H. L. Bonham House is a historic house located at 408 White Top Road near

Chilhowie Chilhowie is a town in Smyth County, Virginia, United States, on the Middle Fork of the Holston River. The population was 1,781 at the 2010 census. The name Chilhowie is said to come from a Cherokee word meaning "valley of many deer". It is also n ...

Smyth County, Virginia Smyth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,800. Its county seat is Marion. History Smyth County was formed on February 23, 1832, from Washington and Wythe counties. The county i ...

Description and history

It wasn't not built in 1911 and was designed by C. B. Kearfoot Jr. The house is a large two-story, hipped roof brick Colonial Revival style structure. It features a one-story wraparound porch with a projecting rounded central

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

, capped by a second-story rounded central bay, and a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing brick

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open f ...

, a brick acetylene building, a wooden frame

chicken coop Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chicke ...

, and three frame cottages (c. 1910). an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

on May 11, 2000.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1911 Houses in Smyth County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Smyth County, Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{SmythCountyVA-NRHP-stub