Central Market (Lancaster)

The markets of the Central Market in Lancaster are in the State of Pennsylvania at the North Market Street, and thus in direct proximity to the central city square, the Penn Square with the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The history of the market goes back up to the city's founding in 1730, when they designed a central trade hub in the open. 1757 was the construction of a shed boards and at the end of the 18th century moved the market into a new house with arcades on the West King Street that he shared with the Town Hall and a Masonic lodge. The present building was built in the Romanesque Revival style in 1889 in less than six months of construction, under the direction of architect James H. Warner of Philadelphia. It has numerous decorated bricks as well as two towers with terracotta roofs and has been - with the exception of the interior, had to be adapted to modern standards - structurally hardly changed. In 1972, inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places was made.

The Central Market has always been in urban hand and the oldest continuously -used farmer's market of the United States nowadays one of the most popular tourist attractions of Lancaster, and is valued especially for its range of original goods, Amish, which is nowhere else to buy it. At the vast majority of market stalls foods are offered for sale, some from Greece, Germany, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the Slavic countries.