Massachusetts
Middlesex
Town of Concord

Orchard House

Orchard House is a historic house museum in , United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912. It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott, who wrote and set her novel Little Women there.
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  • Opening hours: Monday—Saturday 10:00 AM—4:30 PM and Sunday 11:00 AM—4:30 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: house in Concord, Massachusetts, US
  • Also known as: “Orchard House Museum”
  • Address: 399 Lexington Road, Concord, MA 01742

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Concord School of Philosophy and The Wayside.

Museum
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The was a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and discussions of philosophy in , from 1879 to 1888.

Residential building
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is a historic house in . The earliest part of the home may date to 1717. Later it successively became the home of the young Louisa May Alcott and her family, who named it Hillside, author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family, and children's writer Margaret Sidney. is situated 550 feet east of Orchard House.

Museum
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The is a house museum located at 18 Cambridge Turnpike, , and a National Historic Landmark for its associations with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. is situated 2,300 feet west of Orchard House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Concord and Lincoln.

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Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy population 18,000, but your life has certainly been impacted by it. This is where "the shot heard round the world" was fired in the spring of 1775, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the creation of the United States.

Village
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Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy Concord population 18,000, but your life has certainly been impacted by it. This is where "the shot heard round the world" was fired in the spring of 1775, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the creation of the United States. is situated 3 miles southeast of Orchard House.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of in , , United States. The population was 6,320 at the 2020 census. is situated 3 miles west of Orchard House.

Orchard House

Latitude
42.45909° or 42° 27′ 33″ north
Longitude
-71.33508° or 71° 20′ 6″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Operator
Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Inc.
Open location code
87JCFM57+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 212582895
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4946394
Wiki­data ID
Q7100190
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In Other Languages

From French to Uzbek—“Orchard House” goes by many names.
  • French: “Orchard House”
  • German: “Orchard House”
  • Japanese: “オーチャード・ハウス”
  • Uzbek: “Bog‘ uyi”
  • Uzbek: “Bogʻ uyi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Orchard House”. Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.