Paul Revere Mall

Introduction

The Paul Revere statue stands in the small Paul Revere Mall plaza in front of the Old North Church in Boston North End, sculpted by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, who won the Boston art commission competition in 1883 though the statue was only finally installed in 1940. The bronze captures the moment on the night of April 18, 1775, when Revere rode toward Lexington and Concord to warn that the British were coming, depicting him with the reins in his left hand and his right arm raised to sound the alarm, becoming one of the most iconic public monuments of the American Revolution. Behind the statue, the Old North Church, completed in 1723, is Boston oldest church, and its steeple once held two lanterns signaling to patriots across the Charles River that the British were advancing by water, the origin of the famous one-if-by-land, two-if-by-sea phrase. Strolling the plaza cobblestones, visitors touch centuries-old brick and tombstones, absorbing the heavy atmosphere of the cradle of the American Revolution.

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