By Esther Frank-Doyle and James Reynolds
Pen and ink / Digital illustration

The concept of “Quaint Cottages” is inspired partially by the turn of the century mapmaker Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler. Thaddeus, who was most famous for his birds eye view maps of Upstate New York, often included small vignettes and sketches of monuments and import buildings as they existed at that moment.

These sketches into the past can give us insight years later into what many of our slowly growing rural downtowns looked and felt like in their heyday. [more from James Reynolds]