Item 25621 - Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1890
- Item 25621 - Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1890
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- Item 25621
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Image Info The Wadsworth-Longfellow House, the smaller brick building at right, was the first brick house in Portland.
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Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829) had it built in 1786 with bricks from Philadelphia. It also was the childhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and later became the first historic house museum in Maine.
