{"nrhp_refnum":"90001397","name":"Eisenlohr-Bayuk Tobacco Historic District","other_names":["Lancaster Leaf Co."],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N. Water St., at W. Liberty St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.05107946800007,"lon":-76.31152584399996,"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 historic district of ten brick tobacco industry buildings and one brick smokestack on North Water Street in the northern part of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, built between 1911 and about 1935. The buildings were used for sweating, storing and processing cigar leaf tobacco.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant as an intact group of tobacco buildings representing one of Lancaster City's important late nineteenth and early twentieth century industries. Its two building groups, built by different firms, show the shift from earlier lower gabled buildings with elaborate brickwork to later large flat-roofed industrial buildings with minimal ornamentation. It is also linked to consolidation within the tobacco industry between the two World Wars.","narrative":"Built between 1911 and about 1935 on North Water Street in northern Lancaster, this district is a group of ten brick tobacco warehouses and a 1923 brick smokestack. Otto Eisenlohr & Bros., a Philadelphia firm with Lancaster operations, built the eastern group from 1911 to 1921, starting with Building A, a two-and-one-half story curing and sorting shed with clerestory windows for grading leaf. The Bayuk Cigar Co. built the western group from 1923, with larger flat-roofed buildings of industrial windows and parapets. Buildings G and I were raised by about 1935. The two groups differ in scale and ornament, which shows changes in the tobacco industry. Used for sweating, aging and storing cigar leaf, the district is significant as an intact example of this building type. Its integrity is regarded as very high, and it is among the few operating tobacco processing sites left in the city.","period_of_significance":"1911-1940","architect_builder":"Otto Eisenlohr & Bros. (eastern buildings, A through E); Bayuk Cigar Co. (western buildings, G through J)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Buildings A through J continue in use in an operating tobacco processing business; Building K is a tavern and union hall.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.237616-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001397.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001397/045c96735d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001397/045c96735d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenlohr_Bayuk_Tobacco_HD.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:Eisenlohr_Bayuk_Tobacco_HD.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/71993273","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenlohr%E2%80%93Bayuk_Tobacco_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5349947"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/eisenlohr-bayuk-tobacco-historic-district-90001397/"}