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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