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The Coolidge Homestead, also known as Calvin Coolidge Homestead District or President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, was the childhood home of the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge and the place where he first took the presidential oath of office.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his family property, the Coolidge Homestead, in Vermont, which did not have electricity or a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. [3] As the new president, Coolidge intended to take the oath of office and greet reporters who had assembled outside.
The Plymouth Historic District encompasses the village environment and surrounding landscape of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, the birthplace and historic homestead of United States President Calvin Coolidge. It includes more than 2,000 acres (810 ha), including the entire bowl-shaped valley where the village is located.
The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth has a new exhibit on the second floor of the Cilley General Store, all about Coolidge using the space as his "Summer White House" 100 ...
Despite living most of his life in Northampton, Massachusetts, Coolidge often returned to the homestead to visit his family and was staying there when President Warren G. Harding, died. Coolidge was sworn in by his father in the family parlor after taking the Oath of Office for the presidency. Due to his father's refusal to modernize the house ...
On March 4, 1925, nearly 100 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated for a second time. He served a partial term beginning in 1923 after the death of President Warren G. Harding.
John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., the father of Calvin Coolidge, was Justice of the Peace in this town and Coolidge was sworn in here as president, almost immediately upon the death of his predecessor, Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923. President Coolidge is buried in Notch Cemetery, along with seven generations of Coolidges.
The Calvin Coolidge House is located in a quiet residential area west of downtown Northampton, on the east side of Massasoit Street near its junction with Arlington Street. It is an architecturally undistinguished 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story two-family wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Stylistically it is basically Colonial ...