Robert Frost Place Franconia
— — the porch that looked at the mountains.
Not only on a wall.
“A clapboard farmhouse on Ridge Road in Franconia, set against the long ridge of the Franconia Range. Frost bought the place in 1915, after returning from England, and summered here through 1920. He wrote much of Mountain Interval and the title sequence of New Hampshire in the small back room and on the porch. The view east to Mount Lafayette is essentially the one he kept. from the studio
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The Frost Place sits on Ridge Road in Franconia, in the northern White Mountains, with a long view east across the valley to Mount Lafayette and the Franconia Range. Frost bought the farm in 1915, after returning from three years in England, and the family lived here summers from 1915 through 1920, then kept it as a writing retreat into the 1930s. He drafted much of Mountain Interval (1916) and the title sequence of New Hampshire (1923) on the property. The house is now owned by the town of Franconia and operated by the nonprofit Frost Place as a poetry centre, museum, and summer residency.
The farm sits at about 1,500 feet on the western shoulder of Sugar Hill, looking east across the Gale River valley to Mount Lafayette at 5,260 feet and the long Franconia Range. The summer air carries balsam from the higher slopes and turns cold by late August; the first frost on the porch usually arrives in early September. Frost wrote about the weather of this place directly in the New Hampshire sequence. The view from the porch is essentially unchanged: the same line of ridge, the same band of cloud that holds against Lafayette in the afternoon.
The Frost Place opens for the season from late May through mid-October, with the museum room and the writing room available for self-guided visits. The nonprofit hosts a Conference on Poetry each summer and supports a poet-in-residence who lives in the house from June through August. A marked half-mile poetry trail loops through the woods behind the barn, with placards of Frost poems set at the points in the landscape they describe. Admission is by donation; the Conference and the residency are application-only. The address is 158 Ridge Road; parking is on site.