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Hugh Caperton Law Office

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1820. West side of Main St. between South and Middle sts.

This one-story brick office building has elliptical fanlights over its paired entrance doors, typical of work executed by Conrod Burgess. The law office became a bank in 1872 and was acquired by the Monroe County Historical Society in the 1990s. It now serves as the society's museum.

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S. Allen Chambers Jr.
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S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Hugh Caperton Law Office", [Union, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-MO10.

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