Old First Church Bennington with Frost grave
— — the white church, and the quarrel laid to rest behind it.
Not only on a wall.
“A high-steepled white meeting house at the top of Monument Avenue, finished in 1806 by the housewright Lavius Fillmore. The Old Burying Ground spreads behind it, and a flat stone near the back carries Robert Frost's name and his chosen epitaph: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. The Bennington Battle Monument rises a few hundred yards north. — from the studio
Old First Church Bennington with Frost grave, on ceramic.
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The Old First Church stands on Monument Avenue in Old Bennington, Vermont, the original hill settlement above the modern town. The current building was finished in 1806 by Lavius Fillmore, a Connecticut housewright whose Federal-style meeting houses set the pattern for white-steepled churches across northern New England. The congregation, gathered in 1762, was the first Protestant church in Vermont. The building is a National Historic Landmark and an active United Church of Christ parish, and the Old Burying Ground in its yard holds graves dating to 1762.
Robert Frost, who died in Boston in January 1963 at age 88, is buried in the family plot near the back fence of the Old Burying Ground. His flat granite marker carries the line he chose himself: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. His wife Elinor and four of their children share the plot. Frost lived for many years in nearby Shaftsbury and South Shaftsbury, Vermont, where he wrote much of New Hampshire and West-Running Brook. The Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury preserves one of his Vermont homes.
The church is open to visitors most weekdays from late May through October, with shorter hours off-season. The Old Burying Ground is open daily during daylight; a small map at the gate locates the Frost family plot. The Bennington Battle Monument, a 306-foot limestone obelisk commemorating the 1777 battle, stands a short walk north along Monument Avenue and is itself climbable in season. Old Bennington is reached by Route 9 west of the modern downtown and is roughly a 3.5-hour drive from both Boston and New York City.