{"nrhp_refnum":"82003448","name":"Bullington Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"500 N. Duke St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.00306567100006,"lon":-78.90570646699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick tobacco storage warehouse on North Duke Street in downtown Durham, North Carolina, built in 1927. It is the last of a series of brick tobacco warehouses constructed in the city beginning in 1897.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the warehouse illustrates the growth of Durham's tobacco industry and the company-driven design of brick storage buildings meant to project a successful corporate image. It is also presented as an example of slow-burn fire-resistant construction, and its architectural style is described as unique to Durham.","narrative":"Built in 1927 on North Duke Street in downtown Durham, the Bullington Warehouse is a three-story brick structure used to age tobacco in hogsheads. It was constructed for the Liggett and Myers company and named for Andrew Johnson Bullington, the company's leaf department manager, who had earlier worked for the American Tobacco Company. The building is the last of a series of brick storage warehouses erected in Durham from 1897, and it is the final one built in the city's downtown tobacco district. Its design uses steel I-beams, maple flooring over thick subflooring, and a sprinkler system to achieve slow-burn fire resistance, a method insurers encouraged. Its corbeled firewalls, shuttered windows and pilasters align with the street. The warehouse is regarded as a visible record of the tobacco boom that shaped Durham in the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1927","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romanesque (as described in the statement of significance)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The building remains unaltered and until recently was still used for its original function; it has not been used for storage in recent years and the present owner has proposed adaptive reuse as condominiums.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.741613-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/7200/47720058/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003448.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003448/f129b9efa4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003448/f129b9efa4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BULLINGTON_WAREHOUSE,_DURHAM_COUNTY,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:BULLINGTON_WAREHOUSE,_DURHAM_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99001619","name":"Bright Leaf Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/bright-leaf-historic-district-99001619/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720058","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullington_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460733"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/bullington-warehouse-82003448/"}