Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
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Carl Sandburg's last house
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| Location | Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA |
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| Nearest city | Hendersonville, North Carolina |
| Coordinates | 35°16′4″N 82°27′6″W / 35.26778°N 82.45167°WCoordinates: 35°16′4″N 82°27′6″W / 35.26778°N 82.45167°W |
| Area | 246 acres (100 ha) |
| Built | 1945 |
| Visitation | 28,799 (2006) |
| Website | Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site |
| NRHP Reference # | 68000013 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 17, 1968 |
| Designated NHLD | May 23, 1968 |
| Designated NHS | October 17, 1968 |
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, located at 81 Carl Sandburg Lane near Hendersonville in the village of Flat Rock, North Carolina, preserves Connemara, the home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Carl Sandburg. Though a Midwesterner, Sandburg and his family moved to this home in 1945 for the peace and solitude required for his writing and the more than 30 acres (120,000 m2) of pastureland required for his wife, Lilian, to raise her champion dairy goats. Sandburg spent the last twenty-two years of his life on this farm and published more than a third of his works while he resided here.
The 264-acre site includes the Sandburg residence, the goat farm, sheds, rolling pastures, mountainside woods, 5 miles (8 km) of hiking trails on moderate to steep terrain, two small lakes, several ponds, flower and vegetable gardens, and an apple orchard.
Visitors to the site can tour the Sandburg residence and visit the dairy barn housing Connemara Farms' goat herd, representing the three breeds of goats Lilian Sandburg raised. From mid-June until mid-August, live performances of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and excerpts from the Broadway play, The World of Carl Sandburg, are presented at the park amphitheater.
In the middle 1830s Christopher Memminger, of Charleston, South Carolina, took a tour of Flat Rock in an attempt to find a summer home. Unable to find a home he liked, he purchased land from Charles Baring, one of the more prominent land holders in the area. In 1838 he hired an architect to begin work on a large summer home in the Greek-Revival-style. The kitchen house and stable were actually completed first in the summer of 1838. The house was not complete until 1839. A cook’s house was added in 1841, a wagon shed in 1843, and an icehouse in 1845. An addition to the main house was constructed over the course of 1846-1849, and servant quarters were built in 1850.
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