Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory

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Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory

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Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory Monument, September 2014
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Location 406 Elm St., Wentzville, Missouri
Coordinates 38°48′37″N90°51′5″W / 38.81028°N 90.85139°W / 38.81028; -90.85139 Coordinates: 38°48′37″N90°51′5″W / 38.81028°N 90.85139°W / 38.81028; -90.85139
Area less than one acre
Built 1885 (1885)
NRHP reference # 90001024 [1]
Added to NRHP July 5, 1990

Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory is a historic tobacco factory located at Wentzville, St. Charles County, Missouri. It was built in 1885, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay by six bay brick building with timber framing. It measures approximately 40 feet by 90 feet and has a gable roof with long shed dormers. [2] :2

Tobacco agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them. The plant is part of the genus Nicotiana and of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. While more than 70 species of tobacco are known, the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used around the world.

Factory facility where goods are made, or processed

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Wentzville, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Wentzville is a suburb of St. Louis that is located in western St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 29,070. Population estimates in 2017 have placed the city's population at 39,414, making it the 16th largest city in Missouri. Wentzville was the fastest growing city in Missouri between 2000 and 2010 by percentage increased. As the site of the county fairgrounds, Wentzville hosts the St. Lazlo Wentz Festival and the Greater St. Louis Renaissance Faire.

Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, the historic building was demolished in 2002 and replaced with a parking lot. A historic marker was placed next to the parking lot on the site of the former building. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Barb Eisenbath Mittelbuscher and Steven Mitchell (March 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Wentzville Tobacco Company Factory" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 3 photographs)