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Hill Farm Estate is a small Personal Care Home located on 23 acres in Annville, PA.

History
Its original construction was completed in 1919 or 1920 on 26 acres for business tycoon and congressman Aaron. S. Kreider. The Federal-style mansion was a summer home for Aaron Kreider. The original mansion was about 13 years old when a fire broke out on Monday March 7, 1932. According to the article “damage was estimated a five thousand dollars" articles” . About 11 months later another fire broke out on February 5, 1933 in the mansion. This time all 14 occupants of the mansion escape but the mansion is burned to the ground. The damage is $400,000. Later in 1933 contractors D.L. Saylor and Sons start the work to rebuild the mansion. Hill Farm Estate had two additional wings each completed in 1982 and in 2002.  The original Hill Farm Estate property includes the mansion, carriage house, garden house with summer kitchen, a tennis court, pool and a fountain.

Architecture
The former and current mansions are representations of the Federal-style architecture.

Aaron S. Kreider
Aaron S. Kreider who was the original owner was "engaged in agricultural pursuits and later employed as a clerk in a store..." He pursued shoe manufacturing and banking. He was also a republican member of congress. According to reverend Francis "He is a self-made man. Beginning as a grain merchant at Lawn, he gave business impetus to the place. He entered the shoe business, to which some of the Kreiders were turning a gentle hand, he carried it to large commanding proportions - five large factories at present, Annville, Elizabethtown, Middletown, Palmyra and Lebanon. We hope to have a separate write-up of the Kreider shoe business. He was nominated for the State Legislature, but a place opened for his calibre and he went to Congress. The fact that he has been returned again and again without opposition is sufficient comment on the nature of his service. His associates in Congress have placed him on important committees without him so much as lifting a finger to get the appointment. He was recently sent by Congress to visit the battlefields of Europe, from which trip he has just returned. ..."