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ihatepostingonblogs t1_j9u8u9l wrote

Everyone is dissing Faneuil Hall but if you like history you will like the Hall. The shopping area is touristy but the actual Hall is historically interesting. The old State house is across the street which is a beautiful building. The old cemetery is @ the corner with some cool dead people. Copley Library is definitely worth seeing and if its a nice day there is a beautiful courtyard. The old basement archives is cool. I know you said you are not into museums but the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is cool, another beautiful courtyard and you can see the frames of the stolen artwork :) Charlestown is worth a couple hours, the BunkerHill Monument, Constitution and lunch at the Warren Tavern (oldest consecutively run pub). I find walking the Charles River more interesting than the Common but the Common is nice too. If you go to are at the Common you can walk to Acorn St which is the most photographed street in the State. Salem is worth a day trip imo.

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singalong37 t1_j9vh55v wrote

Even the shopping area is interesting as a circa 1830 urban renewal project reclaiming land from the harbor and building a handsome granite wholesale market building with flanking rows. The accomplishment is somewhat trivialized by the corporate consumer uses it’s been put to.

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ihatepostingonblogs t1_j9vjevt wrote

Yeah and I feel like when you live here we all take it for granted. We get annoyed at all the people and ignore how cool it is. I wish it was more boutiques like it used to be instead of all the chains but the history/architecture is still very cool.

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