1921 Miami, Florida Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas

This edition is a complete, full-color facsimile of Insurance Maps of Miami, Florida, published by the Sanborn Map Company of New York in 1921. The entire atlas is reproduced in color: 119 large-scale street maps surveyed at 50 feet to an inch, the illustrated title page, the full street and building index, and the overview map of Miami's congested district.

Drawn on the eve of the great Florida land boom — and five years before the 1926 hurricane remade the city — these maps record early Miami building by building. Each structure is shown with its footprint, construction (pink for brick and stone, yellow for frame), story height, and street address. The sheets cover downtown Flagler Street and the Biscayne Bay waterfront, the Royal Palm Hotel grounds, the Florida East Coast Railway corridor and yards, and the neighborhoods of Riverside, Buena Vista, Allapattah, Silver Bluff, and Highland Park. The index locates hundreds of named landmarks of 1921 Miami: the McAllister, Gralynn, and Halcyon Hall hotels, the Hippodrome Motion Picture Theatre, City Hall, fire stations, churches, packing houses, lumber yards, and dozens of apartment buildings and subdivisions.

For anyone researching a Miami property, the Sanborn atlas is the definitive record of what stood on a lot a century ago. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Miami and South Florida history.

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

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