{"nrhp_refnum":"90001391","name":"Schnader, Walter, Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"417--419 W. Grant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03817247000006,"lon":-76.31362286999996,"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 raised basement and rectangular plan in Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, dating from around 1900. It stands in a mixed commercial and residential area.","why_significant":"The building is significant as part of Lancaster City's late nineteenth and early twentieth century cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry. It is representative of turn-of-the-century industrial buildings in the city, with sparse ornamentation and a flat roof. Its integrity is described as good.","narrative":"Built around 1900 by Walter Schnader, this three-story red brick warehouse with a raised basement stands on a site that previously held a cigar box factory from 1886. Schnader leased it to E. L. Haller for the tobacco trade, and by 1912 it served the tobacco warehouse of R. K. Schnader and Sons. The building has a rectangular plan about one hundred four feet deep, laid in common bond with a stone foundation, a flat roof with stone copings, and a brick corbelled cornice on the three-bay south facade. Segmental brick arches cap the openings, and the first-story windows are six-over-six wooden sash. In 1947 Horwitz Bros. used it as a tobacco warehouse. Its importance lies in its role in the city's cigar leaf tobacco industry and as a representative example of plain turn-of-the-century industrial architecture in Lancaster City.","period_of_significance":"C. 1900-1940","architect_builder":"Walter Schnader (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.831416-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001391.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001391/fcc35d3bd7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001391/fcc35d3bd7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Schnader_Tobacco_Warehouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Schnader_Tobacco_Warehouse.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/71993261","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schnader_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966079"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/schnader-walter-tobacco-warehouse-90001391/"}