Lorillard Snuff Mill

Infobox_nrhp | name =Lorillard Snuff Mill
nrhp_type = nhl
locmapin = New York


caption =Lorillard Snuff Mill in 2008
location= Snuff Mill Road, New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, New York
area =
built =1840
architect= F. Lorillard Co.
architecture=
designated= December 22, 1977 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1727&ResourceType=Building
title=Lorillard Snuff Mill|date=2007-09-15|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = December 22, 1977cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Local
refnum=77000935

Built in about 1840 to replace an earlier building of the same function, the Lorillard Snuff Mill is the oldest existing tobacco manufacturing building in the United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/77000935.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Lorillard Snuff Mill] |474 KB|author=George R. Adams|date=December 1976|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/77000935.pdf Accompanying photos, exterior, from 1976 and c.1902.] |1.90 MB]

The Lorillard firm was founded by Pierre Abraham Lorillard in 1760. His two sons took over after he was killed during the American Revolutionary War, and they moved the firm to the property in the Bronx.

It is on the grounds of the New York Botanical Gardens which is itself an NHL. It is currently used as staff offices, but at one time had a cafe on the first floor.

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