# Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.

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{{Short description|American architect}}
{{Infobox architect
| name = {{nowrap|Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.}}
| image = Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|08|18}}
| birth_place = [Portland, Maine](/source/Portland%2C_Maine), U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1934|02|16|1854|08|18}}
| death_place = Portland, Maine, U.S.
| education = {{plainlist|
* [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University)
* [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology)
* [Beaux-Arts de Paris](/source/Beaux-Arts_de_Paris)
}}
| relatives = [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](/source/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow) (uncle)<br>[Mary King Longfellow](/source/Mary_King_Longfellow) (sister)
| practice = [Longfellow, Alden & Harlow](/source/Longfellow%2C_Alden_%26_Harlow)
}}

'''Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.''' (August 18, 1854 &ndash; February 16, 1934) was an American [architect](/source/architect) and nephew of poet [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](/source/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow).

==Biography==
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. was born in 1854, in [Portland, Maine](/source/Portland%2C_Maine). He was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Sr. (1814–1901), a [United States Coast Survey](/source/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey) [topographer](/source/topographer), and the former Elizabeth Clapp Porter. <!--the two were married in 1851--> After graduating from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1876, he studied [architecture](/source/architecture) at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) and the [École des Beaux-Arts](/source/%C3%89cole_des_Beaux-Arts) in [Paris](/source/Paris), and then worked as senior [draftsman](/source/draftsman) in [Henry Hobson Richardson](/source/Henry_Hobson_Richardson)'s office.

==Career==
After Richardson's death in 1886, Longfellow teamed up with [Frank Ellis Alden](/source/Frank_Ellis_Alden) and [Alfred Branch Harlow](/source/Alfred_Branch_Harlow) to found the firm of [Longfellow, Alden & Harlow](/source/Longfellow%2C_Alden_%26_Harlow), with offices in [Boston](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts) and [Pittsburgh](/source/Pittsburgh%2C_Pennsylvania). The firm designed the [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh](/source/Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh) and the [City Hall](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts_City_Hall) in [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts). They also designed the [Arnold Arboretum](/source/Arnold_Arboretum) headquarters, the Hunnewell Building, in 1892, which was constructed with funds donated by philanthropist-horticulturalist [Horatio Hollis Hunnewell](/source/%3Aen%3AHoratio_Hollis_Hunnewell) in 1903.

Longfellow later moved to Boston, where he worked in association with his cousin,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hwlongfellow.org/pdf/Stephen_familygroup.pdf |title=Family listing |website=www.hwlongfellow.org }}</ref> William Pitt Preble Longfellow. He designed several structures around Harvard, including the [Brattle Theatre](/source/Brattle_Theatre), the Phillips Brooks House, the [Semitic Museum](/source/Semitic_Museum), the Bertram and Eliot Halls at [Radcliffe College](/source/Radcliffe_College), the [Robert Stow Bradley Jr. Memorial](/source/Robert_Stow_Bradley_Jr._Memorial) fountain, and chemical laboratories.

He also designed the [Washington Street Elevated](/source/Washington_Street_Elevated), the Theodore Parker Church in [West Roxbury](/source/West_Roxbury%2C_Massachusetts), the Merrill Memorial Library in [Yarmouth, Maine](/source/Yarmouth%2C_Maine),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yarmouthlibrary.org/history-mission/|title=Merrill Memorial Library – Yarmouth, Maine » About the Library|website=yarmouthlibrary.org|access-date=2015-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705112011/http://yarmouthlibrary.org/history-mission/|archive-date=2015-07-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [Curtis Memorial Library](/source/Curtis_Memorial_Library_(Brunswick%2C_Maine)) in [Brunswick, Maine](/source/Brunswick%2C_Maine),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.curtislibrary.com/CML/helmreich/index.html|title=A History of the Public Library in Brunswick, Maine|website=community.curtislibrary.com}}</ref> and a [Maine Historical Society](/source/Maine_Historical_Society) library building. He served on the board of directors of the [Dedham Pottery](/source/Dedham_Pottery) company and designed their plant.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dedham Historical Society|title=Images of America: Dedham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRpMDQffkGsC|year=2001|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-0944-0|access-date = August 11, 2019|page=42}}</ref>

Longfellow also designed and built Eliestoun, a large [shingle-style](/source/Shingle_style_architecture) summer home, rare in the midwest. Eliestoun was completed in 1890<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Eliestoun|url=http://www.friendsofeliestoun.org/history-of-eliestoun/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201011601/http://friendsofeliestoun.org/history-of-eliestoun/|archive-date=2015-02-01|access-date=2022-01-13}}</ref> and is on the [Principia College](/source/Principia_College)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Principia College|url=http://www.principiacollege.edu/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027130804/http://www.principiacollege.edu/|archive-date=2009-10-27|access-date=2022-01-13}}</ref> campus in [Elsah, Illinois](/source/Elsah%2C_Illinois).

==Works==
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Image:Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall - Elevation and Floor Plans.jpg|Floor plans for the Cambridge City Hall. Built between 1888 and 1889.
Image:Eliestoun building.jpg|alt=Eliestoun|Eliestoun House was designed by Longfellow. It was completed in 1890 and is on the [Principia College](/source/Principia_College) campus. Photographed in 2014.
Image:Arboretum Headquarters.JPG|The [Arnold Arboretum](/source/Arnold_Arboretum) headquarters, the Hunnewell Building named after [Horatio Hollis Hunnewell](/source/%3Aen%3AHoratio_Hollis_Hunnewell), designed by [Longfellow, Alden & Harlow](/source/Longfellow%2C_Alden_%26_Harlow) in 1892.
Image:Agassiz Road Duck House.jpg|Duck house designed by Longfellow, in Boston's [Back Bay Fens](/source/Back_Bay_Fens). Built in 1897.
</gallery>

==Interests==
Longfellow was one of the founders of [The Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston](/source/The_Society_of_Arts_and_Crafts_of_Boston), active in the [Boston Marine Museum](/source/Boston_Marine_Museum), and a trustee of the [Boston Museum of Fine Arts](/source/Boston_Museum_of_Fine_Arts) and the [Boston Athenæum](/source/Boston_Athen%C3%A6um).<ref>{{cite magazine|title=LONGFELLOW, Alexander Wadsworth|magazine=Who's Who in New England|year=1909|volume= 1|pages=600–601|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA600}}</ref>

==References==
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===Bibliography===
* [Margaret Henderson Floyd](/source/Margaret_Henderson_Floyd), "Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh", [University of Chicago Press](/source/University_of_Chicago_Press) (1994). {{ISBN|0-226-25410-0}}

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061209030120/http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/aldhar.html "Alden & Harlow Collection"], at [Carnegie Mellon University](/source/Carnegie_Mellon_University)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070831043007/http://lnhstest.brinkster.net/Level2/house/Ext-Garden/FamilyArchitects.html "Longfellow Family Architects"], at the [Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site](/source/Longfellow_House%E2%80%93Washington's_Headquarters_National_Historic_Site)
*[http://www.friendsofeliestoun.org/ Friends of Eliestoun] website

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