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Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

1/1/2006 - 6/30/2007

Funding Totals

$5,000.00 (approved)
$5,000.00 (awarded)

Environmental Study of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House

FAIN: PA-51782-06

Maine Historical Society (Portland, ME 04101-3498)
John W. Mayer (Project Director: May 2005 to October 2007)

Consultation and the purchase of equipment to establish an environmental monitoring program for the 1786 Wadsworth-Longfellow House, a National Historic Landmark and the boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Longfellow collection of furnishings and personal artifacts document 116 years of family life, with 97 percent of the collections on view being original to the house.