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Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District

Coordinates: 37°30′46″N 77°27′0″W / 37.51278°N 77.45000°W / 37.51278; -77.45000
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Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District
Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District is located in Virginia
Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District
Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District is located in the United States
Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District
Location2301 Maury St., Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates37°30′46″N 77°27′0″W / 37.51278°N 77.45000°W / 37.51278; -77.45000
Area12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built1952 (1952)
NRHP reference No.100001049[1]
Added to NRHPJune 5, 2017

The Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District encompasses a complex of tobacco storage and processing facilities at 2301 Maury Street in Richmond, Virginia. Included in the 12-acre (4.9 ha) site are a series of warehouses and cigarette-making factories developed beginning in the 1950s. Philip Morris USA built this complex in part to capitalize on advances in machinery that greatly increased the production speed of cigarettes.[2]

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved 2017-10-24.