Item 14950 - Gold House, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1900

Item 14950 - Gold House, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1900
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Item 14950
Gold House, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1900
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The Gold House is commemorated in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Clock on the Stair." Now known as the Plunkett mansion in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, it was the homestead of Fannie Appleton Longfellow's maternal grandfather. The poem was written in 1845.

Fannie Appleton was married to Longfellow.

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