{"nrhp_refnum":"90001394","name":"Martin, B. B., Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"422--428 N. Water St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.04505386900007,"lon":-76.31058984599997,"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 two-and-one-half story red brick tobacco warehouse at 422-8 North Water Street in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, dating from about 1875 with a stone foundation, slate side-gabled roof, and raised basement. It is a building rather than a district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under criteria A and C as an integral part of Lancaster City's late nineteenth and early twentieth century cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry. It is presented as a very good example of the two-story side-gabled version of its property type and as representative of a large body of industrial buildings of the period. Its very good integrity is cited as supporting this significance.","narrative":"Built about 1875 as a tobacco warehouse in Lancaster, this two-and-one-half story red brick building stands on a stone foundation with a raised basement, five bays by three, and brick pilasters and corbelled cornices with dentils. Its slate side-gabled roof and segmental-arched window openings remain largely original, though a loading dock ramp was added on the east elevation around 1970. The building is significant for its link to the cigar leaf tobacco trade, which was one of Lancaster City's most important industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its processing and storage functions are reflected in its plan and raised basement, where leaf stripping took place around 1901. Early occupants included I. Stirk, John F. Brimmer's Leaf Tobacco Warehouse, and the firm of M. Levy and Sons, which operated it by 1912. By 1947 the building had shifted to storage for auto parts.","period_of_significance":"C. 1875-1912","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"By 1947 used as storage for auto parts; the document states its present use is the same.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.852528-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001394.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001394/b52555d101-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001394/b52555d101-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BB_Martin_Lancaster_1.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:BB_Martin_Lancaster_1.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/71993267","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._Martin_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4833919"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/martin-b-b-tobacco-warehouse-90001394/"}