The office of Buck Duke was located here when he formed the American Tobacco Company in the late 1800s.

Jack Crane

American Tobacco Company

The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter and Goodwin & Company. The company was one of the original 12 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American Tobacco Company
• Page 37 - Kluger, Richard, 1997, Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred Year War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris: First Vintage Books, New York, 811p.