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• 2012-01-24

  mdhsphotographs:

  North Avenue Market
  14-34 West North Avenue
  Baltimore, Maryland
  ca. 1930
  Hughes Company
  8 x 10 negative
  Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
  Maryland Historical Society
  MC6111

  North Avenue series. Full image and detail. Click to enlarge.

  From the Passano Historic Structure Index at MdHS: This was the original site of the residence of Bradley T. Johnson (1829-1903), C.S.A. until about 1890. In 1925, the then cleared site was quietly sold to private developers who constructed North Avenue Market. The market was a private operation which covered the block (from 14-34) and tried to reproduce the same services offered by the markets operated by the city. 

  The market opened at a bad time; the Depression plunged it almost immediately into financial difficulties, and with the end of World War II, it began to be eclipsed by the ‘super’ markets opening around it. A severe fire closed it’s doors in 1968.

  Source: mdhsphotographs

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