Facsimile of the seven Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Devils Lake, North Dakota, made between 1886 and 1924, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the Ramsey County seat on the railroad: the business blocks of Fourth Street and Kelly, Arnold and Farrington avenues, the depots, elevators, flour mills and lumber yards along the tracks, the court house, and the residential streets of the Original Town and of Maher & Locke's, Johnson's, Cleveland Kennedy's and Home Investment Co's additions, out to the North Dakota School for the Deaf, Mercy Hospital, the Academy of St. Mary of the Lake and Lake Boulevard.

In September 1886, when the seal read "Devils Lake, Dak.", two sheets show the young town on Fourth Street - the Lake View Hotel, Commercial House, Central House, Nora House and Tower House, saloons, stores and a skating rink - with the Devils Lake Roller Mills of Weiermuller Bros. and, on the St. P. M. & M. R.R. grounds, the passenger depot, freight house and stock yard, the Minneapolis & Northern and Red River Valley elevators, the public school and the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches. The November 1891 survey of "Devil's Lake, N.D." indexes the Benham, Cairn's and Commercial hotels, the County Court House, the Devil's Lake Mill Co., the G. N. R. R. depot and the Congregational and Methodist churches; December 1898 adds A. P. Hanson's roller mills, the La Rue Miller Co.'s and St. Anthony & Dakota elevators, the Devils Lake Electric Light Plant, Hotel Sevilla, the John Hale Hotel, St. Vincent de Paul Cath. Hospital and the North Dakota School for the Deaf. August 1904 shows the electric light plant and water works, the Devils Lake Petrified Brick & Stone Co., the Dakota Machinery Co., Mercy Hospital, St. Gall's Monastery and the Opera House; January 1908 adds Reid's Hotels, the Windsor and Zunich hotels, the Farmers' Mill and Elevator Association, Winter & Ames Co.'s elevator and F. H. Stoltze's lumber yards. April 1914 reaches the Carnegie Public Library, Federal Building, Grand Opera House, Hotel Aberdeen, the Great Northern Hotel, depots, round house and shops, the Danvang Creamery, the Lincoln, Central and Washington schools and the Academy of St. Mary of the Lake; and November 1924 adds the Masonic Temple, Elks Home, Hotel Grayson, the Midwest Power Co., the Municipal Abattoir, Pure Oil Co., the High School and the State Odd Fellows Home.

Between 1886 and 1924 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Devils Lake seven times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town at fifty feet to the inch (the 1914 and 1924 editions by their scale bars), with a few outlying 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, mill machinery, elevators, lumber piles, hydrants and water pipes all marked. From 1891 each edition carries an index of streets and named businesses, mills, churches, schools and hotels, the 1924 edition adds a key map of the whole city, and a divider page introduces each edition.

This Tangletown Press edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all forty-six map sheets of the seven editions of 1886, 1891, 1898, 1904, 1908, 1914 and 1924, with the index of every edition from 1891 and the 1924 key map, each edition introduced by a divider page. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Devils Lake address back to 1886-1924.

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