Facsimile of the eight Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Loveland, Colorado, made between 1886 and 1927, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they follow the Larimer County town from a single sheet in 1886 to sixteen in 1927: the business blocks of Fourth Street and Cleveland and Lincoln avenues, the Original Town with Finley's, Everett's, Kilburn's, Orchard Park and Park Place additions, the railroad depots and elevators, the Great Western Sugar Co.'s beet sugar factory, and the canneries, mills and parks between Lake Loveland, the Loveland and Greeley Canal and the Big Thompson River.

In June 1886 a single sheet shows the stores of A, B and C streets between Third and Fifth, the Loveland Milling & Elev'r Co., Orvis & Corbin's lumber yard, the Loveland House, the post office and bank, the Baptist, United Presbyterian and United Brethren churches, the freight and passenger depot, and an inset of J. H. Wright & Co.'s Loveland Mills on the irrigating ditch. The single sheets of December 1890 and September 1893 add Everett's and Finley's additions, Anderson & Cunningham's lumber yard, Barnes Chapel, the Exchange Hotel, the opera house, the city hose house and, in 1893, the Loveland Farmers Milling & Elevator Co. In November 1900 four sheets and a key map name the Big Thompson Mill & Elevator Co., the Loveland Elevator Co., Knapp Bros.' feed and planing mill, the Loveland Creamery, the C. & S. R. R. depot and the East Side and West Side public schools. The eight sheets of March 1906 reach the Great Western Sugar Co.'s Loveland Beet Sugar Factory, the Loveland Light, Heat & Power Co., a cement block factory and steam laundry, the Barthole Opera House, the New Loveland Theatre, the Bushnell Hotel, City Hall, the public library, the high school and Dr. Sutherland's private hospital. In May 1911 eight sheets add the Empson Packing Co.'s No. 2 plant, the Crystal Ice and Storage Co., the Loveland Bottling Works and Buggy Top Co., N. E. Degolier's green houses and the telephone exchange. Nine sheets in April 1918 take in Campions Academy, the Larimer County Co-operative Milk Condensery, the Loveland Fruit Products Co.'s cannery, an artificial ice plant, the Boise Payette Lumber Co., Hotel Lincoln and the Garfield and Lincoln public schools; and the sixteen sheets of August 1927 the Colorado Condensed Milk Co., Libby, McNeill & Libby's pickle salting station, the Loveland Brick and Clay Products Co., the hydro electric plant and water works, the United States Gypsum Co., the State Armory, Hotel Lovelander, the hospital, the fairgrounds and Loveland Burial Park.

Between 1886 and 1927 the Sanborn map companies of New York surveyed Loveland eight times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town at fifty feet to the inch (the 1918 and 1927 editions by their scale bars). Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, mill and factory machinery, railroad tracks, hydrants and water pipes all marked. From 1900 each edition opens with a key map of the town and an index of named businesses, mills, churches and schools, and a divider page introduces each edition.

This Tangletown Press edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all forty-eight map sheets of the eight editions of 1886, 1890, 1893, 1900, 1906, 1911, 1918 and 1927 - the single-sheet surveys of 1886, 1890 and 1893 and, from 1900, the key map and index of every edition - each edition introduced by a divider page. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Loveland address back to 1886-1927.

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