E. A. Wildman & Co. Tobacco Warehouse

	E. A. Wildman & Co. Tobacco Warehouse
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	34 Bridge St., New Milford, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°34′35″N 73°24′43″W / 41.57639°N 73.41194°W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1870
Architectural style	Mid-19th century post & beam
NRHP reference No.	88000731
Added to NRHP	October 20, 1988

The E.A. Wildman & Co. Tobacco Warehouse is a historic commercial/industrial building at 34 Bridge Street (United States Route 202) in New Milford, Connecticut. Built in 1870, it is the oldest of the surviving tobacco warehouses in the town, which was a major tobacco processing center in the region. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1] The building has most recently served as a hotel.

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The Wildman Tobacco Warehouse is a 2-1/2 story frame structure standing on the south side of Bridge Street in central New Milford, between Middle Street and the tracks of the Housatonic Railroad. It is long (167 feet (51 m)), with three sections. The front two, a total of sixteen bays long, were built on site, while the rear four bays are an originally separate warehouse that was moved to the site in 1901. This rear section is an extremely rare example of a rural packing barn. The building has a five-bay facade, with a single-story shed-roof porch across its width, and the entrance at the center.^[2]

The warehouse's front section was built in 1870, the early period in the region's development as a tobacco growing area. By World War I, New Milford was a major producer of cigar wrapping tobacco leaf, and supported twelve packing and warehousing operations. The Wildman Warehouse was one of the first to be built by a commercial packer, where earlier leaf packing operations had typically been run by farmers. Edward Wildman was a native of Brookfield, who served as agent to a major tobacco firm based in New York City. His warehouse was expanded in 1874, and again in 1901 after a surge in production. The building remained in use for tobacco production until about 1950.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "National Register nomination for E.A. Wildman & Co. Tobacco Warehouse". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-24.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "National Register nomination for E.A. Wildman & Co. Tobacco Warehouse". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-03-24.

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