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A. B. Hess Cigar Factory, and Warehouses is a historic cigar factory and tobacco warehouse complex located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.The complex consist of four rectangular red brick buildings, three to five stories tall.
Wheatland is located off Pennsylvania Route 23 (Marietta Avenue) in Lancaster Township, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the center of the city of Lancaster. It is situated on 10 acres (40,470 m 2 ) of land, which it shares with Lancaster County's historical society, at the intersection of Marietta Avenue and President Avenue.
Also located in the district is the separately listed Lancaster County Courthouse designed by noted Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan (1815–1884). [ 2 ] This district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with boundary increases in 1983 and 1984.
It is in the central area of the county, and it immediately surrounds Lancaster City. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 18,591. [2] Lancaster Township is one of the six immediate suburbs of the city of Lancaster, all sharing the same official designation as Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by the United States Postal Service. [3]
A Montessori school, formerly called "The New School Of Lancaster" now called "New Schooler Montessori" was opened in the 1941 office building in the autumn of 1995. [9] The complex was sold to a Baltimore -based developer in 1998 with plans to convert the existing apartments into luxury apartments and condominiums for $8 million.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
White Chimneys in Salisbury Township Near White Horse in the township. Salisbury Township was carved out of Pequea Township in 1729 and named for Salisbury, England.Though still mostly agricultural, it has been a center of commerce and industry of Lancaster County, with nickel mining beginning in 1718 and a more profitable limestone mining beginning soon after.
The W.W. Griest Building was named after William Walton Griest, a former Pennsylvania representative and head of Lancaster Public Utilities.. Designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban and built between 1924 and 1925, this historic structure was created in the Italian Renaissance Revival.