The National Tobacco Works Branch Stemmery is a

stemmery A stemmery is a building where tobacco leaves are stripped for the production of tobacco products. The name is an Americanism dating to the mid-late 1850s. Stemmeries often employed African-American laborers. Labor issues Many stemmery workers wer ...

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

, located at 2410-18 W. Main St. It was built in 1898 and was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1983. The building was designed by D.X. Murphy & Brothers; D.X. Murphy also designed the Jefferson County Jail (Louisville, Kentucky) and the Jefferson Branch Library. It was part of Louisville's National Tobacco Works, a large manufacturer of

chewing tobacco Chewing tobacco is a type of smokeless tobacco product that is placed between the cheek and lower gum to draw out its flavor. Some users chew it, others do not. It consists of coarsely chopped aged tobacco that is flavored and often sweetened; ...

. It was later the Hubbuch In Kentucky Service Center. With

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Industrial buildings completed in 1898 National Register of Historic Places in Louisville, Kentucky Stemmeries Tobacco buildings in the United States 1898 establishments in Kentucky Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky {{JeffersonCountyKY-NRHP-stub

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