{"nrhp_refnum":"66000784","name":"Quincy Market","other_names":["Faneuil Hall Market"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.36015466200004,"lon":-71.0547934037054,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-11-13","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1966-11-13","areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A granite market complex on North and South Market Streets in Boston, Massachusetts, east of Faneuil Hall. It consists of a central market building and two flanking rows of stores, designed by Alexander Parris and built in 1826-27.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be one of the most impressive and large-scaled market complexes built in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The central building also shows two structural innovations of the period: interior cast iron columns and a serial post-and-lintel exterior wall system that allowed far larger window areas. It was also the product of Mayor Josiah Quincy's city planning, which filled the Town Dock and created new land and streets.","narrative":"Quincy Market is a granite market complex in Boston, built in 1826-27 to designs by architect Alexander Parris on land created by filling the Town Dock east of Faneuil Hall. A two-story central market, 535 feet long, has Doric porticoes at each end, a saucer dome with lantern, and 128 stalls along a central aisle supported by cast iron columns. Flanking it are two long rows of 4.5-story stores of granite and brick. Parris set narrow granite slabs on end as piers with slab lintels, a system that allowed much larger windows than solid bearing walls. The project was promoted by Mayor Josiah Quincy, who sought to relieve congestion around the older Faneuil Hall market. It created six new streets and extended the waterfront without special taxes or city debt. The market became a food distribution center for much of New England, and its upper hall hosted fairs and exhibitions. Later alterations to the flanking stores were being removed during a 1970s restoration.","period_of_significance":"1825-1826","architect_builder":"Alexander Parris","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition at the time of the form, with restoration under way by the Boston Redevelopment Authority; the buildings were to return to commercial use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.352864-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7938/63793849/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/66000784_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000784/e6c779ec92-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000784/e6c779ec92-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LGagnon","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_Market_panoramic.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LGagnon</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_Market_panoramic.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793849","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Market","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q901885"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/quincy-market-66000784/"}