The Frost Place
This summer, we visited The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the hillside farmhouse where Robert Frost lived with his family from 1915 to 1920. Standing on the front porch, the view looking towards the White Mountains is spectacular. This is the home when Frost’s career was beginning to rise.
When Frost moved to Franconia in 1915, he was 41 years old. He was early in his public life as a poet but deeply committed to his craft. Only a few years earlier, he uprooted his family and moved to England, where publishers finally recognized the brilliance that American editors had overlooked. By the time he returned to New England, “A Boy’s Will” and “North of Boston” had been published to acclaim. Frost arrived in Franconia as a poet stepping on the national stage.
His children were still young during these Franconia years, and the house was full of children, chores and the rhythms of rural New Hampshire.
Today, The Frost Place remains simple as when the Frosts lived there: a farm house with sweeping mountain views. It has also become a place for poets with workshops and gatherings to nurture new voices in the same setting that inspired First himself.
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