216 Market Street

Title

216 Market Street

Subject

Streets & Buildings

Description

Formerly Schaefer's Food Market from about 1900 until the early 1940s. The grocery store was run by Joseph P. Schaefer and Sons. In the mid-1940s, Schaefer's branched out with larger super markets in the region. The original building was used as a warehouse for many years.
In 1978 the building housed Portsmouth Wholesale Furniture. In 1980, Vaspar Paint Center. By 1991 the building was independently owned.

Creator

Terry Stevenson II, photographer

Date

2014

Format

Digital image

Coverage

Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio

Rights

Scioto County Public Library