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North Shippen Tobacco Avenue Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
90001402

Year built
  
1880

Area
  
6,100 m²

Added to NRHP
  
21 September 1990

North Shippen-Tobacco Avenue Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by N. Shippen St., Tobacco Ave., and E. Fulton St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Other, Tobacco Warehouse

MPS
  
Tobacco Buildings in Lancaster City MPS

North Shippen-Tobacco Avenue Historic District is a historic cigar factory and tobacco warehouse complex and national historic district located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It 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), J.R. Russel Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1880), and J. Best Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1880). All four buildings are brick buildings over stone foundations used for the processing and storage of cigar leaf tobacco.

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

References

North Shippen-Tobacco Avenue Historic District Wikipedia