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 | Nov 10, 2021 | Blog
“There is all that is left of our Kilby Street store” – Key, 19th Century (PR. 2004. 24) By: Mandy Tuttle 149 years ago on November 9-10th 1872, a great fire raged through downtown Boston. The fire originated at a hoop skirt factory on Summer Street and...
by prhstaff | Feb 23, 2021 | Blog
Boston Gazette account of Revere’s Illuminated Display, 1771 Transcription NO831. THE Boston-Gazette, AND COUNTRY JOURNAL. ...
by prhstaff | Dec 30, 2020 | Blog
“The Cabbage Vendor” – an Unexpected Surprise By: Edith Steblecki It’s not every day that someone contacts the Paul Revere Memorial Association and offers to donate a framed painting showing two of our historic homes- the Revere and Pierce/Hichborn...
by prhstaff | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
Sinking Your Teeth into History: Sugar, Dentistry, and Paul Revere By: Ruaidhri Crofton Among the items in the Paul Revere Memorial Association’s collection is a small and somewhat morbid-looking partial denture carved from ivory. This early dental prosthetic device...
