Old South Meeting House

The Old South Meeting House was built in 1729 as a Puritan house of worship. It was also the largest building in colonial Boston. The Old South Meeting House is best known for the site of where the Boston Tea Party began. In the winter of 1773, more than 5,000 colonists gathered at Old South in a meeting to protest the tax on tea. After many hours of debate, Samuel Adams announced, "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country!" Protestors stormed out of the Old South Meeting House to the waterfront where they dumped three shiploads of tea into the Boston harbor. They changed American history forever. Today, the Old South Meeting House is a museum where they recreate the tea party debates.

Location: 310 Washington Street, Corner of Milk and Washington Street.
Hours of Operation:Open daily 9:30am - 5:00pm April through October. Open 10:00am - 4:00pm weekdays; 10:00am - 5:00pm, weekends November through March.
Nominal admission fee.

Content provided by The Freedom Trail Foundation