This was a fairly impressive home on a bluff overlooking the city:
Dr. Virgil Cox House is a historic home located at Galax, Virginia.
It was built about 1913, and is a large 2 1/2-story frame dwelling with Queen
Anne and Colonial Revival style design elements. It has a complex exterior
presentation, complex roof plan, and an equally complex floor plan. The house
is sheathed in German siding and features irregular, front-gable projections on
the facade and north side; a projection with a polygonal bay on the southwest
corner, a gable-roof dormer on the facade; and a small, upper balcony on the
facade with attenuated Tuscan columns and pilasters. Also on the property are a
contributing boxwood garden and outbuilding It was listed on the National
Register of Historic Places in 2004
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