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Vassar College, New York 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 Vassar College, New York from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Vassar College 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 Vassar College, 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 and the Census Bureau. 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 Vassar College 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 Vassar College. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Vassar College brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Vassar College, New York from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Vassar College 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 landmarks6
- Vassar's Back Yard
- Gordon Field
- Noyes Circle
- Taylor Field
- Weinberg Field
- Vassar Golf Course
Streets and roads26
- Raymond Avenue
- Hooker Avenue
- New Hackensack Road
- Manchester Road
- Haight Avenue
- College Avenue
- Fulton Avenue
- Collegeview Avenue
- Thelberg Road
- Vassar Lake Drive
- Sunset Lake Drive
- Terrace Lane
- Old Silvermine Place
- Watson Drive
- Josselyn Drive
- Brewers Lane
- Deans Lane
- Chapel Road
- Fulton Court
- Locust Road
- Sunrise Lane
- Mac Cracken Lane
- Orchard Lane
- South Commons Drive
- Lockwood Place
- Drouilhet Lane
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Vassar College, New York
Vassar College is a community of 2,472 people in Dutchess County, made up of the campus and its neighbors in the town of Poughkeepsie. Matthew Vassar, a local brewer, chartered the school in 1861 as Vassar Female College, the second women's college in the United States able to grant degrees. A year later he had the word Female taken out of its name, and some people in Poughkeepsie joked that he must have planned to let men in someday.
The joke turned out to be right. Right after World War II a few men came here to study on the G.I. Bill. Later the trustees turned down an offer to merge with Yale, and in 1969 the college opened its doors to men and women alike. In 2019 the Census Bureau began counting the campus and the streets around it as a place of their own.
“It seems like a dream, the sudden transmutation of this great lumbering pile of brick and mortar, which hung on my spirit like a mountainous millstone into a place of light and life.”
- Ground broken on a racetrackIn June 1861 Matthew Vassar turned the first shovel of earth for his college on an old racetrack he had bought in 1860. Workers then plowed one furrow around the outline of the planned building and handed the job to the builder, William Harloe. When Harloe went bankrupt, Vassar gave another $75,000 so the work could be finished.
- A whole college under one roofMain Building rose between 1861 and 1865 from plans by James Renwick Jr., the New York architect behind the Smithsonian. At 500 feet wide and five stories tall, it was believed to hold more indoor space than any building in the country until the U.S. Capitol was finished in 1868. Classrooms, dormitories, a museum, the library and the dining halls all shared it at first.
- Maria Mitchell, the first professorThe first person named to the Vassar faculty was the astronomer Maria Mitchell, appointed in 1865. The college's original observatory went up on campus even before Main Building.
- Saarinen's Noyes House, 1958Eero Saarinen drew plans for several Vassar dormitories, but only the Emma Hartman Noyes House was built, in 1958, for about 160 students. It was meant to be the first piece of a circle of dorms, but its high cost and trouble with its windows ended the plan. Its residents fielded an all-women football team, the Noyes Nymphs, who played Ivy League teams in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Near Vassar College
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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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