Robert Frost Stone House Museum

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum is an 18th-century historic house in South Shaftsbury, Vermont. Built in 1769, the Dutch Colonial farmhouse was purchased by the American poet Robert Frost (1878–1968) in 1920. Here, Frost wrote the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and other poems in his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, New Hampshire (1923). Frost and his family lived in the house between 1920 and 1929. He gifted the house to his son, and daughter-in-law in 1923, and the property remained in the Frost family until the 1960s. In 2002, the non-profit organization, the Friends of Robert Frost purchased the home in a state of disrepair and restored the house, opening it to the public. In 2017, the group gifted the house and surrounding property to Bennington College. The museum is open to the public and also used for literary and community events.