1889 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Providence, Rhode Island, Volume 1

The Complete Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas of Providence, Rhode Island, Volume One

74 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1889 the Sanborn Map & Publishing Company of New York surveyed Providence for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch across large double-page sheets. Every building is shown to scale and colour-coded for construction, with its height, use and street number recorded, and hydrants, water mains, alarm boxes and steam boilers noted. Volume One opens with the surveyor's report on the water supply and fire department, a street index and a key map of the city, then works sheet by sheet through the downtown: City Hall and Exchange Place, the Union Depot and the Cove Basin, the stores, banks and offices of Westminster, Weybosset and Dorrance Streets, the jewelry shops and mills along the Providence River, the wharves and lumber yards of the harbor front, and the streets of the West Side and Federal Hill.This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the 1889 volume, reproduced complete and in full colour from the copy held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress: the report and street index, the key map and all thirty-four numbered double-page sheets, each laid out as a two-page spread. It is a primary source for the building stock, street pattern and businesses of downtown Providence in the 1880s, and an essential reference for local historians, genealogists, architectural historians and anyone tracing the history of a Providence property.

• ISBN: 9798906511522
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Exile Books LLC