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Orchard House. Immortalized by Louisa May Alcott in the beloved 1868 classic, Little Women, Orchard House provides heartwarming accounts of the talented Alcott family’s legacy through lively guided tours, unique educational programs, and special living history events year-round.
Orchard House (c. 1650) is most noted for being where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women in 1868. This noble home also has a rich history stretching back two centuries beforehand, as well as more than 100 years of life as a treasured historic site open to the public.
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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 (1799–1888) and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), who wrote and set her novel Little Women (1868–69) there.
Apr 19, 2016 · Located in Concord, Massachusetts (within an hour of Boston) the house opened its doors to the public in 1911, some twenty-three years after the deaths of Louisa May and her father, the noted philosopher and educator Amos Bronson Alcott. The interior rooms of Orchard House can be seen via a docent-led tour lasting about an hour.
Louisa May Alcott nicknamed her dilapidated family home in Concord, Mass., “Apple Slump,” after a fruit dessert with dough that slumps onto the plate. But the house was – and still is – known as “Orchard House.” She probably called the house Apple Slump because it sagged so badly. Or maybe because of the old apple orchard on the ...
Experience Orchard House virtually with a 15-minute video living history tour with "Louisa May Alcott" herself plus a 20-minute up-close-and-personal video presentation of our rooms and selected artifacts
