{"nrhp_refnum":"96000324","name":"Conestoga Cork Works Building","other_names":["E. Rosenwald &amp","Co.","Tobacco Warehouse","Rose Bros. &amp","Farmer"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215--235 E. Fulton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.04232558100006,"lon":-76.30086703899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick factory and warehouse building on Fulton Street in Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built circa 1883 for the Conestoga Cork Works and later enlarged, with a two-story rear tee wing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with Lancaster's cork manufacturing, umbrella manufacturing, and cigar leaf tobacco storage industries from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. It is also presented as a representative example of late nineteenth-century industrial architecture in Lancaster.","narrative":"Built circa 1883 on Fulton Street in Lancaster City, this brick industrial building was first used as a cork factory by the Conestoga Cork Works, which had lost its earlier factories to fire. Lancaster was a center of the cork trade in the late nineteenth century, and the company's presence here reflects that. The building was extended eastward by 1891 to a total of thirty-one bays, with a third story added to the rear tee wing. Rose Brothers & Company, an umbrella maker, used it as a factory until 1912. From 1915 it served as a tobacco warehouse for E. Rosenwald & Company, and it stayed in tobacco storage until the 1960s. Its long, open, three-story interior suited these uses. The building is regarded as a representative example of Lancaster's late nineteenth-century industrial architecture and of adaptive reuse for tobacco storage. Its brick walls, gable roof and multi-bay facade remain largely intact, and it was converted to apartments in 1992 and 1993 while keeping exposed structural members.","period_of_significance":"1883-1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted into apartments in 1992 and 1993 under Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.64534-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96000324.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000324/8344020e57-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000324/8344020e57-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conestoga_Cork.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conestoga_Cork.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/71993257","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_Cork_Works_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5159525"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/conestoga-cork-works-building-96000324/"}