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The Paul Revere House, built c.1680, was the colonial home of American Patriot and Founding Father Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. A National Historic Landmark since 1961, it is located at 19 North Square , Boston , Massachusetts , in the city's North End , and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere ...
The Hutchinson family lived in the house until 1864. It became a tenement and store until the early 1940s. [3] Pierce–Hichborn House and Paul Revere House, North Square in the North End, April 18, 1956. Leon Abdalian Collection, Boston Public Library. In 1941, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities bought the house at a ...
25. Paul Revere House, Boston. The midnight rider and his family lived in this “modest dwelling” during the American Revolution. It is now the oldest standing residential building in downtown ...
Most of the sites are free or suggest donations, although the Old South Meeting House, the Old State House, and the Paul Revere House charge admission. The Freedom Trail is overseen by the City of Boston's Freedom Trail Commission [ 2 ] and is supported in part by grants from various non-profit organizations and foundations, private ...
The Alamo. San Antonio The Battle of the Alamo (Feb. 23 - March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Take a 360-degree virtual tour of The Alamo Shrine and grounds in San Antonio ...
On November 27, 1676, Mather's home, the meeting house, and a total of 45 buildings in the North End were destroyed by a fire. [3] The meeting house was rebuilt soon afterwards, and the Paul Revere House was later constructed on the site of the Mather House. [4] "In the eighteenth century Boston's two grandest houses were on North Square. ...
The Saturday Evening Girls club (1899–1969) was a Progressive Era reading group for young immigrant women in Boston's North End.The club hosted educational discussions and lectures as well as social events, published a newspaper called the S. E. G. News, and operated the acclaimed Paul Revere Pottery.
Paul Revere (/ r ɪ ˈ v ɪər /; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.) [N 1] – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of ...