Show i PAUL REVERES HOME 44 I 1 OLD ABODE or THE revolutionary HERO IN BOSTON 13 IN 1 dilapidated CONDITION IL paul revere a bouse house in toatoa is s sadly idly in need of repair the ravages 0 of t time are visible to even the moot camual observer and something la Is done speedily ape dlly to it those who ho value it aa as a rolle of revo lutlo lutio nary times see the last ot of it the house was probably years 0 old id when revere purchased it anae some years prior tp to the revolution and nat aurally the ravages of time combined with the varying requirements of 0 a constant succession of unsympathetic teri tenants ants hive lime brought the ancient structure to a condition in which it no longer has charms as a domicile even for the most enthusiastic patriot hence it has ceased to bo be remunerative and Is likely to be improved oft off the earth at almot almost any time in the near future revere a house was in its pallina days one of the very beat be of its it class and the former proprietor would BO no doubt spend a sail sad quarter of an hour contemplating the changes it has un bergone could he once more revisit the glimpses vt of the moon as kohake speare would say just now the ancient house Is un occupied save for a store upon the ground floor but its has recently ne quite a remarkable transformation with a view to tendering r it attractive for or light ho ing among the italians altani It who aru are most likely to reoccupy it the woodwork throughout has his received a liberal application of paint of at robin a egg blue and the walls wills of entry ways ays and rooms have been covered with a highly decorative and brilliant pink paper which pale people will doubtless doubt lesa find to reflect a most agree acres lle lie warmth of tone particularly in winter when owing to a dearth of chimneys means ot of heating the house must be annoyingly inadequate the little stuffy store in which paul revere would never recognize today to day his once otice cozy parlor Is now devoted to the sale of italian groceries a lock stock of edibles to the eyt u 0 an american occupying about abolt all the space cave rave what would allow three or tour four persona persons to evl ura n 1 abound aund in one eight right I 1 visit the place every day for a clr Z 0 ap 64 AA it I 1 and never lir at a word of eug eng spoken allaer a by the proprietor tir tj hie his patro patroon pat vr the annleal kitchen in the rear ot of the tore store was w long since subdivided lato la to various apartments one of which la Is a bedr oora anoche containing contal the old e being now merely it de do pos itry Tty for barrels of rubbish the he old kitchen fireplace about five feet hub by seven feet long has been bricked up and it would require great exercise of the imagination to portray it as it looked when mrs revere was wont to bustle about preparing the homely meals for her family of ten nobody now knows anything about it but it Is I 1 arit probable pr bable that the second and thir third flo a bear little lesem blance today to day to what hat they did in lit lle its ures eres time for he moed away about 1795 1725 and since then the bouse house has been devoted to a variety of ot wi ses the earliest change changes were made halt half a century ago when the house was a popular boarding place for cape cod sea captains and ro doubt bad had a gl good substantial if 11 plait table in order to satisfy the appetites of buch such a respectable and healthy act of patrons on the second ioor front are site two rooms evidently once tha beet best chamber chambers in the rear ire re three more rooms one of which contained a small vr IS la ikc HU closed fireplace unless the houe house originally had more chimneys than at present the front chambers mist have been without means of heating opening into the bt b t front chamber Is quite a remarkable old fashioned door apparently the only one in the house that bis hu survived froia from iterates day it Is nearly two inches in thick ness and Is heavily paneled with quite elaborate molding although broka the old wrought iron atilt remain the four rooms on the top floor near are in a bad had state of dilapidation not a singe ing e closet plains remains in the hou bou though nearly eve every room contains an coal bin bill once apparently a cloet the house Is believed to have been bm built immediately after the disastrous fire ot of 1676 1076 and Is mild to have occupied the site ite where for form mory aly atoo I 1 the parsonage of her increase mather who more than anyone ele else eave save his big son cotton slather matter was the author J of the horrors of the witchcraft de ludlon there waa was one occasion when he ite vore vere a house hou wai was the of at the town ami and that waa was on the of march 5 1771 the first anniversary of the boston massacre maae acre when revere revero gave a sort of memorial illumination quite characteristic character letic of him the th importance with which it waa was regarded by the public Is shown by tho the tion of a de detailed description ot at it la in olt it ft big the local papers an extraordinary thing in those days of at provincial jour ballam |