What is "longwood"

Longwood is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch, located on Chapel Street in Brookline, Massachusetts just north of Longwood Avenue. It serves the western end of the Longwood Medical Area, the Colleges of the Fenway, and residential areas of Brookline. The station opened with the rest of the line on July 4, 1959. After renovation work completed in 2009, Longwood station is fully handicapped accessible from both Chapel Street and Riverway Park.

Longwood may refer to:

• Longwood, Victoria, Australia

• Battle of Longwoods

• Longwood, Shimla, India

• Longwood, County Meath, Republic of Ireland

• Longwood, West Yorkshire, England
• Longwood, Saint Helena

(by state)

• Longwood, Florida
  • Longwood Historic District (Longwood, Florida), listed on the NRHP in Florida
• Longwood (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
• Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts
• Longwood Historic District (Brookline, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
• Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
• Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi), octagonal antebellum mansion, a U.S. National Historic Landmark
• Longwood, Bronx, New York
• Longwood Central School District on Long Island, New York
• The Longwood Estate, part of Manor St. George in Ridge, New York
  • Longwood Historic District (Bronx, New York), listed on the NRHP
• Longwood (Milton, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
• Longwood Gardens District, Hamorton, PA, listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania
• Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
• Longwood (Earlysville, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Virginia
• Longwood (Gordonsville, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Virginia
• Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia
  • Longwood Lancers, the school's athletics program
  • Longwood House (Farmville, Virginia), a historic home listed on the NRHP in Virginia, and namesake of the university
• Longwood, Wisconsin, a town
  • Longwood (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is an historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. The mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark. Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the United States.

The mansion is known for its octagonal plan, byzantine onion-shaped dome, and the contrast between its ornately-finished first floor and the unfinished upper floors.

Samuel Sloan, a Philadelphia architect, designed the home in 1859 for cotton planter Dr. Haller Nutt. Work was halted in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War. Dr. Nutt died of pneumonia in 1864, leaving the work incomplete. Of the thirty-two rooms planned for the house, only nine rooms on the basement floor were completed.

Haller Nutt's never-finished Natchez home, Longwood, was the last burst of southern opulence before war brought the cotton barons' dominance to an end. Longwood survived decades of neglect and near-abandonment to become one of Natchez' most popular attractions.

Longwood is owned and operated as a historic house museum by the Pilgrimage Garden Club; it is also available for rent.

Longwood (c. 1785) is a house located at 10417 River Road in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Directly across the street is a levee holding back the Mississippi River.

Longwood is a historic home located at Gordonsville, Louisa County, Virginia. It was built about 1859, and is a two-story, three bay, frame dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It features a low-pitched hipped roof and two interior brick chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing historic brick well.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Longwood is a historic home and farm located near Earlysville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built about 1790, with additions between 1810 and 1820, and about 1940. It is a two-story, five-bay frame building with a two-story store/post office addition and a small one-story, two bay, gable-roofed frame wing. It has Federal and Colonial Revival design elements. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn (c. 1890), a frame schoolhouse for African American students [c. 1900), a late-19th-century stone well, and the 19th-century cemetery of the Michie family.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Located Glenwood in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Longwood Plantation.

The Longwood plantation was started around 1780 for Gustavius Warfield. Warfield would keep patients in a loft above his office if they were unfit to travel. It feature numerous outbuildings and a smokehouse and a gravesite for family and slaves. The manor is built on a land grant named Ridgley's great park, on a section he inherited from his father's Bushy Park estate. The graveyard for slaves is situated to the south of the building. In 1860, Robert E. Lee visited Longwood before the war to visit his wife's first cousin George Washington Parke Custis Peter. He returned to visit in July 1870 after the war.

Longwood is a historic plantation house located near Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1810, and is a two-story, four bay by one bay Federal style frame block. It has a two bay wide and one bay deep Greek Revival style addition forming an overall "L"-shaped dwelling. The interior features woodwork attributed to noted African-American cabinetmaker Thomas Day. Also on the property are the frame kitchen, log corn crib, log tenant house, and log tobacco barn. It is believed to have been the home of U.S. Congressman Romulus Mitchell Saunders early in his career.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.