



This house was purchased by writer, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) in 1835. It was where he wrote all of his major works, and was a major meeting point for Transcendentalists, including Bronson Alcott and Henry David Thoreau. It has been a house museum since 1930.[49] Photo: Daderot., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_House_(Concord,_MA).JPG)