Building / Landmark · 1723 · Boston
Old North Church
Boston’s oldest surviving church (1723), whose steeple lanterns — "one if by land, two if by sea" — launched Paul Revere’s ride on April 18, 1775.
Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
Why it matters
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1723, and tied to 5 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
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
Thenquiet enough to notice details. Best now: the older layer.
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 energyquiet enough to notice details
Best nowthe older layer
Best timegolden hour
historicserendipitousNorth End
Rain scoremodest
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
Already a walkBoston 1775 Walk
The lanterns, the ride, the muster — the places where April 1775 actually unfolded, walked in sequence.
70 min · 5 stops · 2.0 mi →Already a walkBest of North EndThe most significant places in North End, ordered into a walkable loop by the graph.
58 min · 6 stops · 22 min walk →Make it walkableShow me the best 45 minutes from hereTurn the surrounding graph into a short, walkable next move.
Nearby · editorially filtered →What should I see next?
Chosen moves from here
The editor's hand
Human recommendations
Civic memory
What this meant before
17231723Old North Church enters the civic record here.1775Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1775)On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode from the North End through Charlestown to Lexington to warn that British regulars were marching.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
- 1723
- Address
- 193 Salem St, Boston
- Online
- Official site ↗
- Graph connections
- 5
Plan your visit
Websiteoldnorth.com ↗
Get there
Follow Old North Church
In the graph 5 relationships — first-class data, not links
Explore Old North Church in the interactive Graph Explorer — click to expand every connection →Historically related
Related
Located in
Nearby what sits within a few minutes’ walk
Historical event · 1 min walk
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1775)
Person · 1 min walk
John Pitcairn
Building / Landmark · 1 min walk
Clough House
Historical context
An unexpected connection
Old North Church is linked, through the graph, to The Freedom Trail — attraction, 19 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
More landmarksOther landmarks in the graph
From the Revolutionary 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 corroboration5 sources across 2 tiers
✓Human-reviewedEditorially verified
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness100% of canonical fields present
Sources, by tier
Old North Foundation Primary / institutional
NPS Primary / institutional
Wikidata Q1321240 Open reference
OpenStreetMap way/29650592 Open reference
U.S. National Park Service (NPS API) Primary / institutional
The same entity, elsewhere
Graph scores — our north star is relationship density, not page count
Relationship density51
5 connections
Record coverage100
metadata completeness
Graph authority76
centrality + reach + trust
Schema.org JSON-LD — what answer engines read
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