Student Poetry Awards

Celebrate Massachusetts' young poets at the annual Student Poetry Awards reading and ceremony! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and elementary school students. The contest,......More

Celebrate Massachusetts' young poets at the annual Student Poetry Awards reading and ceremony! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and elementary school students. The contest, run in partnership with the New England Poetry Club, encourages and celebrates young poets in exploring their craft. The contest takes place each spring, followed by an award ceremony.Winners will read their original poems, followed by a celebration on the lawn.

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.