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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 3 : first Flights in authorship (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 stil
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)