1897 Dayton, Ohio Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas, Volume One

This is a complete color facsimile of Volume One of Insurance Maps of Dayton, Ohio, published by the Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Limited, of 115 Broadway, New York, in 1897. All eighty-two sheets are reproduced in full color from the original survey, together with the engraved title plate, the full index, and the key plan.

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 sheet shows individual buildings block by block, color-coded by construction — the volume's key distinguishes fireproof buildings, iron buildings, brick with metal cornice, frame and stone fronts, brick specials, and frame and iron-clad construction — along with story heights, fire walls, division-wall iron doors, iron shutters, window openings by story, stables, brick and iron chimneys, horizontal and vertical steam boilers, hydrants, and fire-alarm boxes.

The key plan lays out the whole survey across the Great Miami River and Wolf Creek, numbering the sheets through the downtown business district and out into Dayton View, Riverdale, North Dayton, the West Side and Patterson, with the Fair Grounds to the southeast.

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. Volume One's Specials record Dayton at the height of its manufacturing years: the National Cash Register Co. and its supply works, Stillwell-Bierce & Smith-Vaile Co., the Dayton Malleable Iron, Globe Iron, Furnace & Foundry, Last Works, Leather & Collar, Loop & Crupper, Church & Opera Chair and Architectural Iron works, the Seybold Machine Co., Thresher Electric Co., Ohio Rake Co., the Ohmer furniture factory, Crawford, McGregor & Canby's last works, Oakwood Pottery, the Southern Ohio Stock Yards, the Gem City, Dayton and Woodhull buggy works with the Baker, Koogle, Ryan, Weaver and Weber wagon and carriage shops, the Schantz, Schwind, Stickle, City and Riverside breweries, the Hayner Distilling Co., a row of tobacco warehouses, the Reibold and Callahan buildings, the Grand Opera House and Park Theatre, St. Elizabeth and Deaconess hospitals, the Union Biblical Seminary and United Brethren Publishing Co., the Montgomery County Orphan Asylum, and the Soldiers' Home.

The key plan also carries the underwriters' report for 1897: a population of 85,000; water rated "very good," drawn from eighty-seven eight-inch wells on the Holly system with 110 miles of pipe and 1,030 hydrants; and a fully paid fire department of sixty-nine members and six call men with thirty-three horses, twelve engine and truck houses, and 118 Gamewell alarm boxes.

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

86 pages. 8.5" x 11.25". Full color. Hardcover.

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