Alfred Moore Scales Law Office

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Alfred Moore Scales Law Office | nrhp_type = | image = Alfred Moore Scales Law Office.jpg | caption = Front and western side | location= 307 Carter St., Madison, North Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|36|23|21|N|79|57|17|W|display=inline,title}} |locmapin = North Carolina#USA | built = {{Start date|1856}} | architect = | added = April 29, 1982 | area = less than one acre | refnum = 82003503<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} '''Alfred Moore Scales Law Office''' is a historic law office building located at Madison, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1856, and moved to its present location in the 1920s. It is a one-story gable-roofed frame structure sheathed in plain weatherboarding. It was the law office of Alfred Moore Scales, lawyer, American Civil War veteran, politician and governor of North Carolina from 1885–1890.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author =Diane E. Lea and Claudia Roberts| title =Alfred Moore Scales Law Office| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = June 1980| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/RK0009.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-02-01}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.<ref name=nris/>

== See also == * Brown-Cowles House and Cowles Law Office: NRHP listing in Wilkesboro, North Carolina * Thomas B. Finley Law Office: NRHP listing in Wilkesboro, North Carolina * Archibald Henderson Law Office: NRHP listing in Salisbury, North Carolina * Nash Law Office: NRHP listing in Hillsborough, North Carolina * Zollicoffer's Law Office: NRHP listing in Henderson, North Carolina * National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, North Carolina

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scales, Alfred Moore, Law Office}} Category:Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1856 Category:Buildings and structures in Rockingham County, North Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina Alfred Moore Category:Law offices Category:Legal history of North Carolina Category:Madison, North Carolina