The Sunday Herald article from 1908.	Ex-Gov. John D. Long and a number of society women arrive to enter the restored building.

Paul Revere's grandchildren and great grandchildren went in numbers yesterday from the Back Bay to old North square. They gathered at the opening of their distinguished ancestor's home, recently restored by the Paul Revere Memorial Association and other patriotic organizations. It was the 133d anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

In the little, low studded, two-story wooden building where the patriot lived and died, his descendants yesterday transported themselves back 133 years. Through the quaint little windows they could see the Old North Church from the steeple of which Paul Revere saw the signal lights described in Longfellow's poem. The foreign born population of the North end congregated at the entrance of the house, alone, disturbed the historical accuracy of the scene.

Old House Nearly the Same

Within the house everything was as Paul Revere viewed it with the exception of the necessary remodeling for the preserving of the building. Over the huge open fireplaces with their blazing embers, were Paul Revere's rifle, candles such as he used, the quaint old toddy warmer, which his own hands had put into the punch on many a wintry night. Nearby where the old spinning wheel and the shingle horse with which Revere had fashioned the shingles of the house.

On the walls hung portions of the old Boston Gazette, in which Paul Revere read the account of the fifth anniversary of the Boston massacre, May 5, 1771, and other news of the time. An old-fashioned canopied bed such as he slept in and the very water ewer which he used himself were among the other fittings of the house the visitors to the opening examined with interest.

The Paul Revere Memorial Association has already spent about $20,000 in remodeling and fitting up the building. Further improvements are contemplated. The small back yard is to be graded.

Extra precautions will be taken against the destruction of the building by fire. After the building is closed for the day many of the valuable relics will be removed to a place of safety. The building will be open to the public, beginning Monday, with a custodian in charge.

John D. Long Speaker

Speeches by former Gov. John D. Long and John P. Reynolds, Jr., constituted the formal part of the opening. Both dwelt on the significance of the restoration of the old home of Paul Revere. Mr. Reynolds read a portion of a manuscript written by Paul Revere himself describing his memorable ride. The manuscript has been preserved in the Revere family, and was yesterday publicly exhibited for the first time. Mr. Long said in part:

"All honor and gratitude to the pious and reverent and patriotic hands and hearts which have rescued this roof, this pure type of an old colonial home. It now stands in the very inundation and overflow of a population foreign born and coming to us utterly apart from all the traditions, history, religion and tone of the North end of Boston in 1775. Yet every day it is assimilating itself by the influence of our schools and civic and political life to the American spirit.

"For that very reason especially fitting it is that this house should stand here in its original mould and pattern and tell to the generations now here and hereafter here to come the story of Paul Revere, the story of the Old South Meeting House, the story of the Tea Party, the story of Lexington and Bunker Hill, not as a story of war and blood and slaughter, but as the story of the stir and upheaval and struggle and sacrifice out of which sprang the fair flower of the independent and free republic which is now to them and to all the world "the land of the free and the home of the brave.'"

Recalls Service in Army

After describing the remodeling of the house and the care taken to have everything as historically accurate as possible, Mr. Reynolds said:

"Out of that door over these strode Paul Revere 133 years ago, ready to ride forth and give the alarm. It has become the fashion to think of him only in connection with that event, but his descendants like better to remember him as commissioned at 21 a young officer in the army, as the companion of Hancock and Adams, as a public spirited citizen and patriot.

"Beautiful as are Longfellow's lines, no poem ever created a hero, though many a hero has created a poem, and so, not for one single act alone, but for the numerous noble acts of Revere, it will be many years yet before history will cease to ring with his silvery name."

As is the case with newspaper articles, they sometimes contain error in fact or interpretation. As such this article should be read as a period piece and all fact should be checked. For example, the article implies that the date of the Boston massacre was May 5, 1771 when it was actually March 5, 1770.

The Association notes the generous $1.00 donation made by a 10-year-old boy.

Major Henry L. Higginson, treasurer of the Paul Revere Memorial Association, Old South Meeting-House, Boston.

Dear Sir - I am a little boy ten years old. This morning a friend of mine and I were looking over The Outlook, and I noticed and read the article entitled "A Memorial to Paul Revere." It interested me very much, and made me wish to contribute my small mite to your Association in the hope that it may aid in preserving the home of Paul Revere.
Although I am not twenty-one years of age, I trust my donation will be accepted.

Respectfully yours,
Robert M. La Follette, Jr.