Calvin Coolidge birthplace Plymouth Notch interior
— — the room where a president was born above the post office.
Not only on a wall.
“A small room at the back of the Coolidge general store at Plymouth Notch, plain plaster walls, painted wainscot, a rope bed under the window. Calvin Coolidge was born here on the Fourth of July, 1872, in the family quarters attached to his father's store and post office. The room is kept as it was, with period furnishings and the door open to the store beyond. Outside, the village holds itself almost exactly as it did in his lifetime. from the studio
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Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872, in a small room at the back of his father's general store at Plymouth Notch, Vermont. The store, post office, and family quarters share a single clapboard building on the village road through Plymouth Notch, a hamlet in Windsor County. The room is preserved as the Birthplace inside the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, administered by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. The wider village is a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-preserved nineteenth-century rural villages in New England.
The Coolidge birthplace took on national weight on August 3, 1923, when the President's father, John Calvin Coolidge Sr., administered the oath of office to his son in the family parlour across the road after news arrived of President Harding's death. That parlour, the Homestead, is preserved with its kerosene lamp, Bible, and writing desk. The birthplace itself is opened seasonally with the rest of the historic site, generally from late May through mid-October, and the village hosts a small Independence Day observance each July 4 on Coolidge's birthday.
The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site sits on Vermont Route 100A in the village of Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, a thirty-minute drive west of Woodstock and about ten minutes south of Bridgewater Corners. The site charges a small per-adult admission, with children admitted free, and includes the Birthplace, the Homestead, the Coolidge family cheese factory still operating in the village, the visitor centre, and the Union Christian Church where Coolidge worshipped. The Coolidge grave is in the small village cemetery a short walk down the road.