1892 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Rochester, New York, Volume 1 Facsimile

The complete first volume of the 1892 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Rochester, New York, reprinted in full color. In 1892 the Sanborn-Perris Map Company of New York surveyed the Flour City for the fire-insurance trade, drawing it at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, windows, party walls, hydrants, water mains and fire stations all marked. The report and index sheet describes the water works and fire department and lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel, mill and factory with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city astride the Genesee River and the Erie Canal, with the edges of Volumes Two and Three marked. The ninety-three numbered sheets work block by block through the Four Corners and the business blocks of East Main, State, Front, Mill, Market and Exchange Place, the mills and factories along the river and the mill race, the New York Central & Hudson River passenger depot and yards, North St. Paul and Central Avenue, Clinton and Cataract streets, and the residential streets running north and east past Bay Street, North Avenue, Hayward Park and St. Joseph Street. This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the volume: the title, report and index sheet, the key map, all ninety-three numbered map sheets and the two skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Rochester address back to 1892. 98 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback. Printed to order and shipped directly to you ? please allow up to 7 business days before shipment. Satisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back.…