National Register Listing

Bell Tower Building

a.k.a. Allegany County League for Crippled Children

Bedford and Liberty Sts., Cumberland, MD

Pertinent to local history. Bell used for city emergency.
Original site of Footer's Dye Works - World Renowned.
Bell used by Volunteer Firemen of the Pioneer Hose Company located next door.
Only one of this architecture in Allegany County.

Local significance of the building:
Architecture; Social History

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.