Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District Explained

Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Roughly bounded by Twelfth, Clark, Ficklen, and Washington Sts.; Eleventh St. near Clark St., Greenville, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.6064°N -77.3769°W
Architecture:Art Deco, Industrial Italianate
Added:July 17, 1997, November 30, 1999 (Boundary Increase)
Refnum:97000726, 99001450 (Boundary Increase)

Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing structures in an industrial section of Greenville. It includes buildings dated from about 1905 to 1947 and notable examples of Art Deco and Italianate style industrial architecture. Contributing resources are the American Tobacco Company Storage Warehouse #2. (c. 1905); the Prichard-Hughes Warehouse (c. 1905, with c. 1923 addition); the Dail-Ficklen Warehouse (c. 1911, with c. 1923, 1947, and 1963 additions); the Export Leaf Factory (1914, with 1928, 1932, and 1938 additions); the E. B. Ficklen Factory (c. 1916, with additions c. 1923, c. 1925, c. 1945, and c. 1950); the Gorman Warehouse (1927); the Star Warehouse (1930); and the System of CSX Railroad Tracks.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, with a boundary increase in 1999.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Betsey Gohdes Baten. Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . January 1997 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.
  2. Web site: Betsy Gohdes-Baten. Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District (Boundary Increase). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . March 1999 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.