Orchard House
Orchard House is a building in Concord, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
Plan your visit
- Access
- Open to visitors
Source: Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House: https://louisamayalcott.org/faqs · last verified November 1, 2026 - Hours and tours
- Open year-round; November to March: weekdays 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays 1 to 5 p.m.; guided tour only (from the official site, verified November 1, 2026; check before you go)
- Admission
- Admission charged; grounds free
- Location
- Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Official website
- See the official website
- Directions
- Get directions
National Register listing does not mean a place is open to the public. Parking and accessibility are shown only when verified.
About this place
Orchard House is open to visitors and run by Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, according to its official visitor page (verified November 1, 2026). Visiting: Open year-round; November to March: weekdays 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays 1 to 5 p.m.; guided tour only. The National Park Service records its period of significance as 1850 to 1899, with significance in literature.
Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912. 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.
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.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Other listings in Concord
- Concord Armory Building · listed 2007
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, House Building · listed 1966
- Minute Man National Historical Park District · listed 1966
- Old Manse Building · listed 1966
- Pest House Building · listed 1977
- Union Station Building · listed 1989
- Barrett, Col. James, Farm Building · listed 1973
- Brown, Col. Roger, House Building · listed 1983
- Concord Monument Square-Lexington Road Historic District District · listed 1977
- Cuming, Dr. John, House Building · listed 1977
- Damon Mill Building · listed 1979
- Hildreth, Jonathan, House Building · listed 1991
- Hosmer Homestead Building · listed 1999
- Hosmer, Joseph, House Building · listed 1990
- Hubbard-French District District · listed 2000
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