Maine Memory Network

Alice Longfellow, age 9, ca. 1860

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: circa 1860 Location: Boston; Cambridge Media: Photographic print

Charles Appleton Longfellow in formal Japanese attire, 1872

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: circa 1872 Media: Albumen print

180 Longfellow Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Caroline R. Shurtleff Use: Dwelling - Single family

37 Longfellow Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Charles Sumner Cook Use: Dwelling - Single family

Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

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. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… of the children of Stephen and Mariana Longfellow, nieces and nephews of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"A daguerreotype of each of these portraits was made for family members. Stephen’s daguerreotype copy is part of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House…"

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.