{"nrhp_refnum":"90001390","name":"Brimmer, John, Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"226 N. Prince St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.041872900000044,"lon":-76.29704883899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick tobacco warehouse with a flat roof and stone foundation, occupying a city block between North Prince and North Water Streets in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It dates from c. 1900 and is listed under the name John Brimmer Tobacco Warehouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its role in Lancaster City's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry. It is presented as a good example of the four-story, flat-roofed variant of tobacco warehouse common in the early twentieth century, and its pressed metal cornice is described as unusual within that property type.","narrative":"Brick tobacco warehouse on North Prince and North Water Streets in Lancaster, built around 1900 and rising three stories above a stone foundation. It spans a full city block, with a flat roof and a cornice decorated on its east and west elevations. The east facade on North Prince Street has wooden lintels and a pressed metal cornice with modillions and Eastlake-type brackets, a detail the nomination calls unusual for the property type, where brick corbelled cornices were nearly universal. The west elevation on North Water Street, once the loading side facing a railroad line since removed, has a high basement with garage entrances and brick segmental arches over its windows. John Brimmer began leaf tobacco operations here in 1901, and the building appears in its present form on the 1912 Sanborn map. It was occupied by the American Cigar Company in 1931 and still served as a tobacco warehouse in 1947. The building is significant as a representative example of the early twentieth-century warehouses that processed cigar leaf, one of Lancaster's major industries of that period.","period_of_significance":"C. 1900-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The document states the building presently houses a photography business.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.468538-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001390.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001390/b765b8c969-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001390/b765b8c969-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:226_N_Prince_Lancaster_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:226_N_Prince_Lancaster_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/71993259","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brimmer_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6223203"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/brimmer-john-tobacco-warehouse-90001390/"}