Paul Revere House – Hichborn House

The Paul Revere House in Boston’s North End is the colonial home of the silversmith and patriot famous for his midnight ride of 1775, and it is a stop on the Freedom Trail. Built around 1680, it is the oldest building in downtown Boston, and visitors tour it at their own pace. Next door, the Pierce-Hichborn House, a brick home connected to Revere’s family, is also owned by the same nonprofit and helps tell the neighborhood’s story.

The Paul Revere Memorial Association was founded to rescue the house, which Revere sold in 1800 and which then served for a century as a boarding house, shops and tenement apartments before falling into disrepair. Today the association runs walking tours, concerts, living history programs, lectures, school programs and teacher workshops. Its collection includes Revere-made objects, household artifacts and items tied to the North End’s immigrant history, and its shop sells reproductions of his silver.

What to Know

• Groups need advance reservations, while individual visitors buy tickets on arrival for self-guided tours.
• The house is listed as a wheelchair-accessible experience.
• The association won a 2026 AASLH Award of Excellence for its illustrated book on Paul Revere’s Ride.
• Its free Lowell Lecture Series can be attended in person or watched online.
• The association also produces the Revere House Radio podcast.