Cox Building - View this location on map Built in 1870 by developer G.D. Cox, this building typifies the post-Civil War transformation of Roxbury from an independent rural town of farms and country estates to a fashionable suburban neighborhood. The Cox Building originally consisted of a central section containing street-level stores with hotel rooms on the upper floors, flanked by five attached one-family residences. The Cox Building was rehabilitated in 1984 by Historic Boston Incorporated. John Eliot Square, Boston, MA Historical

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