Item 11897 - Cardenas Marketplace, Cuba, ca. 1857

Item 11897 - Cardenas Marketplace, Cuba, ca. 1857
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Item 11897
Cardenas Marketplace, Cuba, ca. 1857
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A building 200 feet long and 50 feet wide that the Portland Company manufactured for shipment to Cardenas, Cuba.

It served as a two-story market with masonry walls and ornate cast stairs and railings. The center supported a cast dome, and it was built in 1857 at a cost of $60,000.

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