Green Hills Farm

Dublin, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is the setting for a farmstead whose buildings span roughly two centuries, from a stone summer kitchen said to predate the Revolution to a barn and milkhouse built in 1827. The main house began in 1835 as a coursed fieldstone farmhouse, four bays wide, with gable dormers and chimneys at each end. In 1933 novelist Pearl Buck bought the property and extended the house during the 1930s with a 2½ story fieldstone wing and two one-story libraries, producing a composite structure about 135 feet long. Its interiors were modernized at that time, so little of the original survives. The farm is significant chiefly for Buck's forty years there, from 1933 until her death in 1973. She wrote many of her books at the farm, including The Good Earth, which brought her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and she received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. The property is now held by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which cares for Amerasian children and runs an adoption agency there.