{"nrhp_refnum":"85002429","name":"Smith Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 N. Buchanan Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.00143544200006,"lon":-78.91562254499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick tobacco storage warehouse at 100 N. Buchanan Boulevard in Durham, North Carolina, built in 1906 for The American Tobacco Company. It is 850 feet long and 100 feet wide.","why_significant":"It is the largest and newest of twelve warehouses and processing buildings the American Tobacco Company trust built in Durham, and it symbolizes that trust and the accomplishments of James B. Duke and other executives. It is also an outstanding example of turn-of-the-century industrial architecture, combining \"slow burn\" heavy timber and masonry construction with an elaborate brick decorative program.","narrative":"Smith Warehouse is a two-story brick storage building on the west edge of Durham's industrial district, built in 1906 to age tobacco for The American Tobacco Company. It measures 850 feet by 100 feet and consists of twelve side-by-side units, each designed to hold 3,000 hogsheads of tobacco. Fire walls separate the units, and the interior uses heavy timber \"slow burn\" construction. Its exterior carries a controlled program of pilasters, string courses, mousetoothing and corbelled chimneys that recalls medieval architecture and has been called Romanesque or Norman Revival. It was the last and largest of twelve such buildings the trust erected in Durham. The nomination values it as a symbol of the trust led by James B. Duke, which controlled about 95 percent of the cigarette trade before its 1911 dissolution, and as an outstanding example of industrial design. The designer is unknown, and the brickwork may be the work of local masons.","period_of_significance":"1900-1999 (specific date 1906)","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival or Norman Revival (variously termed), evoking medieval architecture","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition; owned privately by Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.270002-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7177/47717751/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85002429.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002429/b0486b52e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002429/b0486b52e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tpudlik","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Part_of_the_south_wall_of_Smith_Warehouse,_Durham,_NC.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tpudlik</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:Part_of_the_south_wall_of_Smith_Warehouse,_Durham,_NC.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000631","name":"Burch Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/burch-avenue-historic-district-10000631/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717751","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20745503"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/smith-warehouse-85002429/"}