Orchard House Museum
Orchard House Museum is a historic site in Town of Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Access is restricted and requires permission. Orchard House Museum is situated nearby to the museum Concord School of Philosophy, as well as near the residential building The Wayside.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Historic site
- Also known as: “Orchard House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Concord School of Philosophy and Orchard House.
Concord School of Philosophy
Museum
The Concord School of Philosophy was a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and discussions of philosophy in Concord, Massachusetts, from 1879 to 1888.
Orchard House
Museum
Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, 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.
The Wayside
Residential building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Wayside is a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts. 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. The Wayside is situated 590 feet east of Orchard House Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Concord and Lincoln.
Concord
Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy Concord Massachusetts 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.
Lincoln
Village
Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy Concord Massachusetts 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. Lincoln is situated 3 miles southeast of Orchard House Museum.
West Concord
Hamlet
West Concord is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Concord in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,320 at the 2020 census. West Concord is situated 3 miles west of Orchard House Museum.
Orchard House Museum
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Town of Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.45912° or 42° 27′ 33″ northLongitude
-71.33525° or 71° 20′ 7″ westElevation
141 feet (43 metres)Open location code
87JCFM57+JWOpenStreetMap ID
way 29883774OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesGeoNames ID
4946395
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