Penn-Craft Historic District is a national

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located at Luzerne Township,

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. The district includes 108 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 6 contributing structures in the subsistence homestead community of Penn-Craft. The planned community was first built between 1937 and 1943 by the

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, as a community for unemployed miners. In addition to two pre-Penn Craft dwellings, contributing buildings include remaining frame "temporary" houses, 50 stone houses, knitting factory (1939), cooperative store (1942), and a frame barn. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 1989. When the

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passed through southwestern Pennsylvania on June 29, 2012, the community's store was destroyed by a fire resulting from a lightning strike.

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Town of Penn-Craft, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA
18 photos, 24 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at

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Subsistence-Homestead Towns, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA
26 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Fayette County, Pennsylvania New Deal subsistence homestead communities National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Pennsylvania {{FayetteCountyPA-NRHP-stub