Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it & wrote some "Mosses from" it
The Old Manse, meaning "minister's home" when Mosses from an Old... [DOC] [TLE] The Old Manse--Massachusetts Conservation: A Discover Our ... [PAR] Emerson wrote the first draft of his famous essay in the upstairs study, with its 
windows ... Another famous resident, Nathaniel Hawthorne, rented the house 
from ... Because Ralph Waldo Emerson penned the first draft of his 
groundbreaking ... in his preface to Mosses from an Old Manse, which lovingly 
details the pastoral... [DOC] [TLE] Mass Moments: Hawthorne and Melville Meet for the First Time [PAR] Wayside, owned by the National Park Service, is open seasonally.