Bright Leaf Historic District

at 905 W Main St, Durham , 27701 United States

1. Local Business
2. Historical Place

Description

The Bright Leaf Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 22 contributing buildings and seven contributing structures in an industrial section of Durham. The majority of the buildings were built from the 1870s to the World War II period, and are massive two- to four-story structures, usually rectangular in form with flat or very shallow gable roofs and of fireproof construction with brick exteriors. Notable buildings include the B. L. Duke Warehouse (late 1870s), the Italianate style W. Duke Sons and Company Cigarette Factory (1884), Liggett and Myers Office Building, Chesterfield Building, Flowers Building (1916), Imperial Tobacco Company Factory (1916), White Warehouse (1926), and five Romanesque Revival style buildings built by The American Tobacco Company trust—Walker Warehouse (1897), Cobb Building (1898), O'Brien Building (1899), Hicks Warehouse (1903) and Toms Warehouse (1903).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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Summary

Bright Leaf Historic District is Durham based place and this enity listed in Historical Place category. Located at 905 W Main St NC 27701. Contact phone number of Bright Leaf Historic District: (919) 682-9229