I returned to Soulard Market, this time towards closing and captured these details of the famous market.
Tag: Markets
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…