Who owns the Bunker Hill Monument?

By 1919, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts owned the Bunker Hill Monument, but in 1975, it passed the task of preserving this national shrine to the National Park Service. The Bunker Hill Monument became a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.



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Workers completed the monument with a formal opening ceremony on June 17, 1843. The BHMA took over sixteen years to build the monument. It received donations from around the world, but New Englanders contributed most of the money.

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Bunker Hill Museum Along with dioramas and murals, artifacts from the battle itself on display include a cannonball; a snare drum; a sword; a masonic apron belonging to revolutionary leader Dr. Joseph Warren, who perished in the fight; and a trowel used by the Marquis de Lafayette in the groundbreaking.

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Bunker Hill Monument is one of the must-visit sites on your Boston itinerary. The monument is located in the Charlestown neighborhood, near the Charles River and the Charlestown Navy Yard. A guided walking tour along the famous Boston Freedom Trail will take you to this iconic site.

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Within the plans for the redevelopment, there was a section for the rehabilitation of the buildings of Bunker Hill. The section was slated to preserve the historical buildings of Bunker Hill, but instead were demolished since there was no actual rehabilitation planned.

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A statue of Colonel William Prescott stands in front of the monument.

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An obelisk is a tall, four-sided, tapering monument that ends at the top with a pyramid. They were carved from a single piece of stone, whereas modern ones tend to be made from several stones and are often hollow.

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The Egyptian monument represented a given pharaoh, expressing the fusion of earthly and divine power, a solar symbol of creation and regeneration. With a square base, the structure gradually tapered high up in a pyramid shape, called pyramidion.

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Dedicated in 1843, this 221-foot obelisk commemorates the Revolution's first major battle. Members of the Bunker Hill Monument Association (BHMA) spent decades raising money to complete the construction of the Monument.

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The famous order Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes was popularized in stories about the battle of Bunker Hill.

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