Williams Bay and Lake Geneva
Williams Bay Wisconsin 1907 Map Print
The banner reads WILLIAMS BAY, with WALWORTH & LINN TWPS lettered beneath it and a scale bar below that.
The town plan lies upper left of the centre of the sheet, with numbered lots between lettered streets that include Cherry, Center, Elm, Spring and Congress. Other streets lettered there include Walworth, Williams, Valley, Clover, Oakwood and Orchard, and a diagonal road is lettered Geneva. WILLIAMS SECOND ADD. is spelled out in widely spaced letters in a curve across the blocks, and ORIGINAL TOWN is spelled out across the blocks between Elm and Spring. Lockwood's Add. is lettered at the top left of the plan and Johnson's Add. below Spring St. A School, a Church, a P.O. and a Scandinavian Alliance Mission are lettered among the blocks.
At the top of the sheet a plat of blocks numbered 1 to 15 is lettered WILLIAMS BAY LAND CO. ADD. in widely spaced letters in a curve, with North St. lettered at its top, Bayview Ave. along its foot and avenues that include Quincannon, Cornell, Purdue, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. Below it Railroad Land is written by hand, the C. & N. W. Ry. is lettered along the tracks, two Depots are lettered beside the line, and an Ice House, a Coal Shed and a Lumber Yard are lettered near the shore, with two piers lettered running into the water.
On the south-west of the sheet OBSERVATORY SUB-DIVISION is spelled out in widely spaced letters across numbered lots, with Fontana Road and Constance Boulevard lettered, SECOND OBSERVATORY SUB-DIV. beside it and the Y.M.C.A. lettered in two places. ASSESSOR'S SUBDIVISION is spelled out in a curve across large blocks lettered A, B, C, D and E, and an observatory is lettered over a hatched building under the label of Block B. GRAND TERRACE SUB-DIV. is lettered near the lake at the lower left, with Oak Bank and Grand Terrace lettered along the shore, and STAMS PARK is spelled out in widely spaced letters down a long strip further east.
South of the town, long strips running to the water carry handwritten owner names, among them Michael Johnson, J. W. Loft Est., Geo. Williams, R. B. McMullen, H. T. Weeks and Congress Club. Below them DRONLEY is spelled out in spaced capitals, W. J. Chalmers is written by hand, and the SUNDAY SCHOOL CAMP is lettered beside a Chapel and a Dining Room, with small buildings and a pier.
On the east shore CEDAR POINT is spelled out in widely spaced letters along numbered lots running down to the water, with LAKE GENEVA YACHT CLUB lettered in the water just south-west of it. Hanson's Add. and Hanson St. are lettered to the north, near a second Bayview Ave.
WILLIAMS BAY is lettered in spaced capitals on the water of the bay, which is drawn in closely spaced lines that follow the shore, and LAKE GENEVA is lettered in large capitals across the lower part of the sheet.
This print appears in faded sage on warm cream paper, with black lettering.
Paper & Craft
Each reproduction is printed as a giclée art print on heavyweight 325gsm archival matte paper with archival inks.