Identifier: truestoryofpaulr00gett (find matches)
Title: The true story of Paul Revere, his midnight ride, his arrest and court-martial, his useful public services
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gettemy, Charles Ferris, 1868- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Revere, Paul, 1735-1818. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f Paul Bevere a few months later; and here most of hischildren were born. Of the several housesthat he lived in during his life this is cer-tainly the one most fitting to be preservedand to bear the distinction of being known asthe Revere house. Built about 1676, itwas nearly a century old when Reveremoved into it; and it is still standing in afair condition of preservation, one of thenow very rare types of seventeenth centurydomestic architecture in which the secondstory projects several inches over the wallline of the first. It is a survival both of thearchitecture of the seventeenth century andthe American civilization of the nineteenth,for all about it swarm olive-skinned nativesof sunny Italy and the exiled sons anddaughters of Poland and Jewish Russia.Perhaps it is the most historic slum tenementin America. Here Revere lived until about 1788. Areceipt for a years rent (£36), dated Octo-ber 1, 1788, would indicate that he was thenliving in a house on Charter Street, while( 282 )
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The Paul Revere House, North Square. Declining Years his address is given in a Boston directoryfor 1789 as 50 Cornhill. About 1800 hepurchased a house on Charter Street, possi-bly the same one he had been occupying asa tenant. It was on the southerly side ofthe street, near what is now North Street.It was permitted to stand until 1843, andsome of the old inhabitants of Boston candoubtless still remember it, — a three-storybrick mansion, with a garden enclosure andan iron fence of swinging chains. In therear of the house was a spacious yard, wherethe bells were brought from the Reverefoundry in the early days of that establish-ment, for testing. The removal of thebusiness to Canton gave Revere an excusefor acquiring a country estate, so that forseveral years before his death he passed hissummers at this rural retreat, after thefashion of the prosperous folk of modern 1 This may have been a place of business only. Thesite was on what was afterward called WashingtonStreet and near Cour

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