Keywords: Birthplace of Longfellow
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 111665
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
Exhibit
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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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.
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"… Longfellow (1839-1874) Henry (Hen) Wadsworth Longfellow was the son of Stephen and Marianne Longfellow."
