Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2012. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Significant Dates (construction of City Hall) (construction of Police Station) Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) n/a Cultural Affiliation n/a Architect/Builder Albert W.Cobb, Luther C.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for Revere City Hall and Police Station. Machine-read text.
one of 206 National Register listings in Suffolk County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · one of 5 National Historic Landmarks in Suffolk County.
National Register reference number.12000070- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The Post-Oflfice of Revere (North Chelsea) was established July 'I'i, 184(i, the first Postmaster being; Joseph H. Fenno, who served a community of about 750 persons. He was succeeded l:)y William Fenno, Hatch Crocker, George Newcomb, and James L. Wiggin, the latter being the last of the independent Postmasters at Revere. June 1, 1875, Revere became a Boston vStation, and free delivery was introduced in a Town that covered (August 1, 1892) about 3,540 acres, with a population of about 1,750 on July 1, 1875, and U,000 in 1892.
Winthrop, set off from North Chelsea (Revere) in 1853, was named after Deane Winthrop. The Post-Office was established February 2, 1853, and has had but one chief, Warren Belcher having been Postmaster up to May :]1, 1875, and head of the Station since. His allowance in 1855 was $17.17; the surplus, $5.84; the community served, less than 500. The Census of 1870 reports the population of Winthrop at 532. It is now about 3,500 (August 1, 18'.t2), and the area, 980 acres. Winthrop has had free delivery since June 1, 1875, when it became a jjart of postal Boston. It had been a part of municipal Boston up to 173!).
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Revere City Hall and Police Station between
2003 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Debris and open burning
12
Smoking
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Arson/incendiarism
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 15,200 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Revere City Hall and Police Station between 1810 and
1975: 6,899 Plantae, 3,843 Fungi, 2,678 Animalia, 1,281 Chromista, 227 Bacteria, 153 Protozoa, 119 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A C Gibson and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Revere City Hall and Police Station: 7 plants, 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Revere, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 9 flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A roof was blown off a house on Winthrop Parkway in Revere. In addition, a tree, large limbs, and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds in Winthrop. The tree and branches were downed onto cars.
At 720 AM EST in Revere, a car was trapped in one foot of flooding on State Route 1A near the East Boston line. At 742 AM EST, amateur radio reported a flooded basement on Curtis Road. At 747 AM EST, three cars were reported trapped in flood waters on the Revere Beach Parkway.
In Revere, eighteen inches of water flooded Bell Circle. In Boston, the intersection of Columbia Road and Quincy Street flooded with one car stuck in the flood waters. Brookline Avenue was flooding near the Riverway. In West Roxbury, the VFW Parkway flooded near the high school.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
24,984 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
, section 8). (continued) NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 9 (Expires 5-31-2012) Revere City Hall and Police Station Name of Property Revere (Suffolk), MA County and State Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Ground Floor The ground floor, or basement, contains little in the way of noteworthy original features, aside from door trim elements. On the east side of the center hall is a boiler room, containing iron boilers that date to 1958. The boiler room is of interest as the location of four massive, square-shaped brick structures that support substantial iron safes on the floor above.
FIRST FLOOR The Central Corridor Noteworthy original interior features are located primarily in the first floor's 125-foot-long center corridor. Here, the corridor's terrazzo flooring is flanked by seven-foot-high dados, composed of glazed, white terra-cotta tiles. The dados culminate in molded wooden cornices. Still intact are the offices' original multi-panel doors. Originally, the corridor's smooth plaster wall surfaces above the dados were painted a buff color. The entrances along the corridor's east wall retain original Colonial Revival trim elements. The ceiling is characterized by smooth plaster over machine-cut lathe.
The first floor's central passageway functions as a hall of honor, commemorating the heroism of Paul Revere, as well as local men who gave their lives in defense of their country. One of the city hall's most. important works of art is the white marble bust of Paul Revere that surmounts a pink-marble historical panel, set within an architectural framework (Photo 5). Sculpted by Cyrus Cobb, ca. 1897, this memorial is located above the information desk opposite the Broadway entrance. The inscription on the historical panel reads: "REVERE, FIRST SETTLED ABOUT 1626.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 12000070, 78 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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