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Needham, Massachusetts Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Needham, Massachusetts from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Needham building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Needham, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Needham artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Needham. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Needham brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of Needham, Massachusetts and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the Needham map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks18
- Downtown
- Charles River Village
- Charles River Station
- Birds Hill
- Hemlock Gorge
- High Rock
- Abbotts Pond
- Charles River Reservoir
- Cutler Park
- DeFazio Park
- Needham Town Forest
- Ridge Hill Reservation
Show all 18 places
- Babson Park
- Needham Heights
- Needham Junction
- Fair Oaks Park
- Wilshire Park
- Newbury Park
Streets and roads219
- Great Plain Avenue
- Dedham Avenue
- Highland Avenue
- Grove Street
- Wellesley Avenue
- Linden Street
- Pleasant Street
- Charles River Street
- Falcon Street
- Central Avenue
- South Street
- Greendale Avenue
- Webster Street
- Harris Avenue
- High Rock Street
- Chestnut Street
- Hunnewell Street
- Warren Street
- Country Way
- Hillcrest Road
- Manning Street
- Hillside Avenue
- Brookline Street
- Rosemary Street
- Nehoiden Street
- West Street
- Edgewater Drive
- Hunting Road
- Broad Meadow Road
- Forest Street
Show all 219 streets
- Kendrick Street
- Gould Street
- Reservoir Street
- Bridle Trail Road
- Brookside Road
- Washington Avenue
- First Avenue
- May Street
- Parish Road
- Elmwood Road
- Tudor Road
- Highgate Street
- Valley Road
- Fourth Avenue
- Tower Avenue
- Saint Mary Street
- Lindbergh Avenue
- Maple Street
- Melrose Avenue
- East Militia Heights
- Parker Road
- Whitman Road
- Richdale Road
- Standish Road
- Oak Street
- Fisher Street
- Laurel Drive
- Oxbow Road
- Fairfield Street
- Second Avenue
- Beaufort Avenue
- Noanett Road
- Garden Street
- Pine Street
- Richardson Drive
- Burrill Lane
- Grant Street
- Prince Street
- Taylor Street
- Belle Lane
- Alden Road
- Green Street
- Ardmore Road
- Bird Street
- Bradford Street
- Cartwright Road
- Grosvenor Road
- Wildwood Drive
- Hoover Road
- Lincoln Street
- Gay Street
- Cedar Street
- Hampton Avenue
- Locust Lane
- Lawton Road
- Woodledge Road
- Windsor Road
- Fairview Road
- Booth Street
- Henderson Street
- Sylvan Road
- Border Road
- Charles Street
- Wayne Road
- Sachem Road
- Oak Hill Road
- Third Avenue
- Gary Road
- Norfolk Street
- Curve Street
- Burr Drive
- Tv Place
- Pilgrim Road
- Bess Road
- Savoy Road
- Cutler Road
- Avery Street
- Carey Road
- William Street
- Morton Street
- Yale Road
- Fay Lane
- Marked Tree Road
- Lexington Avenue
- Damon Road
- Jarvis Circle
- Dawson Drive
- Olin Way
- Winding River Road
- Livingston Circle
- Arch Street
- Gayland Road
- Newell Avenue
- Elder Road
- Birds Hill Avenue
- Nardone Road
- Crescent Road
- Sutton Road
- Old Farm Road
- Wilson Lane
- Douglas Road
- Ellicott Street
- Cynthia Road
- Rolling Lane
- Peacedale Road
- School Street
- Mackintosh Avenue
- Whiting Way
- Blake Street
- Mary Chilton Road
- Fox Hill Road
- Eaton Road
- Robinwood Avenue
- Noyes Street
- Crestview Road
- Stevens Road
- Donna Road
- Dwight Road
- Woodlawn Avenue
- Avon Circle
- Helen Road
- Emerson Road
- Ware Road
- Pond Street
- Riverside Street
- Kenney Street
- Parkman Way
- Station Street
- North Hill Avenue
- Tillotson Road
- Dale Street
- Park Avenue
- Gilbert Road
- Horace Street
- Mellen Street
- Lantern Lane
- Colby Street
- Eliot Road
- Glover Road
- Village Lane
- Thorpe Road
- Cross Street
- Carol Road
- Sunset Road
- Starr Ridge
- Ina Road
- East Drive
- Clarke Road
- Plymouth Road
- Pickering Street
- Aletha Road
- Edwardel Road
- Norwich Road
- Riverbend Lane
- Canterbury Lane
- Mann Avenue
- Otis Street
- Blacksmith Drive
- Prospect Street
- David Road
- Rivard Road
- Gatewood Drive
- Enslin Road
- Homsy Lane
- Petrini Circle
- Moseley Avenue
- Glen Gary Road
- Hazel Lane
- Pinehill Drive
- Hill Street
- Hamlin Lane
- Rybury Hillway
- Meetinghouse Circle
- Walker Lane
- Kingsbury Street
- Pheasant Landing Road
- Murphy Road
- Briarwood Circle
- Colonial Road
- Farley Pond Lane
- Pershing Road
- Perry Drive
- Appleton Road
- White Pine Road
- Fremont Street
- Lake Drive
- Cimino Road
- Clyde Street
- Marr Road
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Needham, Massachusetts
Needham is a town of 32,091 people in Norfolk County, almost surrounded by the Charles River. In 1680 settlers paid Chief Nehoiden for a piece of land measuring four miles by five, giving him 10 pounds, 40 acres and corn worth 40 shillings. The land then belonged to Dedham as its North Parish. Forty men on the north bank complained that their schools and churches were poor and asked the General Court for a town of their own. Dedham did not fight them, and in 1711 the court created Needham, named for Needham Market in Suffolk, England.
The railroad opened to Needham on June 1, 1853. Instead of passing the old Centre on Central Avenue, it ran across the Great Plain, the story says because one man refused to give up his land. Business followed the tracks, and by 1879 the First Parish meetinghouse itself had left the old Centre, so the Great Plain became today's Needham Square. In 1881 the West Parish left to become the town of Wellesley, and in 1882 the two high schools met in their first Thanksgiving football game.
“Our town is a unit in a constellation of towns and cities and mighty states, and it is older than the Federal government itself.”
- Five men lost in 1775The militia met at the Rev. Samuel West's house, where the town stored ammunition, now the Townsend House. They marched to West Cambridge and met the retreating British; five Needham men died. John Tolman, of today's Tolman-Gay House farm, survived a bullet between the shoulders.
- Hills hauled to the Back BayBoston began filling its Back Bay in 1857, and in 1859 Myron C. Munson started carrying gravel there from East Needham. Two hundred men dug in the pits, locomotives hauled forty loaded cars at a time, and the trains kept running through the night. Within ten years the hills were gone, and the hundreds of acres left behind stayed nearly worthless for twenty-five years.
- English knitters in HighlandvilleEnglish knitters started coming in the late 1840s. They ran hand-frames in little shops, most of them in Highlandville, where people grew used to seeing gloves and stockings stretched on boards to dry. In 1864 Mark and John Lee put up the first section of a large knitting mill there, and William Carter, born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, joined them in 1869. His company later employed three to four hundred people in town.
- Baker's Ridge Hill FarmWilliam Emerson Baker, who had grown rich improving the sewing machine, came to Needham in the late 1860s and put together more than 800 acres he called Ridge Hill Farm. He dug two lakes, one of them Sabrina Lake, and turned part of the estate into an amusement park full of tunnels, trick floors and exotic animals. His Hotel Wellesley, built in 1888, could hold more than 300 guests until fire destroyed it on December 19, 1891.
- A school named for an astronautSunita Williams grew up in Needham and graduated from its high school in 1983. Later she commanded the International Space Station twice. In 2017 the school committee voted to give her name to a new elementary school, and the Sunita L. Williams Elementary School opened in the fall of 2019 to replace the aging Hillside school.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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