Orchard House | |
Location | 399 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 42°27′32″N 71°20′06″W / 42.4589°N 71.3351°W |
Built | c. 1700–1710[2] |
NRHP reference No. | 66000781[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
Designated NHL | December 29, 1962 |
Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912.[3] It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), who wrote and set her novel Little Women (1868–69) there.
The four daughters—Anna (the oldest), Louisa (one year younger), Elizabeth (three years younger than Louisa), and Abigail (the youngest, five years younger than Elizabeth)—lived in Orchard House from 1858 to 1877.