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Ralph Waldo Emerson House - Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson's house is located on Cambridge Turnpike in Concord, Massachusetts. The Transcendental author and lecturer purchsed this home and two acres of land in 1835. It was here, at the house called Bush, that he moved with his new bride Lidian Jackson after their marriage on September 14, 1835. During his time here Emerson published Nature in 1836 and Self Reliance in 1841. He passed away in the house on April 27, 1882. Lidian passed away November 13, 1892. Emerson's family occupied the house until 1930 when it was turned into a museum. The house has been placed on the National Register Of Historic Places and been declared a National Historic Monument.
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