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Breezemont, built in 1905, is a historic house on a hill overlooking Charleston. It was constructed by Cornelius C. Watts, who served as West Virginia's attorney general from 1881 to 1885 and as U.S. attorney general from 1886 to 1889. According to tradition, Watts built Breezemont to rival the Sunrise mansion, which was built in South Hills the same year by William A. MacCorkle. In 1941, Breezemont was subdivided into apartments and remained in that form until 1988, when architect Paul Marshall restored the house. Marshall used Breezemont as both a home and an office before selling it to new owners in 2000. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
