This imposing Queen Anne house, one of the largest and most prominent in Big Stone Gap, was built for Ted Wentz, who owned a controlling interest in the Virginia Coal and Iron Company. Standing among similar dwellings on 2nd Street, a fashionable turn-of-the-twentieth-century address for coal mining industrialists, the large wooden house has a cross-gabled roof, a conical-roofed corner tower nestled between the gables, and a wrap-around porch with turned posts and balusters. Single, paired, and tripled windows, some with arched heads, punctuate each elevation. Across the road at 18 W. 2nd is a handsome two-and-a-half-story brick house (c. 1895) with a hipped roof with flared eaves, dormers, and an exterior-end chimney with decorative brickwork. Tying the composition together is a wraparound porch and a projecting gabled entrance bay.