Eastern Market is an island platformed Washington Metro station in the Capitol Hill
neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
The station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
Providing service for both the Blue and Orange Lines, the station is also scheduled to
be on the Silver Line route, which is expected to start operations in 2013.
The station is located in Southeast Washington at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street.
It is named after the nearby Eastern Market, a historic Washington, D.C. public marketplace.
Originally, the station was to be named Marine Barracks, after the Washington Marine Barracks
located a few blocks south of the station on 8th Street.
However after lobbying from the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, the name was changed to Eastern Market.
October 8, 2018