{"nrhp_refnum":"90001406","name":"Teller Brothers-Reed Tobacco Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N. Prince St., 200 block, E side","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.04308449100006,"lon":-76.29343794799996,"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 five contributing buildings and one noncontributing site on the east side of the 200 block of North Prince Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, built largely between about 1865 and 1900 as tobacco warehouses, a cigar factory and a paint works.","why_significant":"The district is significant as part of Lancaster City's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cigar leaf tobacco industry, and as an intact group of brick warehouse buildings whose sites were tied to nearby railroad lines. The John F. Reed & Co. Cigar Factory is described as a rare early cigar factory that appears to have originally been a dwelling. The Teller Bros. warehouses are typical of new warehouse construction in the city.","narrative":"Five brick buildings and one former site on the east side of the 200 block of North Prince Street in Lancaster form a tobacco district built mostly between about 1865 and 1900. The three-and-one-half-story John F. Reed & Co. Cigar Factory, dating from about 1865, has a late-Federal appearance and seems to have begun as a double house before being expanded. The Teller Bros. warehouses, the South Building from about 1877 and the North Building from about 1885, were built for a Philadelphia leaf tobacco firm and show the shift from pitched to flat roofs on industrial buildings. The J. R. Bitner Tobacco Warehouse, from about 1880, combined storage with a box shop. A fire in 1984 destroyed the Lancaster Paint & Glass Co. front building and damaged the rear Lancaster Paint Works, which is included as a contributing building for its warehouse construction. The district's close ties to the adjacent railroad lines add to its significance.","period_of_significance":"C. 1877-1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late-Federal (John F. Reed & Co. Cigar Factory); other buildings described as warehouse architecture","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Building E (Lancaster Paint Works) is not in use after fire damage and awaits restoration; the other buildings have been renovated and are in commercial use, including a mall of shops, an automotive supplies business, an architectural firm and a rug importing business.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.3762-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001406.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001406/5e88bb3e8b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001406/5e88bb3e8b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teller_Bros_HD_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:Teller_Bros_HD_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/71993289","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_Brothers%E2%80%93Reed_Tobacco_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7697587"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/teller-brothers-reed-tobacco-historic-district-90001406/"}