Pierce–Hichborn House
- Year
- 1711
- City
- Boston, MA
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The Pierce-Hichborn House at 29 North Square is an early Georgian brick house built around 1711 by the glazier Moses Pierce, on land his grandfather John Jeffs had once owned. It stands next door to the Paul Revere House and is now run as a museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, carrying National Historic Landmark and National Register of Historic Places status.
the building
Georgian brick and oak framing. The three-story house is faced in brick with decorative belt courses and large sash windows under a shallow hip roof; inside, oak framing and pine trim, including the fireplace mantels, survive around a narrow central hallway with one heated room to either side on each floor.
An irregular lot. The house's lot line meets North Square at an angle, leaving several rooms with oblique rather than square corners — a quirk of the site rather than the design.
the style
Built around 1711, the house is an example of early Georgian design, predating the more formally symmetrical Georgian houses that followed later in the century.
significance
Nathaniel Hichborn, a boatbuilder and cousin of Paul Revere, bought the house in 1781, tying it to the Revere family; it is now a National Historic Landmark and part of the Paul Revere House museum complex.
nearby
- Paul Revere House
- Mariners House
- St. Stephen's Church
- Old North Church & Campus
- Vermont Building
- Union Oyster House