Walking through this small two-storey wooden house in Boston’s North End is treacherous for a tall man; beams and doorframes are unexpectedly waiting around corners to smash my forehead. Every detail of Paul Revere and his family’s life are posted on signs around the house. He was a wealthy silversmith! Who knew? “Paul”, as I like to call him, owned the home from 1770 to 1800. He lived here with his first wife (Sarah), his mother, and his five children. Cramped quarters it must have been. It was from this house that Paul Revere set out on horseback on his legendary “Midnight Ride” on April 18, 1775. He rode through the night to warm militias at Lexington and Concord about British troops approaching Boston across the Charles River by shouting, “The British are coming! The British are coming!” Err… OK, actually he didn’t say that. He said, “The regulars are coming out!” which doesn’t sound anywhere near as dramatic, so I can see why they changed it in the folklore. However, this night was to mark the beginning of the War of Independence! The house itself was sold by Revere in 1800. It became a tenement, bank, candy shop, cigar store, and from the look of old photographs inside, it was just about ready to be demolished when Paul Revere’s great-grandson, John P. Reynolds Jr bought it in 1902. He raised money to renovate and properly restore the building and it was opened in 1908 as one of the earliest historic house museums in the US. Most of the building is original and the inside has been furnished with period furnishings. In the courtyard of the building is a large bell that Paul Revere and Sons had made for the ship the USS Constitution. Admission was cheap, only $3 for an adult. And a walkthrough of the house takes less than a half-hour.