{"nrhp_refnum":"90001404","name":"Schnader, R. K. & Sons, Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"437--439 W. Grant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03798168600008,"lon":-76.31455690399997,"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 brick tobacco warehouse over a raised basement at 417-419 or nearby in Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built about 1890 and rectangular in plan, about one hundred feet deep. It stands on the street with its front-gabled south elevation facing the street.","why_significant":"The building is significant as an integral part of Lancaster City's late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry. It is regarded as a representative example of the tobacco warehouse property type of the period, and its simple corbelled brick cornice is characteristic of that type. The nomination treats it as a late example of the front-gabled pitched roof warehouse.","narrative":"Built about 1890 in Lancaster City, this two-story red brick tobacco warehouse stands over a raised basement and measures three bays wide by roughly one hundred feet deep. Its south gable end faces the street and is ornamented only by a brick corbelled cornice with dentils. Owned by R. K. Schnader & Sons around 1900, it stood beside the company's three-story cigar factory, which has since been demolished. Sanborn maps show the family still held the pair of buildings in 1912, when both remained in the tobacco trade. Later the warehouse served the Keystone Burlap Bag Company. The building is listed for its association with Lancaster's cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry, which was among the city's most important in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is also significant as a representative example of the industrial tobacco warehouse type of the period, with a simple, characteristic plan and decoration.","period_of_significance":"C. 1890-1912","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used for storage by the American National Red Cross","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.518781-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001404.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001404/3419a38cac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001404/3419a38cac-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RKSchnader_Lancaster.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RKSchnader_Lancaster.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/71993285","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Schnader_%26_Sons_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7273763"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/schnader-r-k-and-sons-tobacco-warehouse-90001404/"}