Welcome to Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts

 

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Visit the historic home of the extraordinary
 Alcott family, where Louisa May Alcott
 wrote and set Little Women!


An Urgent Message about our

Volunteer Gardens & Grounds Clean-Up

Due to the predicted rainy weather for tomorrow, November 14th,

we are re-scheduling to November 15th instead

We would be most grateful for your help on Sunday,

any time from 8:30am to 4:30pm


28 December 2009

Watch the new Louisa May Alcott Documentary
on your local PBS station

Click here for details

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Starring Elizabeth Marvel; photographs by Liane Brandon


LMA Doc Book

On sale now!

A new biography

Louisa May Alcott:
The Woman Behind Little Women

by Harriet Reisen

Buy the book from Orchard House



Photographs
by Liane Brandon


Uta Pippig

 

5K Walk/10K Run
to Benefit
Orchard House

Uta Pippig
Honorary Chair

2009 10K Results

posted here


Donations

still accepted

Save the Date for the

5th Annual Event!

24 October 2010

Turnquist as Alcott

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Orchard House featured on NBC’s Today Show!
Click here to see the video


John Matteson wins the 2008 Pulitzer Prize

for his biography, Eden's Outcasts:
The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father!

Buy the book from Orchard House

Read more about John Matteson's award here


Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House
399 Lexington Road
PO Box 343
Concord, MA 01742

Phone:  978.369.4118
E-mail:  info@louisamayalcott.org

General Fax:  978.369.1367

Museum Store Fax:  978.369.9611


Jan Turnquist, Executive Director

Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House (circa 1690) is most noted for being home to the talented Alcott family, and is where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her beloved classic novel,

Little Women, in 1868.

Orchard House is one of the oldest, most authentically-preserved historic house museums in America, and brings the Alcott legacy in the fields of literature, art, education, philosophy, and social justice to life every day through highly acclaimed tours, unique living history events, curriculum-based educational programs, and irreplaceable original family furnishings and archives.  Annually, more than 50,000 visitors from all walks of life and every corner of the globe experience Orchard House and discover what it means to be “home.”

Open to the public and overseen by the not-for-profit Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association since 1911, this treasured historic site looks forward to celebrating its Centennial in 2011!


 

Go to Save America's Treasures

Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House - Home of Little Women is an "Official Project" of Save America's Treasures, a public-private partnership between The White House Millennium Council and The National Trust for Historic Preservation dedicated to the preservation of our nation's irreplaceable historic and cultural treasures for future generations

Click here for information about the Catalogue for Philanthropy


Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House is distinguished

as a Catalogue for Philanthropy charity

 

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Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House is funded in part

by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency

 

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Cartography by Suzanne Altshuler Interior Photographs by Heather Wager

All archival photographs © The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association/Orchard House


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