{"nrhp_refnum":"86003567","name":"Teller Cigar Factory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"340 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sellersville","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.36198360000003,"lon":-75.31289463099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-01-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story plastered industrial building in the Borough of Sellersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on a lot along the former North Pennsylvania Railroad line between Main Street and Washington Avenue. The original stone section was erected around 1866 as a cigar factory, and a brick addition was built on its northwest gable end in 1895.","why_significant":"The building is significant for its association with Sellersville's cigar industry. It was the first full-scale cigar factory in the borough and the oldest cigar factory building extant there, and it served as a major employer for over five decades. The 1895 addition made it the largest cigar factory in Sellersville at the height of the industry.","narrative":"Built in the mid-1860s by Jessias Reller as a cigar workshop, this plastered stone and brick building on North Main Street in Sellersville was the borough's first large cigar factory. Its two sections, the older one with slate roof and 4/4 sash windows and the 1895 brick wing with 2/2 Victorian windows, are plain and utilitarian with almost no ornament. In 1879 the factory was sold at a sheriff's sale and leased to the Frank Teller Cigar Company, which employed around 120 cigar makers by 1895 and gave the building its common name. The 1895 addition, built after the Progressive Real Estate Company bought the property, doubled capacity. The building marks the transition from home-based cigar making to large factory production. It remained a visible part of the town's industrial history after the trade declined in the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"c. 1866-1895","architect_builder":"A.L. Clymer (builder of 1895 addition); Jessias Reller (original construction of mid-1860s)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Used as a warehouse by a plumbing and heating supply company and a tile and floor covering company in recent years; date of closure not yet discovered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.538868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003567.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003567/2e93810315-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003567/2e93810315-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teller_Cigar_Factory_PA_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:Teller_Cigar_Factory_PA_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998129","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_Cigar_Factory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7697588"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/teller-cigar-factory-86003567/"}