1891 Block 1 - Coquille City, Oregon
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1892 Fire
About one o'clock in the morning of May 31, 1892, a fire broke out in the Band Hall (Hunnewell building) in some unaccountable manner...It jumped across the street from the starting point and lapped up Lyon's fine store and the loss is estimated at $14,000 with an insurance of only $2000. Kronenburg & Son's hardware store sustained a loss of $8800, insured for $2500. Central Hotel was fortunately empty excepting for one room used as a barber shop by Al Devaul, but he lost nothing. The building belonged to Mrs. Howell and the loss of that and the saloon in Collier's building is unknown. A number of rooms in different buildings were occupied by different parties who sustained heavy losses. The Trombonez Band lost everything, instruments, music, uniforms, etc., amounting to $1000. The fire stopped at A.J. Wimer's red front store. Heroic work was done by everybody, men and women, visitors and guests, boys and girls. Many goods were saved, but there was much destroyed and damaged by removal. The saving of the Odd Fellow's Hall, Mr. Lorenz's store and residence, Adam Wimer's store and Lyons' mill, speaks the faithfulness of the work done. In saving the former the rescue of two more blocks of stores and homes was accomplished.
From Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, edited by Orvil Dodge, 1898, p.242-243
For more information on this fire, look at Block 4 of this year. You can also see the resulting devistation to the downtown area in the 1894 Sanborn map.
The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series of large-scale maps,
dating from 1867 to 1961. These maps show the commercial, industrial, and
residential sections of some twelve thousand cities with populations of more
than 1000 people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The maps were
designed to assist fire insurance agents in determining the degree of hazard
associated with a particular property and therefore show the size, shape,
purpose and frequently the names of prominent businesses. The maps also
indicate widths and names of streets, property boundaries, and house and block
numbers. Sanborn maps are thus an unrivaled source of information about the
historical use of buildings in American cities.