A Nobel Laureate's Farm
The Pearl S. Buck House
Green Hills Farm — where the author of The Good Earth wrote, raised her family, and built a humanitarian legacy that still runs from Perkasie.
The Pearl S. Buck House preserves Green Hills Farm, the 1825 stone farmhouse outside Perkasie where Pearl S. Buck — the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — lived and worked for nearly forty years. She bought the farm in the 1930s after The Good Earth made her one of the most read authors in the world, and it remains a National Historic Landmark furnished with her belongings, manuscripts, and the desk where she wrote.
The house is only half the story. Buck used the farm as the base for her humanitarian work — pioneering international and mixed-race adoption through Welcome House and founding what became Pearl S. Buck International, which still operates from the property today. Tours cover the writer, the mother of an adopted family of many nations, and the activist decades ahead of her time.
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The house and the writer
Buck came to Bucks County world-famous and chose a working farm on purpose: Green Hills gave her the quiet to write more than seventy books and the room to raise a large family. The guided tour moves through rooms kept as she left them — her library, the hand-carved Chinese desk where The Good Earth's successors were written, and the treasures of a life split between Appalachia, China, and this hillside.
The sixty-plus-acre property keeps its farm bones: stone barns, walnut trees, gardens the volunteers tend beautifully, and walking paths that make the grounds worth the visit even between tours.
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The legacy that stayed
Buck's second act matters as much as her books. Appalled that mixed-race and international children were considered unadoptable, she founded Welcome House in 1949 — the first international, interracial adoption agency — and ran it from Bucks County. Pearl S. Buck International continues the humanitarian and cross-cultural work from the farm today.
That makes the site a rare thing: a literary landmark that is also a living institution, with events, educational programs, and volunteer traditions that keep Perkasie connected to a genuinely global story.
Questions People Ask
The Pearl S. Buck House — frequently asked questions
What is the Pearl S. Buck House?
The Pearl S. Buck House is Green Hills Farm, the National Historic Landmark home of author Pearl S. Buck near Perkasie, PA. Buck, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth and the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature, lived and wrote there for nearly forty years; the house is open for guided tours.
Who was Pearl S. Buck?
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was the first American woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, best known for The Good Earth. She was also a humanitarian pioneer who founded Welcome House, the first international and interracial adoption agency, headquartered at her Bucks County farm.
Where is the Pearl S. Buck House located?
At 520 Dublin Road in Hilltown Township, just outside Perkasie, Bucks County, PA — about 15 minutes from Doylestown and 10 minutes from Quakertown.
Can you tour the Pearl S. Buck House?
Yes. Guided house tours run seasonally through Pearl S. Buck International, which operates from the property, and the grounds host gardens, walking paths, and special events. Check current tour schedules before visiting.
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