200, 202, 204, 206 and 208 Decatur Street are adjoining

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s in

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic counties of England, 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 c ...

Allegany County, Maryland Allegany County is located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,106. Its county seat is Cumberland. The name ''Allegany'' may come from a local Lenape word, ''welhik hane'' or ''o ...

. The houses were built in the 1840s or early 1850s. The houses are of a type that, while common elsewhere in

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, were not extensively built in Cumberland, in which individual and semi-detached houses were more common. The houses exhibit plain but consistent detailing of a neoclassical nature.

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*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses in Allegany County, Maryland Buildings and structures in Cumberland, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Allegany County, Maryland {{AlleganyCountyMD-NRHP-stub