Philadelphia Street Map Poster

Philadelphia gave America its first great planned grid, and this printable city map shows William Penn’s 1682 design at its heart: an orderly rectangle laid between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, with five public squares anchoring the corners and centre — Rittenhouse, Washington, Franklin, Logan and the city’s hub at City Hall. This street map traces that founding plan along with the cobbled colonial blocks of Old City near Independence Hall, and the grand diagonal of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway cutting from City Hall toward the art museum.

The contrast between Penn’s tidy original grid and the later diagonal parkway gives a street map of Philadelphia a clear, historic structure that reads beautifully as wall art. The minimalist line style keeps the two rivers and the grid crisp and graphic.

It makes a meaningful print for a Philadelphian or any lover of early American history. Discover the rest of our United States city maps, or hang it beside the Washington, D.C. map poster for two cities central to the nation’s founding. Every Philadelphia city map is a free, high-resolution, printable download.