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Longfellow - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
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- Designation
- National Historic Site
- State
- DC
- Entrance fee
- No entrance feeNPS data as of 2026-08-25
- Reservations
- Timed tickets are required to tour the Washington Monument interior
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Notes
Designation Date: 10/09/1972
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site preserves a remarkable Georgian house whose occupants shaped our nation. It was a site of colonial enslavement and community activism, George Washington’s first long-term headquarters of the American Revolution, and the place where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his canon of 19th-century American literature.