The Museum

Photo by Star Black, used with permission of CavanKerry Press, Ltd.

The Frost Place is a “house museum,” a sanctuary for lovers of poetry and books on a quiet north country lane with a spectacular view of the White Mountains.
By today’s standards especially, this is a small house, built in the 1860s and miraculously well preserved, thanks to the care of the families that lived here until the mid-1970s, and thanks as well to the foresight and concern of the citizens of Franconia, who voted at their town meeting in 1976 to purchase the former home of Robert Frost and his family in order to see to its safekeeping in perpetuity.

Unlike typical modern museums, you won’t find at The Frost Place fancy multi-media displays or cafés, but if you come seeking a glimpse and a sense of the kind of place where a young poet could concentrate, and where his four children could range through the woods and orchards and discover the world, The Frost Place can still offer such pleasures.

In addition to a collection of signed first editions of Frost’s works and other memorabilia from his stay, The Frost Place has a half-mile nature trail with plaques displaying poems written during the poet’s Franconia years.
Moreover, instead of being merely a site of retrospection and nostalgia, The Frost Place continues to host energetic and innovative gatherings for contemporary poets, including summer conferences and school programs, and each summer an emerging poet is awarded a fellowship with a cash stipend and an invitation to live and write in Frost’s former home for the months of July and August.

Photo by Star Black, used with permission of CavanKerry Press, Ltd.

Museum Hours

The Frost Place Museum is open daily from 1 -5 pm except for Tuesday.  The staff of The Frost Place is available year round and may be contacted by email at or by phone (603) 823-5510.

 

 

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