1894 Block 4 - 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, the hall not having been used for several days, and owing to the absence of fighting facilities soon spread and laid in ashes the Hunnewell hall owned by C. Watkin's whose loss was about $4500, no insurance.J.A. Collier's hardware store, loss, $10,000, with no insurance. The buildings belonging to Harlocker were worth $3000 and no insurance. They were occupied by Mrs. Aiken's millinery store whose loss was $600; Sinclair and Harlocker, real estate and law office; and Brezee's barber shop. Johnson's grocery and meat market, McClullock's jewelry stand, Olive Hotel, with stables and shop, loss $6000, insured for $4000; vacant residence owned by Mrs. Collier, loss about $1200, no insurance.
From Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, edited by Orvil Dodge, 1898, p.242
For more information on this fire, continue to Front Street. 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.