Facsimile of the six Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Sayville, New York, made between 1886 and 1915, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the Suffolk County village on the Great South Bay - the business blocks of Main Street, the railroad depot and the avenues running south to the bay hotels on the shore - and, from 1902, West Sayville, with its own sheets from 1909 and its oyster houses and basins along the shore.

The single sheet of 1886 shows Main Street, Rail Road Avenue, Gillette and Candee Avenues with the post office, the Methodist church and I. H. Green Jr.'s planing and woodwork shop. The 1890 key map and index add the bay hotels - the Delavan, the Elmore and the Sea Side - the Foster Hotel, the Kensington, the Gillette Block, Green Bros. and Rogers' lumber yard, Terry and Reyner's planing mill, the Oakland Bottling Works and Oakland Hotel, Smith's Pavilion, St. Ann's Episcopal Church, the public school and the S. R. R. of L. I. depot. In 1897 come the L. I. R. R. depot, the Pavilion Hotel, the Railroad Ave. Hotel, R. Holmes' carriage factory, Nunns and Homan's planing mill, the Sayville Marble Works, S. V. Rogers' ship yard, St. Lawrence's Catholic Church and the Suffolk County News printing office. The 1902 edition adds Columbia Hall, the Sayville Opera House, the Sayville Electric Light Plant and the Beebe Bros. and Lewis oyster companies. The fourteen sheets of 1909 reach the bay shore and West Sayville: the oyster houses of the Ockers, Rudolph, Van der Borgh and Beebe firms, the Excelsior and Wyen Blue Point oyster companies, J. E. Rudolph's oyster and clam tong works, Dykstra's boat shop, the South Bay House, the Hamlyn House, Kennedy's Kensington Hotel, the Sayville ice plant, steam laundry and garage, the Trahern Stock Co., St. John's Lutheran and the Christian Reformed churches and Public School No. 4. In 1915 the survey adds the Long Island Lighting Co. electric light plant, the Great South Bay Water Co., the Blue Points Co. oyster houses, the Cedar Shore Club House, Holborn Hall and other summer boarding houses, the Commercial and Court hotels, the Village Court House, G. M. Biggs' greenhouses and the lumber yards of E. Bailey and Sons and Nelson Strong.

Between 1886 and 1915 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Sayville six times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the village at fifty feet to the inch (several outlying 1915 sheets at one hundred feet). Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, railroad tracks, water pipes and hydrants all marked. From 1890 each edition opens with a key map of the village and an index of named businesses, hotels, churches and oyster houses, and a divider page introduces each edition.

This Tangletown Press edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all forty-seven map sheets of the six editions of 1886, 1890, 1897, 1902, 1909 and 1915, each edition introduced by a divider page, with key maps and indexes of named buildings from 1890 onward. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Sayville address back to 1886-1915.

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