Faneuil Hall Marketplace
The Faneuil Hall Marketplace is itself represents a mixture of historical Boston moments, beginning before the American Revolution with Peter Faneuil's gift to the city: Faneuil Hall. It was then, as it is now, a marketplace. It was where the American Revolutionaries first protested the 1764 Sugar act, and the site of speeches given by Firebrand Samuel Adams and George Washington. By the 1900s, the building had become empty and dilapidated, and was the subject of a 1976 urban renewal project. A tourist economy, including college sweatshirt shops and historical tours marks an addition to the temporal layering of the landscape.
The Quincy Market is a structure built between 1824 and 1826 and named for Mayor Josiah Quincy. The two story, 27,000 sq ft building was built as an extension of the over-popular Faneuil Hall. The city used the landfill technique to fill in pieces of the harbor with dirt, making a space for the market. It's popularity led to the construction of six North End streets. The site was expanded in 1970.