Ralph Waldo Emerson House — Attraction in Concord

I went here as a field trip with my school and was treated extremely unpleasantly. We entered to a short, dark-haired woman shoving us to the right hallway. When we said “hi” or “thank you” to her, she said “this way.” Very rude. Then, when we got into Emerson’s writing room, we met our tour guide, who did not tell us her name. She spoke boringly, as my group was bored the entire time, and not to mention, she told us we could NOT ask questions, which suprised the group. We got to the second room to which my classmate was HOLDING her phone, our tour guide stopped everything she was doing and rudely told her to put it away, when all she was doing was holding it. The boring tour continued, and as we were about to leave, we were on the staircase landing all talking with eachother when she RUDELY says that she has 5 minutes left and asks if we are ready to listen. Then she continued to explain the photo of Abe Lincoln on the wall as if we don’t know who he is. This woman had a grey bob-cut, was wearing floral pants and brown shoes. She was extremely unpleasant and ruined my experience here. As we exited, the other half of my class exclaimed how good the tour was, when my group and I were left bored...

I can't comment on the house itself because we never got to take a tour. When we tried to enter the house a very rude staff member told us to get out. Apparently the house was closed for a private event, but there was no information about this on their website or social media accounts; there was also no information posted anywhere on the property or front door. Although we would have loved to tour this house, we don't plan to go back. If you visit, I hope for your sake that they will have worked on their signage and customer...

This is an amazingly well preserved house. Been to a few of these types of houses over the years and they have a few items associated with their person or family living there and then some period pieces. This house was filled with stuff owned by Emerson and many rooms are as they were.

The docents were very informative and friendly. If you are into Emerson or even Thoreau it is well worth the stop. If not, maybe not as it is presumed that you are familiar with his works. Not really sure why, but pictures are...