Anne Longfellow Pierce, Portland, ca. 1890
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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
In need of a permanent home, Maine Historical Society found a major benefactor in Anne Longfellow Pierce, Henry W. Longfellow’s sister.
On her death in 1901, Anne bequeathed the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and its adjoining property to the Society to provide a long-needed headquarters.
Later that summer the Wadsworth-Longfellow House opened to the public as a memorial to both General Peleg Wadsworth and the poet.
The site of the family’s old barn provided space for the Society’s new library, designed in the Colonial Revival style by Alexander W. Longfellow Jr. It was dedicated in 1907.
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