The North Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District is an historic cigar factory and tobacco warehouse complex and national historic district located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
History and architectural features 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. ()
See also Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District, Lancaster Teller Brothers–Reed Tobacco Historic District, Lancaster National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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