Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House: Historic House & Gardens

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• very L.A. ways to spend time with Mom — or not — on Mother’s Day
• Meet the Authors
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• She witnessed the horrors of the Civil War firsthand.
• About Orchard House
• Plan a Visit!
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Bernard when her publisher, Thomas Niles, suggested she write a book for girls. Her first-ever published work, a poem, was published under the pseudonym Flora Fairfield. In 1854, when she was 22, Alcott published a collection of fairy tales worthy of her real name. Not only was the work itself extremely difficult—she was sexually harassed by her employer.

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It is not surprising, then, that he should name his home "Orchard House." Ever wonder what it was like for Louisa May Alcott to unleash the simmering stories in her brain onto paper? Orchard House now offers a unique chance for visitors to encourage the same spirit of creativity and determination Miss Alcott exhibited by spending private time within the evocative atmosphere of her bedchamber.

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Timed-Entry Admission takes less than five minutes to reserve, and all tickets are transferrable to a future date should your plans change. The visit experience lasts approximately 45 minutes, and is currently comprised of a closed-captioned informational video followed by a guided tour. With crooked timbers, cockeyed chimneys and details that range from medieval to mirthful, Storybook Style houses seem less like actual homes than Hollywood sets.

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Architect Richard Neutra's private residence in Silver Lake seemed radical at the time, a glass house with rooftop and balcony gardens. It housed his office and two families on a small 60 x 70-foot lot. Schindler came to California to work for Frank Lloyd Wright and supervise construction of the Hollyhock House. For a fascinating tour through his personal development as an architect, start there, then see his private home listed above, then tour Fitzpatrick-Leland to see the radical changes in his style over just a few-years period. When Alcott died in 1888, Lulu's father brought her to Switzerland. As Alcott predicted in "Lu Sing," Lulu really did live happily ever after, despite a tumultuous childhood.

My book [Flower Fables, December 1854] came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all, since she could do so well as housemaid, teacher, seamstress, and story-teller. LaPlante is a distant cousin of Alcott and a writer of historical biographies. While helping to clean out a family attic, she discovered a trunk full of correspondence and journals that offered a different perspective on the Alcott family. “Marmee and Louisa” became a bestseller in 2014; Laura Dern recently told Vanity Fair that it was a major influence in how she portrayed Marmee in Gerwig’s film. The film, which opened last week to critical raves and robust box office, certainly bears this out.

Although Bronson was eventually to rejoin the family, he fell into a deep depression and stayed in bed for weeks, face to the wall, neither eating nor communicating. At this point, Abigail realized she and the girls would need to count on themselves for survival in the future. Roadtrippers helps you find the most epic destinations and detours—from roadside attractions to natural wonders and beyond. Share and plan trips with friends while discovering millions of places along your route. Bronson spent a year fixing up the house, but he didn’t paint it.

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Complimentary individually-packaged masks in adult and child sizes are available at our Front Desk. Orchard House is only shown by guided tour as the rooms and artifacts take on enhanced significance through your personal interactions with our Staff and other visitors. One of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important works, in a style he called "California Romantic," designed in 1917 and built between 1919 and 1923 for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall. The complex includes the main house, garage, and one other surviving structure. However, Niles would only publish her father's philosophy book if Alcott would write a book, too.

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This Mass. town is home to Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House.

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Orchard House operates on a two-season schedule, with extended hours often offered during Winter months. Despite its oversized fame, it's a modest-sized house, with floor-to-ceiling glass walls and a 300-degree-plus view of the city of Los Angeles. Designed by Pierre Koenig in 1959 from a concept developed by the house's owner Buck Stahl, it's also called Case Study House #22. You can also take a regularly scheduled tour of the Schindler-designed Mackey Apartments which are nearby.

Get our big stories about Hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more right in your inbox as soon as they publish. While Dickinson’s life was a mystery, Alcott’s was a narrative masterpiece played out within the political hotbed of 19th century Concord, Mass., with a supporting cast to make Ken Burns weep. “I had lots of troubles so I wrote jolly stories,” she explained in her later years. At an early screening for “Little Women,” director Greta Gerwig introduced her splendid new film by saying that when she was a child, she idolized the character Jo March, and when she was grown, she idolized Jo’s creator, Louisa May Alcott.

Louisa and her three sisters were brought up as vegetarians because it was moral, healthy and kind to animals. Most of the furnishings and artifacts transport visitors to a time when a poor, hardworking idealist made it rich. Please take a few moments to browse our site for background on the Alcotts and Orchard House and to preview your visit experience.

People lived in it as a home until 1911 when the Concord Woman’s Club bought it as a memorial to Louisa May Alcott. It’s open to visitors every day of the year but January 1-3, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. Notably, the nineteenth-century author Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women here in 1868. Alcott's father Bronson established one of the first adult summer schools in the eastern United States. His Concord School of Philosophy and Literature was held in his home.