Nathaniel Hawthorne

Concord, MASSACHUSETTS

  • Photo of Corncord River behind the Old Manse. — Concord, Massachusetts
    “For it is certainly the most unexcitable and sluggish stream that ever loitered imperceptibly towards its eternity,--the sea. Positively I had lived three weeks beside it before it grew quite clear to my perception which way the current flowed.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846
  • Photo of The Old Manse. — Concord, Massachusetts
    The Old Manse. — Concord, Massachusetts
  • Photo of words etched in the windowpane of Hawthorne’s study at the Old Manse. — Concord, Massachusetts
    Words etched in the windowpane of Hawthorne’s study at the Old Manse. — Concord, Massachusetts
  • Photo of stuffed owl at the Old Manse — Concord, Massachusetts
    This stuffed owl was in Hawthorne’s possession at the Old Manse, which he once characterized as an “ancient owl’s nest.” — Concord, Massachusetts
  • Photo of the Wayside. — Concord, Massachusetts
    The Wayside. — Concord, Massachusetts
  • Photo of The House of the Seven Gables. — Salem, Massachusetts
    “Half-way down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house with seven acutely-peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The House of the Seven Gables, 1851

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Appendix :: Literary Destinations

Nathaniel Hawthorne

(1804-1864)

The Old Manse
269 Monument St
Concord, MA 01742
Phone: (978) 369-3909
Website: thetrustees.org


The Wayside
455 Lexington Road
Concord, MA
Phone: (978) 318-7863
Websitewww.nps.gov/

The House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street
Salem, Mass 01970
Phone: (978) 744-0991
Website: www.7gables.org

Hancock Shaker Village
1843 West Housatonic St.
Pittsfield MA, 01201
Phone: (413) 443-0188
Website: hancockshakervillage.org


Natural Bridge State Park
McCauley Road, off Rte. 8
North Adams 01247
Phone: (413) 663-6392
Website: www.mass.gov


Nathaniel Hawthorne Cottage
Hawthorne (Mahkeenac) Rd.
Lenox, MA
Websitelenoxhistory.org

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