{"nrhp_refnum":"90001403","name":"Slater Cigar Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"625 and 626--628 Columbia Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03731521700007,"lon":-76.31770879299995,"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":"Two brick cigar factory and tobacco warehouse buildings on the 600 block of Columbia Avenue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Building A at 625 Columbia Avenue dates from about 1895 and Building B at 628-626 Columbia Avenue from 1905-1906.","why_significant":"The buildings are associated with the processing and storage of cigar leaf tobacco, one of Lancaster City's most important late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century industries. They are described as among the few extant examples of tobacco warehouses that also functioned as large-scale cigar factories, and as good intact examples of their property type, with the emphasis on factory operations.","narrative":"Two brick buildings on the 600 block of Columbia Avenue in Lancaster form the Slater Cigar Company complex. Building A, at 625 Columbia Avenue, dates from about 1895 and was raised to three stories around 1910. Building B, across the street at 628-626 Columbia Avenue, was built in 1905-1906 as a four-story cigar factory measuring 45 by 140 feet, with a one-story rear addition from about 1920 or 1923. John Slater's company made \"Stogies\" cigars and packed tobacco, and in 1909 it employed 150 people and distributed 20 million pounds of tobacco. The buildings are regarded as integral to Lancaster's late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century leaf tobacco trade. Few surviving Lancaster tobacco buildings also served as large-scale cigar factories, and both retain good integrity.","period_of_significance":"C. 1895-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Building A is presently used by a printing firm. Building B is occupied by a used furniture business.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:13:33.064344-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001403.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001403/db8f55be65-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001403/db8f55be65-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Niagara","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slater_Cigar_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slater_Cigar_Company.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/71993283","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slater_Cigar_Company_buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7538898"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/slater-cigar-company-90001403/"}