| Old Manse | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | Concord, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1769 |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Architectural style(s): | No Style Listed |
| Designated as NHL: | December 29, 1962 |
| Added to NRHP: | October 15, 1966 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 66000775[1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
The Old Manse is an historic house famous for its American literary associations. Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. House generally refers to a Shelter or Building that is a Dwelling or place for Habitation by Human beings. It is located beside the North Bridge over the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts, and now owned and operated as a nonprofit museum by the Trustees of Reservations. For the river in Maine, see Concord River (Maine The Concord River is a tributary of the Merrimack River in eastern Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States.
History
The Old Manse was built in 1770 by Rev. William Emerson, father of noted minister Rev. William Emerson and grandfather of famous transcendentalist writer and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Rev William Emerson ( May 6 1769 - May 12 1811) was one of Boston 's leading citizens a liberal-minded Unitarian Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in Literature, Religion, Culture, and Philosophy that emerged in New England in the Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25 1803 &ndash April 27 1882 was an American essayist philosopher poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century The builder was the town minister in Concord, chaplain to the Provincial Congress when it met at Concord in October 1774 and later a chaplain to the Continental Army. The American Continental Army was an Army formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America Rev. Emerson observed the fight at the North Bridge, a part of the Concord Fight, from his farm fields while his wife and children witnessed the fight from the upstairs windows of their house. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Rev. Emerson died in October 1775 in West Rutland, Vermont, while returning home from Fort Ticonderoga. Fort Ticonderoga is a large Eighteenth-century Fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access His widow remarried, to the Rev. Ezra Ripley, and the family continued to live in the Old Manse. Rev. Ripley served as Concord's town minister for 63 years.
In 1842, the famous American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the Old Manse. Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4 1804 – May 19 1864 was an American novelist and Short story writer He and his new bride, transcendentalist Sophia Peabody, moved in as newlyweds. Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne ( September 21, 1809 &ndash February 26, 1871) was a painter and Illustrator as well Friend Henry David Thoreau created a vegetable garden for the couple. [2] The Hawthornes lived in the house for three years. In the upstairs room that Hawthorne used as his study, one can still view affectionate sentiments that the two etched into the window panes. The inscription reads:
Man's accidents are God's purposes. Sophia A. Hawthorne 1843
Nath Hawthorne This is his study
The smallest twig leans clear against the sky
Composed by my wife and written with her diamond
Inscribed by my husband at sunset, April 3 1843. In the Gold light.
SAH[3]
Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) contains his description of the house as well as a number of short stories he wrote while living there. Mosses from an Old Manse was a Short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846 [4]
The house remained in use by the Emerson-Ripley family until 1939, and was donated to the Trustees of Reservations in 1945. The house was donated complete with all its furnishings, and contains a remarkable collection of furniture, books, kitchen implements, dishware, and other items, as well as original wallpaper, woodwork, windows and architectural features.
The Old Manse was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and a Massachusetts Archaeological/Historic Landmark the same year. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the
Notes and citations
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor
- ^ The Old Manse. The Trustees of Reservations. Retrieved on 28 April 2008.
- ^ Cheevers, Susan (2006). American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work. Detroit: Thorndike Press. Large print edition. p. 174. ISBN 078629521X
- ^ A 1950 photo at the following webpage clearly illustrates Hawthorne's description of the front of the house: "Between two tall gateposts of roughhewn stone . . . we behold the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black ash trees. "
Ryan, D. Michael (May 2001). Emerson, the Bridge and the British. The Concord Magazine: The Ezine for and about Concord, Massachusetts. Retrieved on 28 April 2008.
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