In 1834 James Frazier, then proprietor of the adjacent Star Tavern, built this plain, two-story building with a rolled brick cornice and leased it as a library and study for the Western Division of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. During the Civil War it served as a hospital, and
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