1903 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Pasadena, California / Color Facsimile

Facsimile of the 1903 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Pasadena, California, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy. It covers the whole city of 15,000 people, from the stores, banks and hotels of Colorado Street, Fair Oaks Avenue and Raymond Avenue and the Southern Pacific and Salt Lake depots, through the fruit-packing houses and lumber yards, to the winter hotels, the Throop Polytechnic Institute and the residential avenues of North Pasadena, Orange Grove Avenue and South Pasadena. The eighty-one numbered sheets work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and theatres along Colorado Street, Fair Oaks Avenue, Raymond Avenue, Union Street and Broadway - the City Hall, the Public Library in Library Park, the Grand Opera House, the Masonic Temple, the Y. M. C. A. building, the Dodworth, Doty, Stowell, Stickney Memorial, Kinney & Kendall, Union Savings Bank and Home Telephone buildings, the Vandervort Block, the Evening News building, the Carlton Hotel, the Hotel Green, the Hotel Maryland, the Hotel Mitchell, La Casa Grande, La Pintoresca Hotel, La Solana, the Vista del Arroyo and the Evanston Inn - through the Southern Pacific freight depot and passenger station, the S. C. R. R. depot and the Raymond and South Pasadena stations, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake depot, the Los Angeles-Pasadena Express depot, the Pacific Electric car house, depot and barn and power house, the Edison Electric Company's plant, the Pasadena Electric Light and Power plant and Consolidated Gas works, the Pasadena Canning Company, the Orange Growers' and Lemon Growers' Associations' packing houses, the Delicious Fruit Exchange, the Spruance and Fay fruit companies, the San Gabriel Valley Essential Oil Company, the Pasadena Ice Company's works and the Union & National Ice depot, the Stoll and Pasadena soda-water works, the Liviti distilled water works, the Kerckhoff-Cuzner and Bliss lumber yards, the Holland planing mill, the Pasadena Milling Company, the National Voting Machine Company's factory, the West Coast Stock Food Company, the Troy Laundry and the Raymond Livery, to the Pasadena Hospital, the Ballard Sanatorium and the Osteopathic Sanitorium, the Throop Polytechnic Institute, the Academy of the Holy Names, the High School and the Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Washington and Wilson schools, All Saints Episcopal, St. Andrew's Catholic and the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Christian, Friends and colored Baptist churches, Central Park and the Raymond golf links, and the residential avenues of North Pasadena, Orange Grove Avenue, Madison and Marengo Avenues and South Pasadena. In 1903 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Pasadena for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city 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 works with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city. This Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the combined title and index sheet, the report and block-index sheet, the key map and all eighty-one numbered map sheets. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Pasadena address back to 1903. 86 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.…