Old-map quest

If you'd like to know how your city or neighborhood looked 100 years ago, check out WardMaps.com, either at its online home or its brick-and-mortar site in Harvard Square. Brothers Steven and Brian Beaucher specialize in neighborhood block maps from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, though their impressive collection also includes vintage maps from countries around the world. The maps come from atlases that the Beauchers find at auctions and estate sales and through antiquarian book dealers. The store also has cartographic gifts including placemats, puzzles, tote bags, and coasters, and any map can be printed on them - meaning you can choose your piece of the past to carry into the present. Today's hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Original maps: $55-$325. Prints $19-$79. WardMaps.com, 12 Bow St., Cambridge. 617-497-0737. wardmaps.com