W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building
W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building, also known as Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Co., is a historic tobacco manufacturing complex located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The complex includes two buildings. The W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House was built about 1890, and is a 4 1/2-story, nine bays long and three bays wide, stuccoed brick building with a stepped gable facade. The former Brown Brothers building, was built between 1890 and 1895, and is a five-story brick building with a mansard roof and hip roof dormer windows. By 1900 both buildings housed tobacco prizeries.[2]
W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building | |
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| Location | 4th St. between Patterson and Linden, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°5′58″N 80°14′28″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1890-1895 |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001952[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 23, 1978 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1] It is located in the Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District.
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Gwynne S. Taylor (n.d.). "W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
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