Facsimile of the four Sanborn fire-insurance surveys of Cloquet, Minnesota, made between 1905 and 1922, reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copies. Together they cover the mill town on the St. Louis River from 1905 to 1922: the stores and halls of Cloquet Avenue, Avenue C and Broadway, the saw mills and yards on Dunlap Island and along the river, the paper and pulp mills, the railroad depots and yards, and the residential streets of Knife Falls Lumber Company's Addition, Nelson's Sub-Division, Highland Park, Woodlawn, Prospect Park and the Northern Lumber Company's Western Re-Arrangement.

In October 1905 nineteen sheets show a lumber town at full stretch: the Northern Lumber Company's upper mill, lower saw mills, planing mill, store, boarding house and yards, the Cloquet Lumber Company's steam mill, Water Power Mill, electric power house and its North, South, East and Dunlap Island yards, the Johnson-Wentworth Company's saw mill, planing mill and yard, the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company's mill and yard, the North West Paper Company's mill and Knife Fall pulp mill, the Cloquet Box Company, the Diamond Match Company, the Northern Pacific and Duluth and Northeastern depots, the Village Hall, Fire Station No. 1, the Public Library, the Crescent Hotel, Hotel Metropole and O'Donnell House, the Washington, Jefferson and high schools, the Good Templar Hall and the Finnish, Norwegian Lutheran, Swedish Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. By September 1911 fifteen sheets add the Duluth and Northeastern machine shop and locomotive house, the Cloquet Lumber Company's electric light plant, the Companies' Store, the Union Depot, the Post Office, the Opera House and Bijou Theatre, the Y. M. C. A. Building, the Lincoln High School and Garfield School, St. Casimir's Polish Church and the Svea, West and Northeastern hotels. The August 1919 survey shows the Berst toothpick and butter dish factory, the Rathborne, Hair and Ridgway box factory, the Cloquet Tie and Post Company's yard, the water works pumping plant, the hospital, the Hotel Salem and the Victory Hotel. The September 1922 edition reaches the Northwest Paper Company's new finishing building and boiler house, the Wood Conversion Company's balsam wool and wall board factories, the Berst-Forster-Dixfield toothpick works, the Webster Lumber Company's grain door factory, the General Light and Power Company's power stations, the City Hall, Masonic Temple, Shaw Memorial Library, Private Hospital and Telephone Exchange, and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church and School.

Between 1905 and 1922 the Sanborn Map Company of New York surveyed Cloquet four times for the fire-insurance trade, drawing the town 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, mill machinery, lumber piles, tramways, hydrants and water pipes all marked. Each edition opens with a key map of the whole town and an index of streets and of named businesses, mills, churches, schools and hotels, and a divider page introduces each edition.

This Tangletown Press edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: all sixty-six map sheets of the four editions of 1905, 1911, 1919 and 1922, each edition with its key map and its index of streets and specials, each introduced by a divider page. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Cloquet address back to 1905-1922.

72 pages. 8.5" x 11". Full color. Paperback.

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