Eastern Market: One Year Later
24 04 2008It’s now been just over a year since the District lost its historic Eastern Market in SE to a late night fire. Luckily this market will not suffer the fate of many others in DC and is being fully restored to it’s original 1873 design. In the mean time the temporary tents have been working well for the vendors and residents!
Photographer Erin M was on the scene the day of the fire, and revisited the market a year later to document how things are progressing.
You can see that the building is all boarded up now, but the boards have beautiful paintings on them depicting the city and it’s residents. The good news is that the market hall restoration (dispite a cost of $30 million) is still on track for the grand reopening next year!
Another comparison shot of the main entrance after the jump…
[Flickr Photo: Erin M]
The cleaned brick facade looks great and I really like the paintings on the boards.
Any info on the status of the Georgetown branch of the public library that also had a fire the same night as Eastern Market?
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