GARDNER, Albro

Lewis Street from Yesler Ave. to N. Line Yesler's D.C. June 28, 1891 (23rd Avenue, Yesler Way to Walla Walla Addition) [Seattle Street Plat]

Seattle: Seattle Engineering Dept. 1891. First Edition. Single sheet manuscript map. Single sheet 84 x 14 inches rolled, heavy paper with corners radiused. Hand inked and colored, with revisions and sketches in pencil. Map scale 50 ft. to 1 in., dated 6/28/91. Roll ends labeled verso in calligraphic script, later tag affixed with string. Ends chipped and soiled, 4-inch closed tear to the center of tagged end, along with moderate chips and loss. Good. Item #6739

City Engineer Albro Gardner drafted or at least supervised the production of this original street plat just two years after the Great Seattle Fire and the year before city co-founder Yesler's passing. Plats along Lewis Street (today's 23rd Avenue) are in H. L. Yesler's Addition from Yesler Ave. (today's E. Yesler) to Eaton St. (now E. Alder), Sander Boman Real Estate Co.'s First Addition to just short of Willow St. (now E. James) including the Crawford St. crescent (now E. Terrace), and the Walla Walla Addition comprising Edes St. (now Columbia) and Knight St. (now E. Cherry.) Includes numbered plats, surveyor's data, streets and sidewalks.

The chaotic practice of street naming by developers was reformed in 1895 under the next City Engineer, R. H. Thomson.

Price: $450.00