Wayside Cottage

{{short description|Historic house in New York, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Wayside Cottage

| nrhp_type =

| image = File:Wayside Inn, Post Road and Wayside Lane, Scarsdale, Westchester County, NY HABS NY,60-SCARD,2-1.tif

| caption = HABS image of the cottage

| location = 1039 Post Rd., Scarsdale, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|40|59|32|N|73|47|40|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = New York#USA

| built = 1720

| architecture =

| added = May 1, 1981

| area = {{convert|0.7|acre}}

| refnum = 81000418

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Wayside Cottage is a historic home located at Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. The earliest part of the house was built about 1720 and is the four-bay-wide, two-bay-deep, {{frac|1|1|2}}-story south section. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has a gable roof and verandah with Doric order piers. The center section of the house was built in 1828 and it is a {{frac|2|1|2}}-story, three-bay-wide structure with a gable roof and sheathed in clapboard. A third section is known as the "caretaker's quarters" and was built in the late 19th century. It is two stories high, three bays wide, and two bays deep. A wing was added to this section in 1928. The house underwent a major restoration in 1953–1954. Since 1919, it has been owned by the Junior League of Central Westchester. It was also where Scarsdale Public Library used to be.{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=10720|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:Wayside Cottage|date=January 1981|accessdate=2010-12-24 |author=Karen Morey Kennedy and Austin N. O'Brien|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}} See also: {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=10701|title=Accompanying five photos}}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.