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.

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.

Concert: Ava Dunton

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 concert is presented in partnership with the Berklee Summer in the ......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 concert is presented in partnership with the Berklee Summer in the City concert series.Ava Dunton (soprano) is a current Master of Music in Opera Performance student at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee studying under the tutelage of Bradley Williams, where she has performed as Pamina in selected scenes of Mozart's Die Zauberflote and covered Cathleen in Ralph Vaughan WIlliams' Riders to the Sea. She graduated in 2022 from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. While an Apprentice Artist with Opera Ithaca for their 2022-2023 season, she made her role debut as Diana in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, as well as participating in the chorus of Verdi’s Nabucco and William Grant Still’s Highway 1, USA. Her other performance credits include Goldie in the workshop of Jens Ibsen's Rumpelstiltskin and the Unlovable Children with Glimmerglass Opera, Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Luke Housner’s Summer Opera Workshop, Maggie in the workshop of Ben Morris’s The Rip Van Winkles with Glimmerglass Opera, La princesse in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with Ithaca College Opera Workshop, and Maggie in the world premiere of Sally Lamb McCune’s We Wear the Sea Like a Coat with Ithaca College Opera/Opera Ithaca. She was also a finalist in the Ithaca College 2022 Concerto Competition.

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.