Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters
105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Massachusetts, USA
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HOME
EST. 1759
HEADQUARTERS
EST. 1759
July 1775
Greene, Nathaniel
Washington, George
Knox, Henry
Washington, Martha Dandridge
Lee, Charles
Ward, Artemus
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters.
The original 1759 Georgian mansion survives with its historic interiors, furnishings, archives, gardens, and grounds. Operated by the National Park Service as a historic house museum, it preserves evidence of George Washington’s headquarters and the later residence of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
About Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters
This mansion belonged to Loyalist John Vassall Jr., who fled Cambridge as resistance to Britain intensified. The property was confiscated and became George Washington’s headquarters from July 1775 to April 1776. Washington directed the Siege of Boston from the house, organized the newly created Continental Army, and oversaw the operations that ultimately compelled British forces to evacuate the town.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters
The home was used as a temporary hospital in the days after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Colonel John Glover and the Marblehead, Massachusetts Regiment occupied the house as their temporary barracks in June 1775. General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the newly formed Continental Army, initially used the Benjamin Wadsworth House at Harvard College as his headquarters, but he decided that he needed more space for his staff. He moved into the Vassall House on July 16, 1775, and used it as his headquarters and home until he departed on April 4, 1776.
It was in this house that Washington received a poem written by Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet. Martha Washington joined her husband in December 1775 and stayed until March 1776. She brought with her Washington's nephew George Lewis as well as her son John Parke Custis and his wife Eleanor Calvert. On Twelfth Night in January 1776, the couple celebrated their wedding anniversary in the home. Washington left the house in April 1776.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in the house from the 1840s-1880s, and produced many of his most famous poems including "Paul Revere's Ride"in the study.
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