Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District

Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District
U.S. Historic district
View of Downtown Winston-Salem, December 2011
Location	Bounded by Chestnut St. on the W., 5th and 7th Sts. on the N., Linden St. on the E., and 4th and Fogle Sts. on the S., Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Area	31 acres (13 ha)
Built	1890 (1890)
Built by	J.E. Sirrine and Company
Architectural style	Romanesque, Second Empire, Commercial Style
NRHP reference No.	09000602
Added to NRHP	August 5, 2009

Winston-Salem Tobacco Historic District is a national historic district located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 16 contributing structures in a predominantly industrial section of Winston-Salem. The buildings date from about 1890 to 1959, and include buildings relating to the tobacco industry, specifically R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Also on the district are a once-thriving African American and the wholesale commercial business district that once catered to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company workers. Located in the district is the separately listed Romanesque Revival style S. J. Nissen Building and Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.