Dexter Pratt House
The Dexter Pratt House is an historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is remembered as the home of Dexter Pratt, the blacksmith who inspired the poem "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. History The house was built in 1808 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was built for blacksmith Torrey Hancock, who sold the home in 1827 to fellow blacksmith Dexter Pratt. Pratt worked there until his death in 1847; his widow lived there until her death in 1858.Nathans, Sydney. ''To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012: 303. It was then passed on to the couple's married daughter Annie Louise Pratt Smith. Dexter Pratt was the village blacksmith that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Village Blacksmith". Longfellow published the poem in 1841 as part of ''Ballads and Other Poems'', which also collected "The Wreck of the Hesperus". The poem proved ...
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Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called the "King's Highway" or " Tory Row" before the American Revolutionary War, is the site of many buildings of historic interest, including the modernist glass-and-concrete building that housed the Design Research store, and a Georgian mansion where George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived (though at different times), as well as John Vassall and his seven slaves including Darby Vassall. Samuel Atkins Eliot, writing in 1913 about the seven Colonial mansions of Brattle Street's "Tory Row," called the area "not only one of the most beautiful but also one of the most historic streets in America." "As a fashionable address it is doubtful if any other residential street in this country has enjoyed such long and uninterrupted prestige."Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Old Cambridge, 1973 , Cambridge Historical Commission, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 55-67 Origins of Brattle Street as a forest path Even ...
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