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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1828/00/00 A summer house is built for the Coolidge family of Boston. In the early years the Emersons will call their home "Coolidge Castle".
1835/07/00 Ralph Waldo Emerson Home Ralph Waldo Emerson buys a large house with barn on two acres in Concord, praising it to be "the only good cellar that had been built in Concord."
1835/09/15 Lidian Jackson Emerson Home Ralph and Lidian Emerson arrive at their "sylvan" home where they will live together for the next forty-seven years.
1841/04/00 Henry David Thoreau Home Ralph W Emerson invites Henry D Thoreau to "live with me and work with me in the garden and teach me to graft apples."
1841/11/22 Edith Emerson Forbes Born Lidian Jackson Emerson, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson, gives birth to a daughter, Edith Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts.
1879/04/00 Daniel Chester French Sculptor In Spring, Daniel C French makes a bust (now in the Concord Free Library) of Ralph Waldo Emerson from sitting's at Emerson's house in Concord. French will make the statue much younger with the aid of daguerreotypes.
1882/04/27 Ralph Waldo Emerson Died Suffering from pneumonia, Ralph Waldo Emerson dies at home in Concord, Massachusetts.
1892/11/13 Lidian Jackson Emerson Died Lidian Jackson Emerson dies at age 90 in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Particulars for Ralph Waldo Emerson House:
Sight Category Building
Museum Type Historical Museum
Area of Significance Literature
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 66000365
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Literature
Applicable Criteria: Person
Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Significant Year: c 1828, 1835, 1882
Associated People: Emerson,Ralph Waldo
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Secondary structure
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Secondary structure

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