The West Side Market is Cleveland, Ohio’s oldest operating indoor/outdoor market space. It is located at the corner of West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue in the Ohio City district.
The market began operating in 1840, across the street from the market’s current location. Josiah Barber and Richard Lord, prominent businessmen and both former mayors of Ohio City prior to its incorporation into Cleveland, donated the tract of land to Ohio City’s government, with stipulation that the land be used to create a sustaining open-air neighborhood market. The market space acted as an Ohio City community center for the following three decades, and other benefactors donated adjacent lands to allow the marketplace to expand. In 1868, a one story, wooden framed building was erected on the site, and the newly christened Pearl Street Market was opened.
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