The iconic site was also the backdrop for the 1770 Boston Massacre, with its balcony famously used to first read the Declaration of Independence to Bostonians in 1776. Today, it stands as a museum ...

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King - Street Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. / engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith.