The Eugene St. Julien Cox House

The Eugene St. Julien Cox House (HM18IG)

Location: St Peter, MN 56082 Nicollet County
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N 44° 19.929', W 93° 57.687'

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In 1871, Eugene St. Julien Cox, a man of eccentric tastes and "great vigor of mind" built this picturesque neo-Gothic Italianate house noted for its towered cupola, small balconies, and carved eaves.

Cox began his law career in 1857 and built a thriving practice in the frontier village of St. Peter. After brief service as a Union officer in the Civil War, Cox enrolled fifty men into the "Frontier Avengers" and led this unit in the defense of New Ulm during the Dakota War of 1862.

After the wars, the "affable and genial and always daintly dressed" Cox was elected St. Peter's first mayor. This was followed by his election to the Minnesota Legislature, first as a representative, later as a senator. In 1877, he was elected judge of the ninth judicial district. Within four years the Minnesota House impeached Judge Cox and the Senate organized a high court for trial purposes. He was mainly charged with intoxication "caused by the voluntary and immoderate use of intoxicating liquors, which disqualified him for discharge of his official duties." In 1882, after a sensational five-month trial which included seventeen hundred pages of testimony and a petition for acquittal signed by four thousand people, Judge Cox was convicted and removed from his office as district judge by a bare two-thirds vote of the Minnesota Senate. Nine years later, the legislature passed a resolution "vacating, annulling, and expunging all the proceedings of the impeachment and trial." Nevertheless, a few years later, E. St. Julien Cox left Minnesota and died in Los Angeles on November 3, 1898.

The house remained in the Cox family until 1969, when it was donated to the Nicollet County Historical Society for preservation and restoration. In 1969, this property received the first grant awarded by the Minnesota Historical Society, as a part of the newly created State Grants In-Aid program, created for the preservation and restoration of Minnesota's historical sites.

seal of The Minnesota Historical Society, Instituted 1849
Erected by the Minnesota Historical Society
1999
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HM NumberHM18IG
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Year Placed1999
Placed ByThe Minnesota Historical Society
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Date Added Saturday, September 27th, 2014 at 6:11pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)15T E 423347 N 4909214
Decimal Degrees44.33215000, -93.96145000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 44° 19.929', W 93° 57.687'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds44° 19' 55.74" N, 93° 57' 41.22" W
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Area Code(s)507, 651
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 601-699 W Skaro St, St Peter MN 56082, US
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