{"nrhp_refnum":"85000035","name":"B.F. Good & Company Leaf Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":["P. Lorillard Company Tobacco Warehouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"49-53 W. James St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03579886600005,"lon":-76.30842019599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-01-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three and one-half story brick tobacco warehouse at the northeast corner of North Prince and West James Streets in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built between late summer 1899 and spring 1900. The form names it the P. Lorillard Company Tobacco Warehouse, formerly the F. F. Good & Co. Leaf Tobacco Warehouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its architecture, being an intact and monumental warehouse with pilasters and blind arches that is unusual among Lancaster's tobacco warehouses. It also argues the building is significant for its role in the regional tobacco trade and for its association with tobacco merchants Edward M. Cohn and B.F. Good and with the P. Lorillard Company, whose purchase in 1920 linked it to a national marketing network.","narrative":"Built between late summer 1899 and spring 1900 for David H. Miller, this three and one-half story brick warehouse stands on the northeast corner of North Prince and West James Streets in Lancaster. Its south facade is divided into three bays by brick pilasters that rise to the attic and end in corbelled arches, and the first-floor central bay holds the main doorway beneath an original wood and pressed metal hood. The building was occupied by the Charles Tole Leaf Tobacco Company around 1900 to 1906 and then rented by B.F. Good & Co. from about 1907 to 1920, when the P. Lorillard Company bought it. It is regarded as a very intact example among Lancaster's tobacco warehouses, many of which have been altered or destroyed. Its monumental facade is notable as one of the few factory-warehouse buildings in the city with that character. Its interior retains an original gravity-driven elevator made by Albert Welchans of Lancaster. The building also marks the regional tobacco trade of Lancaster County and the business careers of Cohn and Good.","period_of_significance":"1899-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used for storage and marketing of tobacco without interruption since 1900; in use as a Lorillard tobacco warehouse.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.616133-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85000035.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000035/93bdf19da9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000035/93bdf19da9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BF_Good_Lancaster.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BF_Good_Lancaster.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000956","name":"Lancaster City Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lancaster-city-historic-district-01000956/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996058","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Good_%26_Company_Leaf_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4833799"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/b-f-good-and-company-leaf-tobacco-warehouse-85000035/"}