The market, which is actually called Faneuil Hall Market, was given its name in 1826 when it was founded by Mayor Josiah Quincy. Together with the adjacent halls of the North and South Markets, it strongly resembled the Parisian open-air market halls then. As more and more stand owners began to leave in the 1960s [...]
Some 12,000 different species of animals and plants are exhibited in the New England Aquarium. Each of several large tanks recreates the habitat of a different type of underwater world. The ultimate highlight is an 26-foot high salt water tank with a coral reef. Here, you can marvel at dozens of species of circling coral [...]
Since 1909, the Museum of Fine Arts has been housed in a Greek-style building designed by architect Guy Lowell. Thanks to the financial power of Bostonians with a penchant for art, an excellent collection has been created which, not just because of the exhibits by outstanding American artists, is considered to be among the world’s [...]
Louisburg Square in the middle of Beacon Hill is still among the top residential addresses in Boston. Elegant, red brick buildings surround a narrow park between Pinckney Street and Mt. Vernon Street. The rowhouses were built around 1840.
Boston personalities such as the publisher of Atlantic Monthly, William Dean Howells, or the author of Little Women, [...]
