Green Hills Farm

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nearest_city= Dublin, Pennsylvania
locmapin = Pennsylvania
lat_degrees = 40
lat_minutes = 21
lat_seconds = 36
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 75
long_minutes = 13
long_seconds = 11
long_direction = W
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built =1933
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= January 16 1980cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=499&ResourceType=Building |title=Buck, Pearl S., House |accessdate=2008-07-02|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = February 27, 1974
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refnum=74001755cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Green Hills Farm 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 1960's, when she moved to Danby, VT. [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/delaware/gre.htm Green Hill Farm (Pearl S. Buck House)] National Park Service] 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 Pearl S. Buck House at Green Hills Farm, an excellent example of 19th century (built 1825 [http://www.nationaltrust.org/lowesgrant/buck.html Preservation/Restoration of the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark] National Trust for Historic Preservation] ) 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.

The interior melds the two worlds that so greatly shaped the life of this renowned author. In the large library, two Pennsylvania jugs serve as lamp bases upon a beautifully hand carved Chinese hardwood desk, at which Buck wrote her breakthrough novel "The Good Earth". Buck filled her home with interesting works of original art by Chen Chi [http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/139107.htm] and Freeman Elliot Fact|date=February 2007, iron works of art produced by exiled artisans in China, Peking Fetti carpets that survived revolutions in China, and some of her own sculptures.

The Pearl S. Buck House became a National Historic Landmark in 1980 and opened as a museum the same year. The estate, now on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned and operated by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation. 17,000 people visit each year.

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*cite web
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title = Green Hill Farm (Pearl S. Buck House)
work = Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
publisher = National Park Service
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url = http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/delaware/gre.htm
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accessdate = 2007-01-27
*cite web
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title = Preservation/Restoration of the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark
work = Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation Preservation Fund
publisher = National Trust for Historic Preservation
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url = http://www.nationaltrust.org/lowesgrant/buck.html
format = Online
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accessdate = 2007-01-27

External links

* [http://www.psbi.org/site/PageServer Pearl. S. Buck International]

Biographical museums in the United States