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HOLLINS MARKET

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1864, George A. Frederick. 26 S. Arlington Ave.
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This Italianate building is the only intact nineteenth-century market house in Baltimore. It was one of eleven municipal market houses operating in the city during their late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century heyday, and one of the few that incorporated both a market and civic meeting hall.

Baltimore has a long tradition of public market houses that began with the first in 1763, providing a venue for local farmers offering fresh produce and other food-stuffs. Although the preferred plan was for an open shed-like structure, a few market houses such as Hollins included a second-floor hall that in its day was the only available space for traveling shows, balls, and public receptions. It replaced a typical shed form (similar to the rear addition) built in 1838 to serve the working-class community that developed around the B&O Railroad shops.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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What's Nearby

IRISH RAILROAD WORKERS MUSEUM (ROW HOUSES)
WAVERLEY TERRACE AND FRANKLIN SQUARE
BALTIMORE AND OHIO TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM (B&O MT. CLARE STATION AND RAILROAD SHOPS)
CARTER MEMORIAL CHURCH (ST. PETER THE APOSTLE CHURCH)
EDGAR ALLAN POE HOUSE AND THE POE HOMES

Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "HOLLINS MARKET", [, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-BC87.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 204-205.

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