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.

This placed Cumberland at a major junction of the route northwest to Pittsburgh and the B&O main line west of the Ohio River.

The building was designed by Thomas N. Heskett of the B&O Road Department in the Italianate style, and the construction cost was over $350,000.

The hotel served as a summer resort, although the railroad did not actively promote it as a tourist destination.

[2] The B&O made plans to demolish the hotel, and supporters of historic preservation attempted court action to save the building.