1926 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Fort Myers, Florida

Facsimile of the 1926 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Fort Myers, Florida, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy. It covers the whole city of 12,000 people on the Caloosahatchee River, from the wharves, stores, hotels and Court House of First, Main and Hendry Streets, through the citrus and vegetable packing houses and lumber yards, to the subdivisions of Edgewood, Woodlawn, Ridgewood and Belmont Heights, the Edison and Ford estates on McGregor Boulevard and out to Valencia Terrace and Palm Gardens.

The thirty-three numbered sheets, opening with the key map, work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and offices along First Street, Main Street, Bay Street, Hendry Street, Jackson Street and Broadway - the Lee County Court House and Jail, the Post Office, the Public Library, the City Offices, the Fire Station, the First National Bank building, the Arcade and the Alcazar Arcade, the American Legion, Pythian, Elks' and K. of C. halls, the Casino, the Royal Palm Hotel and its pier, the Hotel Graystone, the Kenmore, the Franklin Arms, the Bradford, Bay Shore, Central, Riverview, Morgan and Bridge hotels and the Florida Inn - through the Atlantic Coast Line passenger depot, freight house and wharf, the Caloosahatchee River Steamboat Company's freight house, the Southern Utilities plant, the city gas plant and pumping stations, the Lee County, Leeco, Stripes, Hart-Delacey and Biggar-Padgett citrus and vegetable packing houses, the Seminole, Pollock and Perry lumber companies and the Fort Myers Lumber Company, the Palm City brick and tile works, the Henory Bros. cement works, the Raymond boat builders, the South Fish Company and the Standard Oil, Gulf and Texas Company depots, to the Lee Memorial and Jones-Walker hospitals, the High School, the Gwynne Institute and the Bungalow and Edgewood schools, St. Francis Xavier, St. Luke's, the First Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian Science churches, the Lee County Fair Grounds, the Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford estates on McGregor Boulevard, and the residential streets of Edgewood, Woodlawn, Ridgewood, Belmont Heights, Dean's Subdivision, Central Heights, the West End, Valencia Terrace, Poinciana Park and Palm Gardens.

In 1926 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Fort Myers for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the business district and the older streets at fifty feet to the inch and the newer residential subdivisions at one hundred 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 edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the combined title and index sheet and all thirty-three numbered map sheets, the first of them the key map. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Fort Myers address back to 1926.

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

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