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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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Back Hall, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1902....
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in one of two houses for...
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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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The historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House is open to the public from June–October for guided tours and self-paced visits. House tickets include admission to the exhibition gallery.
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.
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
MMN Item 18352. Wadsworth House, Portland, 1786. In 1784 Adjutant General Peleg Wadsworth purchased a lot of roughly one-and-one-half acres in Portland. Narrow but deep, it ran from Back Street (now Congress) north one-half mile to Back Cove. His two-story wood-frame store and barn were the first structures to be built, before he turned his ...
On the evening of January 1, 1804, Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth were married in the parlor of the house where Zilpah grew up. They moved into their own home, but moved back into the Wadsworth house in 1807 when Zilpah's parents moved to Hiram. This was the family home until 1901.
