Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

National Historic Site · MA

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site preserves a remarkable Georgian house whose occupants shaped our nation. It was a site of colonial enslavement and community activism, George Washington’s first long-term headquarters of the American Revolution, and the place where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his canon of 19th-century American literature.

What you’ll hear

19 places to explore in this park.

  • Alice's Garden
  • Cambridge Common
  • Christ Church Cambridge
  • Dexter Pratt House
  • Fort Washington (MA)
  • Lechmere-Sewall-Riedesel House
  • Longfellow Carriage House
  • Longfellow Garden
  • Longfellow House Forecourt
  • Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters
  • Longfellow Park
  • Massachusetts Hall
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery
  • Old Burying Ground
  • Penelope Vassall House
  • Read House
  • Ruggles-Fayerweather House
  • Wadsworth House
  • William Brattle House

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