Lower Market Street between 5th and 6th holds the Delaware Historical Society's Wilmington campus. The society began in 1864 as an effort to preserve documents from the Civil War, and since then it has grown into a statewide institution with several buildings, including Old Town Hall and the Delaware History Museum here in Wilmington and the historic Read House & Gardens in New Castle. This row of Market Street is the historic shopping district and now markets itself as the LoMa Design District to promote urban redevelopment; the complex even includes an arch that frames the street.
The main museum occupies a converted 1941 art deco Woolworth's store — one of two that used to operate on Market Street — and contains two permanent exhibit halls, including "Delaware: One State, Many Stories," and Discover Delaware. The Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage is also housed inside the building. The society works in partnership with the Delaware Tourism Office, the Greater Wilmington Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Brandywine Museums & Gardens Alliance.
Picture the arch overhead and the storefronts lining Market Street to your left and right.