The Marsh on Forest Avenue in Marion’s Northgate Shopping Center opened in 1960. The company first remodeled the building in the 1980s before changing the layout again in 2005 to closer resemble its new “Lifestyle” supermarkets like the one in Fort Wayne. Fresh Encounter, an Ohio grocer, purchased the building out of bankruptcy in 2017. Today, it’s a Needler’s Fresh Market.
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The Marsh in Southdale Plaza on 53rd Street in Anderson was opened in 1963 with a design typical of stores from that era. It closed in 2012. Today, the supermarket is home to a flea market.
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The Twinbrook Plaza Marsh Supermarket, on Millville Avenue in Hamilton, opened in 1967 and closed fifty years later. The building, which was designed in a style typical of Marsh Supermarkets of the mid-1960s, remains vacant as of this writing.
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The Marsh Supermarket in Greencastle, Indiana opened in 1986. It closed under Marsh’s discount banner, LoBill Foods, in 2006 shortly after Sun Capital Partners purchased the company.
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The Marsh supermarket on Wheeling Avenue in Muncie was opened in 1995 to replace a smaller store across the street in Northwest Plaza. It closed in 2017. The supermarket was purchased by a subsidiary of Kroger, which operates it today as part of its Pay-Less marquee.
“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.
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“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.
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“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. Marsh was a regional grocery store chain that was founded in Muncie and eventually grew to encompass 157 supermarkets, 154 convenience stores, three florists, two catering services, and a restaurant. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
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“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. Marsh was a regional grocery store chain that was founded in Muncie and eventually grew to encompass 157 supermarkets, 154 convenience stores, three florists, two catering services, and a restaurant. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
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In 2016, I came across an article on Vice about a guy named Brandon Bird who traveled the country making impressionist paintings of Sears department stores. “It’s funny because [I’m] taking the time to do this thing that nobody cares about,” the artist said. “You look at it, and you’re like, Why did somebody make this?” I enjoyed the post but forgot about it until the following summer when I was eating some onion rings in the Burger King parking lot. I happened to look out my window towards an old Marsh supermarket, and I was struck by how the building seemed to divide its grim-looking parking lot from the sky like a brick-and-mortar cigar band. Zesty Sauce dribbling down my shirtfront, my “Abandoned Marsh” project started that day: If Brandon Bird could document Sears, I could certainly document Marsh!
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Ted Shideler 