{{Short description|Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox street | name = Fort Pitt Boulevard | native_name = | image = File:19680330 23 PAT 1640 Smithfield St. @ Ft. Pitt Blvd (5510105895).jpg | image_size = | caption = Historic image showing 1640 Smithfield Street at Fort Pitt Boulevard. | former_names = | postal_code = | addresses = | length_mi = 0.5 | length_round = | width = | location = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | client = | owner = | current_tenants = | sector = | category = | coordinates = | commissioning_date = | construction_start_date = | completion_date = | inauguration_date = | demolition_date = | main_contractor = | cost = | direction_a = West | terminus_a = {{jct|state=PA|I|376|US|22|US|30}} / Commonwealth Place in Downtown | direction_b = East | terminus_b = {{jct|state=PA|I|376|US|22|US|30}} / Grant Street in Downtown | junction = Stanwix Street in Downtown | allocation = | north=Boulevard of the Allies }} '''Fort Pitt Boulevard''' is a road in Pittsburgh on the southern area of Downtown, connecting Fort Pitt Bridge and Interstate 376. Fort Pitt poses a particular challenge to both mapmaker and navigator—along its entire half-mile length, up to six separate roadways making up the Boulevard, the Penn-Lincoln Parkway, and ramps between the latter and various Downtown streets are woven together in a space less than 300 feet wide.
Prior to 1940, the road was known as Water Street. In 1806, it was the home of industrialist James O'Hara;<ref>"Pittsburgh in 1806" by Lois Mulkearn. Originally published in the Spring 1948 issue of Pitt: A Quarterly of Fact and Thought at the University of Pittsburgh. at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/beck/</ref> from 1840 to 1935 it was the site of ''Monongahela House,'' a hotel which played host to visitors such as Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain.<ref>Photograph at http://pgdigs.tumblr.com/post/29546894350/circa-1900-the-monongahela-house-was-in-its-day</ref> Of all the businesses that were established along the road prior to the name change, the only ones still in business are Heyl & Patterson Inc., W.W. Patterson Manufacturing and Graybar Electric Company.
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==External links== {{Commons category|Fort Pitt Boulevard}} Various maps and photographs, and a short history of the road, can be seen at [http://pghbridges.com/pittsburghW/0584-4476/ftpittblvd.htm Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania].
{{Coord|40.43703|-80.00238|region:US-PA_type:landmark_scale:5000|display=title}}
Category:Streets in Pittsburgh