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
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The Wayside
c. 1714; 1845–1848; 1860; 1887. 455 Lexington Rd.
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