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1. www.hwlongfellow.org › house_wlh_overviewThe Wadsworth-Longfellow House

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   Today, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House is a three-story, brick structure set in the heart of Portland's downtown. In June 2002 the Maine Historical Society celebrated the centennial of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House as Maine's first house museum. The house is on the National Register of Historic places. Learn more about the history and ...

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   Where did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow live?

   • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in one of two houses for most of his life: the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, Maine, where he grew up; and Craigie House, the 1759 colonial mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived from 1837 until his death in 1882.

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   Where is the Wadsworth-Longfellow House?

   • The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is a historic house and museum in Portland, Maine, United States. It is located at 489 Congress Street and is operated by the Maine Historical Society. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and administratively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

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   Who built Wadsworth Longfellow House?

   • Wadsworth commissioned John Nichols, a Portland brick mason, with the construction, which took two years. Back Hall, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1902. The Wadsworth-Longfellow House was built in the neoclassical style, typical of Anglo-American domestic architecture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

   The Wadsworth-Longfellow House - The House and Grounds

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   Why is the Wadsworth-Longfellow House important?

   • The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is also an important architectural artifact of New England's past. Originally a two-story structure with a pitched roof, it was the first wholly brick dwelling in Portland. raised ten children in the house before retiring to the family farm in Hiram, Maine, in 1807. (Henry's parents) added a third story in 1815.

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   The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is a historic house and museum in Portland, Maine, United States. It is located at 489 Congress Street and is operated by the Maine Historical Society . It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and administratively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

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5. www.hwlongfellow.orgHenry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Maine Historical Society Web Site

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   His Homes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in one of two houses for most of his life: the brick structure in Portland, Maine, where he grew up; and Craigie House, in Cambridge, Mass., where he lived from 1837 until his death in 1882. Take a virtual tour of the Portland home and visit the Craigie House website.

6. www.mainememory.net › exhibits › homeHome: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland ...

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   The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

7. wlhouse.mainememory.netHome: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The ...

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   This site explores the history of the Wadsworth and Longfellow families who, from 1785 to 1901, inhabited the the house Peleg Wadsworth built, and explores the ways the surrounding city evolved. View exhibit: Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland. View exhibit: A Snapshot of Portland, 1924: The Taxman Cometh.