I drove up to Massachusetts with my three roommates the weekend before Halloween. We stayed with high school friends at their apartment in Boston and we toured Salem and Boston.
What a charming house! Not at all frightening, as I’ve made the photo appear.
Hawthorne’s book was based on this house. There wasn’t originally a store on the ground floor like there is in the book, so it was added on later to attract tourists. A number of the gables had already been removed by the time Hawthorne first laid eyes on the house, but they were added back on later. In the attic is the oldest domestic living space in the country! There were horse hairs in the wall stucco, which was used to keep it together. That means that the horse had been dead for hundreds of years!
This is the author’s birthplace, which was relocated next to the House of Seven Gables, where it currently resides.
The gravestone of the revered Paul Revere in Boston’s Granary cemetery. Upon entering Granary, we were handed a map which told us where to find the graves of famous figures who were buried there. These include Ben Franklin’s grandparents, Samuel Adams, and the victims of the Boston Massacre.
My friends and I in front of Boston’s Old City Hall. It went out of use in the 1970s and is now a steakhouse.
“One if by land two if by sea.” Where the lanterns were placed in the tower to warn the American patriots that the British were coming.
The Boston Massacre occurred in front of this Old State House in 1770. An engraving by Paul Revere of the event served as a catalyst for the Revolution. This was so interesting to see because this is the only original building in the area. Surrounding the building are dozens of modern skyscrapers. So it is like a small island of preserved history in a sea of the present.
