Joy Farm, located in Madison, New Hampshire is the summer home of the famous poet and author, Edward Estlin Cummings, who preferred to go by e.e. cummings. The house was purchased by his family in 1899, from a farmer known as Ephraim Joy. In 1910, Cummings’ father built a summer house for the family, which has been the writer’s home for every summer all throughout his lifetime.

Joy Farm is said to have played a major part in the artist’s works. As evidenced by his writings, he loved nature, and he got close to it in this rural home. It was also in Joy Farm that Cummings has suffered from the stroke that took his life in 1962.

The Joy Farm was declared as a National Historic Landmark in 1971.