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Wheatland

1828

James Buchanan's Lancaster, Pennsylvania estate, where he ran his 1856 presidential campaign and later wrote his memoir.

Buchanan owned and lived at Wheatland for two decades, running his 1856 campaign from the house and writing his memoir there.

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Front view of a two-story red brick Georgian-style house with white-trimmed windows, dark green shutters, dormer windows in a gray slate roof, and a white portico with columns over a central door reached by steps. Large bare-branched and leafy trees frame the scene across a green lawn.
Wheatland, James Buchanan's home near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, built 1828.

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Wheatland is a brick Federal-style house in Lancaster Township, Pennsylvania, built in 1828 by lawyer William Jenkins. James Buchanan purchased it in 1848 and lived there for much of the rest of his life. It is now a National Historic Landmark.

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