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The Pearl S. Buck House, formerly known as Green Hills Farm, is the 67-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.
Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (name changed to Pearl S. Buck International in 1999) [29] to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1964, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Philip Sydenstricker, great-great-grandfather of Pearl S. Buck, came to America from Bavaria (Germany) -- first to Pennsylvania, then on to West Virginia ("Virginia" at the time) after the Revolutionary War, settling on a farm near Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, in what is known as the Fort Springs area.
Several houses were faced in all white marble, including 2019 Delancey which was owned by Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck in the 1950s and 1960s. Overall, houses on the 1800 and 2000 blocks are similar in having four stories (five in the case of the white marble houses), but the top floors on the 2000 block (some added later) are set back with ...
Pearl S. Buck (2) Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark: 1933–late 1960s Bucks County: Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for her best-selling novel, The Good Earth. [70] John Updike: John Updike Childhood Home: 1932–1945
[38] [39] She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1983, the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Women's Award in 1988, and the Essence Magazine Award in 1989. [40] [41] [6] Her work was featured in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum. [42]
Amos Palmer House (Langhorne, Pennsylvania) Isaiah Paxson Farm; Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark; Phineas Pemberton House; Penn's Park General Store Complex; Penns Park Historic District; Penns Park, Pennsylvania; Pennsbury Manor; Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division) Phillips Mill Historic District; Pine Valley Covered Bridge
Buck House NYC, a gallery in Manhattan, New York; David M. Buck House, Yancey County, North Carolina; Pearl S. Buck House, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; A. W. Buck House, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania; Buck's Upper Mill Farm, also known as the Henry Buck House, Bucksville, South Carolina, Lufkin Land-Long Bell-Buck House, Lufkin, Texas, listed on the NRHP