The Market House in Photos

This is a look at the City's Market House in photos from over the years. Patch recently spoke with Historian Glenn Campbell from the Historic Annapolis Foundation to find out more about the building.

According to Campbell, these are a few key points in the building's history.

• 1784- Eight businessmen who collectively owned that property deeded it to the city under the terms that the city build a market house there. (The City had market houses prior to this, but they were not always at this location. This building was originally a few blocks over from where the current one is).
• The current building was built in 1858.
• In 1968, the City Council voted to demolish the Market House. At the time it was not in good condition. The Historic Annapolis Foundation and preservation-minded citizens joined together to prevent this from happening. A "Save the Market House Committee" was formed. The decision was reversed and the city paid for the building to be refurbished and restored.

"It's always been a market but what being a market is changes with time," Campbell said."When it first opened up in the late 1850s and the kinds of things sold there would have been different from the way it functioned in the 1950s leading up to that threat to demolish it, very different from what was in there in the 1970s after the refurbishing was done and different from what's in there now with the most recent work done to the building."

The Market House has also been the subject of a book by Annapolis resident Ginger Doyel who took an in depth look at the building's history.

The photos provided in this story are courtesy of The Historic Annapolis Foundation.