![]() Melrose Public Library pass admits up to 2 adults and 2 children. A collaboration between the Mass Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Health Connector. A collaboration between the Mass Cultural Council and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Department of Transitional Assistance.ĬonnectorCare: $1 admission per person with ConnectorCare card. See the full list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.ĮBT: $1 per person with EBT card. Under 5 are free!ĥ0 cents off with college ID or ISID card.Īctive duty Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Active duty National Guard or Reserve members are free with their CAC. ![]() Members of The Friends of Paul Revere visit for free! Visit our Student Programs page and speak to our Education Department by phone (61) or email ( if you think your class might qualify. See our Groups page to begin your planning.įree or discounted admission available for qualifying school and youth groups in low-income communities. Old South Meeting House has been open to the public as a museum and meeting place since 1877 thanks to the efforts of that original Old South Association.With reservations made at least 2 weeks in advance. ![]() It was the first time that a public building in the United States was saved because of its association with nationally important historical events. Their combined efforts raised an enormous sum to purchase the building and its land and save Old South. A determined group of “twenty women of Boston” organized to to save the building from the wrecker’s ball: they enlisted famous Bostonians, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Louisa May Alcott to rally people to secure funds and spread the word. In 1872, Old South Meeting House was put on the auction block, sold for the value of its building materials, and slated for demolition. The Sons of Liberty led the way to Griffin’s Wharf, where they dumped 342 chests of tea into the frigid harbor. ![]() When the final attempt at compromise failed, Samuel Adams gave the signal that started the Boston Tea Party. On that day, over 5,000 men crowded into the meeting house to hotly debate the controversial tea tax. Yet it was the series of meetings that culminated on Decemthat sealed Old South’s fate as one of this country’s most significant buildings. Patriots and Loyalists alike met to argue and inform, to protest the impressment of sailors into the King’s navy, and to commemorate the bloody Boston Massacre of 1770. Old South became the center for massive public protest meetings against British actions in colonial Boston from 1768-75. Old South Meeting House was the largest building in colonial Boston and the stage for some of the most dramatic events leading up to the American Revolution.īuilt as a Puritan meeting house in 1729, Old South Meeting House stands today as one of the nation’s most important colonial sites, one of the country’s first public historic conservation efforts, and one of the earliest museums of American history.ĭuring the colonial period, members of Old South’s congregation included African-American poet Phillis Wheatley who published a book in 1773 while she was enslaved patriot leaders Samuel Adams and William Otis William Dawes, who rode with Paul Revere to Lexington in 1775 and the young Benjamin Franklin and his family. Image depicts a very early museum configuration. Saved from the wrecking ball in 1876 by “twenty women of Boston,” Old South Meeting House has been a public museum since 1877.
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