Wirgman Building

Wirgman Building
Historic American Buildings Survey photograph of the Wirgman Building in 1937.
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Alternative names	Old Wirgman Building Bank of the Valley of Virginia Building Valley Bank Building Bank of Romney Building First National Bank of Romney Building
General information
Type	Commercial and residential
Architectural style	Federal
Address	East Main Street
Town or city	Romney, West Virginia
Country	United States
Coordinates	39°20′31″N 78°45′21″W / 39.341874°N 78.755719°W / 39.341874; -78.755719
Current tenants	Former tenants: Bank of the Valley of Virginia Hampshire Review Bank of Romney First National Bank of Romney Peaford Company furniture store
Completed	circa 1825
Demolished	1965
Client	William Vance (c. 1825)
Owner	Mrs. W. F. Wirgman (1937)

The Wirgman Building was an early 19th-century Federal-style commercial and residential building located on East Main Street (U.S. Route 50) in Romney, West Virginia. It was completed around 1825 to serve as the Romney branch office of the Bank of the Valley of Virginia, and served as a location for every subsequent bank established in Romney, including the Bank of Romney and the First National Bank of Romney. During the American Civil War, the building was used as a military prison. For a time, its second floor housed the offices and printing plant of the Hampshire Review newspaper, and by 1947 its ground floor housed office and mercantile space, and the second floor was divided into apartments.

In 1964 the Wirgman Building sustained damage in a fire; it was demolished the following year to make way for the new Bank of Romney headquarters building, which opened in 1966. Prior to its demolition, in 1937, the Wirgman Building was photographed and documented by the National Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey.