Conservative magazine National Review founder William Buckley's childhood home is now up for sale for $5.5 million.

Buckley's childhood home in Sharon was listed on May 1, after 100 years of being owned by the Buckley family, according to its listing.

Buckley founded National Review in 1955 at the beginning of the modern conservative movement. He also wrote several books, including "God and Man at Yale."

The house on 1 Great Elm Road is a Georgian colonial estate originally built in 1812, according to its listing. Buckley's father, William Buckley Sr., purchased the home in 1923.

The Buckley home has eight bedrooms, seven full bathrooms in art deco style, sitting rooms, a wood-burning fireplace and wallpaper designed by English textile designer William Morris.

Over the years, the Buckleys expanded the property for their growing family. In the 1980s, five condominiums were built on the property, according to William Buckley's grandson, Cameron Smith. He combined two of the units in 2013 to make the 8,872 square-foot residence that is on the market, Smith told Mansion Global this month.

Two townhouses on the property were connected to the main home in 1929 with a three-story atrium, according to Smith. The listing says the atrium uses sloping glass "reminiscent of New Orleans" for William Buckley's mother, Aloise, who was born in New Orleans.

The original Buckley two-story home is located next to a 50-acre community on the property, with shared access to a heated pool, pool house, tennis courts and paddle/pickleball courts.

Priscilla Buckley and former U.S. Senator Jim Buckley lived on the Great Elm property until they died in 2012 and 2023, respectively, Smith said.

Smith told Mansion Global that their deaths are part of the reason they want to sell the childhood home. Most of the Buckley family no longer resides in Sharon, except for Smith, and there is no need for the house, he said.

The Buckley home on Great Elm is listed by William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty.