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Day 130, Tuesday, June 3 2025 - Boston Massachusetts - The Freedom Trail - The Paul Revere House
Home of the famous "Midnight Rider" and silversmith, Paul Revere.
Built in 1680, the unimposing wooden house at 19 North Square is the oldest house in downtown Boston. The 3-story building was the home of silversmith and Boston Patriot Paul Revere from 1770-1800, previously housing the parsonage of the Second Church of Boston. Revere sold the house in 1800 and it became a tenement with the ground floor used for shops and various businesses over the years. In 1902, Revere’s great-grandson purchased the property and restored it so that it could be opened to the public. In 1908, after restoration by architects and preservationists, the Paul Revere House opened to the public as one of the earliest historic house museums in Boston and the U.S.
While dozens of riders spread the general alarm that night, Paul Revere became an American legend following the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" in 1860
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