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The hotel closed in 1865, and the building was subsequently occupied by the Childs-Nickerson
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services and O. Munsen, M.D., "surgeon dentist". The building was sold to John W. Nicholson for $ 17,000. On July 15, 1871, while under
Nicholson's ownership, a fire occurred in the second and third stories of the building, doing over a thousand dollars worth of damage, "But the almost superhuman
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Associates of Tucker, Georgia, who completed the renovation which turned the building into office space, some of which is now leased by the University of
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