Watts and Yuille Warehouses

Watts and Yuille Warehouses
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Yuille Warehouse in December 2014
Location within North Carolina Location within the United States
Location	905 W. Main St., Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°0′1″N 78°54′37″W
Area	2.4 acres (0.97 ha)
Built	1904 (1904)
Architect	Hicks, W. J.; Hunt, Albert F.
Architectural style	Romanesque, Norman Revival
NRHP reference No.	84002259
Added to NRHP	April 5, 1984

Watts and Yuille Warehouses, also known as Brightleaf Square, are two historic tobacco storage warehouses located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. They are part of the Bright Leaf Historic District. They were built in 1904, and are two identical buildings parallel to each other with a courtyard in between. They are two-story Romanesque-style brick structures, seven bays wide and twenty bays long. Each unit of the warehouses is 75 feet by 118 feet, for a total of 35,400 square feet on each floor. They are an example of "slow burn" masonry and wood factory construction. They were among the 12 brick tobacco storage warehouses erected by The American Tobacco Company trust beginning in 1897. The buildings have been converted to retail and office use.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

External links

• Brightleaf Square website
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NC-5, "Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, Watts Tobacco Warehouse, Gregson & West Peabody Streets, Durham, Durham County, NC", 2 measured drawings