Year Built:1904
Contractors: Olsen & Lawrence

Haymarket was home to several moving and storage companies, whose transportation and building requirements were similar to those of the wholesale jobbers.  One of the first moving companies in the district was Sullivan Transfer & Storage Co., established in 1891.  Its brick office and warehouse of 1904 is well camouflaged by alterations carried out in the 1970s. 

East of this warehouse between 8th and 9th Streets are remnants of several small, late 19th century buildings.  The first (817 ‘R’) is a small 2-story brick warehouse of circa 1890.  East of the midblock alley are the rear halves of three 1880s buildings which originally fronted on 9th Street.  In the 1880s these prime properties opposite Haymarket Square housed blacksmiths, veterinarians, livery stables and cigar stores.  In the early 1990s, the stables of Watson, Woods Brothers & Kelly were located here.  They imported registered draft stallions from France, Belgium and Great Britain and sold them throughout the U.S. (See also the Old Woods Bros. Companies Building)

Year Built: 1884
Architect: Unknown

The Veith Building ranks as Lincoln’s best example of the small shops common throughout downtown in the 1880s and ‘90s, and as such it is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The building displays an abundance of architectural metalwork, including the cast iron storefront and second floor window lintels, pressed metal cornice, and wrought cresting.  The survival of the metal cornice and cresting is especially rare.  Note the nameplate on the base of the storefront columns of Seaton & Lea, Lincoln’s own ironworkers. 

Louis Veith opened his grocery store in this building in 1884 after working as a clerk in his brother Henry’s larger grocery and hardware store.  Louis was out of business by 1890.  His building has had a variety of occupants since that time. 

Be sure to visit the Haymarket Square courtyard before leaving the vicinity.

Year Built: 1884/1911
Architect: Unknown

This two-story building was constructed by 1884 but its facade was remodeled in 1911.  The elaborate corbelled brick cornice enlivens the otherwise simple façade. 

The building was first used as a second-hand store.  In 1888 Fred Voight opened the Voight Meat Market here, beginning a 63 year operation.  If you visit the basement (entering through the gallery next-door), you can see Voight’s large, brick sausage-making vat.