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A Lafayette City ordinance in 1847 proposed the building of the Magazine Market on a triangle formed by Camp, Magazine and St. Mary Streets.   It was designed by architect T.K Wharton and located in a triangular plot surrounded by Sophie Wright Place, St. Mary Street, and Magazine.  In Thomas K Wharton's journal in the 1853 he describes the market and its surrounding area as such: 

the "market in Magazine Street,

which I found greatly improved since last year.4 The stalls clean and

the whole house well arranged, and supply abundant, and of

excellent quality, plenty of game, venison, wild ducks and teal, very

fine beef and vegetables, tomatoes, green peas and okra, &c. &c. and

prices moderate. I took our new cook with me and was pleased to

find that she understood the choice of meats, &c. which is an

important quality and difficult to find among the Irish. My little boy

and his nurse came a square or two to meet me.5 The streets around

here are so neat and quiet and spacious, and so many trees, and so

much green grass, and then the gardens, that it is as good as the

country for him, and he really seems to enjoy it".

 
In 1853 the city attorney was directed to bring a final decision pending claims of the heirs of M. Guillotte to the property known as Magazine Market.  A court battle continued until 1856 when the Supreme Court ordered it to be sold -- but this was not done.  By 1857 a proposal was made to discontinue the plan for the market however, in 1858 a final compromise was reached.
In 1859 a proposed extension would expand the market on the Camp Street side.  By 1865  Magazine Market was considered a large new market valued at $130,000.
Thomas Carey was awarded the franchise from the city in 1879 for a period of 18 years for the land between Napoleon Avenue and Berlin street.
 By 1903  its value had dropped to $25,000.
In 1906 stall keepers, butchers and merchants petitioned the city for the addition of Iron doors or gates.  Soon afterward, in 1907 they asked for a skylight and iron barriers.
In  1931 the city accepted the bid by Sam Stone Jr. & Co. to rebuild Magazine Market.

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