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Downtown Boston Holiday Market

Boston, MA · Holiday

When

December 3–19, 2026

Where

Downtown Crossing · Boston · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Downtown Crossing hosts a Thursday through Saturday holiday market from the weekend after Thanksgiving through mid December, with local vendors selling gifts, crafts, and food in the pedestrian district. The Downtown Boston Alliance organizes the market as part of the neighborhood's winter programming. It runs alongside the area's holiday lights and storefront displays.

The history within reach

• The first subway in America0.1 mi

  Streetcars on Tremont Street had got so thick you could cross the road on their roofs, so the city put them underground, the first subway on the continent, four years before New York's.

• Old South Meeting House0.1 mi

  The largest building in colonial Boston, which is why 5,000 people packed it on the December night in 1773 when Samuel Adams gave the signal and the meeting emptied toward the harbour.

• Phillis Wheatley published0.1 mi

  Kidnapped from West Africa around age seven and enslaved in Boston, she learned Greek and Latin and became the first African American to publish a book of poetry.

• Garrison launches The Liberator0.1 mi

  He had no money, no subscribers and slept on the office floor, and he opened by refusing to moderate: he was in earnest, he would not equivocate, and he would be heard.

• Granary Burying Ground0.2 mi

  Holds Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and the victims of the Boston Massacre.