Bon Air | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | March 7, 2007[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 082-5157 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 38.4361°N -78.6189°W |
Built: | c. |
Architecture: | Italianate, Greek Revival |
Added: | May 2, 2007 |
Refnum: | 07000399 |
Bon Air, also known as the Adam and Susan Bear House and Bear Lithia, is a historic home located near Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, central-passage plan brick dwelling with Italianate and Greek Revival style decorative details. It has a metal-sheathed, hip-and-deck roof, a rear two story ell, front and back porches, and two one-story bay windows on the front facade. Also on the property is a contributing two-level meat house/storage building. The house stands next to Bear Lithia Springs, a boldly flowing water source acquired by the Bear family during the colonial period and commercially exploited in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.