1894 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume 1

In 1894 the Sanborn-Perris Map Co. of New York surveyed Milwaukee for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty feet to the inch. Every building is shown to scale and colour-coded for construction, with its height, use, street number and hazards noted, together with the hydrants, water mains, steam boilers and fire walls that the underwriters needed to know.Volume One opens on an index of every street and named building, then a key map of the whole city, and works block by block through the wholesale houses and warehouses along the Milwaukee River, the business blocks of Grand Avenue, Wisconsin Street and East Water Street, the breweries, tanneries, foundries and grain elevators, the hotels, theatres, churches and public buildings, and the residential streets from the Third Ward north to the lake bluff. It records the city at the height of its German-speaking industrial prosperity, in the year its population passed 250,000.This Exile Books edition reproduces the volume complete and in full colour: the title page, the index, the key map and all 103 numbered sheets. Printed at 8.5 x 11 inches on heavy colour stock, it is a working reference for historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Milwaukee address back to the 1890s.