Bright Leaf Historic District

{{short description|Historic district in North Carolina, United States}}

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{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Bright Leaf Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd

| nocat = yes

| image = Brightleaf Square.jpg

| caption =

| location = Roughly bounded by W. Peabody St., Duke St., Minerva Ave., N&W RR, Corporation St., Ligget St., Morris St. and W. Loop, Durham, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|36|00|06|N|78|54|21|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| built = {{Start date|1884}}

| builder = William H. Linthicum, William Jackson Hicks

| architecture = Italianate

| added = December 30, 1999

| area = {{convert|34|acre}}

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000452|title=Durham MRA}}

| refnum = 99001619{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

The Bright Leaf Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 22 contributing buildings and seven contributing structures in an industrial section of Durham. The majority of the buildings were built from the 1870s to the World War II period, and are massive two- to four-story structures, usually rectangular in form with flat or very shallow gable roofs and of fireproof construction with brick exteriors. Notable buildings include the B. L. Duke Warehouse (late 1870s), the Italianate style W. Duke Sons and Company Cigarette Factory (1884), the Watts and Yuille Warehouses, Liggett and Myers Office Building, Chesterfield Building, Flowers Building (1916), Imperial Tobacco Company Factory (1916), White Warehouse (1926), and five Romanesque Revival style buildings built by The American Tobacco Company trust—Walker Warehouse (1897), Cobb Building (1898), O'Brien Building (1899), Hicks Warehouse (1903) and Toms Warehouse (1903).{{Cite web | author = Claudia R. Brown | title =Bright Leaf Historic District| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = May 1999 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/DH0071.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2014-10-01}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.