250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.

Hourly Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow ......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow period), this conversational tour will explore links between colonial-era slavery and freedom, Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic legacy, and the Longfellow family’s legacy of historic preservation.

Express Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.Short on time? Tour the first-floor collections on this informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity.

Family Fundays

Each Sunday during the summer, kids and their grownups can explore poetry, history, and self-expression on the lawn. Featuring drop-in crafts and lawn games! Free, no reservations required.

250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.

Poetry Reading: Tracy K. Smith

The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music poetry and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the New England Poetry Club.......More

The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music poetry and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the New England Poetry Club.Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet memoirist editor translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-19 during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time.Smith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems which won the 2022 New England Book Award  Wade in the Water which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award  Life on Mars which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize  Duende winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets and The Body’s Question which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir  Ordinary Light was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize and co-editor (with John Freeman) of There’s a Revolution Outside My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Her memoir-manifesto  To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul  was a Time magazine and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times is a nonfiction celebration of poetry as a source of courage and emotional fortitude amidst the many upheavals of the 21st Century.She is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Hourly Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow ......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow period), this conversational tour will explore links between colonial-era slavery and freedom, Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic legacy, and the Longfellow family’s legacy of historic preservation.

Express Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.Short on time? Tour the first-floor collections on this informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity.

250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.

Hourly Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow ......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow period), this conversational tour will explore links between colonial-era slavery and freedom, Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic legacy, and the Longfellow family’s legacy of historic preservation.

Express Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.Short on time? Tour the first-floor collections on this informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity.

250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.

Hourly Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow ......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow period), this conversational tour will explore links between colonial-era slavery and freedom, Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic legacy, and the Longfellow family’s legacy of historic preservation.

Express Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.Short on time? Tour the first-floor collections on this informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity.

250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.

Headquarters of a Revolution: Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge

Explore the people ideas and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 251 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours family activities  film screenin......More

Explore the people ideas and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 251 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours family activities  film screenings living historians a Story Walk and more. Free and open to all!The house at 105 Brattle Street now Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site served as Washington’s first military headquarters of the American Revolution from July 1775-March 1776. Headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals institutions and questions that still define our country. This event will reveal Cambridge Headquarters as a complex hub of revolutionary activity where generals enslaved people paid laborers poets Indigenous diplomats politicians self-emancipated families and soldiers shaped history.Schedule of EventsOutdoors10:00 am-3:00 pm Living history - Interact with living historians John Koopman (George Washington) and Sandy Spector (Martha Washington)12:00 Q& A with Martha WashingtonFree family activities and Story WalkCarriage HouseAdditional events TBA10:15 am Get Ready with Martha  Sandy Spector (living historian Martha Washington) Learn all about the clothing of 1775 as Mrs. Washington finishes dressing for her day. There will be some stories and some gossip too! Sandy Spector is a Boston based historian researcher and interpreter and has been a Revolutionary War reenactor since 2000 but now finds herself in her favorite role Martha Washington. Sandy is known for bringing emotional depth humanity and a sense of humour to her portrayal as Martha. She spends most of her time researching and interpreting Mrs. Washington and has been portraying Martha - alone or with George - in numerous states and venues for the past 10 years.11:30-12:15 The Last British Army to Come Through Cambridge  J.L BellJ. L. Bell is the proprietor of the Boston 1775 website making daily offerings of history analysis and unabashed gossip about the American Revolution in New England. He is the author of a book-length study for the National Park Service about Gen. George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters in 1775 and 1776.1:30-3:00 pm Film screening and discussion: The Black Patriots of Lexington - Silas Burdoo  Dr. Zine Magubane PhD and Sean D. OsborneExplore the role that third generation Lexington resident Silas Burdoo played in the Revolutionary War. Silas Burdoo was an active combatant on April 19 1775. An inspirational story of a grandson of Ann and Philip Burdoo who were married in Medford MA in 1704 and afterwards purchased 40 acres of land in Cambridge Farms. Yeoman Silas Burdoo is believed to have become the wealthiest of the Black veterans who fought on April 19 1775.The screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Zine Magubane PhD Professor of historical sociology at Boston College and Sean D. Osborne public historian and producer of the Black Patriots of Lexington YouTube series. For more information on the Black Patriots of Lexington video series visit www.abclex.org. Sponsored by Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site with support from Tricons 2 Red Tails.Historic House10:00 am 11:30 am 2:30 pm 250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a RevolutionGeneral George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals institutions and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity where generals enslaved people paid laborers poets Indigenous diplomats politicians and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.Walking Tour3:00 pm What Washington Saw on Cambridge Common  J.L. BellJ. L. Bell is the proprietor of the Boston 1775 website making daily offerings of history analysis and unabashed gossip about the American Revolution in New England. He is the author of a book-length study for the National Park Service about Gen. George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters in 1775 and 1776.

Hourly Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow ......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow period), this conversational tour will explore links between colonial-era slavery and freedom, Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic legacy, and the Longfellow family’s legacy of historic preservation.

Express Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.Short on time? Tour the first-floor collections on this informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity.

Family Fundays

Each Sunday during the summer, kids and their grownups can explore poetry, history, and self-expression on the lawn. Featuring drop-in crafts and lawn games! Free, no reservations required.

250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.

Hourly Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow ......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.What does this house reveal about our shared past? Here, history was made, and history was written. Highlighting the house and its remarkable collections (original to the Longfellow period), this conversational tour will explore links between colonial-era slavery and freedom, Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic legacy, and the Longfellow family’s legacy of historic preservation.

Express Tour

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.Short on time? Tour the first-floor collections on this informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity.

250th Deep Dive Tour: Headquarters of a Revolution

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour exp......More

Entrance to the historic house is by guided tour only, and all tours are free of charge.General George Washington’s Cambridge headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our nation. This conversational tour explores Cambridge Headquarters as a hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, and soldiers shaped history - and how later generations would shape its memory.