page_title: Maine Historical Society
hierarchical_section_title: Maine Historical Society
caption_attribution_description: The front entrance to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House in Portland, Maine. Picture was taken with a Canon Power Shot SD450 Digital Elph camera and modified using a Paint Shop program on a laptop computer.
context_page_description: The Maine Historical Society is the official state historical society of Maine. It is located at 489 Congress Street in downtown Portland. The Society currently operates the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, a National Historic Landmark, Longfellow Garden, the Maine Historical Society Museum and Store, the Brown Research Library, as well as the Maine Memory Network, an online database of documents and images that includes resources from many of state's local historical societies.
context_section_description: The Maine Historical Society is the official state historical society of Maine. It is located at 489 Congress Street in downtown Portland.   The Society currently operates the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, a National Historic Landmark, Longfellow Garden, the Maine Historical Society Museum and Store, the Brown Research Library, as well as the Maine Memory Network, an online database of documents and images that includes resources from many of state's local historical societies.
caption: Wadsworth-Longfellow House, ca. 1785
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