The Printing Office of Edes & Gill

The Printing Office of Edes & Gill, Boston’s only colonial era printing experience, opened its doors to the public on April 15, 2011 Located along the Freedom Trail at the historic Clough House, which is owned by and conveniently located adjacent to Old North Church. With the opening of the colonial print shop on April 15, visitors will have the opportunity to engage living historians working their printers trade in pre-revolutionary Boston. These same printers were at the vanguard of citizen angst over British governmental policies that Bostonians felt violated their rights as Englishmen. We offer unique personal encounters with history and colonial printing. As Boston’s only colonial trade experience and only colonial living history interpretive experience, our historic equipment, live demonstrations, interpreters and historic settings enable new levels of understanding how colonial printing affected communities and sparked a revolution in America. Historians generally agree that Boston’s Patriot press was a major factor in America’s rise to rebellion and independence. Sites along today’s Freedom Trail were witnesses to our revolution, and meeting places for Patriots and Loyalists. Perhaps our colonial print shop can again be a meeting place for visitors and groups where they can gather and hear the stories of regular citizens who came together in 1775 in defense of their rights and who created a nation.