Contributed by NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Description
Anne Longfellow Pierce added running water to her house on Congress Street in Portland in 1894.
She had a single cold-water faucet for the kitchen sink.
Pierce, the sister of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, declined to update the family homestead, built by her grandfather in 1785-1786. When Pierce died, she left the house to the Maine Historical Society as a memorial to her brother.
About This Item
- Title: Kitchen, Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1901
- Creation Date: circa 1901
- Subject Date: circa 1901
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: 3007-3-1-10-48 LFP-B28-item48
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)--Interiors--Photographs
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Pierce, Anne Longfellow, 1810-1901--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
- Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Maine Historical Society (Portland, Me.)
- Kitchens
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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-4491
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