinance Book 36, p. 364. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the year 1925, appendix, p. 191, Kaufman Printing Company, Inc., Pittsburgh (Google Books qSb28JpAxN8C; HathiTrust uiug.30112109819786; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1925). [view source]ordinance-1925-255