Identifier: sightsinbostonsu00puls_0 (find matches)
Title: Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894 Andrew, John, 1815-1875, egr. Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1875, egr. Hill George W., 1815-1893, egr. Barry, egr.
Subjects: Boston (Mass.)--Guidebooks Boston (Mass.)--History Boston (Mass.)--Public buildings Railroads--Massachusetts--Boston Railroads--Massachusetts--Boston--Stations Cemeteries--Massachusetts--Boston Boston Harbor Islands (Mass.)--Description Churches--Massachusetts--Boston Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Boston Theatres--Massachusetts--Boston Associations, institutions, etc.--Massachusetts--Boston Travel literature--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century Guidebooks--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century Advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co. Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
Contributing Library: Elms College
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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re lived in Boston a merchant whosename was Peter Faneuil. He it was who immortalizedhis name by the gift of the building to the town of Bos-ton, for a town hall and market place. It was the bestmonument to his memory that he could possibly havedevised. Faneuil Hall is a large, many-windowed struc-ture, of no particular order of architecture, surmountedby a cupola. The great hall to which you ascend (forthe lower story is not a market now, but is divided intostores) is seventy-six feet square, and twenty-eight high;round three sides runs a gallery, and Doric pillars sup- 11 port the ceiling. At the west end are several paintings— one of Peter Faneuil in full length; another of Wash-ington by Stuart; and there has recently been addedHealeys picture of Webster making his celebrated speechin reply to Hayne. Over the great hall is another, where military equip-ments are kept; and there are also various offices forcivic functionaries. Leaving Faneuil Hall at its eastern end, and crossing
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Merchants Row, we arrive at the entrance of FaneuilHall Market. It is raised on a base of blue Quincy 12 BOSTON SIGHTS. granite, with arched windows and doors communicatingwdth cellars. The length of the Market is five hundredand eighty-five feet nine inches, the width fifty feet, andbuilt entirely of granite. In the centre is a buildingseventy-four and a half by fifty-five feet, with projectingnorth and south fronts. At each end of the building areporticos. Over the Market proper is a second story, inthe centre of which is a hall seventy feet by fifty, crownedby a dome, and named Quincy Hall, after Josiah Quincy,former mayor of the city, and is but a fitting monumentof his genius. This hall and Faneuil Hall are united bya bridge thrown across the street once in three years, andin them the Massachusetts Mechanics Charitable Associa-tion holds its fair. The principal entrances to the corridor, where the mar-ket is held, are from the eastern and western porticos.The corridor itself is e

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