| Penderlea Homesteads Historic District | |
| Nrhp Type: | hd |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Location: | Bounded by Sills Cr., Webber, Crooked Run, Lake, Lamb & Raccoon Rds., near Willard, North Carolina |
| Coordinates: | 34.6594°N -78.0497°W |
| Built: | c. |
| Architect: | John Nolen Stearns and Stanton |
| Architecture: | Art Deco |
| Added: | September 27, 2013 |
| Refnum: | 13000803[1] |
Penderlea Homesteads Historic District is a national historic district located near Willard, Pender County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 186 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and nine contributing structures in a rural section of Pender County. The district includes a collection of community buildings and houses constructed as part of the Penderlea Homesteads New Deal project. It includes 88 one-story, frame dwellings constructed as part of the original homestead project. Penderlea was the first experimental farm-city colony established by the United States government through the United States Department of the Interior’s Division of Subsistence Homesteads.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[1]