. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . on ofthe visitor. On the right will be seen a large woodenhouse, painted yellow, with white, ornamental building is supposed to have been erected by ColonelJohn Vassal, who died in 1747. It fell by descent to his sonJohn, who was a noted royalist. It then became the headquarters of General Washington, during the siege of Bos-ton. It was afterwards owned by Thomas Tracy, JosephLee, and Andrew Craigie, after whom it was called theCraigie Ho
. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . on ofthe visitor. On the right will be seen a large woodenhouse, painted yellow, with white, ornamental building is supposed to have been erected by ColonelJohn Vassal, who died in 1747. It fell by descent to his sonJohn, who was a noted royalist. It then became the headquarters of General Washington, during the siege of Bos-ton. It was afterwards owned by Thomas Tracy, JosephLee, and Andrew Craigie, after whom it was called theCraigie House, and is now owned by Henry WadsworthLongfellow, the poet. The room upon the lower floor, atthe right of the door, was occupied as a study by GeneralWashington, and is now used for the same purpose by The room over it Avas occupied by the gen-eral as a sleeping room. The room in the rear of the studywas occupied by the aids-de-camp, and is now used as alibrary room. The poets own lines refer, on several occa-sions, to the associations connected with the Craigie his Lines to a Cliild, it is thus referred to : —. MK rONOFELLOW b REt>IDE^CESee page 22. 24 HANDBOOK. Once, ah, once, within these walls,One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt,And yonder meadows broad and damp,The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning and down these echoing stairs,Heavy with the weight of cares. Sounded his majestic tread;Yes, within this very he in those hours of gloom. Weary both in heart and head. RiEDESEL House. At a short distance above Mr. Longfellows residence, atthe corner of Sparks Street, may be seen the house in Avhichthe BrunsAvick general, Baron liiedesel, and his family werequartered, dming the stay of the captive army of Burgoynein the vicinity of Boston. This house may be recognizedby the large number of beautiful linden trees around a pane of one of the windows may still be seen the nameof the b
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