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Northshore October 2025
The oldest part of Concord’s famed Thoreau-Alcott House was built in 1820 by Josiah Davis, a prominent Concord builder. According to the National Register of Historic Places description, dated 1976, this original section consisted of an “almost square two-story clapboard structure, with two inside chimneys and four rooms on each floor. Each of the eight rooms had a fireplace.” When the Thoreaus acquired the property in 1849, John Thoreau and his son, Henry David, 32 at the time, renovated and refurbished the structure. (The success of their pencil-making business allowed John to afford this grand home.) Their improvements included si
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