Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District Explained

Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District
Nrhp Type:	hd
Nocat:	yes
Coordinates:	40.0464°N -76.3125°W
Built:	1874–c. 1881
Architecture:	Tobacco Warehouse
Added:	September 21, 1990
Refnum:	90001393

The Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District is an historic tobacco warehouse complex and national historic district which is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

History and architectural features

This historic district includes four contributing buildings which were built between 1874 and roughly 1881. All four buildings are brick buildings which were used for the processing and storage of cigar leaf tobacco. Two of the four buildings were built in 1874 and known as the C. August Bitner Tobacco Warehouse. The third was built circa 1880 as the Pritzfield & Co. Tobacco Warehouse, and the fourth was built sometime around 1881 as the Rosenbaum Tobacco Warehouse.^[1] The Rosenbaum Tobacco Warehouse is now occupied by the Lancaster Arts Hotel.

This complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

See also

• North Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District, Lancaster
• Teller Brothers–Reed Tobacco Historic District, Lancaster
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

External links

• Lancaster Arts Hotel website

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. February 26, 2012. September 14, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050914194407/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H096569_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District]. 2012-02-26. Gloria O. Becker. PDF. February 1990.