Bon Air (Elkton, Virginia) Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm#. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bon Air . J. Daniel Pezzoni . December 2006. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying six photo