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Penn-Craft Historic District

Coordinates: 39°57′33″N 79°54′45″W / 39.95917°N 79.91250°W / 39.95917; -79.91250
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Penn-Craft Historic District
Buildings in Penncraft, Pennsylvania, Summer 1991
Penn-Craft Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Penn-Craft Historic District
Penn-Craft Historic District is located in the United States
Penn-Craft Historic District
LocationRoughly bounded by PA 4020, Twp. Rd. 326, and Twp. Rd. 549, Luzerne Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°57′33″N 79°54′45″W / 39.95917°N 79.91250°W / 39.95917; -79.91250
Area175 acres (71 ha)
ArchitectStanton, William Macy; Day, David
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No.89000356[1]
Added to NRHPMay 18, 1989

The Penn-Craft Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

History and architectural features

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This district includes 108 contributing buildings, seven contributing sites, and six contributing structures that are located 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 the community's remaining frame, "temporary" houses, fifty stone houses, a knitting factory (1939), a 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 that was ignited by a lightning strike.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "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 January 29, 2012.
  3. ^ Christine Haines/HeraldStandard.com (June 30, 2012). "Possible lightning-caused fire damages Penncraft Store - heraldstandard.com: Hsnewsnow". heraldstandard.com. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
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