Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
1888 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, edited
Page 1
Note Fire Barn #6 on Ellsworth Avenue
Page 2
Page 3 Downtown surveyed in the French style of all roads leading to the river.
Note Steketees and the jail on Pike which used to be an island as Campau Avenue used to be the east channel of the Grand River.
Page 4
Note the Fire Barn #4 at the corner of Crescent and Bond now the center of Calder Plaza.
Page 5
Note the Octagon House on Hastings Street destroyed by I-196. www.octagon.bobanna.com
Page 6
Page 7
Note North Ionia school
This map shows Lyon St and Innes St intersecting which they don't. The 1895 map shows this cable house at Lyon St and Grand Ave.
Page 8
Note the railroad station where I caught the train as a child
and the Octagon House on Taylor Ave.
For more information on Octagon houses see
www.octagon.bobanna.com
Page 9
Page 10
Note Driving down Lafayette avenue on our way to Eberhard's grocery store every Thursday night, my mother would say "we're driving through where my school used to be" Plainfield Avenue School
.
Page 11 Note Each half of this page just keeps going north.
From Article 1888 Sanborn
From Heading Geography and the City of Grand Rapids
From web site: MyCityofGrandRapids.info
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