Faneuil Hall
— — the room the speeches were made in.
Not only on a wall.
“Faneuil Hall has stood at the head of the Long Wharf since 1742, given to Boston by the merchant Peter Faneuil as a public market with a meeting room above. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty argued the colonies toward revolution in that upper room, which is why later generations called the building the Cradle of Liberty. Charles Bulfinch enlarged it in 1806 and the brick still carries his lines. from the studio
Faneuil Hall, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Faneuil Hall stands at the head of the old Long Wharf in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, between Government Center and the waterfront. The original hall, given to the town by the merchant Peter Faneuil and designed by the painter John Smibert, opened in 1742 as a public market on the ground floor with a meeting room above. It is now a unit of Boston National Historical Park, operated by the National Park Service, and is one of the most visited stops on the Freedom Trail, the brick-marked walking route through colonial-era Boston.
The brick building visitors see today is largely the work of Charles Bulfinch, who in 1806 widened the hall to its present footprint of about a hundred feet by eighty, raised it to three storeys, and added the wooden cupola with the gilded grasshopper weathervane that has marked the roof since Shem Drowne first cast it in 1742. The Great Hall on the second floor is hung with the 1851 Healy painting of Webster's reply to Hayne. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company keeps its armoury on the top floor, as it has since 1746.
Entry to the Great Hall and the ground-floor visitor centre is free, with park rangers giving short talks roughly every half hour through the day, though the meeting room closes for civic events without notice. The marketplace around it, redeveloped in the 1970s under James Rouse, takes in Quincy Market and the North and South market buildings, with food stalls and shops through the colonnades. Faneuil Hall itself sits a five-minute walk from the Old State House and the site of the Boston Massacre.