Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse

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Wheeler--Minot Farmhouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse

Location	Concord, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°28′10″N 71°18′41″W / 42.46944°N 71.31139°W / 42.46944; -71.31139Coordinates: 42°28′10″N 71°18′41″W / 42.46944°N 71.31139°W / 42.46944; -71.31139
Built	1730
Architectural style	Colonial, Georgian
Governing body	Local
NRHP Reference #	04000190 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 19, 2004

Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse, also known as Thoreau Farm, is an historic house at 341 Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts, USA.

The house was the birthplace of the writer Henry David Thoreau. The house was built in 1730 and added to the National Historic Register in 2004.

The house is owned by the Thoreau Farm Trust, a non-profit organization. The site recently underwent an extensive restoration and is now open to the public for the first time in its history. The house receives visitors from around the world who have been inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau.

References

↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.

External links

Thoreau Farm

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v t e Henry David Thoreau

Speeches	Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)

Essays	The Service (1840) A Walk to Wachusett (1842) Paradise (to be) Regained (1843) Sir Walter Raleigh (1844) Herald of Freedom (1844) Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845) Reform and the Reformers (1846–48) Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847) Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849) Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) The Last Days of John Brown (1860) Walking (1861) Life Without Principle (1863)

Books	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) Walden (1854)

Related	Thoreau Society The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse Excursions (1863)

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