Kurt's Historic Sites

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interment Location Visited
Concord, MA August 30, 2010
Photographed February 13, 2023.

This plaque is mounted to the side of a building in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It reads, “On this site, at No. 27 Summer Street, stood the parsonage in which Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 / Placed here on this anniversary, May 25, 1951 that posterity shall know the birthplace of this great American[.]”

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