Marktown

Marktown Historic District
Houses on Park Street
Marktown is located in Indiana
Marktown
Marktown is located in the United States
Marktown
LocationBounded by Pine, Riley, Dickey, and 129th Sts., East Chicago, Indiana
Coordinates41°39′32″N 87°28′4″W / 41.65889°N 87.46778°W / 41.65889; -87.46778
Area40 acres (16 ha)
Built1917
ArchitectHoward Van Doren Shaw
NRHP reference No.75000025[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 20, 1975

Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States,[2] built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company.[3]

The Marktown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

Retail on the bottom, apartments on top. Abandoned since the 1980s.
Abandoned houses and duplexes side by side with occupied.
Retail on the bottom, apartments on top. Abandoned since the 1980s.
Abandoned duplex in Marktown
  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Smith, Stephanie; Mark, Steve (2011). "Marktown: Clayton Mark's Planned Worker Community in Northwest Indiana". South Shore Journal. 4.
  3. ^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved May 1, 2016. Note: This includes Richard Morrisroe (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Marktown Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved May 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs.