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North Adams, 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 North Adams, Massachusetts from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures North Adams 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 North Adams, 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 North Adams 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 North Adams. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of North Adams brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of North Adams, Massachusetts and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the North Adams 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 landmarks17
- Downtown
- Blackinton
- West Summit
- Greylock
- Brayton Hill
- Mount Fitch
- Mount Williams
- Spruce Hill
- The Notch
- Lower Reservoir
- Money Brook Falls
- Clarksburg State Forest
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- Hoosac Range
- Savoy Mountain State Forest
- The Cascades
- Kemp Park
- Braytonville
Streets and roads143
- Ashland Street
- Church Street
- West Main Street
- State Road
- Union Street
- Hodges Cross Road
- State Street
- Curran Highway
- Beaver Street
- Mohawk Trail
- Eagle Street
- Main Street
- Millard Avenue
- Houghton Street
- East Main Street
- Franklin Street
- Notch Road
- Charlene Street
- West Shaft Road
- Maple Street
- Rich Street
- Massachusetts Avenue Extended
- River Street
- Massachusetts Avenue
- Old West Shaft Road
- Reservoir Road
- Pattison Road
- South State Street
- Barbour Street
- Daniels Road
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- East Mountain Road
- Walker Street
- Kemp Avenue
- Sterling Drive
- Phelps Avenue
- Walnut Street
- George Fairs Way
- Wells Avenue
- Richview Avenue
- Circle Drive
- East Quincy Street
- Prospect Street
- North Street
- Old State Street
- Military Road
- Sand Bed Road
- Catherine Street
- Bradley Street
- Liberty Street
- West End Terrace
- Chantilly Avenue
- Melody Lane
- Hawthorne Avenue
- Meadow Street
- Woodlawn Avenue
- East Avenue
- Brooklyn Street
- Harding Avenue
- Barth Street
- Gallup Street
- None
- Hall Street
- Harris Street
- Tremont Street
- Galvin Road
- East Street
- Center Street
- Dean Street
- Johnson Street
- Allen Drive
- Lois Street
- Brown Street
- Oak Hill
- Autumn Drive
- Miner Street
- Porter Street
- Glen Avenue
- New Street
- Park Avenue
- Corinth Street
- Tyler Street
- Yale Street
- Cady Street
- Marshall Street
- McAuley Road
- Mohawk Forest Boulevard
- Furnace Street
- Veazie Street
- Seminole Drive
- American Legion Drive
- Summit Avenue
- Ashton Avenue
- Greylock Avenue
- Roberts Drive
- Brickyard Court
- Gunther Street
- Natural Bridge Road
- Hospital Avenue
- Spring Street
- Frederick Street
- Russell Street
- Washington Avenue
- Cherry Street
- Richmond Avenue
- Marietta Street
- Chenaille Terrace
- College Avenue
- Lyman Street
- Aztec Drive
- Walden Street
- Murray Avenue
- Canal Street
- Warren Street
- Myers Avenue
- Lake Street
- Marion Avenue
- Cliff Street
- Williams Street
- Meade Avenue
- West Memorial Drive
- Chase Avenue
- Arnold Place
- Bryant Street
- Reed Street
- Labonte Avenue
- Wood Street
- Quincy Street
- Isbell Street
- Cyr Street
- Windsor Lake Road
- Versailles Avenue
- Montana Street
- Holden Street
- Demond Avenue
- Parker Street
- Elmwood Avenue
- Burnham Street
- Pine Hill Terrace
- Bridge Street
- Dorothys Way
- Ivory Street
- Iroquois Drive
- Ray Street
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About North Adams, Massachusetts
North Adams is a city of 12,961 people in Berkshire County, at the fork of the Hoosic River. Settlement began in 1745 with Fort Massachusetts, a frontier post on the riverbank. The first farmers chose the mountain slopes over the pine flat at the fork, and the village that grew up there was knocked together from so many rough slabs that people called it Slab City. It stayed part of Adams until April 16, 1878, when the old town was split and its northern half became North Adams, named for Samuel Adams. It became a city in 1895.
Mills built the city. Oliver Arnold and Company began printing cloth downtown in 1860, and by 1905 the Arnold Print Works employed about 3,200 people. The company left its Marshall Street buildings in 1942, and Sprague Electric bought them, growing to 4,137 workers by 1966 in a community of 18,000. Sprague's closing in 1985 hit the city hard. Mayor John Barrett III then offered the empty complex to Thomas Krens, who needed room for very large contemporary art, and with more than $8 million pledged by residents and businesses, MASS MoCA opened there in 1999.
“Right at our feet and fifteen hundred feet below us lies the village of North Adams, packed in among its ravines and climbing the slopes on every side”
- Holding Fort MassachusettsIn 1746, during King George's War, French and Native forces surrounded the fort. John Hawks had only 22 men able to fight, and he held out for 28 hours before he surrendered. Thirty prisoners were marched to Quebec, and half of them died there. The fort was rebuilt stronger in 1747 and never came under attack again.
- A tunnel through the mountainNorth Adams was headquarters for the Hoosac Tunnel, a 4.75-mile railroad bore through the Hoosac Range to Florida. Work began in 1851 and moved slowly until George M. Mowbray set up a nitroglycerine works by the west shaft in 1867. The final blast joining the two headings came on November 27, 1873, and trains ran through starting February 9, 1875.
- Shoemakers from San FranciscoIn 1870 Calvin T. Sampson, who made women's shoes on Marshall Street, was fighting the shoemakers' union, the Knights of St. Crispin. He sent his superintendent west, and seventy-five Chinese workers stepped off the train on June 13, 1870, before a big crowd and thirty plainclothes police. They stayed about ten years. The episode broke the Crispins, drew national notice, and is remembered as one cause of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
- Blackinton's woolen millsIn 1821 Sanford Blackinton and two partners built a small mill known as The Boys' Factory, and a mill village named for him grew up around it on the Hoosic. When the Civil War raised the demand for wool cloth, Blackinton and Daniel Dewey built the Norad Mill in Braytonville in 1863. It is the oldest mill complex in the city whose outside has changed little, and it joined the National Register in 1985.
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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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