Paul Revere House

City: Boston, MA

The Paul Revere House at 19 North Square in Boston's North End was built no later than 1680 by its first owner, Robert Howard, a wealthy slave merchant, on the former site of the Second Church of Boston's parsonage, which had burned in 1676. Paul Revere owned the L-shaped house from 1770 to 1800, and it now operates as a museum within Boston National Historical Park.

the building

Overhang and casements. Robert Howard's original L-shaped house included a second-floor overhang and casement windows, exterior features that survive as markers of its late-seventeenth-century construction.

significance

The Paul Revere House is designated a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After Revere sold it, the building spent the nineteenth century as a tenement with shops on its remodeled ground floor before a Revere descendant bought it in 1902 and resold it to the Paul Revere Memorial Association in 1907; it reopened as a museum in 1908 following renovation.

nearby

Mariners House 50 ft · Greek Revival · 1847
Pierce–Hichborn House 90 ft · 1711
St. Stephen's Church 0.1 mi · Federal · 1804
Old North Church & Campus 0.2 mi · Georgian · 1723
Vermont Building 0.2 mi · Chicago School · 1904
Union Oyster House 0.2 mi · Georgian · 1826

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