Quincy Market opens.

Architect: Alexander Parris. Originally Faneuil Hall Market, it is designed in the Greek Revival style and built by the city on the former Town Dock. Initially derided as “Quincy’s Folly,” it becomes what some call the first successful urban renewal project in the U.S. Mayor Josiah Quincy III subsequently declares, “[Construction] was accomplished in the centre of a populous city, not only without any tax, debt or burden . . . but with large permanent additions to its real and productive property.” Flanking market buildings are added in 1828.* The central building is damaged by a fire on January 27, 1862. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration to calls for demolition of the buildings in 1950, but an effort to preserve them is led by Walter Muir Whitehill in 1954, and they are restored and reopen in 1976.*