Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
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Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
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View of Downtown Winston-Salem, December 2011
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| Location | Bounded by Chestnut St. on the W., 5th and 7th Sts. on the N., Linden St. on the E., and 4th and Fogle Sts. on the S., Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | 31 acres (13 ha) |
| Built | 1890 |
| Built by | J.E. Sirrine and Company |
| Architectural style | Romanesque, Second Empire, Commercial Style |
| NRHP Reference # | 09000602[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 5, 2009 |
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District is a national historic district located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 16 contributing structures in a predominantly industrial section of Winston-Salem. The buildings date from about 1890 to 1959, and include buildings relating to the tobacco industry, specifically R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Also on the district are a once-thriving African American and the wholesale commercial business district that once catered to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company workers. Located in the district is the separately listed Romanesque Revival style S. J. Nissen Building and Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[1]
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- Tobacco in the United States
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Romanesque Revival architecture in North Carolina
- Second Empire architecture in North Carolina
- Buildings and structures in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Forsyth County, North Carolina
- Forsyth County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
