About North Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District
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North Shippen–Tobacco Avenue Historic District is a historic cigar factory and tobacco warehouse complex and national historic district located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It includes eight contributing buildings, four of which were previously listed as the A. B. Hess Cigar Factory, and Warehouses. They are the Consolidated Cigar Co. consisting of the M. Oppenheimer and J. Bunzl & Sons warehouses (c. 1880), J.R. Russel Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1880), and J. Best Tobacco Warehouse (c. 1880). All four buildings are brick buildings over stone foundations used for the processing and storage of cigar leaf tobacco.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.