Findlay Market

Built in 1852, Findlay Market is Ohio’s oldest surviving municipal market house of the nine public markets operating in Cincinnati in the 19th and early 20th century. The market house is built on land donated to the City of Cincinnati by the estate of General James Findlay and Jane Irwin Findlay. It was designed under the direction of City Civil Engineer Alfred West Gilbert using a durable but unconventional cast and wrought iron frame, a construction technology that had been little used in the United States. Findlay Market was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The structure was among the first markets in the United States to use iron frame construction technology and is one of very few that have survived.