North Market Historic District

North of Columbus's main downtown core, a compact district of about 13 square blocks surrounds the North Market, a public market established in 1880 on the site of a former city graveyard. The original brick market house burned and was replaced by a quonset hut, yet the market remains the focus of the area. Around it stand mostly brick commercial and warehouse buildings of two to five stories, built between 1880 and 1910, with cast iron and stone storefronts, pressed metal cornices, and decorative brickwork. Development was shaped by the nearby Union Depot, which brought hotels, restaurants, and wholesale businesses. Notable buildings include the Struble Block, the Northern Hotel, the Greek Orthodox Church of 1922, and a steel-plated warehouse nicknamed Ironsides. The district was listed because it holds the city's only remaining public market and a cohesive group of buildings of similar scale and materials, one of the last such groupings left after redevelopment downtown. The Monypeny-Hammond building has since been demolished.