Longfellow, A. W. (Alexander Wadsworth), 1854-1934

Architect, of Portland, Me.; b. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.; son of A.W. Longfellow (1814-1901) and nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

From the description of A.W. Longfellow scrapbook, ca. 1890-1915. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 226720896

Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr., a U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Anne Longfellow Pierce. After graduating from Harvard University in 1876, he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1886, he and others founded the firm of Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, with offices in Boston and Pittsburgh. Alexander Longfellow later moved to Boston, where he worked in association with his brother, William Pitt Preble Longfellow. He was one of the founders of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, active in the Marine Museum of the Bostonian Society, and a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Athenæum. Anne Pierce Longfellow bequeathed the Wadsworth-Longfellow House to the Maine Historical Society upon her death in 1901. Her bequest specified the building of a library to to house the collections of the Maine Historical Society. The Research Library is located next to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, Me.

From the description of Floor plans of the Maine Historical Society library, Portland, Maine, ca. 1901-1907. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 726278988