By 1681 a new two-story house with stairs in the chimney bay, one room along the street, plus a rear ell angled to fit the lot lines occupied Increase Mather's former house site. In the early eighteenth century, the house was remodeled with sash windows and a now lost addition that preserved original casement window frames in the end wall. Goldsmith and patriot Paul Revere purchased the improved postmedieval four-bay house with jettied second story, one of the finest of its day and the last to survive into this century, in 1770.more

Thought by some to be the church from which Paul Revere and William Dawes received signals regarding the landing of British troops, Old North Church remains Boston's oldest religious structure. It established the typical New England church form—a rectangle with the pulpit at one end and the steeple and entrance at the other. The design is attributed to William Price, a book dealer who studied the published designs of Christopher Wren's London churches. more

Established in 1959 “to consolidate, preserve, selectively restore and interpret the Lexington–Concord Battle Road,” Minute Man National Historical Park attempts to reestablish the physical environment of 1775. The most intact section of this historical recreation lies along Virginia Road in Lincoln, north of Route 2A near its intersection with Bedford Road. Starting at the visitors' center near the...more

Monument Square's 220-foot granite obelisk (1825–1842, Solomon Willard, NHL/NR) memorializes the early Revolutionary battle of Bunker Hill. Conceived and completed well before the Washington Monument (1848–1885, Robert Mills) in Washington, D.C., Charlestown's granite obelisque is actually the second use of this Egyptian form as a memorial for a Revolutionary battle. In 1799, ... more