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.)
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."