Longfellow House 

Here is a trip for history buffs and literature enthusiasts alike.  We will be taking a private tour of Longfellow House, a National Historic Site, on Thursday, August 8 at 11 am.  The group will have lunch following at a nearby restaurant.  Because this site is managed by the National Park Service, no fees will be charged.  However, the tour is limited to 15 participants.  Contact Syrl Silberman at syrl@sagecoach-cac.com to reserve your spot.

Longfellow House is located on Brattle Street, just outside Harvard Square.  Street parking is limited.  Several garages are located a short distance away and the site is very accessible by public transportation.

More about the House...

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. 

You will learn the about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who made Cambridge his home for more than 40 years, his wife Fanny Longfellow, his domestic and literary partner and an astute observer of antebellum society, and George Washington, who in this house shaped the new Continental Army and grew as a commander, leader and person.  Tour goers will also hear stories about slavery and resistance, abolition and education and the lives of LBGQT people and the resonance of these stories today.