0 Windsorville Road and Chamberlain Road, East Windsor (Central Valley)

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Building Name (Historic)

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Address

0 Windsorville Road and Chamberlain Road, East Windsor

Typology

Tobacco Shed

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Field Notes

Insufficient data for inclusion in State Historic Resource Inventory. (SL) This is an example of a building where cases of tobacco would be stored on the lower levels and raised by elevator to the heated second floor where they would be sorted and stripped in the heated and finished space. Visser suggests that the semi-subterranean basement with a large number of windows (which he calls a tobacco cellar) relied on a damp atmosphere to keep the leaves pliable for stripping; he does not explain why they have so many windows (since the stripping appears to have taken place in another part of the building).

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