This is the Wayside, a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts. The earliest part of this home may date to 1717, its first recorded year. On April 19, 1775 Minuteman Samuel Whitney was living here, and British troops passed by on their way to the Battles of Lexington and Concord at Concord's Old North Bridge.
During 1775 and 1776 the house sheltered scientist John Winthrop for nine months while Harvard College was moved to Concord. A century later the house took on a very different character: it became the home of the young Louisa May Alcott and her family, who named it Hillside. It later housed author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family, and would also be home to children's writer Margaret Sidney.
Shortly after the failure of the Fruitlands experiment, Amos Bronson Alcott and his family moved to Concord; beginning in October 1844 the family first lived in the home of a friend named Edmund Hosmer. The Wayside 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. Notice this house and the Concord landscape that watched those people and events unfold.