The formal garden has since been removed. At the southerly bow, his first-floor study and the second-floor nursery open onto verandas. Rudyard, who had made nine trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific crossings between the ages of 17 and 28, wanted the house-his first-to resemble a ship riding the hillside like a wave. A hallway running along that side on each floor servedĪs a buffer against the paparazzi of the day, who congregated on the hill The main entrance, protected by a gabled porte cochere, is on the The views across the Connecticut River Valley toward Mount Monadnock in New

“The rest was wood, shingled, roof, and sides, with dull green hand-split shingles, and the windows were lavish and wide.”Īll the rooms face east to take advantage of “90 feet was the length of it and 30 the width, on a high foundation of solid mortared rocks which gave us an airy and a skunk-proof basement,” Rudyard wrote in his memoir, Something of Myself. The Shingle style that was gaining a foothold in the U.S. The word “bungalow”), such as the verandas, hip roof, and low-slung eaves, and Incorporates elements of the South Asian bangla (origin of New York architect Henry Rutgers Marshall on their home’s design. Land in Dummerston, Vermont, from Caroline’s brother and worked closely with Kipling and his wife, Caroline, bought the Landmark Trust USA restored it and maintains it as a vacation rental, where youĬan eat at Kipling’s table, soak in his tub, and enjoy considerably more than also has a version-with Andy Serkis, Christian Bale,Ĭate Blanchett, and Benedict Cumberbatch-due out in 2018. Disney’s remake of its 1967Īnimated Jungle Book was released in 2016. The family’s idyll in the States was short-lived.īut the popularity of Mowgli the man-cub endures. Naulakha, Hindi for “priceless jewel,” Kipling rejoiced in domesticity, nature,Īnd his newborn daughter, Josephine. The Bombay-born and British-educated author had married an American andīuilt his dream house near her family in 1893. Rudyard Kipling spun tales of a boy raised by wolves in the steamy Indian Read the original story, first published on Houzz, here.

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