This is a guide through the houses/museums of some of the Literary Luminaries of Massachusetts. Consider: The Norman Rockwell Museum; Emily Dickinson’s home; Edith Wharton’s The Mount; the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson’s residence, and the edifice which inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The House of Seven Gables.

Norman Rockwell Museum – Stockbridge, MA

Emily Dickinson Homestead – Amherst, MA

The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Home – Lenox, MA

“Thoreau Farm” Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau – Concord, MA

Louisa May Alcott’s “Orchard House” – Concord, MA

Ralph Waldo Emerson House and Walden Pond – Concord, MA

Hawthorne and The House of Seven Gables – Salem, MA