Bright Leaf Historic District

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), the Watts and Yuille Warehouses, 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).^[2]

Bright Leaf Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Roughly bounded by W. Peabody St., Duke St., Minerva Ave., N&W RR, Corporation St., Ligget St., Morris St. and W. Loop, Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°00′06″N 78°54′21″W
Area	34 acres (14 ha)
Built	1884 (1884)
Built by	William H. Linthicum, William Jackson Hicks
Architectural style	Italianate
MPS	Durham MRA
NRHP reference No.	99001619[1]
Added to NRHP	December 30, 1999

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.^[1]

See also

• Watts and Yuille Warehouses
• 2019 Durham gas explosion