Turns out it is on the National Register List- but the sign is a 2014 sign, so I scored my second new sign of the day, it looks like! Yay me. Be turning it in tomorrow, along with 2 others I found today. Good sleuthing I say.
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"At its peak, St.
Augustine's Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory employed 1,000 and produced 25,000 to
30,000 cigars daily, according to historical state documents. The building that
housed the factory -- constructed between 1907 and 1910 -- still stands today.
"The interior has been renovated into modern offices, but its exterior is pretty much the same as when it was first built.
"The cigar factory's owner, B. F. Carcaba, who was Spanish, moved to St. Augustine from Cincinnati, where he also owned a cigar factory, according to state documents.
"...St. Augustine's cigar business wasn't as large as Tampa's or Key West's, and the factory had a troubled financial history. St. Augustine did not have a large port to bring in tobacco, as Tampa does. But farmers experimented with raising tobacco around St. Augustine... "...the tobacco was kept on the building's bottom floor because it was cooler."
"The interior has been renovated into modern offices, but its exterior is pretty much the same as when it was first built.
"The cigar factory's owner, B. F. Carcaba, who was Spanish, moved to St. Augustine from Cincinnati, where he also owned a cigar factory, according to state documents.
"...St. Augustine's cigar business wasn't as large as Tampa's or Key West's, and the factory had a troubled financial history. St. Augustine did not have a large port to bring in tobacco, as Tampa does. But farmers experimented with raising tobacco around St. Augustine... "...the tobacco was kept on the building's bottom floor because it was cooler."
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