Plan of Elgin

Map of Elgin 1917
Map of Elgin 1917
Plan of Elgin prepared for Elgin Commercial Club by E. H. Bennett, Consulting Architect in January 1917. "The purpose of the Elgin City Plan is to provide a systematic method for Elgin's social, aesthetic and economic development, which, if carried out, will create for the community the maximum of health, happiness and efficiency; to crystallize public sentiment on the improvements suggested, and thereafter to bring about through education and cooperation the accomplishment of the recommendations" -- from p. 7