Word: faneuil
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Protesters will gather at Faneuil Hall at noon for a town meeting where speakers will demand that President Nixon be impeached and that the oil companies pay for the energy crisis...
...main tourist pressure comes from the museum facility, why not put the facility in an existing building in an area which can more easily accommodate this influx of tourists--and, in fact, will be better off for it? I am suggesting that the museum facility be placed in the Faneuil Market. I have discussed this idea with a number of community leaders in Cambridge. In the brief time since this idea was suggested to me by the Assistant Director of the Environmental Arts and Architecture section of the National Endowment for the Arts, who is a visiting Loeb Fellow...
...Unlike the Harvard Square area, where prohibitive costs for an underground garage would probably result in 400 on-site parking spaces to accommodate the tourists, the Faneuil Market area has the 1850-space Government Center garage which is largely unoccupied on weekends and holidays, the times when tourists would most heavily utilize the museum facility...
...Boston council agreed to construct a central market in the city in 1634, but the market was not opened until 100 years later. In 1738, the market building was destroyed, but a new building was constructed, and in 1740 the first Faneuil Hall stall was leased...
...House Subcommittee on Equal Opportunity heard testimony in Faneuil Hall from Boston mayor Kevin H. White and Cambridge mayor Barbara M. Ackermann, and other community leaders...