The Bright Leaf Historic District is a national historic district located at

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. 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 The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

style W. Duke Sons and Company Cigarette Factory (1884), Liggett and Myers Office Building, Chesterfield Building, Flowers Building (1916), Imperial Tobacco Company Factory (1916), White Warehouse (1926), and five

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

style buildings built by The

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trust—Walker Warehouse (1897), Cobb Building (1898), O'Brien Building (1899), Hicks Warehouse (1903) and Toms Warehouse (1903). It was listed on the

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in 1999.

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Brightleaf Square website
Tobacco buildings in the United States Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Romanesque Revival architecture in North Carolina Historic districts in Durham, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina {{DurhamCountyNC-NRHP-stub

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