"'Tis a pretty retreat", Bronson Alcott wrote soon after moving in, "and ours a family mansion to take pride in, rescued as it is from deformity and disgrace".Ī. Consequently, the Alcotts named it Orchard House.
At the time of purchase the site included two early eighteenth-century houses on a 12-acre (49,000m 2) apple orchard. They moved into Orchard House, which was then two-story clapboard farmhouse, in the spring of 1858. The Alcotts returned to Concord once again in 1857. The family returned in 1845 and purchased a house named "Hillside", but left again in 1852, selling to Nathaniel Hawthorne who renamed it The Wayside. The Alcotts had first moved to Concord in 1840, although they left in 1843 to start Fruitlands, a utopian agrarian commune in nearby Harvard.
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