{"nrhp_refnum":"89001051","name":"Nissly-Stauffer Tobacco Warehouses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"322--24 N. Arch St. and 317--19 N. Mulberry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.04311332000003,"lon":-76.31090436399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two brick tobacco warehouses with limestone foundations in Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at 322-24 North Arch Street and 317-19 North Mulberry Street. The Nissly Warehouse, three stories, was built c. 1912 and the Stauffer Warehouse, five stories, c. 1913.","why_significant":"The buildings are associated with the tobacco industry, which was Lancaster City's leading industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and they are a well preserved grouping of tobacco buildings. They are also representative examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Lancaster industrial architecture, with common bond brick, corbelled cornices and large open interiors.","narrative":"Two brick warehouses on North Arch and North Mulberry Streets in Lancaster City were built around 1912 and 1913 for tobacco storage. The three-story Nissly Warehouse at 322-24 North Arch Street has common bond brick walls on limestone foundations, segmental arch window openings with six over six sash, and a corbelled cornice. The five-story Stauffer Warehouse at 317-19 North Mulberry Street was built by contractor Samuel H. Bally for Charles F. and B. Grant Stauffer and leased for tobacco storage. Lancaster City was the center of tobacco storage and processing for Lancaster County, and the city had 100 tobacco warehouses by the end of the nineteenth century. The buildings are representative of the industrial architecture of that period. Their interiors retain large open spaces, wooden floors and post and beam framing, and both have kept most of their original windows, doors and brickwork, with changes that are regarded as reversible.","period_of_significance":"1912-1939","architect_builder":"Samuel H. Bally (contractor, Stauffer Warehouse)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Nissly warehouse is stated to stand vacant; the Stauffer warehouse serves as a one unit residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.229618-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/89001051.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001051/45e9e4cd5d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001051/45e9e4cd5d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nissly_Stauffer_Lacaster_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nissly_Stauffer_Lacaster_PA.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/71996099","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissly-Stauffer_Tobacco_Warehouses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15262401"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/nissly-stauffer-tobacco-warehouses-89001051/"}