The Wadsworth House


The Wadsworth House on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Mass, around 1904 and 2016. Built in 1726, it is the second-oldest building at Harvard University, and for more than a century it served as the residence of the school president. During the 1700s, at least four enslaved people also lived and worked here in this building: Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba. They are recognized by a plaque that was installed on the building in 2016.
Aside from the various Harvard presidents, this house was also briefly the residence and headquarters of George Washington, who lived here for two weeks after arriving in the summer of 1775 to take command of the Continental Army.

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