Longfellow House

The Longfellow House– Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, otherwise called the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National Historic Site is a notable site situated at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For right around fifty years, it was the home of noted American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It had already filled in as the base camp of General George Washington, 1775-76.

The house was worked in 1759 for John Vassall, who fled the Cambridge region toward the start of the American Revolutionary War in view of his unwaveringness to the ruler of England. George Washington possessed the house as his central command, starting July 16, 1775. It filled in as his base of activities amid the Siege of Boston, until the point when he moved out on April 4, 1776. Andrew Craigie, Washington's Apothecary General, was the following individual to possess the home for a noteworthy .timeframe.

In the wake of buying the house in 1791, he affected the home's just real expansion. Craigie's budgetary circumstance at the season of his demise in 1819 constrained his dowager Elizabeth Craigie to take in visitors. It was as a visitor that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow came into the home. He turned into its proprietor in 1843, when his dad-in-law Nathan Appleton bought it as a wedding blessing. He lived in the home until his demise in 1882.