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The Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National Historic Site) is a historic site located at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called the "King's Highway" or "Tory Row" before the American Revolutionary War, [1] is the site of many buildings of historical interest, including the modernist glass-and-concrete building that housed the Design Research store, [2] and a Georgian mansion where George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived (though at different times ...
Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Wadsworth–Longfellow House in Portland, Maine; Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200 Online exhibition featuring material from the collection of Longfellow's papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts - also known as the Vassall House. 1713 - Town of Lexington separated from Cambridge. [1]1720 - Harvard's Massachusetts Hall built.
Properties occupied by army officers during the Siege of Boston include the Longfellow House (occupied by George Washington and purchased by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in part because of that association), and the Isaac Royall House. In addition to the Longfellow site, there are numerous NHLs with literary and artistic connections.
The house was constructed by Hastings in 1844 adjacent to the home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (now the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site). The house consists of two main dwelling stories topped by a hip roof that has a central monitor providing a partial third floor space.
Alice Longfellow remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Cambridge in 1928 in the same house where she was born. [2] Longfellow worked to preserve her father's home in Cambridge, now Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
Standish is memorialized in a low relief sculpture of six characters from Longfellow's epic poems executed by Daniel Chester French and installed at Longfellow Park, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, located in front of Longfellow's former home, now a U.S. National Historic Site maintained by the National Park Service. [11] [12]