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The Red Cross Sits on a Wealth of Western New York History.

By Lisa Littlewood

I’m a sucker for old houses. I’m not sure that I would want to live in one—the upkeep, the draftiness, the ghost stories— but I love a good house tour.

     Perhaps that is what drew me to Massachusetts for almost ten years—the history, the architecture, the old houses. Houses that belonged to notable historical figures such as Paul Revere, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and for a time, on my running route, I used to jog right by the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow house, also known as General George Washington’s headquarters for his wartime use of the house. READ MORE...