{"nrhp_refnum":"07001160","name":"Uneek Havana Cigar Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1259 PA 113 (Hilltown Township)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blooming Glen","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.368610999000055,"lon":-75.25055599999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick cigar factory with a raised stone and stucco basement on Route 113 at the west edge of the village of Blooming Glen in Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built ca. 1907-1910.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under Criterion A for its association with the cigar-making industry in Bucks County. It also argues it is significant under Criterion C as an example of industrial architecture designed by Doylestown architect A. Oscar Martin, combining traditional mill and factory forms with Prairie and Arts and Crafts touches.","narrative":"Built between 1907 and 1910 by a group of local Mennonite businessmen who formed the Blooming Glen Improvement Company, this two-story brick cigar factory stands along Route 113 at the western edge of Blooming Glen in Hilltown Township. It was designed by Doylestown architect A. Oscar Martin, whose plan follows the rectangular, gable-roofed form and evenly spaced windows of earlier Bucks County mills, with low Prairie-style roof pitch and broad overhangs. A corbelled brick U and H decoration sits above the main east entrance. The building operated as a cigar factory until 1919, when it became a pants factory, and later served light industrial uses. The nomination ties it to the county's cigar industry, which at its peak had around 30 factories in the Blooming Glen, Sellersville, Perkasie and Quakertown area. Its survival as a well-preserved example of that industrial building type is the basis for listing.","period_of_significance":"1907-1919","architect_builder":"Martin, Oscar A. (architect)","architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to a pants factory after 1919, used for light industry until about 2004, and purchased then by the current owner with plans to restore it for business use; the form states its windows and doors have been repaired and the interior is used as office suites.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.033807-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/07001160.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001160/c3555e7f81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001160/c3555e7f81-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uneek_Havana_Cigar_Company_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uneek_Havana_Cigar_Company_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994704","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uneek_Havana_Cigar_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7884170"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/uneek-havana-cigar-company-07001160/"}