Cambridge - Longfellow National Historic Site

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in this 1759 Georgian-style house from 1837 to 1882 and wrote several of his most famous poems here. Prior to this George Washington used the house as a headquarters from July 1775 to April 1776 when he was planning the siege of Boston. The National Park Service has run it as a national historic site since 1962. There is a museum and archive section with 18th and 19th century painting and decorative arts, Longfellow's library and personal papers and over 700,000 manuscripts including letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, and Abraham Lincoln.