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Built before 1717 as the modest home of a farmer, this house in Concord, Massachusetts, became the home of Samuel Whitney in 1769. Whitney became the Muster Master of the two Concord Minuteman Companies and hid munitions here in 1775. Early in 1845 Amos Bronson Alcott and his family moved to the "Hillside", as he named it, after his failure at Fruitlands. Alcott supported his family by farming but after three years was forced to move to Boston. It became the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1852, and was known as "The Wayside." On Hawthorne's return form England in 1860 he made major structural alterations including a tower study for his writing. Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop acquired The Wayside in 1883. His wife wrote "The Five Little Peppers" series of children's books under the pen name of Margaret Sidney. |
