Side view of Old Manse near stone wall, Concord, Mass.

Abdalian, Leon H., 1884-1967 · October 13, 1930

The "Old Manse," Monument St. Concord, MA. Ralph Waldo Emerson, grandson of Rev. William Emerson, for whom the Old Manse was built for in 1765, in he home wrote his first great book "Nature" and later Nathaniel Hawthorne enshrined the place forever in "Mosses from an Old Manse."