Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

The Wadsworth Longfellow House, Portland, Maine

2 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Wadsworth Longfellow House, Portland, Maine

WHERE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SPENT HIS BOYHOOD The old house by the linden Stood silent in the shade, And on the gravelled pathway The…

The Wadsworth Longfellow House, Portland, Maine: Henry

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote these lines perhaps he was thinking of the home of his boyhood in Portland, which his grandfather…

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