Faneuil Hall / NPS Visitors Center (Boston, Massachusetts)

 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, Federal style (architecture), 1740s construction, historical building, visitors center, U.S. National Historic Landmark

1 Faneuil Hall Square
Boston, MA 02109
(617) 635-3105
www.nps.gov/bost/historyculture/fh.htm
www.cityofboston.gov/freedomtrail/faneuilhall.asp

Faneuil Hall, near the waterfront and today's Government Center, has been a marketplace and a meeting hall since 1742. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain. It is now part of Boston National Historical Park and is a well-known stop along the Freedom Trail. Faneuil Hall is often referred to as "the Cradle of Liberty."

The National Park Service operates a visitors center in Faneuil Hall and it's first-in-the-nation iPad-based technology to guide tourists around the Hub. The center is the starting point for the National Park Service’s free guided tours of the Freedom Trail and Black Heritage Trail. It features a first-level visitors desk, a central wall map of the 16 sites on the two trails and a Park Service store.

Park rangers and guides will dispense historical information, and tourists can use five iPads to access a new app that essentially puts a park ranger in their pockets with self-guided tours written and recorded by the rangers, historical site information, image galleries and maps.

www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/