Wayside: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Minute Man National Historical Park
Smith D and Killion J. 2025. Wayside: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Minute Man National Historical Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 650036. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
The Wayside is one of three units making up the Minute Man National Historical Park (NHP), and is located on the north side of Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts, 0.75 miles east of Concord Center. The property consists of the house and barn, a variety of furnishings, and 3.32 acres of land. Known as “the home of authors,” it was the residence of several notable nineteenth century American authors - Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriett Lothrop (pen name Margaret Sidney).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Smith, Debbie; Killion, Jeffrey
- Date of Issue
- 2025
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MIMA
- Keywords
- " The Wayside, "The Home of Authors, Agricultural Outbuilding, Agriculture, Archeology (Historic-Non Aboriginal), Archeology (Prehistoric), Architecture, Colonial (1600-1730), Eastern Farmers, Expressing Cultural Values, Fiction, Hillside, Historic Designed Landscape, Historic Furnished Interior, Hunters and Gatherers, Intellectual Currents, Literature, Military, Minute Man NHP, Novel, Peopling Places, Period Revivals (1870-1940), Philosophical Schools Of Thought, Philosophy, Post-Archaic and Prehistoric Developments, Shaping the Political Landscape, Single Family House, The American Revolution, War in the North, Wayside Unit