Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Home

The Wadsworth-Longfellow House was built in 1785–1786 for General Peleg Wadsworth and Elizabeth Bartlett, maternal grandparents of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Henry’s younger sister Anne Longfellow Pierce was the last person to live in the house. Widowed at an early age, Mrs. Pierce lived in the home until her death in 1901. Desiring to preserve it as a memorial to her famous brother and their family, she bequeathed the house and property to Maine Historical Society.

(Maine Historical Society | Wadsworth-Longfellow House. www.mainehistory.org/plan-your-visit/wadsworth-longfellow-house.)