Contributed by Longfellow Garden Club
Description
The Children's Gate enclosed the garden behind the Wadsworth-Longfellow house and the Maine Historical Society building that is behind it on Congress Street in Portland.
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. designed the Maine Historical Society building and the gate, which were built in 1907. His aunt Anne Longfellow Pierce donated the house to Maine Historical Society when she died in 1901.
The hand-painted lantern slide is part of a collection the Longfellow Garden Club, which restored and maintains the garden behind the house, used in talks.
About This Item
- Title: Children's Gate, Portland, ca. 1935
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Lantern slide
- Local Code: Coll. 1936, Box 21 #54
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
- Longfellow Garden Club
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)
- Longfellow Garden (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Gates
- Children's Gate (Longfellow Garden, Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Historic Gardens--Maine--Portland
For more information about this item, contact:
Longfellow Garden Clubc/o Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 433-0427
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. No Permission is required to use the low-resolution watermarked image for educational use, or as allowed by the applicable copyright. For all other uses, permission is required.
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