Penn-Craft_Historic_District

Penn-Craft Historic District

Penn-Craft Historic District

Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

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

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

History and architectural features

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

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [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. [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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