Built c. 1934 (1934) NRHP Reference # 13000803 Added to NRHP 27 September 2013 | Architectural style Art Deco Area 23 ha | |
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Location Bounded by Sills Cr., Webber, Crooked Run, Lake, Lamb & Raccoon Rds., near Willard, North Carolina Architect Nolen, John; Stearns and Stanton | ||
Penderlea Homesteads Historic District is a national historic district located near Willard, Pender County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 186 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 9 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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.