Orchard House
National Historic Landmark · Concord, Massachusetts
The brown clapboard house in Concord where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868 and where she set it — she worked at a half-moon shelf desk her father built for her between two windows in her own bedroom, and that desk is still against that wall. The Alcotts lived here from 1858 to 1877 and roughly four fifths of the furnishings are the family's own, which is an extraordinary survival. Her sister May's drawings are still on her bedroom walls, where she was allowed to draw.
399 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts, 01742, United States
Open year round with reduced winter hours and a January closure in most years. THE HOUSE IS SEEN ONLY ON TIMED GUIDED TOURS in small groups — BOOK ONLINE IN ADVANCE, as they sell out days ahead in summer. NO PHOTOGRAPHY INSIDE, enforced. FREE but very limited parking on site and on Lexington Road.