UPPER MARKET STREET

(Courtesy of Artcraft Studio, 519-521 Market Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101; 304-485-5771)

Looking down Market near the corner of Ninth-and-a-Half Street in the 1930s (above) and
1940s. The Pure Oil Station is now the Bango Appraisal Service run by Jon and Mary Bango.

Looking north on Market at Tenth Street. The Oppenheimer
house at 945 Market (see below) is on the left.

945 Market Street

Apartments at 1015 Market Street, in 1907.

Looking north toward St. Paul's Methodist at Eleventh Street. This is the
same photo as above, but an automobile has been added to update it.

The First Presbyterian Church on the corner of
Tenth and Market at the turn of the century.

The Dils residence at 963 Market Street, on the southwest corner of Tenth Street.

The Virginia Apartments on the northwest corner of Tenth Street.

Looking toward Eleventh Street around 1905.

South Methodist Church, later renamed St. Paul's Methodist, stands
on the northwest corner of Eleventh and Market, circa 1907.

A small office building at 1100 Market Street, with
Eleventh Street going east toward Avery on the right.

In this late 1940s photo looking southward toward Thirteenth Street, Norman Hemenway and his
mother, Mildred Hemenway, walk across Market Street. Norman was a broadcast announcer at
WPAR known as Hal Norman, the Man on the Street. The store on the corner is now (and has
been for many years) the Sly Fox bar. (Photo courtesy of Reverend Rod Blanchard.)

Looking up Market north of Thirteenth Street.

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