Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)

Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Naulakha in 2014
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Location	Off U.S. 5, Dummerston, Vermont
Coordinates	42°53′55″N 72°33′51″W / 42.89861°N 72.56417°W / 42.89861; -72.56417
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)[1]
Built	1892
Architect	Henry Rutgers Marshall
Architectural style	Shingle Style
NRHP reference No.	79000231
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1979[2]
Designated NHL	November 4, 1993[3]

Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the 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.^[1] Kipling named the house after the Naulakha Pavilion, situated inside Lahore Fort in present-day Pakistan. The house is now owned by the Landmark Trust, and is available for rent.