200 Block of SE Fourth Street
by Pat Sides
This block of buildings in the 200 block of SE Fourth Street disappeared years ago when that area began to be redeveloped. It is pictured here in the 1950s, which was around the time construction was beginning at Welborn Clinic.
The buildings housed a variety of businesses, including a Goodwill store, market, café, flower shop, and Wesselman’s bakery. The street is wider than typical downtown streets because it was part of the old Fourth Street outdoor market that had operated for decades. Farmers’ trucks are parked along the curb, and vendors can be seen selling their produce under umbrellas.Â
A 1962 Evansville map revealed that the building still stood, but they were likely gone by 1967 when the Agoga Tabernacle (far right, in the distance) was razed for the clinic’s parking lot. Today the site is part of the large parking lot of the Stone Family Center for Health Sciences.
