United Cigar Manufacturing Company building

United States historic place


United Cigar Manufacturing Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

United Cigar Manufacturing Company, November 2010
39°57′45″N 76°44′19″W / 39.96250°N 76.73861°W / 39.96250; -76.73861
Area	less than one acre
Built	1907
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	99001289^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 28, 1999

The United Cigar Manufacturing Company building is a historic building that is located in York, York County, Pennsylvania.

History

The building was constructed as a cigar factory in 1907 by the United Cigar Manufacturing Company of New York City.

United Cigar was formed in 1902 by the consolidation of Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffer; Hirschhorn, Mack & Company; and Stratton & Storm Company. It was subsequently incorporated in New York under the same name in 1906. As of 1907, the company owned and operated nineteen factories in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and manufactured 400 million cigars annually for the wholesale market.^[2] It became the General Cigar Company about 1917.

The cigar factory was operated for an undetermined period as the York City Cigar Company. After 1932, the building housed printers and clothing manufacturers and is currently used as an apartment building.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.^[1]

Construction

This three-story, brick building sits on a stone foundation and has a low-pitched gable roof. The main facade is eighteen bays wide and has a four-bay-wide, one-bay-deep, center pavilion. The building measures 174 feet wide by forty-one feet deep.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ The Boston Evening Transcript, 21 February 1907, pg 2 col 1
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2011-12-29. Note: This includes E. Roman (June 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: United Cigar Manufacturing Company" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-18.