{"id":81,"date":"2013-10-13T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T11:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funthingstodoinboston.us\/?p=81"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T22:29:31","slug":"visit-faneuil-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/visit-faneuil-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Faneuil Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Faneuil-Hall-144x150.jpg\" alt=\"Faneuil Hall\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-82\" \/><strong>Faneuil Hall<\/strong><br \/>\n#24 of 100 things to do in Boston<\/p>\n<p>Faneuil Hall, located near the waterfront and today&#8217;s Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faneuil_Hall\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Address: Dock Sq., Boston, Massachusetts<br \/>\nOpened: 1742<br \/>\nArchitectural style: Georgian<br \/>\nArchitects: Charles Bulfinch, Peter Faneuil, John Smybert, John Smibert<\/p>\n<p>Hours:<br \/>\nSun &#8211; Sat 9:00 am &#8211; 5:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>Faneuil Hall was built in 1742. It has served as a marketplace and meeting hall ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Faneuil Hall is sometimes referred to as the Crade of liberty.<\/p>\n<p>Faneuil Hall is located near the waterfront and Government Center in Boston. It is a well known stop on the Freedom Trail.<\/p>\n<p>The ground floor contains shops and eating establishments. The second floor is a meeting room. The third floor contains the museum and armory of the Ancient and Honerable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Faneuil Hall Marketplace also includes three long granite buildings called North Market, South Market, and Quincy Market. It operates as an indoor\/outdoor mall and food eatery. It was designed by Benjamin Thompson and Associates.<\/p>\n<p>The symbol of Faneuil Hall has been the gilded grasshopper weathervane on top of the bulding, for two centuries. It was created by Deacon Shem Drowne in 1742. It is the only totally unmodified part of Faneul Hall today.<\/p>\n<p>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any experience with this place, please share it with us in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of stores and restaurants to enjoy. Just a fun and relaxing time. If you are looking for Boston souvenirs, this is the place. Pricing and crowds are exactly what you would expect for a tourist area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shopping-malls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funthingstodoin.us\/boston-ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}