Smith Warehouse Explained

Smith Warehouse
Location:100 N. Buchanan Blvd., Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.0014°N -78.9158°W
Architecture:Romanesque, Norman Revival
Added:September 16, 1985
Refnum:85002429

Smith Warehouse is a historic tobacco storage warehouse located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1906, and is a two-story Romanesque style brick structure divided into 12 70-foot-wide units by projecting corbeled firewalls. The building measures 850 feet long and 100 feet wide and features ornamental brickwork. It is an example of "slow burn" masonry and wood factory construction. It was the last of the 12 brick tobacco storage warehouses erected by The American Tobacco Company trust beginning in 1897.[1] The building has been converted for academic and administrative uses.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Claudia Roberts Brown . Smith Warehouse. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1984. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.