The Paul Revere House
Colonial timber-frame home where a silversmith raised eleven children before his famous ride.
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This guide to the Paul Revere House in Boston starts with the silversmith buying the cramped timber-frame home in 1770 for a steep price against his modest income, and raising as many as eleven children at once between two marriages within its three small rooms. You'll hear about his first wife Sarah's death, his remarriage to Rachel, and the household he left sleeping behind him on the night of April 18, 1775. Look at the low doorway he ducked through daily, in a house framed nearly a century before he ever lived there.
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