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is pine, including fireplace mantels. Originally each room had two front-facing windows and two side windows although later extensions to the side of the house farthest from the street eliminated those side windows. The house is not rectangular and its street-side corner is very sharp to take full
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The Pierce–Hichborn House is three stories tall, faced in common-bond brickwork with decorative belt courses and large sash windows. Its narrow side elevation faces the street, with its main facade opening onto a compact private passageway. Inside it is laid out on each floor as a narrow central
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thirty years earlier. Even then the neighborhood was urban, and the house stood three doors down the square from the Revere House. William Shippard purchased the house in 1747. Nathaniel Hichborn, a boatbuilder and cousin of
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and one of the earliest surviving brick structures in Boston. It was built by glazier Moses Pierce, the grandson of John Jeffs, who built the neighboring
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Pierce–Hichborn House and Paul Revere House, North Square in the North End, April 18, 1956. Leon Abdalian Collection, Boston Public Library
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bought the house at a bank auction. In 1949, descendants of Hichborn led an effort to restore the house. The house was named a
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The original dwelling was probably destroyed in the 1711 Boston fire. The house is an excellent example of early
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and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association. An admission fee is charged.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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on November 24, 1968. As per procedure, the house was also listed on the
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hallway and stairway with a single heated room to either side.
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A view from the street of the Pierce–Hichborn House.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Boston, MA
42°21′48.61″N 71°3′13.46″W / 42.3635028°N 71.0537389°W / 42.3635028; -71.0537389
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Georgian house
North Square
Boston, Massachusetts
Paul Revere House
Framing
trim
Georgian architecture
Paul Revere House
Paul Revere
tenement
Pierce-Hichborn House and Paul Revere House, North Square in the North End, April 18, 1956. Leon Abdalian Collection, Boston Public Library
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
National Historic Landmark
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston
National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
The Johns Hopkins University Press

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