Inside the O'Brien Building

The O'Brien Building, located at 602 West Main Street in Durham, was built in 1898. The building would be repurposed for different uses during it's life as a part of the Liggett & Myers Company campus, and would be connected to it's neighboring buildings with bridges over Main Street and Morgan Street.

In the latter half of the 20th century, tobacco was received and opened in the O'Brien building. The building also housed outlying departments outside of the main Liggett & Myer Cigarette Factory building, and was used for processing tobacco, including creating blends for different brands of cigarettes, and also for storage for tobacco before the drying process took place.