The Rudyard Kipling House is a Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vt., a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the English author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896. It is in this house that Kipling wrote Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book, The Day's Work, and The Seven Seas, and did work on Kim and The Just So Stories. The house is now owned by the Landmark Trust, and is available for rent.
“And there is nothing uprooted that is not changed.
Better to stay and wonder in the half light
How New England saunters where Kipling loved and ranged, so
And watch the starling flocks in first autumn flight.’’
— From “Thoughts of New England,’’ by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), English composer and poet
