Bulletin of the ISPAN, No. 13: The Restoration of the Marché Hyppolite Begins
Summary: Restoration work starts on the Marché Hyppolite, the monument the bulletin had first reported on in its second issue of 1 July 2009. The cover is the market's central pavilion.
Key Findings
- The bulletin reports the start of Marche Hyppolite restoration and its classification as National Heritage by presidential order.
- It presents the classification as timely because the north hall had already burned in 2008 and the central pavilion was badly damaged by the 12 January 2010 earthquake.
- The restoration began after Digicel's Denis O'Brien learned of the market through an earlier ISPAN bulletin and decided to finance the full restoration privately.
- The article places the market in the historic urban plan of Port-au-Prince's merchant city and in the public-works program of the Florvil Hyppolite period.
- The restoration was undertaken with John McAslan + Partners, Digicel and ISPAN technical collaboration.
- The decree frames Marche Hyppolite, also called Marche Valliere or Marche-en-Fer, as a historic monument and an urban architectural creation of public cultural interest.
Full Description
Restoration work starts on the Marché Hyppolite, the monument the bulletin had first reported on in its second issue of 1 July 2009. The cover is the market's central pavilion. One issue of the Bulletin de l'ISPAN, the monthly bulletin of Haiti's Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National, which ran from June 2009 to at least November 2011 and documented one monument, site or historic center per issue.
How to cite
Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), 2010, Bulletin of the ISPAN, No. 13: The Restoration of the Marché Hyppolite Begins, https://www.haiti.org/