Robert Frost Farm (Ripton, Vermont)
The Robert Frost Farm is a National Historic Landmark in Ripton, Vermont, where American poet Robert Frost lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death in 1963. The property, historically called the Homer Noble Farm, includes a nineteenth-century farmhouse and a rustic wooden writing cabin (where Frost often stayed).
Owned by Middlebury College, the Farm is close to Middlebury's Bread Loaf Campus, home of the Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
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