Pino Suárez Market
On February 1, 1897, it was decided that the new "iron" market would be named Romero Rubio, in honor of the Secretary of Governance for President Díaz. The newspaper El Correo de la Tarde would be publishing the details of the laying of the first stone by Governor Francisco Cañedo. The project was designed by Alejandro Loubet, but in January 1899, construction was halted, and the interior installation of the stalls remained pending. On May 5 of that year, it was inaugurated without the allocation of the stalls.
This new structure marked Mazatlán's history, establishing it as the center of the most progressive commerce and industry in the country.
The name was later changed to Pino Suarez. On February 14, 1915, the city council decided to rename the building to José María Pino Suarez in honor of the vice president who had passed away two years earlier alongside Madero.
The market was planned with a length of 250 English feet on each side, featuring iron fencing, corrugated sheet roofs fastened on steel beams using screws with lead washers. The building would have 68 windows with cast iron frames and 3-millimeter thick glass. The roof trusses measured 67 feet in each of the aisles. At the four corners, there were brick shops with 5 doors each, and cast iron semicircular arches.
Did you know?
The Pino Suárez Market was designed based on the Art Nouveau style, using the same techniques that were employed seven years earlier in the construction of the Eiffel Tower
📍 Location
Melchor Ocampo Street , Downtown, 82000 Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
