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Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District

Coordinates: 36°06′02″N 80°14′24″W / 36.10056°N 80.24000°W / 36.10056; -80.24000
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Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
View of Downtown Winston-Salem, December 2011
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District is located in North Carolina
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District is located in the United States
Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
LocationBounded 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
Coordinates36°06′02″N 80°14′24″W / 36.10056°N 80.24000°W / 36.10056; -80.24000
Area31 acres (13 ha)
Built1890 (1890)
Built byJ.E. Sirrine and Company
Architectural styleRomanesque, Second Empire, Commercial Style
NRHP reference No.09000602[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Jennifer F. Hembree (March 2009) [2008]. "Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.