- Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)
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Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)
Location: Off U.S. 5, Dummerston, Vermont Coordinates: 42°53′55″N 72°33′51″W / 42.89861°N 72.56417°WCoordinates: 42°53′55″N 72°33′51″W / 42.89861°N 72.56417°W Area: 11 acres (45,000 m2)[1] Built: 1892 Architect: Henry Rutgers Marshall Architectural style: Shingle Style Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 79000231 Significant dates Added to NRHP: April 11, 1979[2] Designated NHL: November 4, 1993[3] Naulakha, also known as Rudyard Kipling House, is a Shingle Style home in Dummerston, Vermont where author Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous. Kipling also wrote The Jungle Books, A Day's Work, and The Seven Seas, and did work on Kim and The Just So Stories here.[1] Kipling had named the house after the Naulakha Pavilion, situated inside Lahore Fort. Etymologically Naulakha means nine lakhs or nine hundred thousand being the amount of rupees incurred for the cost of construction of the building. Another prominent example of similar use of the name is Naulakha Temple in Deoghar, Baidyanathdham (Jharkhand).[4] The Mughal architecture of the monument had inspired him during his earlier stay (between 1882–1887) in Lahore.[5]
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.[1][3] It can be rented by the night ($275–$425) or week ($1,350-$2,300) and sleeps eight. There is also a tennis court.[6]
References
- ^ a b c David C. Tansey (April, 1993). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Naulakha / Rudyard Kipling HousePDF (32 KB). National Park Service and Accompanying 14 photos, exterior and interior including one with Rudyard Kipling, from 1895, 1905 and 1992PDF (32 KB)
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b "Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1801&ResourceType=Building. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ Kipling, Rudyard (1996) Writings on Writing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521445272. p.36 and p.173
- ^ Robert D. Kaplan (1989) Lahore as Kipling Knew It. The New York Times. Retrieved on 9 March 2008
- ^ Frommer's Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine, 2008, p. 100.
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