This textbook Queen Anne mansion, built of hard-pressed brick, stands near the southeast edge of downtown. It has all the style's earmarks: octagonal tower, Palladian motifs, hipped and gabled roof sections, and a picturesque, asymmetrical facade that includes a spacious porch. The imposing chimneys, with multitudinous recessed panels, are particularly distinctive. Frank Cox, a West Virginia Supreme Court judge, built the house. In the 1980s, a Pittsburgh architecture firm restored and rehabilitated it for a most appropriate adaptive use: a law office.