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The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is a historic house and museum in Portland, Maine, United States. It is located at 489 Congress Street and is operated by the Maine Historical Society . It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and administratively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument is a public monument in Portland, Maine's West End. Located on the corner of State and Congress Street, it honors poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was born in Portland in 1807. The intersection built around the monument is known as Longfellow Square.
Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, Maine, c. 1910; the house was demolished in 1955.. Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, to Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow in Portland, Maine, [1] then a district of Massachusetts. [2]
159–161 Fore Street (also known as The Stephenson Home) [1] was a residential building in Portland, Maine, United States. The building, which stood at the corner of Fore Street and Hancock Street in the Old Port, was notable as the birthplace of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1807. [2] It was built in 1791, when the city was part of ...
Longfellow Square is a public square in Portland, Maine, United States. Named for the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , it is one of the three main squares on the city's Congress Street — the others being Congress Square and Monument Square , both located a short distance to the northeast.
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War, but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men". After much anguish ...
Sculptural Conception. After the death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1882, there were several plans to memorialize him. His bust was placed at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1884 and a statue of the poet by Franklin Simmons was unveiled in his native town of Portland, Maine, at what became known as Longfellow Square. [4]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow studied at Portland Academy from 1813 to 1821. A fire in 1816 destroyed the school's early records and the 1866 great fire of Portland, Maine burned the school's previous home to the ground. Both fires destroyed the academy's records and thus relatively little is known about the institution overall.