1910 Fire Insurance Maps and Atlas of Ludington, Michigan

Facsimile of the 1910 Sanborn fire-insurance atlas of Ludington, Michigan, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy. It covers the whole Mason County city of 10,000 people between Lake Michigan and Pere Marquette Lake, from the stores, hotels and Court House of Ludington Avenue and James Street, through the salt works, lumber mills, docks and Pere Marquette railroad yards along the lake, to the schools, churches and residential streets of the additions, the factories of the Manufacturers’ Addition, and the Butters salt works and Ludington Basket Company at Buttersville.The twenty-nine numbered sheets that follow work block by block from the stores, banks and offices along Ludington Avenue, James Street, Court Street and Rowe Street - the County Court House, the City Hall, the Post Office, the Public Library, the Opera House, the Elks’ Home, the Salvation Army and Temperance halls, the Daily News printing office, the fire stations and the Stearns, Pere Marquette, Russell, St. Charles, Colonial, Commercial and Epworth hotels and the Lakeview House - through the Pere Marquette R.R. depot, freight house, elevator and round house, the Northern Michigan Transportation Company dock, the Stearns Salt and Lumber Company’s salt blocks, salt warehouses, planing mill and docks, the Anchor Salt Company brine reservoirs and salt works, the Butters Company salt works at Buttersville, the Cartier Lumber Company yards and the Cartier pole, shaft and sleigh works, the Ludington Lumber, Milling, Gas, Woodenware and Basket companies, the Carrom Archarena game-board factory, the Handy Things woodworking factory, the Tubbs printers’ furniture works, the Star Watch Case Company, the Industrial Iron Works, the Gile Boat and Engine Company, the Davies boiler works, the Widmark planing mill, the Pierce broom factory, the Miller brewery, the Pomeroy bottling works, the Mikesell canning factory, the Michigan Quartermaster’s Department warehouse, the Standard Oil station, the American Laundry and the City Water Works, to the Paulina Stearns Hospital, the High School, the Longfellow, Foster, Second Ward, Fourth Ward and Lakeview schools, the Ludington Business College, St. Simon’s Catholic and the Polish churches and schools, the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and German Lutheran churches, the Swedish and Danish Baptist churches, Grace Episcopal, the Congregational, First Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Free Methodist and Christian Science churches, City Park, and the residential streets of the Tinkham, Resseguie, Quevillon, Kasson and Lake Side additions and Buttersville.In 1910 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Ludington for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the city at fifty 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 Exile Books edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all thirty numbered map sheets, 1 to 30, sheet 1 being the combined title, key map and index sheet with its report on the water works and fire department, the others covering the city from the stores of Ludington Avenue and James Street to the salt works, lumber mills and docks on Pere Marquette Lake, the Manufacturers’ Addition, and the Butters salt works and Ludington Basket Company at Buttersville, printed at 8.5 x 11 inches on premium color paper. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Ludington address back to 1910.