Wow, look the the difference (and similarity).
The market has roots in a fight. When Boss Shepherd’s crews tore down the old Northern Liberty Market on Mount Vernon Square in 1872, the District moved many of its dealers into temporary sheds on 7th Street between O and P.
According to Washington Topham’s 1922 history of the market, those dealers later formed the Northern Market Co., bought the ground “immediately opposite on Seventh Street,” and built a brick market house there.
Check it out today in all its glory.
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