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Buhl Farm Park and Golf Course

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1913–1915, George Rettig, landscape architect. Forker Blvd. between Hazen and Yahres rds.

This three-hundred-acre city park adjacent to the Sharon Country Club has a free golf course and bandstand funded by a trust donated to the people of Sharon in 1915 by iron manufacturer Frank H. Buhl. The former farm's wooded and relatively flat landscape has a lake, ponds, gardens, stone gatehouse, casino, and performing arts center, as well as playing fields laid out by landscape architect George Rettig of Cleveland.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
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What's Nearby

St. Joseph's Church
Frank H. Buhl House
Frank H. Buhl Club
Sharpsville Area Recreation Park (Raisch Log House and Erie Extension Canal Lock No. 10)
Protected Home Mutual Life Insurance Company (Protected Home Circle)

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Buhl Farm Park and Golf Course", [Hermitage, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-ME12.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 541-541.

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