Halle des Boucheries ”) would be formally erected , and survives to this day despite intensive renovations . By the 1850s , the Meat Market quarters would specifically be called the “ French Market ” because of its French and Creole butchers , whose “ Old World sense ” distinguished the market from other public competitors . The introduction of the Bazaar Market , designed by African American architect Joseph Abeiland , would see a multicultural flourishing of available product during the midto-late 1800s . Italian immigrants arrived in 1864 , carrying with them their innovative and wildly popular muffulettas to the current day . Despite the market ’ s dingy surfaces and warping wooden buildings , its bustling soul of intercultural activity burned passionately in the poor immigrant vendors who ran it . Following the Great Depression , however , most of these markets would be renovated or demolished .
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