Please call
the House Director for rates and scheduling:
(978) 369-2236 or email Marie.Gordinier@comcast.net
(We regret that the Emerson House is not accessible to wheelchairs.)
Welcome to the House of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord, MA
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), perhaps America’s best known thinker, led a renaissance in American ideas in the 19th Century: a search to realize the high potential of the individual person, to understand the proper role of the individual in society, and to discover and celebrate the interrelation and sacredness of all life. He was both a pragmatist and an idealist, a prolific writer and a poet.
Emerson lived most of his adult life at his home in Concord, MA. From there he wrote his well known essays, such as Self-Reliance and The American Scholar; cultivated friendships with Bronson Alcott, Henry Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and others; and traveled throughout the United States and Europe to give lectures on moral character, spiritual insight, education, political power and reform, the arts and sciences, and the social order. In his later years, he advocated passionately for the abolition of slavery.
