Blair Tobacco Storage Warehouse Complex (former) (Richmond, Virginia)

 warehouse, historic district

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Historic warehouse complex listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a historic district.

- Built: 1939-1965
- Areas of significance: Industry; Architecture
- Area: about 26 acres
- Date added to NRHP: 8/15/2016
- Other designations: U.S. Historic District; part of the "Tobacco Warehouses in Richmond, Virginia 1874-1963" Multiple Property Submission

Unlike earlier Richmond tobacco warehouses, the Blair complex resulted from independently-owned storage facilities that relied on trucking to distribute product. Directly tied to a subsidiary trucking enterprise, the Blair Transit Company, the Blair Tobacco Storage Warehouse stockpiled large quantities of tobacco varieties that middlemen sold to cigarette manufacturers who had to produce a consistent blend for their respective cigarette brands. The storage and delivery capacity of warehouses like Blair's made possible the mass production of brand cigarettes. Today, the warehouses are occupied by various unrelated businesses.
--Virginia Department of Historic Resources

NRHP #16000538