Revere (Paul) House is built.

(ca.) Built for merchant Robert Howard, it is located at today’s 19 North Square. The oldest building and only 17th century surviving house on the Shawmut Peninsula, it is Revere’s home from February 15, 1770 until the 1790s, and subsequently used as a boarding house, bank, cigar shop, candy company, and vegetable and fruit business. The building is purchased by Revere’s great-grandson, John Phillips Reynolds Jr. in 1902, then by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, which was formed in 1905 by William Sumner Appleton Jr. and others to preserve the house. The exterior is restored by Joseph Chandler and opens to the public as a private museum on April 18, 1908. The building is restored again by Sidney & Charles Strickland in 1950.