Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . o 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 whicli you ascend (forthe lower story is still a market and is divided intostalls) is seventy-six feet square, and twenty-eight high;round three sides runs a gallery, and Doric pillars sup-port the ceiling. At the west end are s
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . o 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 whicli you ascend (forthe lower story is still a market and is divided intostalls) is seventy-six feet square, and twenty-eight high;round three sides runs a gallery, and Doric pillars sup-port the ceiling. At the west end are several paintings AX I) VICINITV. 9 — one of Peter Faneuil in full length ; another of NVasli-ingtou by Stuart ; llealeys picture of AVebster makinghis celebrated speech in reply to Hayne. Portraits ofAbraham Lincoln and John A. AndrcAv have recentlybeen added. Over the great hall is another, Avhere military equip-ments aie kept; and there are ^o various offices lorcivic fuiiclionaric-. Leaving Faneuil Hall at its eastern end, and crossing. Merchants Row, we arrive at the entrance of FaneuilHall Market. It is raised on a base of blue Quincy 10 BOSTON AM) VK IXITY. granite, with arched windows and doors communicatingAvith cellars. The length of the JMarkct is five hundredand eighty-five feet nine inches, the widlli fifty feet, andbuilt entirely of granite. In the centre is a buildingseventy-four and a half by filty-five feet, with projectingnorth and south fronts. At each end of the building are])orticos. 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 INIechanics Charitable Associa-tion holds its fair. The principal entrances to the corridoi*. where the mar-ket is he
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