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Hawthorne Felt More At Home At The Wayside

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Hawthorne lived in a colonial-style home dubbed The Wayside, which he purchased in 1852 from Louisa May Alcott and her family. Hawthorne wrote in a letter to his friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “I am beginning to take root here, and feel myself, for the first time in my life, really at home.”

The following year, Hawthorne and his family moved to Europe and leased the Concord home to family members for several years. Upon his return, Hawthorne turned the top room into his study, nicknamed “sky parlor,” to do his writing. He died in 1864, an his wife sold The Wayside in 1870.