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Longfellow NHS will be CLOSED to visitors for the winter season beginning
November 1, 2004. The site will RE-OPEN for guided tours on Sunday, June
5, 2005. Researchers may access the museum archives year-round on Tuesday
and Wednesday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm by advance appointment only. Please
join us for our Preservation Workshop series in May 2005! more » Longfellow
National Historic Site is an outstanding example of a historic site representing
the themes of arts and literature. For almost half a century (1837-1882)
this was the home of one of the world's foremost poets, scholars and educators,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow House is also significant in America's
colonial history. General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the newly-formed
Continental Army, headquartered and planned the Siege of Boston here between
July, 1775 and April, 1776. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow enjoyed enormous
popularity during his lifetime and continues to influence our cultural and
historical perceptions. He and his immediate and extended family and friends
played a central role in the intellectual and artistic life of nineteenth
century America and are credited with shaping a distinctly American identity
and culture. Longfellow House was a favorite gathering place for many prominent
philosophers and artists including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Julia Ward Howe, and Charles Sumner.
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