Ralph Waldo Emerson House

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial House is a National Historic Register Landmark, which remains much as it was during Ralph Waldo Emerson's lifetime. Emerson moved into the house with his wife Lidian in 1835. Together, they made it their family home for the rest of their lives. It was here that Emerson gathered a community of individualistic thinkers, writers, and artists, himself becoming a cultural leader of the literary "American Renaissance" and philosophic Transcendentalist movement. Close family friend Henry David Thoreau was a sometime resident and frequent visitor in the Emerson home, as was Emerson's friend Margaret Fuller. In his study Emerson wrote his well known essays, such as "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar.