Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Plymouth Notch, VT cover page |
Photo of Calvin Coolidge. He was a shy and taciturn man. |
Map of Vermont showing the town of Plymouth. |
President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site Map. |
Entrance to the Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site at Plymouth Notch. |
The Aldrich House is the site’s office, was the home of Carrie Brown, Coolidge’s schoolteacher, who was, later, his stepmother. |
Sign as you enter the Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site describing Calvin Coolidge. |
Floor plan of the Coolidge family homestead. |
View as I was approaching the Coolidge family homestead, where Calvin grew up. |
The Homestead is furnished exactly as it was when Calvin Coolidge took the Oath of Office, administered by his father. |
Comfortable rocking chairs on the front porch of the Coolidge Homestead. |
Colonel John Coolidge, the President’s father, kept two horses in the barn, one for farm work and the other for transportation. |
The Kitchen where the family meals were eaten. The table is set the same way it was in 1924 when Calvin took the oath of office. |
The small narrow shed bedroom. Calvin learned to make quilts when he was a boy. |
Sign for the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation and Library. |
The Union Christian Church was built in 1840 and dedicated as a Congregational Church in 1842. It is in the Greek Revival style. |
Coolidge was born in the house attached to the back of the general store, which his father ran. |
The Wilder Barn and Horse Barn, which were reconstructed in 2003, are a recreation of the original 1875 barn that was torn down. |
Sign for the Plymouth Cheese Factory, built by Colonel John Coolidge, James S. Brown and three other local farmers in 1890. |
It closed in 1934, but was reopened by Calvin’s son, John, in 1960. The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation owns it now. |