Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-24
Homestead at Ply
mouth Possibility
Among Half Dozen
in New England
Place Where He Was Sworn in
As President in 1923, Willed
to Him by Father-Has Kept
White Farm House OPEN
Bay State Offers Three Va
cation Places - Score of
Other States Would Have
First Citizen of Land Pass

Boston. Apr. 23.-(P-New Eng
land is striving to "sell" President
coolidge on it's vacation advantages.
while a score of states have invited
The President to establish the sum-
mer White House within their bor-
ders. his native region has offered
Mr. Coolidge his choice Of a half
dozen vacation residences. The
ranre Is wide-from the Berkshire
hills to Cape Cod in Massachusetts,,
and north to the city Of Burlington
in northern Vermont.
Since he entered the White House
the President has had two summer
vacations and has spent them both
in New England. White Court.
Swampscott, chosen last year as the
summer White House, will not house
the Presidential family this season.
Mr.. Coolidge having expressed pref
erence for mountain rather than sea
air. But the old Coolidge homestead
at Plymouth, VT, where the Presi-
dent rested in 1924. still is in the
running.
The white farmhouse in the
Green Mountains, where Calvin Cool
idge spent his boyhood and where
he was sworn in as President by his
father in 1923, became the property
Of Mr.. Coolidge on the death of
Colonel John Coolidge in March.
Since his fathers death the Presi-
dent has kept the house open with
Miss Aurora Pierce in charge as
housekesper. The neighbors in Ply
mouth believe that Mr.. Coolidge WAL
return this summer to the haunts
Of his youth. but so far the White
House has been silent on the ques-
ton.
Vermont has held out to the Pres
iient two other invitations for his
vacation sojourn, while Massachu-
sets, the state of his political be-
ginnings, has proffered three possible
vacation places. Both of the YER
mont estates suggested TO Mr.. Cool
idse are near Burlington. Congress
man Allen T. Treadway of MasSa-
chuset,s has recommended to the
President two summer homes in
Berkshire county of this state, while
the Cape Cod folk have extended an
invitation TO the Presidential family
10 visit those hospitable shores.
The city of Burlington, VT, has
formally offered Mr.. Coolidge the
use OF Fairholt. the estate of the
late Henry Holt. overlooking Lake
Champaign. The large mansion of
brick colonial design is situated on
a wooded estate OF 100 acres. From
is lofty site are visible the Adiron-
osck Mountains across the lake.
which Is nine miles wideS at that
Point. An Italian garden and out
0oor swimming pool contribute to
TIE recreational facilities, while the
new golf course of the Burlington
country Club is nearby. For the
scommodation of the White House
cAee stan and secret service men
tae use Of the Foot Farm, a quarter
O mile distant. has been offered.
4 group OF Burlington business
men have placed Stave Island. ore
% me many islands OF Lake Cham
Fan. al the disposal OF the Pres
Sent This piece of land. about a
Iiss square, lies off the Vermont
saoce about ten miles north of Bur-
,-.-s,oa- There is q large dwelling
seese on the island and more than a
cesen other buildings offer shelter
- TIE Presidents encourage. FISH
.es, swimming and yachting are the
'ssEsauons promised here.
ksa-sy-e, the Patterson estate fr
.faax. and the Woodward Mayer es-
A's In Stockhridge. are the two
senes IN Western Massachusetts,
sasca have been recommended TO
es President The former comprises
.ss acres and was owned for many
years by the late Robert ". Pater-
sea ot New Yo.k. II now Is the
Ee2srsy OF Howard Cole OF New
iesS and Lenox. The villa, which
GssrNlly cost ssao. coo. is OF brick
VIC avcwnssone trimming. II com
~2sas sa uaohs.ructei view OF the
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