This wasn’t built yesterday, and it’s been working for years. Can you figure out what this mystery Photo is, and where it is? Send your idea to [email protected] and tell us what your hometown is.
Three readers told us that this red-bricked home in Boston, Mass. was the Pierce-Hichborn House, circa 1711. But the guy who sent us this photo, Chuck Paul of Norcross, took it recently when touring Boston and said that a sign there said it was the home of Patriot Paul Revere.
Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C., George Graf of Palmyra, Va. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas said it was the Pierce-Hichborn House. Peel added: “Today’s mystery is located at 29 North Square in Boston’s North End historic district. Originally built in 1711, this three-story, brick building marked a shift away from the more traditional, Tudor-style, timber cottages that dominated the city in the 17th century. It is one of Boston’s earliest surviving brick houses, with many of the original, handmade bricks being imported from England as ship ballast, well before most of Boston’s own brickyards were established and operational…