Ralph Waldo Emerson House
- Address: 28 Cambridge Tpke
- Vicinity: Lexington Rd
| 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. |
| Particulars for Ralph Waldo Emerson House: | |
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| Sight Category | Building |
| Museum Type | Historical Museum |
| Area of Significance | Literature |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Criteria | Person |
| Historic Use | Secondary structure |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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