Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market built on filled wharf land

Faneuil Hall and the adjacent Quincy Market sit at a location that was expanded seaward with wharf construction and landfill in the 18th and 19th centuries, placing these civic and commercial buildings on land that did not exist in the 17th-century shoreline configuration. The Quincy Market complex, completed in the 1820s, was constructed on reclaimed areas tied to the historic pattern of extending wharves into Boston Harbor. The site exemplifies how Boston's commercial core was established on artificially enlarged waterfront ground.