The Venable Tobacco Company Venable Warehouse, looking east on East Pettigrew Street, likely 1920s-1930. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Wyatt Dixon Collection) Much of the historical information in this post derives from the National Register nominations for the Venable buildings The Imperial Tobacco Company The Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was established by 18 individual British tobacco manufacturers who wanted to counter JB Duke's expansion of the American Tobacco Company into Europe. After Duke purchased a British tobacco factory and began undercutting the British manufacturers, the Imperial Tobacco Company announced plans... Cobb Building Cobb Building, 1910 Cobb (left) and O'Brien (right) with the original Fire Station #2 between the buildings. Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. On either side, the stepped, projecting vent chimneys of Cobb and O'Brien are visible. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript... Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co. The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture... Liggett And Myers New Cigarette Factory --- The site just to the west of the first Duke Factory was Washington Duke's first in-town home. (Durham Historic Inventory) In 1884, Duke built a new brick factory, just to the east of his house and original factory. In 1888, he built a new house, which he called Fairview. Looking west, with the old factory building to the right. The steeple of... Liberty Warehouse (no. 3) The last-built and last-standing (as of 2011) of Durham's once large set of tobacco auction warehouses, the Liberty stopped auctioning tobacco in 1984, but was used as storage and cheap office space for several decades afterwards. In May 2011, a large section of roof collapsed in a rainstorm, rendering the southern portion of the warehoues unusable... 609 Foster Street 06.07.08 609 Foster Street was built in 1938 as a tobacco prizery and warehouse for the RJ Reynolds Company. Presumably, given the size of the Durham auction market, Reynolds wanted a presence convenient to the auction warehouses to press and store tobacco for shipping to their factories. 1937 plat. Note the reference to the "Big Bull Warehouse"... Add new comment Log in or register to post comments.
The Venable Tobacco Company Venable Warehouse, looking east on East Pettigrew Street, likely 1920s-1930. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, Wyatt Dixon Collection) Much of the historical information in this post derives from the National Register nominations for the Venable buildings
The Imperial Tobacco Company The Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland was established by 18 individual British tobacco manufacturers who wanted to counter JB Duke's expansion of the American Tobacco Company into Europe. After Duke purchased a British tobacco factory and began undercutting the British manufacturers, the Imperial Tobacco Company announced plans...
Cobb Building Cobb Building, 1910 Cobb (left) and O'Brien (right) with the original Fire Station #2 between the buildings. Looking northeast from Duke and Main Sts., 1890s. The tower of the Fire Station #2 is visible along West Main St. On either side, the stepped, projecting vent chimneys of Cobb and O'Brien are visible. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript...
Blackwell's Durham Tobacco / American Tobacco Co. The birth of the tobacco industry in Durham started with a handful of people -none of whom were named Blackwell, Watts, Duke, or Carr - who saw the new 'town' of Durham Station as a place of opportunity. The first entrepreneur to see Durham Station as a central transportation hub that could pull tobacco from the counties around it for manufacture...
Liggett And Myers New Cigarette Factory --- The site just to the west of the first Duke Factory was Washington Duke's first in-town home. (Durham Historic Inventory) In 1884, Duke built a new brick factory, just to the east of his house and original factory. In 1888, he built a new house, which he called Fairview. Looking west, with the old factory building to the right. The steeple of...
Liberty Warehouse (no. 3) The last-built and last-standing (as of 2011) of Durham's once large set of tobacco auction warehouses, the Liberty stopped auctioning tobacco in 1984, but was used as storage and cheap office space for several decades afterwards. In May 2011, a large section of roof collapsed in a rainstorm, rendering the southern portion of the warehoues unusable...
609 Foster Street 06.07.08 609 Foster Street was built in 1938 as a tobacco prizery and warehouse for the RJ Reynolds Company. Presumably, given the size of the Durham auction market, Reynolds wanted a presence convenient to the auction warehouses to press and store tobacco for shipping to their factories. 1937 plat. Note the reference to the "Big Bull Warehouse"...
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