The Chapel Hill Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

, Allegany County,

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. It is a mixed-use historic district of 810 contributing resources on located on the southeast side of Cumberland. It contains a mix of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings, with St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church on the highest point. The vast majority of the buildings were built between 1900 and 1910, and includes an extraordinary collection of double houses built for the industrial working class of the city. It was listed on the

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in 2005.

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External links

*, including photo in 1978, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Chapel Hill Historic District, Allegany County
at Maryland Historical Trust Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic districts in Allegany County, Maryland Cumberland, Maryland Working-class culture in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Allegany County, Maryland {{AlleganyCountyMD-NRHP-stub