On your immediate right is Wadsworth House, a yellow clapboard house built by the colony of Massachusetts in 1727 for Benjamin Wadsworth, the eighth president of Harvard. Wadsworth House is the second oldest standing building at Harvard. In July 1775 General George Washington arrived in Cambridge to assume command of the Continental Army and briefly used Wadsworth House as his head quarters. The Offices of the University Marshal and the Director of the University Library are now located here.
