Penderlea Homesteads Historic District | |
Location | Bounded by Sills Cr., Webber, Crooked Run, Lake, Lamb & Raccoon Rds., near Willard, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 34°39′34″N 78°02′59″W / 34.65944°N 78.04972°W |
Area | 57 acres (23 ha) |
Built | c. 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]