Paul Revere House

The oldest surviving building in downtown Boston, this clapboard house in the North End was the home of silversmith and revolutionary Paul Revere from 1770. From here he set out on his midnight ride of April 1775 to warn of approaching British troops. Built around 1680, the timber-framed structure preserves rooms furnished to evoke the colonial period, with a small courtyard displaying a large bronze bell cast at Revere's own foundry. A visit gives a compact sense of everyday domestic life in a crowded eighteenth-century seaport neighborhood.