W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building | |
Nrhp Type: | cp |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | 4th St. between Patterson and Linden, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 36.0994°N -80.2411°W |
Built: | -1895 |
Added: | February 23, 1978 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 78001952 |
W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building, also known as Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Co., is a historic tobacco manufacturing complex located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The complex includes two buildings. The W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House was built about 1890, and is a -story, nine bays long and three bays wide, stuccoed brick building with a stepped gable facade. The former Brown Brothers building, was built between 1890 and 1895, and is a five-story brick building with a mansard roof and hip roof dormer windows. By 1900 both buildings housed tobacco prizeries.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District.