Wadsworth house, Portland, ca. 1868
Item 81568 info
Maine Historical Society
This image is one of the oldest photographs of the house. Elm trees frame the main entrance, while a wooden fence screens the working portion of the yard.
Samuel Bartlett Wadsworth, one of Anne Longfellow Pierce's uncles, inscribed the mat, "The House in which I was Born, Sept. 18, 1791. Erected by my father in 1785, the first brick house built in Portland."
Samuel Wadsworth moved to Eastport in 1818 and opened a ship’s chandlery, S.L. Wadsworth Company, that still operates and claims to be the nation’s oldest chandlery.
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