{"nrhp_refnum":"90001396","name":"Frey, Jacob L., Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 W. Grant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03799708100007,"lon":-76.32112105099998,"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-story, gable-fronted brick tobacco warehouse on West Grant Street in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built about 1870 for Jacob L. Frey.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its role in Lancaster City's cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry, one of the city's most important late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century industries. It is presented as a representative example of the industrial buildings of that trade, and as a good example of the earlier buildings of this property type. Frey is described as a leader in developing the cigar leaf tobacco business in Lancaster City.","narrative":"Two-story brick warehouse on West Grant Street in Lancaster, built around 1870 with a stone foundation, a gable-fronted north facade and brick segmental arches over its openings. Its walls are laid in common bond, and the interior retains exposed post-and-beam construction, brick walls and an original manually operated wooden freight elevator that remains in working order. Jacob L. Frey, a Lancaster cigar manufacturer and leaf tobacco dealer, used the building from about 1873 to 1910, first for cigar manufacturing and then as a tobacco warehouse. Later occupants included a leaf tobacco firm in 1912 and 1916, followed by furniture storage and other businesses. The building is significant for its association with the cigar leaf tobacco trade, which was among Lancaster City's major late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century industries, and as a representative example of the industrial buildings of that trade. Its integrity is regarded as very good, and it currently houses an advertising agency.","period_of_significance":"C. 1870-1916","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Presently houses an advertising agency; the form describes the building's integrity as very good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.699338-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001396/8469d64b94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001396/8469d64b94-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frey_Warehouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frey_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/71993271","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_L._Frey_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6118898"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/frey-jacob-l-tobacco-warehouse-90001396/"}