1896 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Springfield, Massachusetts Facsimile

The complete 1896 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Springfield, Massachusetts, reprinted in full color. In 1896 the Sanborn-Perris Map Company of New York surveyed Springfield for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city on the Connecticut River 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 index 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, with notes on the water works and the fire department. The eighty-five numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks and hotels along Main Street and Court Square, through the Union Station and the yards of the Boston & Albany and the Connecticut River railroads, the United States Armory grounds on the hill, the mills, foundries and shops along the river and Mill River, to the residential streets of the Hill, the North End, the South End and the streets out toward Forest Park and the Chicopee line. Six skeleton sheets record the block outlines of the densest blocks. This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the title and index sheet, the key map, all eighty-five numbered map sheets and the six skeleton sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Springfield address back to 1896. 94 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. …