TheEdward Bellamy Houseis the only National Historic Landmark in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Its landmark designation was in honor of journalistand Utopian writer Edward Bellamy(18501898), whose home it was for most of his life. The house is located on Church Street in Chicopee Falls, an industrial village in town, which developed around mills and the Chicopee River. Built in for Harmon Rowley, a town selectman and local merchant around 1840, the house would later be purchased in 1852 by Rufus King Bellamy, a Baptist minister, moved the family into this house after its construction. The house, where Edward Bellamy spent much of his childhood is a well-preserved example of a late-Greek Revival residence, and today serves as a museum with rented offices that explores Bellamys ideas on social reform, economic justice, and the future of society. From this house, Edward Bellamy wrote Looking Backward, autopiannovel that was instantly popular. Within a year it had sold 200,000 copies, and by the end of the 19th century had sold more copies than any other book published in America up to that time except forUncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweandBen-Hur: A Tale of the ChristbyLew Wallace. His visionary work, which proposed a world free of poverty and class divisions, sparked a nationwide movement and influenced early American socialism. Edward Bellamy died of tuberculosis at his home, ten years after the publication of his most famous book. He was 48 years old. Today, the house stands as a reminder of Bellamys lasting legacy and his role in shaping conversations about social progress in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.