Peleg wadsworth biography for kids

Wadsworth-Longfellow House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
The entrance to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House
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Location	Congress St Portland, Maine
Architect	Peleg Wadsworth
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Quick facts for kids Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15,
Designated NHL	December 29,

The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is a historic house and museum in Portland, Maine, United States.

It is located at  Congress Street and is operated by the Maine Historical Society.

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It was designated a National Historic Landmark in , and administratively added to the National Register of Historic Places in The house is open daily to public from May through October (half days on Sundays). An admission fee is charged.

History

The house has both historical and literary importance, as it is both the oldest standing structure on the Portland peninsula and the childhood home of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (–).

American Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth built the house between and , the first wholly brick dwelling in Portland.

Wadsworth raised ten children in the two-story structure with a pitched roof before retiring to the family farm in Hiram, Maine, in His daughter Zilpah and her husband Stephen Longfellow IV were married in the house. Their son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born nearby at the home of an aunt, Stephen's sister, on February 27, The home was a three-story Federal architecture-style home at the corner of Fore and Hancock Streets.

Young Longfellow did not move with his parents to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House until he was eight months old, but spent the next 35 years there.

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The Longfellows added today's third story in

On September 10, , the eve of the September 11 attacks, two of the soon-to-be hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari, visited the Wadsworth-Longfellow House in the afternoon.

Preservation

Anne Longfellow Pierce (–) was the last family member to live in the house.

She deliberately kept the house much as it was in Peleg Wadsworth's time, but is perhaps best remembered for growing oranges in the window. Her will stipulated that the house, lot, and many furnishings be given to the Maine Historical Society upon her death.

Pierce died in and the Maine Historical Society opened the home to the public within a year.

At the time, only one other American author's home was owned by an organization committed to its preservation, specifically the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Longfellow Garden

Pearl Wing started the Longfellow Garden Club in to establish the Longfellow Garden located alongside the Wadsworth-Longfellow House.

The Longfellow Garden Club engaged landscape architect Myron Lamb to design the Colonial Revival style Longfellow Garden located in what was once part of the Longfellow family farmyard. The garden was replanted in after renovations to Maine Historical Library. A lilac tree mentioned by Anne Longfellow is located in the back corner alongside the library.

A Children's Gate designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was installed in the s.

The gate was removed in the s and restored in

The Longfellow Garden is open to the public at no charge Monday–Saturday from May–October from 10 AM to 5 PM.

See also