Penn-Craft Historic District
Penn-Craft Historic District
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Buildings in Penncraft, Pennsylvania, Summer 1991
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Location | Roughly bounded by PA 4020, Twp. Rd. 326, and Twp. Rd. 549, Luzerne Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Area | 175 acres (71 ha) |
Architect | Stanton, William Macy; Day, David |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
NRHP Reference # | 89000356[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 18, 1989 |
Penn-Craft Historic District is a national historic district located at Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 108 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 6 contributing structures in the subsistence homestead community of Penn-Craft. The planned community was first built between 1937 and 1943 by the American Friends Service Committee, as a community for unemployed miners. In addition to two pre-Penn Craft dwellings, contributing buildings include remaining frame "temporary" houses, 50 stone houses, knitting factory (1939), cooperative store (1942), and a frame barn.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
When the June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho passed through southwestern Pennsylvania on June 29, 2012, the community's store was destroyed by a fire resulting from a lightning strike.[3]
References
External links
- Town of Penn-Craft, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA: 18 photos, 24 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
- Subsistence-Homestead Towns, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA: 26 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
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- Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Historic districts in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
- New Deal subsistence homestead communities
- National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
- Fayette County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs