{"nrhp_refnum":"90001405","name":"Sherman, L. G., Tobacco Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"602 E. Marion St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.04137570900008,"lon":-76.29317123999994,"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, rectangular in plan, dating from about 1900, on a hill at the southeast corner of North Marshall and East Marion Streets in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It currently houses an engineering firm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the warehouse is tied to Lancaster's late nineteenth and early twentieth century cigar leaf tobacco processing and storage industry, under criteria A and C. It is presented as representative of a large body of early twentieth century industrial buildings in the city and as a good example of the sparsely ornamented flat-roof version of its property type, with raised parapets.","narrative":"Brick tobacco warehouse on a hill at the southeast corner of North Marshall and East Marion Streets in Lancaster, dating from about 1900. The eight-bay by two-bay building stands two stories over a high basement, with brick segmental arches over all openings, six-over-six wooden sash windows, and a flat roof with stone copings and parapets on the north and south elevations. Its west facade has a shipping entrance at basement level, a raised shop entrance with a wooden platform and double stairs, and a loading dock. The Sherman warehouse is listed as a representative example of Lancaster's tobacco processing industry, which centred on storing and processing cigar leaf in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By 1912 Jno. McLaughlin & Co. and Jacob Bowman & Bro. occupied the building. A small addition at the southeast end was removed and the southwest indentation filled, and the south elevation was altered around 1910, though the overall configuration, brickwork and fenestration remain largely unchanged. It was sparsely ornamented, which typifies its flat-roof type.","period_of_significance":"C. 1900-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently houses an engineering firm; integrity described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.246725-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001405.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001405/77cc144fed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001405/77cc144fed-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:602_E_Marion_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:602_E_Marion_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/71993287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._G._Sherman_Tobacco_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6456460"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/sherman-l-g-tobacco-warehouse-90001405/"}