Advance purchase required.
Tours often sell out quickly!

BOOK IN ADVANCE TO GUARANTEE YOUR SPOT!

Paul Revere House

The Paul Revere House located on the Freedom Trail in Boston's historic North End neighborhood is downtown Boston's oldest surviving building and one of the famous landmarks you will discover on the Foods of the Freedom Trail walking tour.

The wooden house was built in 1680 and was originally owned by a wealthy merchant before Paul Revere purchased it for his family in 1770. The site was previously home to the Parsonage of the Second Church of Boston before it was destroyed in the great fire of 1676.

Paul Revere was living in this house when he made his famous ride to Lexington to warn the patriots of the arrival of the British by sea. When he first moved into the house he was joined by his mother, wife Sarah, and five children. His wife eventually died in childbirth after the birth of their eighth child. He would later be joined in the house by his second wife and eight additional children. He owned the house for a total of thirty years, during some of which he did not occupy it.

Eventually the house was turned into a tenement and the ground floor was renovated for the use of shops including a candy shop and a cigar factory.

In 1902, the great grandson of Paul Revere purchased the house in order to protect it from possible demolition. To this day the Paul Revere Association runs a non-profit museum from the house which is open to the public for a small fee. Even considering all the renovations the house has been through, much of it is original. At least 90% of the structure and many windows and doors are from the original 1680 home. Some of the furnishings are believed to have been owned by Paul Revere and his family.

After your Boston walking tour you may want to return to this museum for a more in depth look at life in Colonial Boston on 19 North Square.