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Lexington Market was established in 1782 by Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard, who donated a plot of land in Baltimore's "western precincts" for a public market. Accessible to farmers from the outlying countryside, Howard's Hill Market, as it was known, became an instant success. Undeterred by the lack of a proper market house, farmers set up plank stalls and began selling fresh meat, eggs, and vegetables to the burgeoning city's population. Almost as soon as a market house was built in 1803, petitions circulated to expand it, a process that continued throughout the 19th century until the market included three block-long sheds with hundreds of stalls spilling down neighboring streets. Far from signaling Lexington Market's end, a disastrous fire in 1949 provided an opportunity for a modern facility with refrigeration and stoves, enabling each stall keeper to bake, roast, or steam according to his own unique recipe. With the addition of an arcade, the market has continued to reinvent itself while maintaining a place in Baltimore's heart for 225 years.
"The BMA Lexington Market is a 250 sq. ft branch of the Baltimore Museum of Art that opened to the public on June 26th with an exhibition of photographs created by youth at Greenmount West Community Center in a workshop with artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick. The BMA Lexington Market operates three days a week, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 9 am to 5 pm. It is open to everyone, and always free as a space where youth, adults, and families can make art, read from our library, participate in workshops, or listen in to performances, artists talks, and screenings."--Unpaged
Learning from Lexington is an American Studies course at UMBC where students research the history, cultures, and stories of the iconic Lexington Market, a public market located in the westside of downtown Baltimore. There is a proposed plan to build a new market building replacing the current one, built in 1952. Students explored what these changes may mean for the city and asked people what they thought about the Market and its future.