Town of Penn-Craft, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA

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Significance: The Town of Penn-Craft 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. Unlike other government sponsored subsistence homesteads, Penn-Craft was initiated by a private agency, the American Friends Service Committee. As an experiment in environmental and social reform, the development of Penn-Craft was meant to improve the standard of living and enable home ownership through the design of practical small houses and the implementation of a landscape plan for rural communities.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-313

Survey number: HABS PA-5920

Building/structure dates: 1937- 1942 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1946 Subsequent Work

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1937 - 1970

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

Stanton, William Macy

American Friends Service Committee

Madrid

America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor

Ames, David, photographer

Mulrooney, Margaret M, historian

Hoaglund, Alison K, historian

Yang, Isabel, delineator

Penncraft , 39.92723, -79.65021

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