The oldest building in downtown Boston, built around 1680 — a century before Revere bought it. The squat clapboard house in North Square survived three centuries of fire, expansion, and the wholesale rebuilding of the surrounding North End, and was saved in 1908 by Revere's great-grandson, who turned it into one of the first historic house museums in the United States.
Inside the rooms are furnished as they were when the silversmith, his second wife Rachel, and their many children lived here. Examples of Revere's own silverwork and engraving are on display, along with the small bell from his foundry, which once hung in a Massachusetts church. The whole visit takes 20 to 30 minutes — small, dim, and atmospheric in a way that the bigger Freedom Trail stops can't quite match.
The neighbouring Pierce/Hichborn House, a 1711 brick Georgian belonging to Revere's cousin, is sometimes open as part of the same ticket.