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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 9 : illness and death of Mrs. Longfellow (search)
Chapter 10: Craigie House
In entering on the duties of his Harvard professorship (December, 1836) Longfellow took rooms at the Craigie House in Cambridge.
This house, so long his residence, has been claimed as having more historic interest than any house in New England, both from the fact of his ownership and of its having been the headquarters of General Washington during the siege of Boston.
It has even been called from these two circumstances the best known residence in the United States, with the exception of Mt. Vernon, with which it has some analogy both in position and in aspect.
It overlooks the Charles River as the other overlooks the Potomac, though the latter view is of course far more imposing, and the Craige House wants the picturesque semicircle of outbuildings so characteristic of Mt. Vernon, while it is far finer in respect to rooms, especially in the upper stories.
It was built, in all probability, in 1759 by Colonel John Vassall, whose family owned the still