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Description
The Gold House is commemorated in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Clock on the Stair." Now known as the Plunkett mansion in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, it was the homestead of Fannie Appleton Longfellow's maternal grandfather. The poem was written in 1845.
Fannie Appleton was married to Longfellow.
About This Item
- Title: Gold House, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Pittsfield, MA
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: Photographs--People--Appleton
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Clock on the Stairs (Poem)
- Dwellings--Massachusetts--Pittsfield
- Gold House (Pittsfield, Mass.)--Photographs
- Grandfather clocks
- Longfellow, Frances Appleton--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Pittsfield
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Pittsfield
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