Town of Norvelt, Norvelt, Westmoreland County, PA

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Significance: A subsistence homestead, the Town of Norvelt was developed as part of a broad reaching effort of the New Deal era intended to relieve the dire economic rural conditions which existed in the 1930s. Sponsored and subsidized by the U.S. government, the construction of Norvelt was supervised by the American Friends Service Committee. As an experiment in environmental and social reform, Norvelt was meant to improve the standard of living through the design of practical small houses and the implementation of a landscape plan for rural communities.

Survey number: HABS PA-5921

Building/structure dates: 1934

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1934 - 1970

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American Friends Service Committee

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