The Marsh Supermarket in Post Plaza opened in 1963 and was substantially expanded twenty-four years later. The building resembles the Marsh at Nora Corners and closed in 2017. As of 2023, the building is vacant.
“Abandoned Marsh” was my project to stylistically document the Marsh Supermarkets closed by Sun Capital Partners, an investment firm that owned the home-grown company for the final decade of its eighty-six-year history. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
The company’s stores built around 1980 to 2004 were easily identifiable because of their angular greenhouses and dark brick massing. Instead of taking pictures of the buildings, I created 18×24 vector files in Adobe Illustrator, focusing on the complexity of their angles and how shadows and highlights interacted with them.