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Conestoga Cork Works Building

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Built
  
c. 1883-1897

Area
  
8,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
96000324

Added to NRHP
  
28 March 1996

Conestoga Cork Works Building

Location
  
215-235 E. Fulton St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Other, Late 19th-century industrial

MPS
  
Tobacco Buildings in Lancaster City MPS

Conestoga Cork Works Building, also known as E. Rosenwald & Co. Tobacco Warehouse, Rose Bros. & Co., Farmers Supply, and Rosenwald Court Apartments, is a historic factory and tobacco warehouse located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built between about 1883 and 1897, and is a three-story, 31 bay brick building with a hipped and gabled roof. It has a stuccoed limestone foundation. The building was used as a cork cutting factory until 1912, a tobacco warehouse until the 1960s, then converted to apartments in 1992.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

References

Conestoga Cork Works Building Wikipedia


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