Revere House or Revere Museum

When I think of a Historical Location, I think of the city Boston Massachusetts. While my parents were still young and adventurous, this was the last big vacation I went on with them, seeing a great deal of historical sites. One site in particular that I remember was the house of Paul Revere. At first glance, it was an Odd location, this small green house that in it’s original neighborhood would blend in, nothing special. Although, it was right in the city center surrounded by businesses and shops all lines to profit from tourism. Thus the appearance of the Paul Revere House made it stand out, and for an underground patriot that Paul Revere was, the obviousness of the house didn’t feel historical at all to me.

The interior of the house was fake to me as well. Several antiques and common household goods of the time were strategically placed around the rooms, all perfectly clean and rather bare compared to a house that is actually lived in. The atmosphere was quaint, no elaborate embroidery or stylization that really screamed upper colonial class. Hence, I got the old colonial feel from it all, but the way the tour guide moved us through the house made the placement of everything as though I was walking through a museum following the line set up by the curators. The Paul Revere house was interesting, but the reality of the preservation made it seem nothing more then a museum.

It seems that the preservation of a historical house, as Murtagh explains, has been done many times pioneered by people such as Ann Pamela Cunningham. Back in the day women in particular took it upon themselves to preserve these houses with visions of grandeur, that these sites would interest and hold the minds of many future generations. In my opinion, it was merely something nice too look at hear some history about and kill an hour.