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....
by prhstaff | Jan 20, 2024 | Blog
Paul Revere’s “Other” Rides By: Tegan Kehoe Listen, our readers, and you shall hearof the lesser-known rides of Paul Revere. While Revere is famous for his midnight ride on the eve of the Revolutionary War, he actually made a number of rides as a...
by CDD | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog
Pierce/Hichborn House The Pierce/Hichborn House, built about 1711, is one of the earliest remaining brick structures in Boston. The house is an excellent example of early Georgian architecture. Its elegant symmetrical style was a radical change from the wood-framed...
by CDD | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog
Lathrop Place The row houses at 5 & 6 Lathrop Place, along with the privately owned 7 & 8 Lathrop Place, sit on land that was part of Paul Revere’s backyard. In 1835 Lydia Loring, the owner of Revere’s North Square property, sold her backlot to housewrights...
by EHP | Dec 14, 2021 | Blog
Interactive Map:The Midnight Rides of April 18 & 19, 1775 The Midnight Rides of April 18-19, 1775 Get Started Map goes here. Enabling JavaScript will give you the best...
