About Paul Revere House
The Paul Revere House is a rare surviving 17th-century dwelling in Boston’s North End, built no later than 1680. Silversmith, entrepreneur, patriot messenger, and civic leader Paul Revere owned the property from 1770 to 1800, including during the period of his celebrated April 1775 ride. The house places Revere’s revolutionary activities within the domestic and working world of an urban artisan rather than presenting him only as a legendary figure.
A self-guided visit leads through furnished historic rooms where period architecture, household objects, and interpretation reveal how Revere and his family lived. The property also reflects later chapters of North End history, including its use as a boarding house, tenement, and commercial space before preservationists restored it and opened it as a museum in 1908. Its intimate scale and exceptional age make it one of the Freedom Trail’s most tangible links to everyday life in colonial Boston.
