Boston – Marc Truant & Associates’ exterior restoration and stabilization of 5/6 Lathrop Place is the first phase of an effort by the Paul Revere Memorial Association to create a 3,600sf education and visitor center that will also provide full accessibility for the the adjacent Paul Revere House Museum.
This renovation will not only convert a neighborhood eyesore into a community asset but will also benefit those who visit this important historic site including thousands of schoolchildren, teachers, and families.
The Paul Revere Memorial Association recently acquired 5/6 Lathrop Place, two of a series of row houses constructed in 1835–1836 by housewrights John Perkins and Jonathan Robinson, on land originally owned by Paul Revere.
The property, one of a small number of wood buildings remaining in the North End, is an important example of the small workers’ houses that characterized the area before mass immigration caused the construction of larger brick tenements.
The design by Mills Whitaker Architects LLC documented the surviving exterior features and called for them to be retained and restored wherever possible, including the 19th century 2 over 2 sash windows and exterior masonry walls showing evidence of the building’s evolution from a two-story structure with a single-floor rear ell to its current configuration, three stories with a two-story rear ell.
Two generations of clapboards (original and late 19th century), sidelights dating to 1835 beside a late 19th century door; and decorative trim at the roofline are additional examples of historic building fabric that was carefully restored by Marc Truant & Associates and their team of skilled subcontractors.