{"nrhp_refnum":"76001600","name":"South Side Market Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12th and Bingham Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.42946619200006,"lon":-79.98640142199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick market building in the center of Pittsburgh's Old Market Square on the South Side, Allegheny County. It was built in 1915 after a fire destroyed an 1893 market house on the site, and it has been used as a neighborhood recreation center since 1950.","why_significant":"The building is one of the last two 19th-century market houses in Pittsburgh and is regarded as a prominent example of a late Victorian urban market form. Its heraldic relief sculpture on the front facade is cited as a significant decorative feature. The document also highlights its early adaptive reuse as a recreation center, which it says has kept the building's original form and details intact.","narrative":"Rising at the center of Pittsburgh's Old Market Square on the South Side, the South Side Market Building is a two-story brick rectangular structure measuring 160 by 70 feet. An earlier market house opened on the site in 1893 and burned about 1914; the present building carries a plaque reading that it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1915. Its design combines Italianate features, such as the low pitched flared roof and bracketed eaves, with Richardsonian Romanesque elements, including rusticated ground-story masonry and stilted arched openings. The front facade bears heraldic relief sculpture of festoons, cornucopia and a steer's head. The building is one of the last two 19th-century market houses in Pittsburgh. In 1950 it became a neighborhood recreation center, an early example of adaptive reuse, and it has kept its original form and details.","period_of_significance":"1915-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque and Italianate elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"The building is well maintained and in good condition; it has been used as a neighborhood recreation center since 1950.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.408426-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001600.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001600/50a3412543-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001600/50a3412543-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SouthSideMarketBuilding.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SouthSideMarketBuilding.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997686","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_Market_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7568482"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/south-side-market-building-76001600/"}