This June 2-3, The Landmark Trust USA invites you to tour Naulakha, the Dummerston, VT house and grounds of author Rudyard Kipling, normally open only to overnight guests. Take a self-guided tour when its spectacular rhododendrons are likely to be in bloom. Start your visit with a tour of Naulakha, where Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Books and Captains Courageous (you can even sit at the desk!), then stay to enjoy the estate's grounds at your leisure. Visit Kipling's Carriage House and the... read more ▼
This June 2-3, The Landmark Trust USA invites you to tour Naulakha, the Dummerston, VT house and grounds of author Rudyard Kipling, normally open only to overnight guests. Take a self-guided tour when its spectacular rhododendrons are likely to be in bloom. Start your visit with a tour of Naulakha, where Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Books and Captains Courageous (you can even sit at the desk!), then stay to enjoy the estate's grounds at your leisure. Visit Kipling's Carriage House and the Stables Museum, which serves as a mini-museum of his family's life in Vermont. Wander the grounds to see the flowers in bloom and the clay tennis courts located below Naulakha, among the first tennis courts built in Vermont. Bring a picnic and enjoy the incredible views from the sloping front lawn.
New for 2024: We're pleased to offer a new Cocktail Party option this year for an even more exclusive and intimate experience of this special property on Sunday evening, June 2, at 6:00 p.m. These special tickets will include all the same access as daytime tickets with the addition of delicious hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, Scott Farm hard cider, wine, and beer.
Times often sell out early, so get your tickets today! Proceeds from all tours support the historic preservation work of The Landmark Trust USA.
read lessIn celebration of Preservation Month, we're excited to bring noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to Southern Vermont to speak on his seminal book on one of Northern New England's most unique and distinct forms of architecture. The book, which received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum, has been in continuous publication for 40 years and has become a scholarly and popular standard for New England architecture history and... read more ▼
In celebration of Preservation Month, we're excited to bring noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to Southern Vermont to speak on his seminal book on one of Northern New England's most unique and distinct forms of architecture. The book, which received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum, has been in continuous publication for 40 years and has become a scholarly and popular standard for New England architecture history and cultural studies. It has been widely cited as a model for regional architectural studies combining architectural and social/historical study.
This engaging talk will highlight the four essential components of the stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders that stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. It will feature numerous local examples as well as The Landmark Trust USA's own Amos Brown House in Whitingham, VT.
Books will be available for purchase to be signed by the author with all proceeds supporting The Landmark Trust USA's historic preservation work.
The event will also be livestreamed online for those unable to attend in person.
Special thanks to Next Stage for donating space for the program, which is supported in part by Vermont Humanities.
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The FPF Community Directory is a collection of more than 14,000 Vermont businesses and nonprofits in 247 categories that participate in Front Porch Forum. FPF does not screen or evaluate these organizations. See Terms of Use.