Quincy Market is the long granite building that sits behind Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston, and it has a slightly improbable origin. When construction began in 1820, this stretch of land didn't quite exist yet. A portion of Boston Harbor had to be filled in first, making Quincy Market one of the city's earliest experiments in aggressive land reclamation.

When it opened, the building was possibly the closest thing America had to a supermarket, packed with grocers and food merchants serving Boston's growing population. It added 27,000 square feet of merchant space and lined its interior walls with brick to contain the fires that were a routine hazard of the era.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace Quincy Market's evolution from a
harbour-front marketplace in the 1800s, to modern food hall, connecting it to Boston's wider story of land reclamation and the democratic bustle that made Faneuil Hall a symbol of American liberty.