Faneuil Hall
1 Faneuil Hall Market Pl, Boston, MA 02109, USA
Massachusetts, USA
MUSEUM
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STATE HOUSE
EST. 1742
EST. 1742
1740–1742
Adams, John
Warren, Joseph
Adams, Samuel
Hancock, John
Revere, Paul
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Faneuil Hall.
The repeatedly enlarged and restored eighteenth-century marketplace survives as a public hall within Boston National Historical Park. Its ground-floor market stalls, upper meeting hall, museum displays, historic artwork, and architectural fabric remain surrounded by the modern Quincy Market commercial and pedestrian complex.
About Faneuil Hall
After the project of erecting a public market house in Boston had been discussed for some years, colonial merchant and slave trader Peter Faneuil offered, at a public meeting in 1740, to build a suitable edifice at his own cost as a gift to the town. Funded in part by profits from slave trading, the building was begun in Dock Square in September of the same year. It was built by artist John Smibert in 1740–1742 in the style of an English country market, with an open ground floor serving as the market house, and an assembly room above.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Faneuil Hall
In 1761, the hall was destroyed by fire, with nothing but the brick walls remaining. It was rebuilt by the town in 1762. In 1775, during the British occupation of Boston, it was used for a theatre.
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