City Market House with arched entrance and covered wings – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of City Market House with arched entrance and covered wings brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
City Market House with arched entrance and covered wings
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A market house with an arched central entrance and covered wings is a building type that once anchored many American towns, where farmers and merchants sold produce, meat, and goods under one roof. The covered wings would have offered shelter from sun and rain for stalls along the sides, while the arch gave the central passage a formal, civic presence. Market houses like this were often the busiest public spaces in a town on market days, and many were later replaced by grocery stores or demolished, which makes surviving examples worth a close look for their construction and layout.
| Original scan | 3,051 × 1,951 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12657_CitymarketAustinTexas |
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