Thoreau–Alcott House

Thoreau–Alcott House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
42°27′30″N 71°21′30″W / 42.45833°N 71.35833°W / 42.45833; -71.35833
Built	1849
Architect	Josiah Davis
NRHP reference No.	76000247[1]
Added to NRHP	July 12, 1976

The Thoreau–Alcott House is a historic house at 255 Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts, United States that was home to the writers Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott at different times.

Description and history

The house was built in 1849 by Josiah Davis and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 12, 1976.^[1]

Henry David Thoreau moved to this home in 1850 with his family; he stayed until his death on May 6, 1862.^[2] After the death of her mother Abby May, Louisa May Alcott purchased the home for her recently widowed sister Anna Alcott Pratt. Louisa also moved to the house, along with her father Amos Bronson Alcott. It was in this home that Louisa wrote her novel Jo's Boys (1886), a sequel to Little Women (1868).^{[citation needed]}

Today, the home remains privately owned.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Concord, Massachusetts

References

External links

Media related to Thoreau-Alcott House at Wikimedia Commons

• Thoreau–Alcott House Story, from Concord Free Public Library

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Henry David Thoreau

Books

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
• Walden (1854)

Speeches

• Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)

Essays

• "The Service" (1840)
• "A Walk to Wachusett" (1842)
• "Paradise (to be) Regained" (1843)
• "Sir Walter Raleigh" (1844)
• "Herald of Freedom" (1844)
• "Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum" (1845)
• "Reform and the Reformers" (1846–1848)
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
• Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) (1849)
• Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
• The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
• "Walking" (1861)
• "Life Without Principle" (1863)
• Excursions anthology (1863)

Related

• Thoreau Society
• The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
• Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse (birthplace)
• Thoreau–Alcott House
• Concord Museum
• Walden Pond
• Walden Woods Project
• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1969 play)
• Thoreau: A Sublime Life (2012 comic book)