Mount Savage Historic District

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Mount Savage Historic District
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LocationRoughly bounded by Foundry Row, Jennings Run, New School Rd., Yellow Row, Cherry St., and Columbia Ave., Mount Savage, Maryland
Coordinates 39°41′47″N78°52′49″W / 39.69639°N 78.88028°W / 39.69639; -78.88028 Coordinates: 39°41′47″N78°52′49″W / 39.69639°N 78.88028°W / 39.69639; -78.88028
Area100 acres (40 ha)
Built1830 (1830)
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman, Queen Anne, Commercial Influence
NRHP reference No. 83004213 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1983

The Mount Savage Historic District is a national historic district in Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland. It comprises 189 19th and 20th century buildings, structures, and sites within this industrial community northwest of Cumberland. The structures reflect the community's development as a center of the iron, coal, brick, and railroad industries from the 1830s to the early 20th century. Included are a set of vertical-board duplexes on Old Row built about 1840, and possibly the earliest examples of workers' housing remaining in the region. [2]

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Peter E. Kurtze (March 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Savage Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.