"The Market Square is one of the most unique small-scale urban spaces in America. It features four colonnaded two-story brick apartment buildings around the central Market Hall building.

The first Market Hall was built in 1881 in the Queen Anne style as part of the original town layout and contained sixteen stalls that were leased by the Pullman Land Association to private businesses. The Market provided a venue for fresh meats, produce and other market goods. It was destroyed by fire in 1892.

Immediately after, the Pullman Company built a new Market Hall on the existing foundation with twelve stores on the first floor and a banquet hall and lodge rooms on the upper two floors. Accompanying circle apartment buildings and houses were built with the new Market Hall to create the Market Square that we see today.

The four colonnaded buildings surrounding the Market Hall were built with the new Market Hall in 1893. Each building contained three apartments, one on the first floor and two on the upper floor. George Pullman used these apartments during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 to house friends visiting the fair...Another fire gutted the building in 1973. Then in 1974, the Historic Pullman Foundation purchased the Market Hall to save it from demolition. Over the years, the Foundation has completed several reuse studies to help determine appropriate directions for renovation and restoration." (Historic Pullman Foundatino Website)