Connecticut Map Prints
A map made for recognition
Your town is more than its outline.
The map you want is the one that lets your finger find the road home, then rewards you for looking closer.
The real problem
Most maps make you choose between place and atmosphere.
Current maps are built for utility. Beautiful maps tend to preserve the past or simplify the present. That leaves residents caught between a map that knows today's town and one that feels worth living with.
That false choice is the root of the problem. Recognition needs both: enough current, local truth to find home, and enough composition and craft to keep looking.
- 01First you look for the road you know without thinking.
- 02Then the turn, green, shoreline, school or mill that proves the map knows the place.
- 03If those clues are absent, no frame or antique styling can make the map personal.
A town map should know the place as it is and feel like it has always belonged.
Why the usual choices miss
Three kinds of map. Three different jobs.
Antique reproductions
Beautiful records of what was there. They cannot show a road, subdivision or building that came later, including the place you may call home.
Minimal street posters
They give every town the same treatment: outline, street web, type. The buildings, terrain and researched local names that distinguish one place from another are the first things removed.
Navigation maps
They keep the present town close at hand and get you where you need to go. Their job is speed and utility, not the selective composition or physical presence of an object made to live on the wall.
Each can be excellent at its own job. None is built to combine recognition of today's town with the atmosphere of an old atlas.
The KNOWOL method
The current town, composed like an old atlas.
KNOWOL starts with current Connecticut, researches the place town by town, and gives that truth the visual gravity of an old New England atlas. The method is built backward from one moment: a fingertip landing on the road, turn, river or center the buyer knows.
The current place
Present day survey and elevation data supply the roads, buildings, water and terrain.
The local knowledge
Public landmarks are researched town by town and lettered only when they can be sourced.
The atlas finish
The accurate town is shaded, lettered and composed in the manner of a nineteenth century New England atlas.
Current enough to find home. Old enough in feeling to belong on the wall.
The complete index
Every town in Connecticut
From Andover to Woodstock, with nothing skipped. Storrs appears on its own as a village of Mansfield, which is why this index has 170 map choices for 169 towns and cities.
A
4 maps
B
16 maps
C
13 maps
D
5 maps
E
12 maps
F
3 maps
G
7 maps
H
7 maps
K
3 maps
L
5 maps
M
12 maps
N
17 maps
O
4 maps
P
8 maps
R
4 maps
S
20 maps
T
5 maps
U
1 map
V
2 maps
W
22 maps
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From the KNOWOL workshop
How a town becomes a print.
The old-atlas feeling comes last. The place has to be right first.
The survey
We start with current public survey and elevation data for the town and its border, then draw the roads, the buildings, the water and the terrain at a scale where a single house is still visible.
The research
Then the slow part. Someone reads the town's own record to decide what belongs on the map: the landmarks a resident would name, the historic districts, the founding year. A place is only lettered once we can source it.
The engraving
The finished map is set in the style of a nineteenth century New England atlas, with the title panel, the lettering, and the muted inks of a plate that has been on a wall for a long time.
The print itself
Made for a wall, not a drawer.
A map worth looking at twice should be printed like one. Every order is made on heavyweight archival matte paper with fade resistant inks, then either rolled in a crush resistant tube or delivered framed and ready to hang.
- Heavyweight archival matte paper
- Fade resistant pigment inks
- 3 sizes, from 12 by 18 to 24 by 36 inches
- Slim Ayous wood frame in black or white
- Shatterproof acrylic glazing on framed prints
- Framed prints arrive assembled, hardware included
Sizes and prices
Choose your print
The same price for every town, whether it is Hartford or Hartland.
| Size | Unframed | Black or white frame | Best in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12" x 18" | $39.99 | $89.99 | A hallway, an office, a gallery wall |
| 18" x 24" | $59.99 | $129.99 | A study, a den, above a consoleMost popular |
| 24" x 36" | $89.99 | $189.99 | The statement size, over a sofa or mantel |
Free U.S. shipping on every size
Questions
Asked and answered
Is my town really on here?
All 169 Connecticut towns and cities have their own map, plus Storrs, which is a village of Mansfield rather than a town of its own. Andover, Union, Scotland, Hartland and Voluntown are drawn with the same care as Hartford and New Haven.
Is this a historic map or a current one?
Current. The streets and buildings are drawn from present day survey data, so what you see is the town as it stands now. What is historic is the style: the shading, the lettering and the engraved title panel follow the conventions of a nineteenth century New England atlas.
How are the landmarks chosen?
Town by town, by hand. The rule is what a resident would name if asked what is in their town. Nothing is lettered on the map unless it can be sourced.
Which size should I choose?
The 12" x 18" suits a hallway, an office or a gallery wall. The 18" x 24" is the most popular and reads comfortably from a few feet away. The 24" x 36" is the statement size.
What is the frame like?
A slim Ayous wood frame in black or white, with lightweight shatterproof acrylic instead of glass. It arrives fully assembled with hanging hardware.
How long does it take to arrive?
Most orders ship within 3 to 5 business days and arrive within 7 to 10 business days total, with free U.S. shipping. If you need it by a particular date, write to us first and we will tell you honestly whether it can be done.
What if something is wrong with it?
If a print arrives damaged or defective, email us and a replacement goes out. No fine print and no argument. KNOWOL has shipped more than 10,000 map orders and the delivery part is the part we have made easy.
Free U.S. shipping
Put your town on the wall.
All 169 towns and cities, each one drawn as it stands today and lettered with the places its own residents would name.
Find your townFrom $39.99 · Framed or unframed