I have always enjoyed this old map of Lakeside since you can the cabin we used to have. I remember seeing it in the Hotel Lakeside lobby and picking out our place when I was a kid. The bottom map is a current day version of the same style. I circled our old place in green so you could find it.
The caption of the old map is pasted here: In 1884, A. J. Hare of Sandusky, Ohio published a hand-colored 20.5 by 25-inch bird's eye map of Lakeside. This style of artwork, popular in the post-Civil War era, was done by artists who envisioned a town from an elevation of 2,000 to 3,000 feet. Since few towns had such elevations in their natural topography, artists learned to sketch the proper perspective from ground level. They would draw out the grid of streets on paper and then walk each street, making sketches of every building and associated landscape. Hare created a faithful representation of Lakeside as it existed in 1884, its twelfth season. All the features of the original grounds from Cedar to Oak Avenues are shown. 
Albert J. Hare (1851-1942) was the fifth of eight children born to an Ohio farm family. By 1882 he was living in Sandusky with his wife and two children and employed in manufacturing of wooden cigar boxes. By July 1883 he had completed a bird's eye map of Sandusky reported in the Sandusky Daily Register of July 16, 1883 to be "artistically engraved and in colors, giving a fine view of the city, which will be an ornament when framed and valuable for reference." One year later, the Register reported that Hare now offered a bird's eye map of Lakeside "showing the location of all streets, business places, auditoriums and of every cottage on the grounds..... Mr. Hare has done himself much credit as an artist." These were the only two bird's eye maps Hare created. (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
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