{"nrhp_refnum":"90001400","name":"Bowman, Jacob, Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"226--230 E. Grant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.04003331600006,"lon":-76.30041324399997,"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 four-story brick tobacco warehouse at the southeast corner of East Grant and North Jefferson Streets in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, built on a raised basement with a limestone foundation. It dates from about 1906 and sits in an area of mixed commercial and residential use.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the warehouse is significant for its role in Lancaster City's late nineteenth and early twentieth century cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry. It is also significant as a representative example of the city's early twentieth century industrial buildings. The form states the building retains very good integrity.","narrative":"Built around 1906 on a previously vacant corner lot at East Grant and North Jefferson Streets in Lancaster, this four-story brick warehouse rises over a raised basement with a limestone foundation. Its north and south elevations are five bays wide, and its roof is covered with rolled asbestos sheeting. Tobacco was stored on the first floor, while curing, known as sweating, took place on the upper three floors. By 1931 the building housed the Minkoff Leaf Tobacco Co., which still owned it in 1947. Painted signs for the firm remain between the first and second stories on the north and west elevations. The warehouse is significant for its part in Lancaster City's major late nineteenth and early twentieth century cigar leaf industry. It also typifies the many industrial buildings the city produced in the early twentieth century. Its physical condition retains the original form and detailing, with some brickwork repairs, and it is used for storage today.","period_of_significance":"c.1906-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The building presently is used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.72599-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001400/194dd1ad6e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001400/194dd1ad6e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowman_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:Bowman_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/71993279","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bowman_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6118403"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/bowman-jacob-tobacco-warehouse-90001400/"}