by prhstaff | May 28, 2025 | Blog
Paul Revere and Boston’s Committee of Safety By: Mehitabel Glenhaber As we’ve explored in other blog posts and our lecture series this past year, Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride was far from the only messenger work that he did to support the Patriot cause. We know...
by prhstaff | Apr 22, 2025 | Blog
Introducing a New Map of Paul Revere’s Neighbors: the North End’s Black History from 1780 to 1810 Boston was racially diverse in the decades surrounding the American Revolution, but until recently, the Paul Revere House had relatively little information on...
by prhstaff | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog
A Gallery of Reverabilia The Paul Revere Memorial Association has a collection of at least several hundred items that we affectionately term “Reverabilia,” or items made with a reference to Paul Revere. Spanning over a century and ranging from...
by prhstaff | Nov 23, 2024 | Blog
The Fashionable Reveres? By: Katie Burke Visitors at the Paul Revere House often ask us to identify objects they see around the home and to describe what they were used for. Some of the objects are easily defined, as there are similar items in use today, and...
by prhstaff | Jun 27, 2024 | Blog
Summer Weather In Colonial Boston By: Mehitabel Glenhaber In the summer months, especially on a 95-degree day like we’ve been having a lot of this year, visitors to the Revere house often ask, “Wouldn’t they have been hot?” How did people in colonial...
by prhstaff | Apr 30, 2024 | Blog
Mourning, Mementos and the Marketplace: Paul Revere and the New England Funeral By: Jay Shanahan If you were to visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston today, just across from Gilbert Stuart’s portrait depicting Revere in his old age is a small gold ring....
