Market house, the Glossary
A market house or market hall is a covered space historically used as a marketplace to exchange goods and services such as provisions or livestock, sometimes combined with spaces for public or civic functions on the upper floors and often with a jail or lockup in the cellar or basement floor.[1]
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19 relations: Food hall, General store, Ireland, List of market houses in the Republic of Ireland, Market hall, Market hall (disambiguation), Market halls in Berlin, Market House (Providence, Rhode Island), Market houses in Northern Ireland, Market square, Market town, Marketplace, Moot hall, New England, Providence, Rhode Island, Stock exchange, Tholsel, Tolbooth, Wharf.
- Market houses
- Seats of local government
Food hall
A food hall is a large standalone location or department store section where food and drinks are sold.
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General store
A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
List of market houses in the Republic of Ireland
Market houses (sometimes earlier called tholsels) are a notable feature of many Irish towns with varying styles of architecture, size and ornamentation. Market house and List of market houses in the Republic of Ireland are market houses.
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Market hall
A market hall is a covered space or a building where food and other articles are sold from stalls by independent vendors.
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Market hall (disambiguation)
A market hall is a covered space for selling different goods, mostly groceries.
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Market halls in Berlin
*Friedrich Hitzig 1867 markethall, Zirkus 1, Berlin.
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Market House (Providence, Rhode Island)
The Market House is a historic three-story brick market house in Market Square, in the College Hill, a neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Market house and market House (Providence, Rhode Island) are market houses.
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Market houses in Northern Ireland
Market houses are a notable feature of many Northern Ireland towns; their varying styles of architecture, size and ornamentation make for a most interesting feature of the streetscape. Market house and Market houses in Northern Ireland are market houses.
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Market square
A market square (also known as a market place) is a square meant for trading, in which a market is held.
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Market town
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.
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Marketplace
A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.
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Moot hall
A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues.
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New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
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Stock exchange
A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments.
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Tholsel
Tholsel was a name traditionally used for a local municipal and administrative building used to collect tolls and taxes and to administer trade and other documents in Irish towns and cities. Market house and Tholsel are market houses.
Tolbooth
A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century. Market house and tolbooth are Seats of local government.
Wharf
A wharf (or wharfs), quay (also), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
See also
Market houses
- Central Market (Phnom Penh)
- Central Market, Kuala Lumpur
- City Market (Savannah, Georgia)
- Crooked House of Windsor
- Faneuil Hall
- Fremantle Markets
- Grange Court
- List of Irish towns with a Market House
- List of market houses in the Republic of Ireland
- March, Cambridgeshire
- Market House (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
- Market House (Portland, Maine)
- Market House (Providence, Rhode Island)
- Market House, Monaghan
- Market house
- Market houses in Northern Ireland
- Markets of Taiping, Perak
- Motor Square Garden
- Museum of Newport History
- Neuadd Idris
- Old Market House (Galena, Illinois)
- Old Town House (Marblehead, Massachusetts)
- St Austell Market House
- Talat Sao
- Templemore
- Tholsel
- Union Square, Baltimore
- Victoria Park Market
- Winster Market House
Seats of local government
- Addis Ababa City Hall
- City Hall of Chihuahua
- County hall
- Former City Hall, Singapore
- Gemeenlandshuis
- Guildhall
- Ho Chi Minh City Hall
- List of city and town halls
- Maputo City Hall
- Market house
- Seoul City Hall
- Stadthuys
- Tolbooth
- Town hall
- Vijećnica
- Village hall
- Yangon City Hall
- Yerevan City Council
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_house
Also known as Country market, Country markets, Market halls, Market houses.