Old South Meeting House, Boston

The leaders of the Boston Tea Party met at the Old South Meeting House in 1773. The building, once Boston’s largest, was built as a church in 1729. The clock was installed in 1768. A fire almost destroyed it in 1872, and it was opened as a museum five years later.

Image: “The Old South Church [i.e., Old South Meeting House], Boston” by the Detroit Publishing Company (c. 1900). From the Library of Congress