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This claim is incorrect because the City of Montpelier’s official government website lists Marc Gwinn as the current Mayor on its "City Council & Mayor" page. The same site is the city’s official website and therefore is the strongest source for the identity of the sitting mayor. Since the article names Jack McCullough instead, that entry is outdated and false.

The article attributes a founding in 1831 in Montpelier to Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), but VCFA’s own history says otherwise. On VCFA’s official history page, the school states that the institution officially opened its doors in 1834 as Newbury Seminary in Newbury, Vermont. The same page also says that the newly founded Vermont College of Fine Arts bought the historic campus and three MFA programs from Union Institute & University in June 2008. So both parts of the article’s claim are wrong: VCFA was not founded in 1831, and the institution it traces its history to did not begin in Montpelier.

This statement incorrectly ties the construction of the Vermont State House/Capitol to 1805. Official Vermont sources distinguish between two events:

1. In 1805, Montpelier was chosen as the permanent seat of government.
2. The first State House was then required to be completed by September 1808 and stood from 1808 to 1836.

So 1805 marks the political decision to make Montpelier the capital, not the completion of the first capitol building there.

The article says Union Institute & University is based in Montpelier, but official and institutional sources indicate that is no longer true. Montpelier’s official city history states that Union Institute and University sold the campus to Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. In addition, pages on Union Institute & University’s own website list the university’s address as 2090 Florence Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. Together, these sources show that the university is not currently based in Montpelier.