Restaurant / Café · 1826 · Boston
Union Oyster House
The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the United States, serving since 1826; Daniel Webster drank at its semicircular oyster bar.
Why it matters
Two hundred years old in 2026 — a bicentennial inside the quadricentennial.
Open the full civic recordCurrent pulse, routes, recommendations, and memory
Living object
Now, then, future
Every object is temporal: what it feels like now, what it used to mean, and what it can become next.
Now
Thenlively. Best now: a table, then a short walk.
1659: The North End’s 1659 burying ground — colonial Boston’s free Black community of "New Guinea" lies here with the Mather dynasty, and British cannon fired on Bunker Hill from its crest.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
Current modegolden hour
Historical echoCopp’s Hill Burying Ground
Connected eventGreat Molasses Flood (1919)
Pulse
How it feels right now
Current energylively
Best nowa table, then a short walk
Best timegolden hour
historicserendipitousNorth End
Rain scoreexcellent
Indoor escapes within a few blocks.
Laptop friendlinesslow
Coffee, libraries, bookstores, and campus edges.
Student presencehigh
How strongly the nearby graph reads as campus life.
Tourist pressurelow
Fame, landmark pull, and visitor-facing assets.
Historic densityextreme
Older records and historical edges around this object.
Serendipityhigh
Different kinds of things hiding within a short walk.
Turn this into a walk
Routes with a point of view
What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
18261826Union Oyster House enters the civic record here.1742Faneuil Hall"The Cradle of Liberty" — the 1742 meeting hall where Samuel Adams and generations of agitators rallied Boston, atop a still-working public market.1659Copp’s Hill Burying GroundThe North End’s 1659 burying ground — colonial Boston’s free Black community of "New Guinea" lies here with the Mather dynasty, and British cannon fired on Bunker Hill from its crest.1680Paul Revere HouseDowntown Boston’s oldest building (c.
- Established
- 1826
- Address
- 41 Union St, Boston
- Online
- Official site ↗
- Graph connections
- 2
Plan your visit
Phone+1 617 227-2750
Websiteunionoysterhouse.com ↗
Get there
In popular culture◷Rizzoli & Isles (2010) — TNT
On the Innovation Trail◆1876 · “Mr. Watson, come here” — Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
In the graph 2 relationships — first-class data, not links
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An unexpected connection
Union Oyster House is linked, through the graph, to North End — neighborhood, 5 min walk away. The kind of thread you only find by following the connections.
Keep exploring graph-powered — every path below is a real relationship, not a guess
NearbyA few minutes’ walk away
Also in North EndShares a neighborhood
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From the Federal & antebellum eraOf the same period
Visitors also exploreReached through the same connections
One record, 1 framing cross-property publishing — never duplicated
How we know graph confidence — we explain our certainty, not just assert it
✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
✓Independent corroboration3 sources across 3 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
National Park Service Primary / institutional
Restaurant records Unclassified
OpenStreetMap node/1532195818 Open reference
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density25
2 connections
Record coverage100
metadata completeness
Graph authority27
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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