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3 unusual facts about Market Street


Market Street, Cambridge

Holy Trinity Church, built c1400 in the Perpendicular style, is at the eastern end of the street on the south corner with Sidney Street, another shopping street.

Market Street, Georgetown

Market Street is a street within the core zone of the Penang capital, Georgetown, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Market Street, Melbourne

South of Flinders Street, the roadway continues across the Yarra River via Queens Bridge.


Central Freeway

The remainder of the freeway is signed as exit 434B from US 101, and comes to the surface at Market Street and Octavia Boulevard, the latter continuing north to Oak and Fell Streets, a one-way pair west to Golden Gate Park.

The freeway once extended north to Turk Street, and was once proposed to form part of a complete loop around downtown (along with the Embarcadero Freeway), but was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and has been replaced with the surface-level Octavia Boulevard north of Market Street.

Hayes Valley, San Francisco

In 2005, a section of the freeway was rebuilt to end at Market Street, with the new, tree-lined Octavia Boulevard running north through the Hayes Valley along the previous path of Octavia Street, to Fell Street.

James H. Windrim

In 1871, he was named architect for the Stephen Girard Estate, designing several buildings at Girard College and a complex of stores on Market Street that became Snellenburg's Department Store.

Manchester city centre

Manchester city centre is "traditionally defined as being within the boundaries of Market Street, the River Irwell, Peter Street and Portland Street, including Piccadilly".

National Museum of American Jewish History

In 2005, it was announced that the museum would be moved to a new building to be built at Fifth Street and Market Street on the Independence Mall.


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A'Lelia Walker

She grew up in the neighborhood where Scott Joplin and other ragtime musicians gathered at Tom Turpin's Rosebud Cafe on St. Louis's Market Street.

Bamberger's

Founded in 1893 by Louis Bamberger as L. Bamberger & Company in Newark, New Jersey, in 1912 the company built its flagship store, designed by Jarvis Hunt, at 131 Market Street.

Bradford railway station

Bradford Forster Square railway station, an open station served by Northern Rail and East Coast (historically Bradford Market Street)

Central Freeway

The final compromise took a two-way freeway down to ground level at Market Street, where Octavia Boulevard - a widened Octavia Street on the former freeway right-of-way — would continue to Fell Street.

Charles Skouras

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Kiel Opera House.

Commerce Square

Commerce Square covers an entire block, between 20th and 21st Streets and Market Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard.

George Christopher

Born George Christophes in Arcadia, Greece, the son of James Christophes and Mary Koines Christophes, Christopher and his family emigrated to the United States in 1910 and settled in San Francisco's South of Market Street neighborhood, then known as "Greektown", when Christopher was two years old.

George Skouras

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Kiel Opera House.

James H. Windrim

Snellenberg's Department Store, 1100-42 Market Street (1886–87, demolished 1960s).

John M. Hamilton House

The other two are the George H. Miller House on Bloomington's West Market Street, and the Ruben M. Benjamin House in the East Grove Street Historic District.

Julia A. Purnell Museum

The Julia A. Purnell Museum is located at 208 West Market Street, Snow Hill, Maryland, United States.

Market Street Tunnel

The Center City Commuter Connection runs east-west a block north of Market Street in Philadelphia.

Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

The silent film historical work of one of the members of its staff, David Kiehn, was featured on 60 Minutes for demonstrating that a film of Market Street in San Francisco was actually made a few days before the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Old County Courthouse

Old County Courthouse (also known as Plymouth Old County Courthouse or Old Town House) is an historic court house on Leyden Street and Market Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts near Burial Hill and First Parish Church in Plymouth.

Old Market

Old Market, Bristol, a Conservation Area around Old Market Street in Bristol

Paterson City Hall

One, which is adjacent to the corner of Market Street and Washington Street, honors businessman and philanthropist Nathan Barnert, who was elected twice as mayor.

Another, which is adjacent to the corner of Market Street and Colt Street, honors physician Andrew McBride, who was elected a total of three times to the office of mayor.

Pioneers, a Volunteer Network

In June 1949 the Charles Fleetford Sise Chapter of the Telephone Pioneers commissioned and dedicated a large statue of Bell in the front portico of Brantford, Ontario's new Bell Telephone Building plant on Market Street.

Ronald N. Young

Among the many accomplishments achieved or begun during Young's years as mayor were the Carroll Creek flood control project, the Market Street underground wiring project, the Weinberg Center for the Arts, Harry Grove Stadium, Clustered Spires Golf Course, several parking garages and the revitalization of downtown Frederick.

Skouras Brothers Enterprises

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon (movie theater) at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Peabody Opera House.

Stag and Hounds Public House

The Stag and Hounds Public House is on Old Market Street, Old Market, Bristol.

The Bon-Ton

The Bon-Ton was started in 1898, when Max Grumbacher and his father, Samuel, opened S. Grumbacher & Son, a one-room millinery and dry goods store on Market Street in York, Pennsylvania.

Union Square Aberdeen

Located on Guild Street and Market Street, the development adjoins onto the side of Aberdeen railway station and new bus station creating a transport hub.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

It originally sat in Independence Hall in Philadelphia as the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, and is now located at the James Byrne Courthouse at 601 Market Street in Philadelphia.

Utah State Route 171

Between about SR-154 and Market Street (near 2700 West and I-215), dedicated bus lanes for UTA's 3500 South MAX bus rapid transit line run in the median.

West Oakland, Oakland, California

In the 1850s, a group of men who had been leasing the land from his son Vicente, Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew J. Moon, began illegally selling small farm plots west of what is now Market Street.

WLYC

WLYC has also seen great personalities come through the doors on Pine Street and Market Street in Williamsport, South Williamsport and now, back on Market Street, at the start of downtown revitalization in the Chilitech Building, in downtown Williamsport.