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Personal Museums

Saint-Gaudens National
John F. Kennedy
1 4
Presidential Library
Historic Site, Cornish, NH
and Museum, Boston, MA MAP L5 • Rte 12A • 603 675 2175
MAP F3 • Columbia Point • 617 514 • Open late May–Oct: 9am–4:30pm
1600 • Open 9am–5pm daily • Adm daily; grounds open all year • Adm
• www.jfklibrary.org • www.nps.gov/saga
This museum not only chronicles This house museum evokes the
JFK’s 1,000 days in office, it rustic idyll of the art colony that
also touches on the man grew up around Augustus Saint-
behind the myth. Gaudens (1848–1907), who was
America’s leading sculptor of the
John F. Beaux-Arts generation.
Kennedy
Robert Frost Farm,
Library and 5
Museum Derry, NH
MAP M6 • 122 Rockingham Rd • 603
432 3091 • Open May–mid-Oct:
10am–4pm Wed–Sun (Jul–Aug daily)
• Adm • www.robertfrostfarm.org
Young poet Robert Frost found his
voice while living here from 1900 to
1911, and began writing the verse
set in the New England countryside
that would win him four Pulitzer
Prizes and the admiration of a nation.
The Mount, Lenox, MA
Orchard House, Concord,
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MA
MAP B3 • 2 Plunkett St
MAP E2 • 399 Lexington Rd • 413 551 5111 • Open early May–
• 978 369 4118 • Open Apr–Oct: Oct: 10am–5pm daily • Adm
10am–4:30pm Mon–Sat, 1–4:30pm • www.edithwharton.org
Sun; Nov–Mar: 11am–3pm Mon–Fri, This beautiful Berkshires estate in
10am–4:30pm Sat, 1–4:30pm Sun the gracious village of Lenox dates
• Adm • www.louisamayalcott.org from 1902 and showcases the design
Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) not only and decorating sensibilities of
set her 1868 classic Little Women in literary giant Edith Wharton.
Orchard House, she also wrote it here.
Longfellow House–
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Washington’s
Headquarters National
Historic Site, Cambridge, MA
MAP F2 • 105 Brattle St • 617 876
4491 • Open late-May–Oct: 9:30am–
5pm Wed–Sun • www.nps.gov/long
A visit to the home of poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82),
one of America’s most influential
literary figures, lays bare both his
triumphs and his tragedies, such
as the fire that killed his wife and
so scarred his face that he grew
his signature beard. Wharton’s boudoir at The Mount

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