Contributed by NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Description
This room, the grandest in the house, has been a parlor or drawing room throughout the history of the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House. When Martha Washington joined her husband here in the winter of 1775-1776, it is said that she held sewing circles in the parlor where she and other women mended clothing for soldiers and made bandages for the temporary hospital across the street. Documents suggest that she and the General held a grand Twelfth Night anniversary in this room in January 1776. Later it served as Fanny Longfellow's parlor.
About This Item
- Title: The parlor at the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow house, ca. 1759
- Creation Date: circa 2000
- Subject Date: circa 1759
- Location: Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
- Media: Building, color transparency
- Dimensions: 10 cm x 12.5 cm
- Object Type: Physical Object
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Furnishings
- Longfellow House (Cambridge, Mass.)--Interiors
- Longfellow National Historic Site (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Longfellow, Fannie Appleton, 1817-1861--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Parlors
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Cambridge
- Washington, Martha, 1731-1802--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Cambridge
People
For more information about this item, contact:
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-4491
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