Bristol Warehouse Historic District - Clio

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1. Bristol Warehouse Company / Studio Brew

The two-story building with entrances on Scott Street and Moore was constructed around 1910. The building is part of Bristol’s Warehouse Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. From the time of its construction and for many years after, the building functioned as a distillery on the lower floors and as a roller rink on the upper level. Today, the building is home to Tri-Cities artisan brewery Studio Brew, which is based in Sullivan County, Tennessee. The Bristol location for Studio Brew is the studio's second location in addition to the original in Kingsport.

2. Central Warehouse Corporation

The Central Warehouse Corporation building traces its origins back to 1946. Today, the building is the second site included in Bristol’s Warehouse Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. The Central Warehouse Corp. building shares its eastern-most wall with the western elevation of the Bristol Builders Supply Company building on the corner of Lee St. and Scott St. On their northern facades, the two buildings appear very similar from a street view, possibly even seeming to be the same building at a glance.

3. Bristol Builders Supply Company

This building was constructed around 1925 and expanded slightly in 1928. The warehouse is included in the Bristol Warehouse Historic District and was constructed for the Bristol Builders Supply Company. The building's significance and preservation was one of the factors that inspired local leaders to secure an official designation for the city and this district, an effort that concluded in 2012 when the district was added to the National Register.

4. South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad Station

This three-story brick building was constructed sometime around 1887. Today, the site is one of the contributing properties in Bristol’s Warehouse Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Much of the building’s original structure remains intact today, though the structure itself remains mostly vacant. The building has been utilized by a number of different industrial companies throughout its long history, including, for close to two decades, the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company.

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Bristol Warehouse Historic District

Created by Douglas J Harding on August 22nd 2019, 5:06:17 pm.

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A symbol of Bristol’s economic boom experienced roughly twenty years after the end of the Civil War, the Bristol Warehouse Historic District includes an area once filled with warehouses and industrial constructions. The district, located on the Virginia side of the Bristol border, features several surviving industrial and commercial buildings constructed as early as 1880 and as late at the 1950s. The building’s official listing in the National Register of Historic Places, completed in 2012, includes six buildings and one additional contributing item. The six buildings include an old railroad station, four warehouses and one nearby home. The final contributing item to the Bristol Warehouse Historic District is the collection of the late 19th Century railroad tracks still visible throughout the district. These tracks were originally constructed as a product of prison labor and called the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow Gauge Railroad.

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