You Had to Ask; There Several Streets in Oakland Named After 19th-Century British Writers -- Ruskin, Tennyson, Lytton. Who Decided to Do This?
Pittsburgh City Paper › August 06, 2009
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Nicola was "an inspired real estate operator" who longed to create a "new 'cultural' quarter" in Oakland, wrote the late architectural historian James van Trump. And his efforts are still evident today. Among other things, Nicola built: the Schenley Hotel, which now serves as Pitt's student union; the Schenley Apartments, which now serve as Pitt dorms; and other structures along Fifth Avenue, which now serves as an obstacle course for traffic-dodging Pitt students.
When Nicola began developing a residential project near these other structures in the early 1900s, he carefully planned every aspect of the 96-home community. As Walter Kidney writes in Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture, "Nicola was determined that his residential development would be of high quality from the start, with all utilities buried, a special police force, and the best equipment." Homes were given unique designs, streets were lined with shade trees, and vegetation was used to shore up the soil of the hillside above.See the full content of this document
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You Had to Ask; There Several Streets in Oakland Named After 19th-Century British Writers -- Ruskin, Tennyson, Lytton. Who Decided to Do This?
AS AT LEAST one or two students in Oakland should be able to tell you, you could easily add nearby Thackeray Street to your list, after the 19th-century author of Vanity Fair.
But as your question rightly presumes, th...See the full content of this document
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