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Historical Items

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Item 79440

Birthplace of Longfellow, Portland, ca. 1909

Contributed by: Greater Portland Landmarks Date: circa 1909 Location: Portland Media: Postcard

Item 78419

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Greater Portland Landmarks Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 4122

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace, Portland, 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807 Location: Portland Media: Pencil on paper

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151493

Longfellow's Birthplace on corner of Fore and Hancock, Portland, 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950-04-26 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Online Exhibits

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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"Some of their names, ages, and birthplaces are known from census records and other documents: Rebecca Ridlon, kitchen maid, worked in the house from…"

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A City Awakes: Arts and Artisans of Early 19th Century Portland

Portland's growth from 1786 to 1860 spawned a unique social and cultural environment and fostered artistic opportunity and creative expression in a broad range of the arts, which flowered with the increasing wealth and opportunity in the city.