O Street Market
- Year
- 1881
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
O Street Market, also called Northern Market, has stood at 7th and O Streets NW in Shaw since 1881, one of only three surviving 19th-century public market halls in the city, alongside Eastern Market and Georgetown Market. Built by officials rebuilding Washington's Board of Public Works-era infrastructure after the Civil War, it is a Gothic Revival market hall anchored by a corner tower at 7th and O that remains its most distinctive feature.
the building
The corner tower. The market's most distinctive architectural element is its Gothic Revival corner tower at 7th and O Streets, the feature that still identifies the building from a distance.
Roof collapse and rebuild. A historic 2003 blizzard caved in the market's roof just as renovations were about to begin. The building sat rehabilitated for roughly a decade before reopening as the centerpiece of City Market at O, a $325 million mixed-use development.
the style
The market is worked in the Gothic Revival style, an unusual choice for a purely functional 19th-century market hall; the corner tower is its clearest Gothic gesture.
More on Gothic Revivalsignificance
O Street Market, damaged during the 1968 Washington riots and restored to reopen in 1980, was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1968 and individually on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
nearby
- Church of the Advent
- Immaculate Conception Church (Washington, D.C.)
- The Lafayette
- Woodson, Carter G. House
- Bruce, Blanche K. House
- Armstrong Manual Training School