Robert Frost's Summer Home

This is the Homer Noble Farm, the place where Robert Frost spent his summers for the last quarter century of his life.

Frost was already the most celebrated poet in America when he bought this Ripton property. He rented out the white farmhouse and kept the rustic log cabin up the hill for himself. That cabin is where he slept and where he wrote, surrounded by the Green Mountains and the hayfields he turned into poems.

He came back nearly every summer and fall until the year before his death in nineteen sixty-three, four times a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Middlebury College later bought the property to preserve it, and the grounds are open to the public during daylight hours, much as Frost left them.