The Old Manse
Both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson spent time living in The Old Manse. Emerson first drafted his 1836 essay Nature in the upstairs study of this house, distinguishing The Old Manse as the birthplace of American Transcendentalism.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson House
Emerson composed Self Reliance and the final draft of Nature in this home at 28 Cambridge Turnpike.
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Orchard House
Orchard House was home to Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women) and her family, including her parents Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott, and two of her sisters, Anna and May. Her sister Elizabeth - on whom Little Women's Beth is based - died shortly before the family moved in. Alcott wrote Little Women while living in this house.
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The Wayside
When the Alcott family lived in this house, they refered to it as "Hillside." Nathaniel Hawthorne later bought the house and called it "Wayside."
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Thoreau's Cabin
Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond is the final stop on this abbreviated tour of the Transcendentalist writers of Concord, MA. The one-room cabin that Thoreau lived in during his time at Walden Pond no longer stands, but literary history buffs can visit both the site of the former cabin along the trails around the pond, as well as a reconstruction of his cabin near the visitor's center & parking lot across the road.
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