Penderlea Homesteads Historic District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Penderlea Homesteads Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

One of the homesteads in Penderlea, August 1936
34°39′34″N 78°02′59″W / 34.65944°N 78.04972°W / 34.65944; -78.04972
Area	57 acres (23 ha)
Built	c. 1934 (1934)
Architect	John Nolen Stearns and Stanton
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	13000803^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 27, 2013

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]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 9/16/13 through 9/30/13. National Park Service. October 18, 2013.
^ Jennifer Martin Mitchell (June 2013). "Penderlea Homesteads Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.