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It was built in 1937, and is a sprawling, two-story, rectangular, steel-frame building sheathed with corrugated metal. It measures 125 feet by 300 feet. It was built as a loose-leaf tobacco auction warehouse and curing barn. [2]: 5 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1]
It was built in two sections in 1938 and in 1948. Together it was an expansive frame structure on a brick foundation with low-pitched, front-gabled roofs supported by massive timber columns. The last loose-leaf tobacco auctions were held in downtown Durham in the 1980s. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]
The profitability in tobacco is evident in the stylish curved parapets on the north and south walls with tobacco leaf medallion decorations. [2]The building contains offices, a receiving room with a scale to weigh incoming tobacco, sorting and packing rooms in the basement, and "sweating" rooms where the temperature can be raised above 115 degrees to cure the tobacco.
In 2020, Daviess County's last tobacco warehouse — Big Independent at 1875 Old Calhoun Road — quietly closed. And then in March, the property was sold to Crabtree Holdings LLC, for $1.625 million.
The sale of loose-leaf tobacco by auction on a warehouse floor had originated there just before the Civil War. The practice, which was called the "Danville System", was quickly and widely adopted. It is said that Langhorne originated the auctioneer's fast-talking "chant," which proved very effective at evoking a heightened sense of bidding, and ...
Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, also known as "Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco", was a brand of loose-leaf tobacco manufactured by W. T. Blackwell and Company in Durham, North Carolina, that originated around the 1850s and remained in production until August 15, 1988. [1]
Artist Joseph Dudley Downing (1925–2007) was born and grew up in Horse Cave, where he graduated valedictorian of his class. In 1980, an exhibition of 150 of his paintings was held in the People's Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse No. 2. [10]
R. K. Schnader & Sons Tobacco Warehouse; Walter Schnader Tobacco Warehouse; Elijah Sherman Farm; L. G. Sherman Tobacco Warehouse; Smith Tobacco Barn; Smith Warehouse; W. F. Smith and Sons Leaf House and Brown Brothers Company Building; South Main Street Historic District (Kernersville, North Carolina) John W. Stovall Farm; Sweeney Prizery