Paul Revere House
Historic start point of midnight ride
With its cobblestones and gas lamps, North Square, a little triangle in the North End district, immediately has a sense of history about it.
Its prize possession is a small 1680 clap-board house – Boston’s oldest – that’s survived primarily for its powerful historic associations. For it was from here that silversmith Paul Revere set out on “midnight ride” to Lexington to warn of the British advance.
Exhibits in the house recount this historic moment and provide a glimpse into the seventeenth century life of the Revere family – which included sixteen children!