11/03/2023
Shhhh…!! Nobody tell our Pinks that we’ve flipped the calendar and now it’s November!
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11/02/2023
As we close an hour earlier each day in the winter - that leaves more time for podcasts! We recently enjoyed this Object of History episode from Massachusetts Historical Society featuring a cameo from our own (occasional) interpreter, Laura Rocklyn!
Show The Object of History, Ep To Live Like John Quincy Adams - May 14, 2023
11/01/2023
In honor of our first early closing day of the season AND the impending shift back to Standard Time ( ) we offer a recent nighttime view from our Hichborn House looking towards the tower for . We love this view of the skyline!
11/01/2023
Winter Hours are now in effect here at The Paul Revere House! Be sure to arrive before 4:00 PM in order to view the Visitor Center and enter the site before 4:15 PM in order to see the Revere House before closing.
10/31/2023
Sign up today to attend the next talk in the Partnership of the Historic Bostons Lecture Series: "Enslavement & Resistance" happening in person and online tomorrow at the Boston Public Library:
Award-winning historian Margaret Newell reveals how New England slavery began with the Pequot War and the enslavement of Indigenous people
10/31/2023
Exciting news from our friends over in Arlington at the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum!
The Dallin Museum's archives are now online! Search the extensive papers of Cyrus Dallin's biographer, Rell Francis, who accumulated hundreds of valuable primary source materials over the course of three-decades researching Dallin. The organization, cataloging, and digitization of this collection was made possible by a state grant facilitated by Representative Sean Garballey and a preservation grant from the Town of Arlington, MA Community Preservation Act. We are also currently digitizing Cyrus Dallin's personal archive, now on long term loan to the Museum from Robbins Library. This work is also supported by a Community Preservation Act grant. New materials are being uploaded frequently, so check back often! https://dallin.org/collection/
10/30/2023
Happy ! As of yesterday we are less than 4 weeks from & this year we're going to highlight unique PRH Shop items that you can only find here (and online!) Today is our PRH Guidebook written for our 100th anniversary:
$8.00 By Patrick M. Leehey, with Edith J. Steblecki and Nina Zannieri. Available for the first time! Visitors have been clamoring for a Paul Revere House guidebook for over a century; we think it was well worth the wait for this lavishly illustrated guide to the house, its history, and the Revere fa...
10/27/2023
What a glorious we are enjoying in Boston today! Here’s hoping a few pics from our vines, taken earlier this week in the perfect morning light, will carry you into a restful weekend.
10/27/2023
As always, we were thrilled to have Stephen Puleo join us for a lecture this year! And if you have not seen the whole recording or were not there in person we're going to give you a little "Save the Date" info - Steve will be joining us in December for our Winter Book Fair on Saturday, December 9th from 1:00 - 3:00. Bring your copies of his books, buy new ones here, and have a chat with a favorite! :)
10/26/2023
Our 2023 Lowell Lecture Series: “From Puritans to Catholics: Religion in Boston’s North End” was wonderful. We are delighted to share the recordings, thanks to our partnership with GBH Forum Network!
Thanks also to our co-sponsors Old North Church & Historic Site & the North End Historical Society of Boston, MA, and to our funders, The Lowell Institute!
From September 26th: Professor David Hall on “”Puritans” and Others in 17th-Century Boston” https://bit.ly/3Seo2ZL
From October 10th: Professor Jaimie D. Crumley on “Old England in New England: Contradictions in the History of Boston’s Old North Church” https://bit.ly/3S8F3ok
From October 24th: Author Stephen Puleo on “The ‘New’ Catholics Come to Town” https://bit.ly/3Qzwy4E
10/25/2023
Last of the Fall Lecture season - and after Stephen Puleo’s excellent talk last night, we have to put a plug in for stopping by St Leonard’s Peace Garden the next time you are in the . It really is a lovely spot!
10/24/2023
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10/23/2023
In anticipation of Stephen Puleo’s talk on Italian Catholics bringing their unique religious customs to the - we remind you of his EXTENSIVE experience researching & writing about this community - starting with Dark Tide!
$17.00 By Stephen Puleo. A narrative, engaging read about the Molasses Flood that swept through Boston's North End in 1919. Non-fiction; 273 pages.
10/21/2023
When it’s fall but still feels a little summery sometimes! Happy from the and the lovely gardens at St Leonard’s!
10/19/2023
Happy from St Leonard of Port Maurice Church - celebrating 150 years this year - right around the corner from us on Hanover Street. Learn more about Boston’s first Italian Catholic Church in next week’s lecture by Stephen Puleo!
10/17/2023
Looking forward to this talk by Jared Hardesty for the Partnership of the Historic Bostons tomorrow night!
Historian Jared Hardesty traces the origins and impact of New England enslavement from its very beginnings in this hard-hitting presentation
10/16/2023
Still thinking about our religion in the theme for & realized the source material for our lecture series graphic is perfect: Paul Revere's own Landing of the Troops engraving!
Buy a copy of the print here: https://bit.ly/3S2u8fR (Last talk on 10/26!)
How many church steeples do you count?
$10.00 Paul Revere engraved this view of the 1768 landing of the British troops in Boston sent to suppress the disorder following the Townshend Acts. The original drawing was probably done by Christian Remick. This is not only an excellent view of 18th century Boston, but also a great tool for discu...
10/14/2023
Happy to all who celebrate - especially those of us celebrating season while it lasts! One of New England’s native fruits. :)
10/11/2023
Little twist on today but very much in keeping with our current theme around religion in the North End - we suggest checking out the recent posts by our friends at North End Historical Society of Boston, MA - featuring extant structures affiliated with religious practices of Jewish residents.
10/10/2023
Join Paul Revere House for Part #2 of the Paul Revere House's 2023 Lowell Lecture Series. This 3-part series From Puritans to Catholics: Religion in Boston’s North End examines how shifts in religious traditions impacted cultural expression, demographics, political affiliations and economic status in the North End. The key speaker is Prof. Jaimie D. Crumley, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Division and Ethnic Studies Division, University of Utah. This lecture explores the Church of England's interventions in the Puritan North End with Old North's founding in 1723. Prof. Crumley will also discuss the previously less well-known role of people of color in the Old North Church community during its early days. Presented in partnership with GBH, the Suffolk University History Department, Old North Illuminated, and the North End Historical Society, with funding from the Lowell Institute.
For more information, please contact [email protected] or visit paulreverehouse.org
10/09/2023
On this that falls on we are so pleased to share one of the most beautiful & thoughtful books available in our shop: “Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story”
$17.99 This richly illustrated children's book tells the story of the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of the Wampanoag people. Includes a glossary, recipes and additional information about Wampanoag traditions. Hardback; 32 pages.
10/06/2023
Combo today! AND - cause you know, tomatoes are *technically* fruit, right??? Still enjoying the unexpected pleasures of our “volunteer” tomatoes growing in our Hichborn House courtyard. :)
10/04/2023
Last month one of us got to play tourist for bit when some friends were in town and snapped this pic of the from one of our other favorite sites on the Freedom Trail Foundation - can you name the location AND spy the Old North Church & Historic Site - subject of our next lecture??
10/04/2023
As St Leonard’s Parish celebrates their 150th year, the fascinating series of events they have developed continues this month with a two parter on Sacred Heart Church’s ties to Moby Dick. Learn more here and join the events on October 17 & 18! bit.ly/46A3iQ9
10/03/2023
Looking ahead to our next lecture (Tuesday the 10th!) about Old North Church & Historic Site - today’s item is our classic T-shirt - which includes a church - do you think it’s Old North??
$15.00 White short-sleeve t shirt with blue design on front. 100% Cotton.
09/29/2023
Thinking about sunnier days in our garden this week - where our mint plants are still bringing that energy.
09/27/2023
We had such a wonderful turn out online and in-person for our first lecture last night! Now we’re excitedly anticipating Professor Jaimie Crumley’s talk on Old North Church & Historic Site on the 10th - so where better for a destination?
09/27/2023
What a great way to start our Fall Lecture Series! Many thanks to our wonderful broadcasting partners at GBH Forum Network for recording and live-streaming last night’s talk - with two more still to look forward to in October! See you in person or online on the 10th!
In case you missed it 👉 https://bit.ly/48rswBX
Watch yesterday's livestream of The Paul Revere House's first Lowell Lecture of the Fall about Puritans in 17th-century Boston's NorthEnd with professor David Hall.
09/25/2023
What better way to prepared for our first Fall Lecture Series talk about North End Puritans, than by making 17th century New England recipes from “The Pleasure of the Taste”? Enjoy this Partnership of Historic Bostons cookbook for
$6.00 Created by the Partnership of Historic Bostons, this cookbook gives you insight into the foodways of early Americans. Includes both 17th-century recipes with helpful 20th-century equivalents.
09/22/2023
You know who might love just as much as we do?
Our local pollinators. :) It is a delight to provide them with blooms well into Autumn (starting tomorrow!)
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It may be September but our local pollinators are still loving our later blooming flowers, like this Comfrey plant that blooms over and over again through out the growing season. Enjoy this video complete with buzzzzzing bee for #FlowerFriday!
The Legacy of Pauline Agassiz Shaw
Learn how Boston social reformer Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) used her wealth to pay for a vast number of philanthropic efforts including: financing the first public kindergartens in America, lobbying for both prison reform and world peace, participating in the women’s suffrage movement and founding day nurseries and neighborhood houses (including the North Bennet Street School).
We’re not the only ones who enjoy our flowers & gardens! Please enjoy this quick bird bath video for today’s #FlowerFriday 🐦 🛁 ☺️
Who Was Prince Hall? An Introduction To An Extraordinary Man
Manuel R. Pires, Chairman of African Lodge No. 459, Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, introduces Prince Hall as an historical figure, with an emphasis on his achievements and contributions. Hall was an abolitionist and leader in the free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry and lobbied for education rights for African American children.
"'Such Ruins Were Never Seen in America:' The Looting of Thomas Hutchinson's House"
The Paul Revere Memorial Association presents a talk about the Stamp Act Riots. On the night of August 26, 1765, a mob attacked Thomas Hutchinson’s house on Garden Court Street, just off North Square in Boston. By the next morning, all of his possessions (and those of his servants) had either been carried off by rioters or were left shattered in the street. The detailed inventory of the contents that he submitted, hoping to be reimbursed by the Crown, provides a unique insight into what life was like inside a great North End townhouse on the eve of the Revolution.
Preview of Virtual Traditions of the Season
Panel Discussion: "Where We Are, and Where Do We Go from Here?"
Frozen Over: Boston’s Nineteenth Century Ice Age by Andrew Robichaud
Global Warming and Global Cooling in Early Boston by Anya Zilberstein
Learn about our upcoming Lowell Institute Lecture Series
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Many of our full, part time, and former staffers are attending the New England Museum Association annual conference (the centennial!!) this week in Stamford, CT and we all enjoyed seeing our Executive Director, Nina Zannieri speak during the keynote this morning. And THEN we enjoyed watching her get literally (and figuratively) lifted up by and with colleagues during the performance piece of the session. Onwards and upwards as we look to our next 100 years of museum work together as a community! #NEMA100 #NEMA2018
Recording of a Revere Bell originally made by Ed & Evelyn Stickney.
There's still time to hear Al Petty and Deirdre Sweeney's concert of colonial music in our garden this afternoon!
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Great news: our final Omeka artifact database is live! Now you can search for and view all of the artifacts from 5 & 6 Lathrop Place behind The Paul Revere House in the North End! Our NEH grant-funded Boston Digital Archaeology Project is in its final stages. Stay tuned for the big reveal in the coming days!
Meanwhile, follow this link to explore some of Lathrop Place's amazing archaeological artifacts spanning hundreds of years: https://bostonarchaeo.omeka.net/collections/show/17
Can you find all of the artifacts pictured here on the database? You can search by collection, object, material, stratum and level, and more!
Meanwhile, follow this link to explore some of Lathrop Place's amazing archaeological artifacts spanning hundreds of years: https://bostonarchaeo.omeka.net/collections/show/17
Can you find all of the artifacts pictured here on the database? You can search by collection, object, material, stratum and level, and more!
In the of Boston’s , adjacent to the (which has served as a since 1908), is the newly re-dedicated . The square, renovated 5 years ago, includes an open area for the nearby school’s to enjoy , seating areas, as well as limited greenery. The Paul Revere House located just across the street was a for the Revere’s for approximately 30 years. The family also lived in Canton, near the original location of the Revere & Sons Copper and Brass Company Revere Copper Products Inc. (where our Saturday May 14. 11:30am matinee at Canton Heritage Fair takes place!), as well as a larger home, also in the North End of Boston.
Come see "Rendezvous with Rachel Revere™" at the Canton Heritage Festival, Saturday May 14, 11:30am ET, 4 Rolling Mill Way in Canton, MA! Sponsored by Paul Revere Heritage Site https://paulreveremuseum.org/2021/12/09/canton-heritage-festival-may-14-2022/?fbclid=IwAR1MERLdNK_BMoDOJTVv9jnH0YoXbtOoZWwa_ayfZsl_aIyScRM0DJ4m2Yc
Come see "Rendezvous with Rachel Revere™" at the Canton Heritage Festival, Saturday May 14, 11:30am ET, 4 Rolling Mill Way in Canton, MA! Sponsored by Paul Revere Heritage Site https://paulreveremuseum.org/2021/12/09/canton-heritage-festival-may-14-2022/?fbclid=IwAR1MERLdNK_BMoDOJTVv9jnH0YoXbtOoZWwa_ayfZsl_aIyScRM0DJ4m2Yc
Ten years ago today, late Mayor Thomas Menino declared April 29, 2012 as Cyrus Dallin Day in the City of Boston! The occasion was a community celebration in honor of Dallin's 150th birthday, his Paul Revere Monument, and the park that residents affectionately call "The Prado." Members of the Dallin, Revere, and McGann families (of the T.F. McGann & Sons foundry) joined the festivities!
Co-organizers included the Dallin Museum, North End Waterfront Residents' Association, The Paul Revere House, Old North Church & Historic Site, North End Historical Society, and Friends of the Prado. Photos courtesy of Matt Conti of NorthEndWaterfront.com. See more photos from the day here: http://northendwaterfront.com/2012/04/community-comes-together-to-celebrate-cyrus-dallin-his-iconic-paul-revere-statue-and-the-prado/
Co-organizers included the Dallin Museum, North End Waterfront Residents' Association, The Paul Revere House, Old North Church & Historic Site, North End Historical Society, and Friends of the Prado. Photos courtesy of Matt Conti of NorthEndWaterfront.com. See more photos from the day here: http://northendwaterfront.com/2012/04/community-comes-together-to-celebrate-cyrus-dallin-his-iconic-paul-revere-statue-and-the-prado/
One last post about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride before next April:
We hope you'll spend time with The Paul Revere House's terrific interactive map, and we encourage you to click through to learn more about "where Mark was hung in chains" and Revere's connections to slavery in colonial Massachusetts.
We thank our friends for highlighting the Royall House and Slave Quarters, which Revere rode past on his way into Medford Square, where he stopped at what was then Captain Isaac Hall's house, was for many years Gaffey Funeral Home, and has more recently become the Islamic Cultural Center of Medford.
We hope you'll spend time with The Paul Revere House's terrific interactive map, and we encourage you to click through to learn more about "where Mark was hung in chains" and Revere's connections to slavery in colonial Massachusetts.
We thank our friends for highlighting the Royall House and Slave Quarters, which Revere rode past on his way into Medford Square, where he stopped at what was then Captain Isaac Hall's house, was for many years Gaffey Funeral Home, and has more recently become the Islamic Cultural Center of Medford.
after hosting a couple hundred at today. 💗19 North Square. The Paul Revere House
Only In Boston
Only In Boston
J. Kalaora will be at The Paul Revere House today as Rachel Walker Revere, milling about distressed as to where her husband Paul could be after an epic “midnight ride” and the start of a war in the Colonies. Is he safe? Is he alive?
Come visit! 11am -3pm ET.
Photos: Jude Kalaora as R. Revere by Gustafson Photography . R. Revere as painted by Joseph Dunkerley Circa 1784.
Come visit! 11am -3pm ET.
Photos: Jude Kalaora as R. Revere by Gustafson Photography . R. Revere as painted by Joseph Dunkerley Circa 1784.
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Next up in the introduction of our living history performers:
Laura Rocklyn (Louisa Catherine Adams) has performed with regional theaters across the country and worked as a first person historical interpreter at museums up and down the East Coast. She is a museum educator at the The Paul Revere House Museum, a Troupe Member with History At Play, LLC, and an Associate Company Member with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company where she won the 2018 BroadwayWorld Baltimore Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Ellen Tree in 'Red Velvet.' Laura has published articles in “Brontë Studies” and “The Revere Express”. She was the winner of the “LitMag” 2021 Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction, and her stories have also appeared in the literary journals “Stork” and “New Square.” She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and an MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University.
Laura Rocklyn (Louisa Catherine Adams) has performed with regional theaters across the country and worked as a first person historical interpreter at museums up and down the East Coast. She is a museum educator at the The Paul Revere House Museum, a Troupe Member with History At Play, LLC, and an Associate Company Member with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company where she won the 2018 BroadwayWorld Baltimore Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Ellen Tree in 'Red Velvet.' Laura has published articles in “Brontë Studies” and “The Revere Express”. She was the winner of the “LitMag” 2021 Virginia Woolf Award for short fiction, and her stories have also appeared in the literary journals “Stork” and “New Square.” She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and an MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University.
The Paul Revere House in Boston’s North End
One of the top attractions in Boston and a good way to see many historical sites in a short amount of time is to follow Boston's Freedom Trail. This trail runs 2.5 miles through the city and is marked with a red brick path. The path leads to 16 historical sites scattered around the city. It's an absolute must when visiting Boston for the first time.
On October 12, The Paul Revere House will be highlighting our founder’s impact on Boston and beyond. Pauline Agassiz Shaw, defined her legacy by developing and funding social and educational programs for recent immigrants of all ages and much more. Link to event https://hubs.la/H0YRwR_0
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