{"nrhp_refnum":"89001054","name":"North Prince Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly N. Prince St. and W. Lemon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.044128647000036,"lon":-76.30875518999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of seven contributing two- to five-story brick industrial buildings in Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built between 1881 and 1913, mostly used for storing tobacco. Three non-contributing brick residential buildings are also within the district boundary.","why_significant":"The district is associated with tobacco, which was Lancaster's leading industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its warehouses and factories are described as a well-preserved concentration of tobacco buildings in the city. The buildings are also presented as representative of the utilitarian industrial architecture of that period, with brick construction, segmental arch windows, and large open interiors.","narrative":"Brick industrial buildings on North Prince Street and West Lemon Street in Lancaster City were erected between 1881 and 1913, most of them as tobacco warehouses. The first, at 32-54 West Lemon Street, was built around 1881 by the Baumgardner Brothers and is the sole survivor of three such buildings. The S. R. Moss Cigar Company building at 401 North Prince Street, completed in 1907 after a fire destroyed an earlier warehouse, is five stories tall with segmental arch windows and a corbelled cornice. Tobacco was not grown in the city, but Lancaster firms processed, stored and shipped much of the county crop, and the district reflects that role. The buildings are significant for their connection to the tobacco trade and as a representative group of late nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial architecture in the city. Interiors retain post and beam construction, wood plank floors and exposed brick walls.","period_of_significance":"1881-1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The buildings are described as in fair to good condition and largely retaining integrity; 401 North Prince Street is printing plant occupied and 427 North Prince Street continues to store tobacco.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.802412-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/89001054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001054/af9b805956-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001054/af9b805956-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:401_N_Prince_Lancaster.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:401_N_Prince_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/71996133","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Prince_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7056419"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/north-prince-street-historic-district-89001054/"}