The Footer's Dye Works is a historic industrial building in Cumberland, Maryland. The four story brick building occupies most of a city block on Howard Street near its junction with South Mechanic Street. Built in 1906, it is the last surviving building of a large cleaning and dyeing business that was once one of Cumberland's major employers.Throughout the 1920s, Footer's Dye Works continued as one of the dominant cleaning anddyeing establishments in the region.At its peak the Footer's Dye Works boasted of a weekly payroll exceeding severalthousand dollars. With nearly 500 employees, the company had branch officeslocated in twenty cities in nearby states for the receiving and forwarding of goods.One source of business originated from Washington; lace curtains from the WhiteHouse were shipp
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| - The Footer's Dye Works is a historic industrial building in Cumberland, Maryland. The four story brick building occupies most of a city block on Howard Street near its junction with South Mechanic Street. Built in 1906, it is the last surviving building of a large cleaning and dyeing business that was once one of Cumberland's major employers.Throughout the 1920s, Footer's Dye Works continued as one of the dominant cleaning anddyeing establishments in the region.At its peak the Footer's Dye Works boasted of a weekly payroll exceeding severalthousand dollars. With nearly 500 employees, the company had branch officeslocated in twenty cities in nearby states for the receiving and forwarding of goods.One source of business originated from Washington; lace curtains from the WhiteHouse were shipp (en)
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| - Footer's Dye Works in 2014 (en)
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| - The Footer's Dye Works is a historic industrial building in Cumberland, Maryland. The four story brick building occupies most of a city block on Howard Street near its junction with South Mechanic Street. Built in 1906, it is the last surviving building of a large cleaning and dyeing business that was once one of Cumberland's major employers.Throughout the 1920s, Footer's Dye Works continued as one of the dominant cleaning anddyeing establishments in the region.At its peak the Footer's Dye Works boasted of a weekly payroll exceeding severalthousand dollars. With nearly 500 employees, the company had branch officeslocated in twenty cities in nearby states for the receiving and forwarding of goods.One source of business originated from Washington; lace curtains from the WhiteHouse were shipped to Footer's for cleaning.15Major branch offices were located in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, according to thecompany's advertising flier .The 1930s, however, brought hard times to Footer's Dye Works. It was in the 1930s that thenew "dry" cleaning process was beginning to take hold, replacing the steam cleaning process used inFooter's factory. With the Great Depression in full swing throughout the United States, pressurefrom dry cleaning competition, and then a devastating Potomac River flood in March 1936,Footer's Dye Works filed for bankruptcy on June 12, 1936. On December 30, the plant was soldby a court trustee to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which held the mortgage, for$200,000.16 With the sale of the Footer's Dye Works property, the cleaning and dyeing operationclosed.By 1939, Harry Footer opened a cleaning business in the old Footer's building on N. LibertySt. called Harry Footer & Co. His was amongtwenty "Clothes Pressers and Cleaners" listed in Cumberland in 1939. In June 1939, part of theFooter's S. Mechanic St. complex was sold to Liberty Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.18 This company waslikely a secondary operation of Harry Footer's Liberty St. cleaners..Between 1939 and 1949, the former Footer's Dye Works complex was subdivided and sold.The 1939 deed to Liberty Cleaners noted that another part of the complex was deeded earlier to "RedHead Oil Co. The 1949 map shows not only the dry cleaners and oil company sections,but a "Trade School" in the easternmost buildings and a "Montgomery Ward warehouse" in the firstfloor of the four-story brick building along Howard St. and its one-story saw tooth south section (thebuilding still standing in 2005). By 1956, when the last Sanborn Insurance Co. map was drawn ofthe complex, most of the eastern section was demolished and replaced with a parking lot. Thecleaners, oil company, and Montgomery Ward still occupied their buildings. But the large four-storybrick building that housed the Wards warehouse also had the state employment offices in the secondfloor and the Army Reserve in the third floor The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. (en)
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