North Prince Street Historic District

Brick industrial buildings on North Prince Street and West Lemon Street in Lancaster City were erected between 1881 and 1913, most of them as tobacco warehouses. The first, at 32-54 West Lemon Street, was built around 1881 by the Baumgardner Brothers and is the sole survivor of three such buildings. The S. R. Moss Cigar Company building at 401 North Prince Street, completed in 1907 after a fire destroyed an earlier warehouse, is five stories tall with segmental arch windows and a corbelled cornice. Tobacco was not grown in the city, but Lancaster firms processed, stored and shipped much of the county crop, and the district reflects that role. The buildings are significant for their connection to the tobacco trade and as a representative group of late nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial architecture in the city. Interiors retain post and beam construction, wood plank floors and exposed brick walls.