| Penn-Craft Historic District | |
| Nrhp Type: | hd |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Location: | Roughly bounded by PA 4020, Twp. Rd. 326, and Twp. Rd. 549, Luzerne Township, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates: | 39.9592°N -79.9125°W |
| Architect: | Stanton, William Macy; Day, David |
| Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
| Added: | May 18, 1989 |
| Refnum: | 89000356 |
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.
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.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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.[2]
18 photos, 24 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey
26 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey