Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-04-07

LONGFELLOw'S RESIDENCE AT CAM,
BRIDGE Few private houses in the United
States are 50 we'll known as the residence
IF Henry Wadsworth LongfeIlow so often
Ias it been described by atfectlonate anti
quiarians and enthusiastic pilgrims. 1t is
uot only the home of our most celebrated
poet; il also SURPRISES in historic interest
any building IN New England, with the
* option of Faneul Hall. Its age com.
pared with that of other Cambridge houses
Is not great 1t was built in 1859, by
Col. John Vassall Il firm loyalist, who
he'd to England in l775. his property in
Cambridge and Boston having been coniis
lcated. Its next occup INT was Col. John
Glover, u bold little Marblehead soldier,
who quartered some of his troops in the
| spacious structure" When Washington
rode into Cambridge, on Sunday, June 9,
1875, he was greatly pleased with the
Il, pearance of the house, and having had
it cleaned, he established himself therein
turing the same month Martha WASH
lnglon arrived 1T the house in December,
and Washington remained in it until
April of the following year. The south
east room on the first floor Washington
took for his study, in which the councils of
war were all held during the stay of the
communicative in Cambridge, He
slept Just overhead, always retiring at
O'Clock. The spacious room behind the
study, which Mr.. Longfellow now uses for
his library, was occupied by Washington S
military family, Us rule pretty large
one. A Generals military family" in
English ptrlance, comprised his whole
staff Washington was not averse TO a
certain amount of official splendor, and
was luckily rich enough to carry out hi>
whim in the matter of making his assistants
u part Of hi, ordinary household. Trum
bull, the artist, complained, rather sarcas'
tically that he, for one, could not keep his
head up in the magnificent society OF the
house. 81 now found myself" he averred
''in the family of one of the most distln
guished men of the age, surrounded nj his
table by the principal officers of the army
and in constant Intercourse with them. i
was further my duty TO receive company
and do the honors of the house to many o
the first people OF the country" Bu
Washington was thrifty and frugal person
ally; and his generous maintenance at hi!
own cost of Il sort of court was of great
service to the colonial cause. The owners o
the house after the revolution were Nathan
iel Tracy (whom Washington visited for AZ
hour in 1882 Thomas Russell, and Dr.
Andrew Craigie. Talleyrand and Lafayette
| slept in it aud in 1888 Jared Sparks com
: menced to keep house within its historic
rooms. Everett and Worcester the lexi
cographer, also occupied it for time
and Mr. Longfellow took up his abode in
) in 1887. At first he merely rented room
, establishing himself in Washington
. southeast bed chamber, Here he wro
: Hyperion" and "Voces of the Night.
I In the dwelling, in one room and another
| almost all his books, save the two whic
t tdate from his Bowdoin professorship, haV
, been produced. Longfellow had not Ion!
been AN occupant of the house before h
bought it. Its timbers are perfectly sound
, The lawn in front is neatly kept,and acros
the street there stretches green meado'
| as tar as the banks of the Charles, bough
. by the poet TO preserve his view. MI
, Longfellow himself, as he draws near 7C
. is fine picture of beautiful manhood.
t has been remarked by his friends that hi
t health has much improved since he deliv
, his poem, "Morituri Sautamus," Mt tn
50th anniversary of his graduation. An
, all Cambridge, down to coal beavers an
hod carriers, ,reveres him for his benignity
l and remembers him not only as poet bu
, as II kind and gentle man. Harper
. Magazjne.