President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
Historic House · Plymouth, Vermont
The village of Plymouth Notch, one hundred and thirty acres of it, kept as it was when Calvin Coolidge was born in the rear of the general store in 1872 and when he came home to it in August 1923. News of Harding's death reached the village in the middle of the night, and Coolidge's father - a notary public - swore his son in as President of the United States in the family parlour by the light of a kerosene lamp. It is the only presidential oath in American history administered by the president's own father, and because John Coolidge refused ever to modernise the house, the room still holds the lamp, the Bible and the table in their positions. Coolidge is buried up the hill with four generations of his family.
3780 Vermont Route 100A, Plymouth, Vermont, 05056, United States
⚠ SEASONAL - open roughly LATE MAY TO MID OCTOBER, generally 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM daily, and closed completely the rest of the year. Check before travelling; Plymouth Notch is two miles off Route 100 and not on the way to anything. A per-person Vermont state historic sites admission covers the whole 130-acre village - the homestead and its oath room, the general store where Coolidge was born, the church, the schoolhouse, the barns and the grounds - and parking is free. GUIDED TOURS AND INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMMES run in season; groups book ahead. THE PLYMOUTH CHEESE FACTORY, founded by Coolidge's father in 1890 and still operating, keeps its own hours and has a cheese-making museum upstairs. ⚠ FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY IS RESTRICTED IN THE FURNISHED ROOMS. The Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge and four generations are buried, is up the hill and open.
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