Green Hills Farm
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Green Hills Farm
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| Nearest city | Dublin, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°21′36″N 75°13′11″W / 40.36000°N 75.21972°WCoordinates: 40°21′36″N 75°13′11″W / 40.36000°N 75.21972°W |
| Built | 1933 |
| NRHP Reference # | 74001755 |
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| Added to NRHP | February 27, 1974 |
| Designated NHL | January 16, 1980 |
Green Hills Farm, also known as the Pearl S. Buck House, is the sixty-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Nobel-prize-winning American author Pearl Buck lived for 40 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening. She purchased the house in 1933 and lived there until the late 1960s, when she moved to Danby, Vermont. She completed many works while on the farm, including This Proud Heart (1938), The Patriot (1939), Today and Forever (1941), and The Child Who Never Grew (1950). The farm, a National Historic Landmark, is located on Dublin Road southwest of Dublin, Pennsylvania. It is now a museum open to the public.
The Pearl S. Buck House at Green Hills Farm, an example of 19th century (built 1825) Pennsylvanian architecture, is constructed of coursed fieldstone. It is four bays wide and two deep with the main entrance located in the second bay. Two gable dormers are located on the front and rear slope of the roof. Chimneys are located on each gable end. When Buck purchased the farmstead, she made extensive alterations and additions to the 19th century farmhouse, including a two-story fieldstone wing added to the east gable and two libraries. Today, visitors can tour twelve rooms of the home and visit the pre-Revolutionary War cottage on the property and the barn built in 1827.
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