Located in the district is the separately listed Italianate style W. T. Blackwell and Company building (1874-1880, c. 1904).

[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 as the American Tobacco Company Manufacturing Plant.

The campus had been the headquarters of the American Tobacco Company, once the largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States.

The mostly abandoned campus was purchased by the Capitol Broadcasting Company in 2001 as part of a plan to redevelop downtown Durham.

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