Des Moines City Map Poster

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Des Moines map poster

Des Moines grew up where two rivers meet, the Des Moines and the Raccoon, and the city still arranges itself around that confluence. The gold-domed Iowa State Capitol looks west toward downtown across the river, while older neighborhoods and tree-lined residential streets spread out in every direction toward the suburbs. It is a capital city that feels lived-in rather than grand, a place of farmers markets, riverside trails, college campuses and weekend games, and the people who know it tend to carry a precise mental map of how it all fits together.

This print renders Des Moines, Iowa as a street map in the Painted Survey style, a visual design with a softer, painterly character that sets it apart from a plain technical map. It suits someone who grew up in Des Moines and moved away, someone who just bought a first house there, or someone who spent a few years in the city for school or work and wants a reminder on the wall. A map of a familiar place invites a particular kind of attention, the kind that traces a commute or finds an old block from memory.

As a cityscape, it works in a living room, a home office or a hallway, and it makes a thoughtful gift for a housewarming or a farewell. It is meant as decorative art, a portrait of a city's shape, not a tool for finding the way around town. The available options are listed on this page.

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Location

Iowa, United States

Collection

Cityscapes