Queen City Hotel
Queen City Hotel | |
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
The B&O's Metropolitan (left) and The Shenandoah at Cumberland, MD on December 5, 1970. | |
| Coordinates | 39°39′01″N 78°45′27″W / 39.650144°N 78.757421°W |
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| Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 71001052 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 12, 1971 |
| Removed from NRHP | January 1, 1999 |
The Queen City Hotel was constructed in 1871 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in Cumberland, Maryland to serve both as a train station and as a destination. Hosting 174 rooms, it also had such features as formal gardens with a fountain, a ballroom and 400-seat dining room. It was torn down in 1972 to make room for a new main United States Post Office and Distribution facility with a much smaller station for Amtrak service between the new Post Office and the railroad tracks.