One of a number of original Tory Row homes on Brattle Street, the house was built in 1759 by John Vassall, Jr. Longfellow lived here in 1837 as a boarder and later received the house as a gift ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

with "salutations and friendly greetings from far and near" filling his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. By then, Longfellow was a celebrity of almost modern magnitude—"the object of a ...