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City Market House, which stood at the SE corner of Broadway and Eighth streets, as it appeared before its demolition in 1928. The original city market house stood in the middle of the intersection of Broadway and Third streets in the early 1860's. In fact, Broadway was originally named Market Street because of the city market being located there. About 1865 the old market house is gone, and sometime shortly after that this market house was constructed at what was then the ...western end of the city. By the 1920's the market house had sufffered from several fires, including a sizeable one on April 30, 1928. The city pocketed the $5,00 insurance and sought to lease the property to a tenant and let them do the repairs or replacement to suit their particular business. Louis Quirk, with the Aero Oil Co., sought to lease the property long-term and tear down the old market house and build a modern filling station in its place. On Nov. 8, 1928 there is a huge ad in the Courier-Post advertising the new Broadway Tire Co. at Eighth and Broadway. Their ad said: "Everybody remembers the old market house. Attend our opening and see our new house at this location." In the 1930's John Scyoc would lease the property and open his tire and battery business there, later selling automobiles, Pontiacs being the most fondly remembered of the various franchises he dealt with. The city had resisted selling the property, recognizing the importance of this location, and before 1920 had been eyeing the property as a possible location for a city convention center (which never materialized). The Elks had been asking the city to purchase the property when they were looking to build a big new lodge hall. Eventually, in 1973 the city would decide to build their new police station on the property, and Dean Pogue, the last tenant of the old market house site, had his lease terminated (Pogue was already building his new dealership out at US 61 and Market). In this 1928 photo, the left side of the building is occupied by City Meat Market, owned by H.M. Childers. The center section was filled by T.C. Moon, an auto dealer, who had the franchise for Chrysler automobiles. Sam Koslow had his furniture store at the market house. Someone has penciled in on this photo, "Lee Francis, Auctioneer." Francis was a well-known auctioneer in the N.E. Missouri region, coming to Hannibal from Shelbina in 1916. He ran sales in the city market house in the 'teens and 'twenties. The spire behind the city market is the steeple of the Allen A.M.E. Church, which was located on Church Street. Note also the streetcar tracks along Broadway. Courtesy of Steve Chou. See more