Cincinnati Magazine
February 16, 2021
Test your knowledge about Over-the-Rhine’s iconic Findlay Market. Think you know its complete history? Here’s the real story behind the market’s namesake, antique bell, meat butchers, and Reds parade sponsorship.
The original iron superstructure of the Findlay Market building is partially visible in this photograph dated 1921.
Photograph courtesy of Don Prout’s Cincinnati Views
There Can Be Only One
Findlay Market is the last remaining public market in Cincinnati, surviving the demise of eight others on Canal (1829-64), Court (1864-1914), Sixth (1829-1960), Pearl (1804-1934), Wade (1848-98), and Fifth (1829-70) streets, the Jabez Elliott Flower Market (1890-1950), and Farmers Wholesale Market (c.1815-1967). Findlay Market is the oldest continuously operated public market in Ohio.