The Historic Henderson House
519 Washington Street, Cumberland Maryland
A House on a Famously Interesting Street
The Henderson House sits midway up one of Cumberland's most photographed blocks — a canopy of arching trees, brick sidewalks without fences, and a row of grand turn-of-the-century homes that earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Designed in the Colonial Revival style by architect Herman Schneider just after 1900, the house is exactly what its era was built to be: symmetrical, generous, dignified, and made to host.
In the summer of 1898, a Princeton professor named Woodrow Wilson, fifteen years before he would become the 28th President of the United States wrote a letter to his friend Robert Randolph Henderson in Cumberland, Maryland. Henderson had invited him for a visit. Wilson, who confessed himself “tied up with other people, over whom I have no control, in the matter of my summer plans,” nevertheless replied:
“How jolly it will be, and how heartily I am obliged to you for the invitation! It will be the finest kind of rejuvenating preparation for the winter's work.”
— Woodrow Wilson to Robert Randolph Henderson, July 16, 1898
A hundred and twenty-eight years later, that is still the best description of what 519 Washington Street, Cumberland Maryland offers.
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