Market Square at Main Street looking east

Photographer

Thiers, Louis Milton, 1858-1950

Date

• 1905

Summary

• This is a view of Market (56th) Street at Main Street (Sixth Avenue) looking east from Market Square toward Lake Michigan. The tall chimney in the distance giving out smoke is of the Simmons Company. On the north side of Market Street, east of Main Street, can be seen the Rhode Opera House and Fischer Hotel. On the south side of Market Street is the first business location of Isermann Brothers, which was founded by Anthony Isemann in 1874. First National Bank building is shown here as a plain brick building.