The project had its share of detractors, so to get it built, Faneuil and his cohort of rich merchants had to steamroll smaller traders.
Over the next 284 years, [Faneuil Hall] would serve as a forum for practically every significant debate in American society—and even as a symbol for the tradition of public debate itself.
Faneuil lived just long enough to see his market completed: a squat, red-brick building, its ground floor dedicated to commerce with a public meeting hall upstairs and a golden dome on top.
Throughout the 1760s, patriots met at Faneuil Hall to protest royal taxes, and in 1773, Samuel Adams initiated the Boston Tea Party from the hall's lectern.
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