Known as “The Home of Authors,” the Wayside has sheltered the families of Bronson Alcott (including his daughter Louisa May), Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Sidney, the pseudonym of Harriet M. Lothrop, a prolific writer of children's stories. The house was begun by Caleb Ball c. 1714 as a five-bay, center-entrance, two-story dwelling with rear
Keith N. Morgan, "The Wayside", [Concord, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-CN6.
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 451-452.
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