Marsh Supermarkets began operating a hardware store in 2000 after it purchased Muncie’s Ross Supermarket chain. Ross Corner had been in business at the site since 1920. Marsh closed it in 2008. Later, the building was home to Frankie D’s Flea Market. The building burned in 2015. It’s been replaced by new construction.
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 from around 1980 to 2004 or so were easily identifiable because of their angular greenhouses and dark brick massing. Instead of taking pictures of the buildings, I decided to create 18×24 vector files in Adobe Illustrator, focusing on the complexity of their angles and how shadows and highlights interacted.
