Naulakha
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| location | Dummerston , Vermont | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 53 '55 " N , 72 ° 33' 51" W | ||
| Built | 1892 to 1893 | ||
| architect | Henry Rutgers Marshall | ||
| Architectural style | Clapboard style architecture | ||
| NRHP number | 79000231 | ||
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| The NRHP added | April 11, 1979 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | 4th November 1993 | ||
Naulakha is an American clapboard-style architecture by Henry Rutgers Marshall for Rudyard Kipling in Dummerston , Vermont . It is located at 707 Kipling Road. Today the house is used as a Historic Inn. The house has been listed as a building on the National Register of Historic Places since April 1979 . In November 1993, it was granted National Historic Landmark status.
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Naulakha
The house was built between 1892 and 1893 on eleven hectares of land on the edge of a meadow. Naulakha is on the north end of the property. The name Naulakha comes from Hindi and means "priceless jewel". With Wolcott Balestier , an American writer and editor, Kipling Naulahka wrote , A Novel of East and West . Balestier died in 1891 just before the book was finished. Kipling married Balestier's sister, Caroline Starr Balestier. The couple visited the bride's family in Brattleboro after the wedding and decided to settle there. They bought the property in Dummeerston from Caroline's brother. The spelling of the house differs in emphasis from that of the book. The couple lived in the house from 1893 to 1896. It is here that Kipling wrote five of his most famous works, which include The Jungle Book or Captains Courageous . The couple's second child was also born in Naulakha.
Naulakha has an unusual architecture. It is built in the American shingle style with structural influences from Indian bungalow architecture. It was built against a wooded hill. Kipling compared Naulakha to a ship that sails over the green hills of Vermont with an incredible view. The house was originally 34.21 meters (70 ft ) long and 6.70 meters (22 ft) wide. In 1915, Naulakhas' architect, Henry Rutgers Marshall, made some minor changes and remodeling to the house for the new owners, the Holbrook family. The house is 2-1 / 2-story built on a high stone foundation and clad with shingles. It has a hipped roof made of dark slate, in which there are several dormers .
The main entrance of the house is on the west side and is protected by a roof. Cut granite serves as steps and stepping stone for the carriages. This side of the house was most altered by the Holbrooks, cantilevered gables and additions were made to the north and south ends to create more rooms.
A two-story terrace is attached to the south side of the house, on the first floor in front of Kipling's study room and on the second floor in front of the bedroom. In front of the terrace there is the garden. The long Kiplings promenade starts behind it .
The east side of Naulakha is the main facade. Since the main entrance of the house is on the west side, a corridor opens up behind the front door along the west side, from which the doors to the rooms open. All rooms have views across the Connecticut River Valley to Mount Monadnock . A two-story bay window at the southern end of the east side provides light for the study room on the first floor and the bedroom on the second floor. Adjacent to Kipling's study room was his wife's study. She ensured the necessary privacy for Kipling. A small built-in loggia with a veranda was attached to her room. This was converted by the Holbrooks into a closed loggia, flush with the facade of the house. Thus a large living room was created. To the north of the former loggia is the dining room with another open loggia. This was followed by the kitchen, which was converted into a breakfast room by the Holbrooks in 1915. The kitchen was moved to the basement. There are four bedrooms and three bathrooms on the second floor.
The roof is interrupted by several dormers. In the attic there is a large billiard room and storage rooms. The dormers were probably added by the Holbrooks, but they probably didn't originally exist to bring light into the attic. The west side has two dormers, on the south side a triangular roof was added by the Holbrooks. Its style reflects the original dormers on the east side.
Another change to the Holbrooks was the addition of a canvas-covered terrace on the east side of Naulakha. The deck has a rustic cedar railing and is on stone pillars.
Facility
Much of the Kipling's original furnishings have been preserved, although some personal items were removed prior to 1903 when the house was sold to her friend Mary Cabot of Brattleboro. What remains are the plaster statues of Bagheera and the Wolf Gray Brother , which were given to Kipling by William Chandler Harris, his golf clubs and tennis equipment, his bedroom, dining room and the furniture in the study including the desk on which he wrote The Jungle Book and a hand-carved teak -Sideboard from India. Other interior design features include a carved teak valance in Kipling's study room and the plastering work done by his father, John Lockwood Kipling , a British professor at the School of Art in India and curator of the Lahore Museum .
The Holbrooks have added more of their own as well as possessions from their travels to the Orient and the historic family room. Frederick Holbrook was the grandson of Vermont governor Frederick Holbrook . Many pieces from the governor's possession are also on Naulakha.
Coachman House
The property includes a coachman's house, a 2-1 / 2-storey clapboard building with a high stone base; it has a hipped roof with dormers and chimneys. In the south of the house there is a small well house. The coachman's house was later converted into an apartment for domestic workers in 1915 by the Holbrook family. An L-shaped coach house with a gable roof in slate-style architecture was built in 1915, and a glass house with a richly decorated entrance on the south gable to the northeast of this coach house in the same year.
Garden with summer house
The garden area of the house includes a former garden in front of the wide terrace on the south side of the main house. Behind the garden, on the upper terrace, there is a swimming pool, which is surrounded by a dry stone wall. Higher on the slope by the pool is a spring house clad with wooden shingles with a hipped roof and a two-storey round wooden cistern . To the north of the Spring House is a roofed clapboard bath house divided for men and women.
Running south, outside the garden, the long promenade known from Kipling, now lushly overgrown with rhododendrons , leads to the summer house , which is located on the city limits of Dummerston and Brattleboro. Built on a polygonal field stone terrace, the summer house has built a pergola with six Doric columns and then pavilions made of field stones, with arched openings in cut-off gable roofs that are clad with wooden shingles. Above, northwest of the summer house, there is a small terrace made of field stones with a brick fireplace for informal outdoor barbecues. Below the summer house, to the east, is a tennis court with a pavilion with a conical roof and clad with wooden shingles.
The property is now owned by the British Landmark Trust . The original Naulakha facility is still intact. Naulakha is not open to the public except for a few weekends in the summer. The Landmark Trust is funding the restoration by renting out its properties. So Naulakha can be rented today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Naulakha. (No longer available online.) In: National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL). National Park Service , archived from the original on September 24, 2012 ; accessed on April 3, 2015 .
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved January 23, 2007.
- ^ Naulakha on the National Register of Historic Places , accessed February 26, 2020.
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↑ Naulakha National Historic Landmark ( September 24, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive ), accessed April 4, 2015.
Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Vermont. National Park Service , accessed February 26, 2020. - ↑ a b c d e National Register Nomination Information for Naulakha , accessed April 4, 2015.
- ↑ Willa Cather Archive on Naulakha , accessed April 4, 2015.
Web links
- National Historic Landmark to Naulakha
- Naulakha on the Landmark Trust site