Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts

WHERE JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WAS BORN, AND WHERE HE DIED When Thomas Oliver, Lieutenant Governor and president of George III's provincial…

Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lowell

The next occupant was Rev. Charles Lowell, pastor of the West Church of Boston. He bought the property just in time to make it ready for…

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