South Side Market Building

South Side Market Building (or South Side Market House) is a historic market house at 12th and Bingham Streets in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

South Side Market Building
Location12th and Bingham Sts., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°25′45.64″N 79°59′11.17″W
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1915
Architectural styleRichardsonian Romanesque, Romanesque, Italianate
NRHP reference No.76001600[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 14, 1976
Designated CPHSFebruary 22, 1977[2]
Designated PHLF1968[3]

It was built in 1915, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The original market house on this spot was built in 1893,[4][5] but burned around 1914[4] and was rebuilt in 1915.[4][5] Architect: Charles Bickel.[5] According to James D. Van Trump and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., "It is one of the last two market houses extant in Pittsburgh; the other is the East Liberty Market. The present building opened in 1893. It burned in 1914 (?) and was rebuilt probably on the old lines and opened in 1915.[4] According to Walter C. Kidney, "When it was rebuilt in 1915 after a fire, the towers came off, the gable roof was brought down to the eaves on both fronts, and a well-scaled stone cartouche was set into the south front memorializing the new work. This cartouche is the building's one decoration today, set off by swags and surmounted by a bull's head. The Romanesque walls otherwise survive largely as built, industrial rather than civic architecture."[5]


References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "Local Historic Designations". Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  3. Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009 (PDF). Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  4. Landmark Architecture of Allegheny County by James D. Van Trump and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., page 154 (1967, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, LCCN 67-26459)
  5. Landmark Architecture: Pittsburgh and Allegheny County by Walter C. Kidney, page 198 (1985, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ISBN 0-916670-09-0. Missing or empty |title= (help))
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