Bostonians may bemoan its popularity with tourists,
but this market complex deserves all the attention and accolades it has
received since its revitalization in the mid-1970s. Once the pulsing
center of Boston mercantile activity, the area fell into disrepair in
the 1930s. Today, however, millions of visitors are testimony to its
newfound vitality as a shopping and dining destination.
Great Hall, Faneuil Hall
Museum of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Faneuil Hall617 227 1638 Open 9am–3pm Mon–Fri free
Quincy Market
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The soup crocks at Boston Chowda Co in Quincy Market are brimming with piping-hot seafood and veggie chowders.
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The National Park Service conducts free historical lectures in Faneuil Hall’s Great Hall every half-hour from 9am–4:30pm.
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Purchase discounted day-of-performance theater tickets at the BosTix kiosk on Faneuil Hall’s south side. Cash only.
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Top 10 AttractionsQuincy Market Quincy
Market functioned from 1825 to the 1960s as the city’s wholesale food
distribution center. By the 1980s, the market had been revived, the
grand atrium restored, and a food court opened.
Exterior Quincy Market
Faneuil Hall Peter
Faneuil, an influential French Huguenot merchant, donated the hall to
Boston in 1742. Today, the first floor is devoted to souvenir vendors,
while the second floor is dominated by the Great Hall, where town
meetings once took place.
Museum of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company Assembled
in 1638 to defend the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the company has held
court on Faneuil Hall’s fourth floor since 1746. The museum boasts war
memorabilia dating from the Revolution to the War on Terrorism. Pushcart Vendors A
“fleet” of more than 40 pushcart vendors are scattered throughout the
marketplace and tempt visitors with a delightfully eclectic, often
eccentric, array of merchandise from T-shirts to jewellery made by local
artisans. North & South Markets Flanking
each side of Quincy Market, these revitalized brick warehouses are
filled with name-brand shops and many unique restaurants.
Blackstone Block Bounded
by Congress, Hanover, Blackstone, and North streets, this block is as
old world as Boston gets. The city’s first commercial district, named
after Boston’s first settler, William Blaxton, took root here during the
17th century. Two of the country’s oldest dining and drinking
establishments – the Union Oyster House and Green Dragon Tavern – call
the block home. Haymarket Square Friday
afternoon and all day Saturday, vendors hawk the day’s bounty with
abandon. Yet for all its boisterous chaos, the Haymarket handsomely
rewards with cheap, fresh produce.
Samuel Adams Statue The
city’s favorite brewer and patriot is immortalized in front of Faneuil
Hall, where he delivered some of the Revolutionary era’s most
impassioned speeches . Local sculptor Anne Whitney was commissioned to design the statue in 1880. Holocaust Memorial This
1995 memorial comprises six glass columns, symbolizing the Nazis’
principal death camps. Each column bears the numbers of one million
victims, evoking the six million lives destroyed under Hitler.
Boston Stone Some
claim this curious landmark was once the measuring point from which all
distances to and from Boston were calculated. The stone is embedded
into a brick wall at the corner of Marshall Street and Salt Lane.
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