Irish that carefully guide the reader through the evolution of the market buildings and district, particularly in its early years. Complementing the text are excellent drawings by architectural illustrator Gary M. tells the story of this familiar landmark with engaging detail and a wide breadth of illustrations. Close to being demolished, it was saved when federal, state, municipal, and private agencies joined forces to redevelop it into one of the country's first festival marketplaces. By 1950, the market had noticeably deteriorated as a result of city neglect, suburban flight, and competition from supermarkets. Quincy Market, as it was popularly known, was a masterpiece of civic design and served as Boston's chief food distribution center for the next 125 years. Quincy commissioned Alexander Parris to design a new granite market house flanked by a row of standardized warehouses. The greatest single expansion of the market district began in 1823, when Mayor Quincy launched a massive and controversial urban renewal project just east of Faneuil Hall. The rapid growth of the town demanded yet more merchant quarters and meeting space, prompting the city to engage Charles Bulfinch to enlarge the combination town hall and market in 1805. Faneuil Hall, named for its benefactor and designed by the Scottish-born painter and architect John Smibert, opened two years later. Bostonians held steadfast against a regulated market system with fixed locations until 1740, when Peter Faneuil, a wealthy Boston merchant, offered to pay for construction of a combined market house and town hall. Door-to-door peddlers rounded-out the city's food marketing and distribution system. Quincy's Market also tells the story of the colonial origins of the marketplace, its major expansion under Mayor Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) in the 1820s, and the gradual decline and deterioration of the market until it was redeveloped.įood marketing in Boston had its origins around the Town Dock, where merchants conducted open-air sales for the convenience of the colonists. Quincy's Market is an account of this phenomenon in Boston where in 1976 the Rouse Company adapted the magnificent granite buildings and cobblestone concourses of the historic Faneuil Hall Market into space for specialty shops, restaurants, pushcarts, and fast-food stalls. Since the 1970s, American cities have renovated their historic marketplaces in an effort to revitalize public space, stimulate economic growth, and improve the supply of fresh food. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2003 237 pp., large format, photographs, drawings, notes, bibliography, index cloth $29.95. National Park Service Archeology and Ethnography Programīy John Quincy Jr.National Association for Interpretation.The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: Native American Objects and the American Quest for Commerce and Science.ICCROM: International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property.Taste of the Table: Ceramics in Early Maryland.Bittersweet: Japanese American Legacy and Resilience.1816 Georgetown: Building the Modern House.The Consequences of Past Stonecleaning Intervention on Future Policy and Resources Maintenance and Repair of Cleaned Stone Buildings and Building Stones of Scotland.Curating Archaeological Collections: From the Field to the Repository.Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History.Tribal Cultural Resource Management: The Full Circle to Stewardship.The Most Striking of Objects: The Totem Poles of Sitka National Historical Park.Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums.African Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Africanisms. Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965.Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape.Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc.The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B.Studying Civil Rights and Racial Desegregation in the Pacific Northwest.Presenting Race and Slavery at Historic Sites.Innovative Methods for Documenting Cultural Resources: Integrating GIS and GPS Technologies.Historic Places and the Diversity Deficit in Heritage Conservation.World War II Shipwrecks in Truk Lagoon: The Role of Interest Groups.America's World War II Home Front Heritage.Images of the Past: Historical Authenticity and Inauthenticity from Disney to Times Square.CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, Volumes 1-8.
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