Penn-Craft Historic District
Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States
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The Penn-Craft Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Penn-Craft Historic District | |
Buildings in Penncraft, Pennsylvania, Summer 1991 | |
  Location within Pennsylvania  Location within the United States | |
| Location | Roughly bounded by PA 4020, Twp. Rd. 326, and Twp. Rd. 549, Luzerne Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°57′33″N 79°54′45″W |
| Area | 175 acres (71 ha) |
| Architect | Stanton, William Macy; Day, David |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000356[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 18, 1989 |
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]
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]