Old Manse

The paterfamilias of literary Concord, Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the great literary figures of his age and the founding thinker of the transcendentalist movement. Waldo, as he was known, lived in Concord for nearly 50 years – first in his grandparents' house, , and then in his own house, now the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial House . Both homes are now museums, containing many mementos of the Emerson family.