Market House | |
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Location | Haymarket Square, Portland, Maine |
Coordinates | 43°39′27″N 70°15′32″W / 43.65738°N 70.25891°W |
Built | 1825 |
Demolished | 1888 |
The Market House of Portland, Maine, was located in what was then known as Market Square or Haymarket Square (today's Monument Square) between 1825 and 1888, when it was demolished. In 1833, the building was modified to become Portland's first city hall. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, which now stands in its place, was dedicated in 1891.
History
The Town of Portland built a market house in Market (or Haymarket) Square 1825.[1][2][3] The first floor in the building's early years housed stalls used by farmers to sell agricultural products.[1] Also known as Military Hall,[1] the building's simple gable appearance was modified in 1833, to plans made the previous year by Charles Quincy Clapp, to become Portland's first city hall. Clapp updated the building to the Greek Revival style by removing the cupola from the roof and adding a portico to the front.[2] The cupola was reinstalled on the Universalist school house (now Alumni Hall on the University of New England campus)[4] in Portland's Deering neighborhood.[5]
The new building was the site of the 1855 Portland Rum Riot, which involved mayor Neal Dow and led to one death.[1]
The United States Hotel, built in 1803, stood behind both iterations of the building.[6][7][8]
28 Monument Square was built in 1871. In 2006, the first floor and basement of the building became the home of Public Market House, in which several vendors flank a narrow central corridor.[9] Some vendors relocated to Public Market House from the nearby Portland Public Market building, at the corner of Preble Street and Cumberland Avenue, which closed earlier the same year.[10][11]
Gallery
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The cupola from the market house, pictured in 2024 on Alumni Hall on the University of New England's Portland campus
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Old City Hall, pictured in 1886, two years before its demolition
References
- ^ a b c d City of Portland 1940, p. 214.
- ^ a b Greater Portland Landmarks 1986, p. 124.
- ^ Moon, John (2009). Portland. Arcadia Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7385-6517-0.
- ^ "University of New England celebrates reopening of renovated 182-year-old iconic Alumni Hall on Portland Campus". www.une.edu. 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ "Hay Market Square, Portland, 1830". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ "Edwards and Walker, 1941". Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 1941-06-29.
- ^ "United States Hotel, Potland, ME". Stereoview Photographs. 2013-08-21.
- ^ "From the archives: Portland from the past". Press Herald. 2015-11-15. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ "Public Market House". Public Market House. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ "Tied to a City, a Farmers' Market Proves Hardy" – The New York Times, April 11, 2007
- ^ "Portland Public Market". Rudy Bruner Award. Retrieved 2024-03-21.