15. All Manner of Business: The Anderson Market Building During the Mid-Nineteenth Century

The varied uses of the Anderson Market building in the mid-nineteenth century represent the business activities taking place on the Milldam at the time. Recalling the various tenants in the Anderson Market building in Houses in Concord in 1885, John Shepard Keyes (1821-1910) remembered the building as “the brick hatters [sic] shop of my earliest memor." He also recalled the later occupancy of A.C. Collier on the west side of the building, and the millinery on the east side. Keyes also used the building as an office in 1860, and a milliner and dressmaker succeeded him. Still later, when the first floor had been taken over by Lewis Flint's grocery business, Keyes recalled the upstairs space being used by "Gunnison, a barber and wig maker." Other adjacent businesses included an apothecary, book bindery, cabinet shop, tailor, meat market, fish market, shoe store, harness shop, carriage painter, and furniture store. 

Adams Tolman, adding his annotations in 1915 to Keyes’s earlier observations, remembered the second floor of the building being used as a photographer’s studio and the headquarters of the Concord Equal Suffrage League.