Penn-Craft Historic District

Penn-Craft Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Buildings in Penncraft, Pennsylvania, Summer 1991

Location	Roughly bounded by PA 4020, Twp. Rd. 326, and Twp. Rd. 549, Luzerne Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′33″N 79°54′45″W / 39.95917°N 79.91250°W / 39.95917; -79.91250Coordinates: 39°57′33″N 79°54′45″W / 39.95917°N 79.91250°W / 39.95917; -79.91250
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

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Louis Orslene and Susan Shearer (February 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Penn-Craft Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-29.
↑ Christine Haines/HeraldStandard.com (2012-06-30). "Possible lightning-caused fire damages Penncraft Store - heraldstandard.com: Hsnewsnow". heraldstandard.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

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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