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  1. 139 South Market Street (McKinlay Building) - 1970s

    Two B&W photographs of 139 South Market Street (McKinlay Building): a: Street (front) elevation. Signage for a photographer on door. b: Door: Jack Alterman Photography. (No print on file; negative only.) "Chas. Center Photo."

    Record Type: Photo

    a: 139 Market Street
  2. 139 South Market Street (McKinlay Building) - ca. 1996

    B&W photograph of 139 South Market Street (McKinlay Building), north (front) elevation. (Two copies of photo in sleeve.)

    Record Type: Photo

    139 South Market Street, ca. 1996
  3. Property File - 139 South Market Street (McKinlay Building)

    Constructed 1846; renovated 1875-90; rehabilitated 1988. Archibald and William McKinlay, prosperous free African American brothers, purchased this as well as other Market Street properties in the 1840s. Possibly of 3 stories originally, the surviving structure served its owners as a tenement until the McKinlay estate sold it in 1875 to Robert Martin, a purveyor of diverse goods, from shoes to washing machines. Martin probably renovated the facad...

    Record Type: Archive

    139 South Market Street, ca. 1996

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