Public Safety Building (Cumberland, Maryland)

	Public Safety Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Frederick and Liberty Sts., Cumberland, Maryland
Coordinates	39°39′8″N 78°45′46″W / 39.65222°N 78.76278°W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1902
Architect	James Knox Taylor
Architectural style	Georgian Revival
NRHP reference No.	73000883
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1973

Public Safety Building, or Old Post Office, is a historic building in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. It was constructed between 1902 and 1904, in the Classical Revival style. It is built of brick, rising from a monumental stone base. There is a slightly projecting pavilion with four engaged Ionic columns on the second and third floors. The building was built originally as the United States Courthouse and Post Office during the tenure of James Knox Taylor (1857-1929), who was Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury.^[2] It served as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 1904 to 1933.^[3] It is considered to be typical of buildings constructed during Taylor's tenure to the specifications of the Tarsney Act, which required competition in the design of federal buildings.^[4]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Mrs. Preston Parish (May 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Public Safety Building" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
^ Federal Judicial Center Historic Federal Courthouses page for the Cumberland, Maryland U.S. Court House and Post Office.
^ Lee, Antoinette Josephine (2000). Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–02. ISBN 978-0-19-512822-2.

External links[edit]

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Public Safety Building, Allegany County, including photo from 1971, at Maryland Historical Trust

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[mht_ihp-2] Mrs. Preston Parish (May 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Public Safety Building" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

[3] Federal Judicial Center Historic Federal Courthouses page for the Cumberland, Maryland U.S. Court House and Post Office.

[4] Lee, Antoinette Josephine (2000). Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–02. ISBN 978-0-19-512822-2.

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