Robert Frost Stone House Museum
Historic House · Shaftsbury, Vermont
A 1769 Dutch Colonial farmhouse of stone on Route 7A at South Shaftsbury, where Robert Frost lived from 1920 and where he wrote the poems of New Hampshire - the collection that won him the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes in 1924, while he was living in this house. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written here. He bought the place with eighty acres and a plan to plant a thousand apple trees, described it as a new Garden of Eden of some unforbidden variety, and handed it to his son in 1923. The Friends of Robert Frost restored it as a museum in 2002 and Bennington College has owned it since 2017.
121 Vermont Route 7A, Shaftsbury, Vermont, 05262, United States
⚠ SEASONAL, AND THE HOURS CHANGE THREE TIMES A YEAR - this is the main planning problem and the commonest way to waste the trip. MAY: WEEKENDS ONLY, 10am to 4pm. JUNE THROUGH OCTOBER: THURSDAY TO MONDAY, 10am to 4pm - ⚠ SHUT TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS even in high season. NOVEMBER THROUGH APRIL: BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE, AND ONLY IF STAFFING ALLOWS. A modest per-person admission; free parking on site. Contact frosthouse@bennington.edu or 802-447-6200 to confirm or to arrange a winter appointment - which is the best version of this visit, snow being what the house and the poem are for. Groups and school visits are arranged in advance. READINGS AND POETRY PROGRAMMES run under Bennington College, which has owned the site since 2017, and are advertised on the college's pages rather than a fixed annual calendar. ⚠ THE STREET IS SIGNED AS HISTORIC ROUTE 7A AND SATNAVS FREQUENTLY MANGLE IT - aim for 121 VT-7A, South Shaftsbury.
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