In the 1940s, the City of Cleveland struggled to find an appropriate public use for Market Square and, at one time, even contemplated selling it. This is a 1948 drawing of a proposed new market building which looks very much like a modernized version of the old Pearl Street Market. The building was never built and instead the City elected to lease the shelter house on Market Square to a business entity which converted it into a bakery. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections
"A Proposed New Market Building for Market Square - 1948" appears in: Market Square Park
