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....
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...
