N. Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Coordinates: | 40.0428°N -76.2936°W |
Built: | 1880 |
Architecture: | Tobacco Warehouse |
Added: | September 21, 1990 |
Refnum: | 90001402 |
The North Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District is an historic, American cigar factory and tobacco warehouse complex and national historic district located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
This district includes eight contributing buildings, four of which were previously listed as the A. B. Hess Cigar Factory, and Warehouses. They are the Consolidated Cigar Co., consisting of the M. Oppenheimer and J. Bunzl & Sons warehouses (c. 1880), the J.R. Russel Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1880), and the J. Best Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1880). All four structures are brick buildings that sit on stone foundations; all were used for the processing and storage of cigar leaf tobacco.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.