Building / Landmark · 1742 · Boston
Faneuil Hall
"The Cradle of Liberty" — the 1742 meeting hall where Samuel Adams and generations of agitators rallied Boston, atop a still-working public market.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1742, and tied to 7 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenbusy but readable. Best now: one good detour.
1591: Midwife and theologian (1591–1643) whose weekly meetings challenged Boston’s ministers; tried for heresy and banished in 1638 — the colony’s founding argument about conscience and authority.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoAnne Hutchinson
Connected eventBoston 400 — The Quadricentennial (2030)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energybusy but readable
Best nowone good detour
Best timegolden hour
historicserendipitous
Rain scoreexcellent
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencehigh
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densitystrong
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityhigh
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
Already a walkBoston 1775 Walk
The lanterns, the ride, the muster — the places where April 1775 actually unfolded, walked in sequence.
70 min · 5 stops · 2.0 mi →Already a walkHarbor to SeaportBoston's harbor made it rich, then sick, then new again. From the 1740s market hall to the museum cantilevered over the water — the whole arc in one walk.
37 min · 3 stops · 19 min walk →Make it walkableShow me the best 45 minutes from hereTurn the surrounding graph into a short, walkable next move.
Nearby · editorially filtered →What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
17421742Faneuil Hall enters the civic record here.1722Samuel AdamsBrewer, agitator and master political organizer (1722–1803) — architect of the Sons of Liberty, the committees of correspondence, and the meetings that became the Tea Party.1713Old State HouseBoston’s oldest surviving public building (1713), seat of colonial government; the Declaration of Independence was first read to Bostonians from its balcony on July 18, 1776.1826Quincy MarketMayor Josiah Quincy’s 1826 granite market hall behind Faneuil Hall — its 1976 festival-marketplace revival (the first in America) became the template cities worldwide copied.
- Established
- 1742
- Address
- 4 S Market St, Boston
- Online
- Official site ↗
- Graph connections
- 7
Plan your visit
Websitefaneuilhallmarketplace.com ↗
Get there
Follow Faneuil Hall Marketplace
In popular culture◷Rizzoli & Isles (2010) — TNT
In the graph 7 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Faneuil Hall in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Related
Associated with
Adjacent to
Served by transit
Located in
Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Dock Square
Person · 1 min walk
Samuel Adams
Museum / Cultural · 1 min walk
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company Museum
An unexpected connection
Faneuil Hall is linked, through the graph, to The Freedom Trail — attraction, 11 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
More landmarksOther landmarks in the graph
From the Revolutionary eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration5 sources across 3 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
NPS Freedom Trail Primary / institutional
Bostonian Society Unclassified
Wikidata Q49137 Open reference
OpenStreetMap way/29551702 Open reference
U.S. National Park Service (NPS API) Primary / institutional
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density63
7 connections
Record coverage100
metadata completeness
Graph authority77
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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