Cox House
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Farmers Howard (1837 - 1916) and Mary Jane (Webb) Cox (1843 - 1913) bought 189 acres here in 1878. They built a house at this site prior to 1884 that Cox family tradition claims was partially incorporated into this home built by the Coxes about 1900. Exhibiting Queen Anne style influences, it is an unusual blend of vertically emphasized windows and dormers with a dominant hipped roof. Two of the Coxes' sons operated the Cox Brothers Dairy here from 1931 to about 1951. RTHL 1994
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Farmers Howard and Mary Jane Cox bought 189 acres of this Dallas-area land in 1878 and put up a first house here before 1884. Around 1900 they built the surviving home — family tradition holds the older structure was folded into it — a Queen Anne blend of tall windows and dormers under a dominant hipped roof. Two of their sons ran the Cox Brothers Dairy on the property from 1931 into the early 1950s.
Why it matters
The homestead traces one family's arc from post-Reconstruction farming to a working dairy, a small window on how rural Texas households built and passed down their land.
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Related people
- · Howard Cox
- · Mary Jane Cox
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