The Emerson House is dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, leading Transcendentalist, prominent American thinker and Concord’s most famous son.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson House is still owned by the Emerson family and is open to visitors as a museum dedicated to the life and work of one of America’s most influential thinkers and writers of the 19th century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Concord in 1803, his Grandfather the Rev William Emerson, lived at the Old Manse in the town and fought the British Red Coats at the Battle of Concord & Lexington in 1775. Emerson was an author, essayist, philosopher and poet. In his 1836 essay Nature, Emerson outlined the new ideas of religion, literature and philosophy that made up Transcendentalism.
The Emerson House is a National Historic Landmark and Ralph Waldo Emerson lived here between 1835 and 1882. From here Emerson wrote Self-Reliance and The American Scholar and entertained fellow Transcendentalists such as Henry Thoreau, Nathanial Hawthorne and Amos Bronson and Louisa May Alcott. The house remains very much as when Emerson lived in it, with original furnishings and Emerson Memorabilia, while Emerson’s study can be found in the Concord Museum opposite.
Location:
28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA.
Opening times:
April 19 – Oct 2: Thur-Sat: 10am-4.30pm, Sun: 1pm-4.30pm
Admission fees:
Adults: $7
Concessions: $5
Children under 7: Free
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