The Wayside

The Wayside
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
The Wayside, home in turn to authors Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Sidney
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Location	Concord, Massachusetts
Architectural style	Colonial
NRHP reference No.	80000356[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 11, 1980
Designated NHL	December 29, 1962

The Wayside is a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts. The earliest part of the home may date to 1717. Later it successively became the home of the young Louisa May Alcott and her family, who named it Hillside, author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family, and children's writer Margaret Sidney. It became the first site with literary associations acquired by the National Park Service and is now open to the public as part of Minute Man National Historical Park.