1885 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Volume 1

In 1885 the Sanborn Map and Publishing Company of New York surveyed St. Paul, Minnesota, 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, with its height, use, occupant and hazards noted, alongside the hydrants, water mains, hose houses and steam fire engines that protected it. The volume opens with the surveyor's report on a city of 110,000 people and a key map of the whole survey, then covers the heart of St. Paul in twenty-five double-page sheets: the Lowertown warehouses and the Union Depot, the wholesale blocks along Third and Fourth Streets, the State Capitol, the railway yards along the Mississippi, Dayton's Bluff and the additions of the East Side.

This edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of Volume One of the 1885 St. Paul survey, reproduced complete and in full color from the copy held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress: the report and index, the key map and all twenty-five numbered sheets, each double-page plate laid out as a two-page spread. Volume Two of the 1885 survey is published separately.

54 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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