![]() ![]() The Alcotts stayed in a house on Bedford Street while repairs were being made. ![]() Consequently, the Alcotts named the property "Orchard House." Initially, Orchard house was too dilapidated for them to move in immediately. At the time of purchase the site included two early eighteenth-century houses on a 12-acre (49,000m 2) apple orchard. They moved into Orchard House-which was then a two-story clapboard farmhouse-in the spring of 1858. The Alcotts returned to Concord once again in 1857. The family returned in 1845 and purchased a house named "Hillside," but left again in 1852, selling to Nathaniel Hawthorne, who renamed it The Wayside. The Alcotts had first moved to Concord in 1840, although they left in 1843 to start Fruitlands, a utopian agrarian commune in nearby Harvard. ![]() The house was first built sometime between 16. ![]() The four daughters- Anna (the oldest), Louisa (one year younger), Elizabeth (three years younger than Louisa), and Abigail (the youngest, five years younger than Elizabeth)-lived in Orchard House from 1858 to 1877. 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. Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912. ![]()
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