Update: Demolished by September of 2018. Not much is happening at the old Reservoir Market. I presume it will be knocked down one day.
Tag: Markets
Reservoir Market, Sitting
Update: Demolished by September of 2018. Sadly, as I had suspected, the historic Reservoir Market is suffering further collapse of its front facade. I suppose it is not long for this world.
Reservoir Market
Update: Demolished by September of 2018. Soulard Market was not always the only public market in St. Louis; French Market and Mound Market are two other fairly well documented markets that served the residents of St. Louis inside Jefferson Avenue. But there was yet another one, the Reservoir Market, which is labeled as #7 in…
South Public Super Market
Update: This is the old Carondelet South Market. The old North Carondelet City Market can be seen here, converted into the historic African American Quinn Chapel AME Church. Historic photo added in October of 2021. This is clearly an older market building, but it has received multiple additions of the years, expanding to its current…
Soulard Market, Revisited
I returned to Soulard Market, this time towards closing and captured these details of the famous market.
Pike Place Market, Seattle
Pike Place Market remains one of the most famous public markets in the United States, so I visited the market while in Seattle. As far as fresh seafood, there’s probably very few places in the United States where you can buy such high quality seafood as fresh as at Pike Place. I will say that…
French Market
Update: I revisited the area in late summer of 2020. Tucked away, right in the middle of the jumble of streets that head into Downtown, is a one block stretch of street, an alley really, named French Market Court. French Market? Only five or six blocks north of the more famous Soulard Market, the South…
Soulard Market
The architecture of Renaissance Florence inspired architects throughout the city of St. Louis. Above is the Loggia dei Lanzi on the main piazza of the city of Florence. As you can see below, this building, as well as the Ospedale degli Innocenti by Filippo Brunelleschi, inspired Soulard Market’s design. Using the repeated arched arcade, Soulard…
Eastern Market, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Update: The market later burned after I was there, and has since been restored. Eastern Market is an anchor of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and after suffering a devastating fire a couple of years ago, the mayor was out front the next day promising to rebuild. To be honest, I bought a lot of fruit…
Pullman, South Chicago
Update: Completely new and expanded commentary and additional photographs from the vault in August of 2023. The planned industrial suburb of Pullman, nowadays within the borders of the City of Chicago, remains one of the most important and influential of numerous communities constructed by paternalistic factory owners in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. The…