Faneuil Hall and market, Boston, MA, circa 1907

Subjects: Historic Towers Markets Trucks & Wagons
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1907 (Golden Age)

Back of Faneuil Hall and market, Boston, MA, circa 1907, c. 1907 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

Faneuil Hall faces the open square, a brick building with a pedimented gable, arched ground-floor openings, and a square cupola topped by a weathervane. The printed caption calls it one of the old landmarks of colonial times, the meeting place of the Revolutionists, and notes the market kept in the basement. Merchant Peter Faneuil paid for the hall in the early 1740s as a combined market house and assembly room, and Charles Bulfinch doubled its width in 1806. The nickname "Cradle of Liberty" came from the protest meetings and speeches held in the hall above the stalls in the years before the Revolution. The caption's advice that nobody misses seeing it when they visit Boston shows how firmly the building had settled into the city's sightseeing itinerary by the time this card was printed.

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Faneuil Hall, Boston.—Faneuil Hall is one of the old land marks and historic spots of Colonial times. It was the great meeting place of the Revolutionists, and it was there that the first speech of a revolutionary character was made against the British Government and carried into ef- fect. It is known as the "Cradle of Liberty" all over the world, and it is kept fairly well preserved. In the basement is the Faneuil Hall market. Nobody misses see- ing the old Faneuil Hall when they visit Boston.

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Condition	Good
Place mentioned	Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
Notes	No printed caption or imprint on the front; coarse halftone screen with a pinkish cast and a narrow light margin at the edges. No postmark. Divided back printed "POST CARD" with "THIS SPACE FOR CORRESPONDENCE" / "FOR ADDRESS ONLY" and a "PUT ONE-CENT STAMP HERE" box; long printed caption about Faneuil Hall ("Cradle of Liberty") fills the correspondence side; cream coarse-stock card, no white border on the picture; unused, no handwriting or damage beyond light soiling.

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Faneuil Hall and market, Boston, MA, circa 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/faneuil-hall-and-market-boston-ma-circa-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.