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 | Revere House Radio
Revere House Radio This episode’s guest is Nikki Stewart, Executive Director of Old North Illuminated. She says that Old North Church is famous for just one minute, when Paul Revere’s signal lanterns shone, but there’s a lot more to the church’s long history. Nikki...
by prhstaff | Oct 1, 2024 | Revere House Radio
Revere House Radio In 1954, during a legal battle over her right to perform in Boston, actress and singer Christine Jorgensen visited the Paul Revere House. This episode’s guest, Mehitabel Glenhaber, wrote a Revere House Gazette article about these events. Interpreter...
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 | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog
The “Boston Marriage” of Edith Guerrier and Edith Brown By: Tirzah Frank Edith Guerrier begins her autobiography “It is good to be alive! That is how I feel today, and that is how I felt seventy-seven years ago when, at the age of three, I ran away, taking...
