Penn-Craft Historic District

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Penn-Craft Historic District
Buildings in Penncraft, Pennsylvania.jpg
Buildings in Penncraft, Pennsylvania, Summer 1991
Penn-Craft Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Penn-Craft Historic District
Location Roughly bounded by PA 4020, Twp. Rd. 326, and Twp. Rd. 549, Luzerne Township, Pennsylvania
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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]

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