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Cox-Morton House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cox-Morton House, April 2009
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Location	640 Holley Rd., Charleston, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°20′51″N 81°38′41″W / 38.34750°N 81.64472°W / 38.34750; -81.64472
Area	3.1 acres (1.3 ha)
Built	1902
Architect	Calderwood, Andrew
Architectural style	American Four Square
MPS	South Hills MRA
NRHP reference No.	84000399
Added to NRHP	October 26, 1984

Cox-Morton House, also known as Home Hall, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, for Frank Cox, secretary of Republic Coal Co., the West Virginia Colliery Co., and the Carbon Coal Co. He was known in West Virginia as the "Great Wildcatter". His daughter Alice Boyd Cox married James Morton of the Morton Coal Co. It is an American Foursquare-style house. It features a ballustrated terrace around two sides of the house and a doric portico, added in the 1920s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the South Hills Multiple Resource Area.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). Cox-Morton House. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. 2009-04-04.

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