10/09/2020
Whenever we get around to actually restoring the exterior of the Shankland Andronicus House, it would look something like this :)
The Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the home of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for almost 50 years, and it had previously served as the headquarters of General George Washington (1775–76). Washington was visited at the house by John and Abigail Adams, Benedict Arnold, Henry Knox, and Nathanael Greene.
While living in the house, Longfellow produced many of his most famous poems including "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Village Blacksmith", as well as longer works such as Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and The Courtship of Miles Standish.
For a time, Longfellow's home was one of the most photographed and most recognizable homes in the United States. In the early twentieth century Sears, Roebuck and Company sold scaled-down blueprints of the home so that anyone could build their own version of Longfellow's home. Several replicas of Longfellow's home appear throughout the United States. Back in Massachusetts, Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site was established on October 9, 1972. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/long/
Image: The original 1759 house was built in the Georgian architectural style. The pair of large pilasters that frame the central entry portal created two side wings, also framed by large pilasters.
