1891 Columbus, Ohio Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas

This is a complete color facsimile of Insurance Maps of Columbus, Ohio, published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited, of 117 Broadway, New York, in 1891 and certified that October by Samuel Thompson, Inspector for the Columbus Board of Underwriters. Every plate is reproduced in full color from the original survey, including the corrected paste-over sheets bound into the volume.

Drawn at fifty feet to an inch, Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most detailed record that survives of an American city's built fabric. Each of the 101 numbered sheets shows individual buildings block by block, color-coded by construction — yellow for frame, red for brick, blue for stone, gray for iron — with street numbers, lot lines, building heights and stories, window and door openings, roof and cornice types, elevators, boilers, and the position of every hydrant, cistern, standpipe, and fire-alarm box.

The 1891 city is here entire. The volume opens with a key map of the whole survey, then works block by block through the State House square and the downtown business district, the Ohio Penitentiary and its prison shops, the Ohio State Fair Grounds, the United States Military Post, the Panhandle railroad shops, and the buggy works, foundries, planing mills, breweries, malt houses, machine shops and slaughter houses strung along the railroad corridors and the Scioto. Beyond the center it maps the residential additions spreading north and east — Dennison, Mt. Pleasant, Neil's, Hubbard's, Eastwood — out past Goodale Park, Franklin Park, and City Park, with Franklinton across the river.

A full street index and a separate "Specials" index of named firms and institutions make it possible to find any address or business by sheet number. The title sheet carries the underwriters' report for 1891: a population of 90,000, 150 miles of street, 112 miles of water pipe and 860 hydrants on the Holly system, and a fire department of 68 paid men with eight Ahrens steam engines and 98 telegraph alarm boxes.

Reproduced from the copy in the Library of Congress. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Columbus and Ohio history.

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

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