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Calvin Coolidge House Tour Video

Bob meets up with University of Vermont professor Tom Visser in Plymouth Notch to visit the birthplace of President Calvin Coolidge and learn more about vernacular Vermont farmhouse architecture. Coolidge's home is an excellent example of how a small farmhouse over time telescoped out to meet the barn, making it possible for a farmer to do his chores without venturing outside in the depth of winter. The original house was built in the 1840s with an addition added in the 1870s and then expanded in the 1890s. The house has a schist foundation and functional shutters. The front porch rockers date back to the Coolidge years. The house telescopes out beyond the kitchen into the woodshed, then the workshop and finally into the barn. Across the street is an 1840 Greek Revival vernacular church with four simple pilasters across the front, each finished off with a small capital with an echinus molding.

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