"Pinecrest", also known as the Richard C. Kerens House and Kerens-Spears House, is a historic home located at Elkins,

Randolph County, West Virginia Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,932. Its county seat is Elkins. The county was founded in 1787 and is named for Edmund Jennings Randolph. Randolph County ...

. It was built in 1892 to a design by the Boston architecture firm

Peabody & Stearns Peabody & Stearns was a premier architectural firm in the Eastern United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm consisted of Robert Swain Peabody (1845–1917) and John Goddard Stearns ...

as a summer home for Richard C. Kerens (1842–1916). It is a large

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dwelling in a modified

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. It has an asymmetrical shape with

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-fronted sections in the main portion, a

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on the servants wing, and two cone-shaped tops on rounded

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s. It features a front porch that extends well beyond the exterior wall and curves along a single-story rounded projection at the east corner. It was listed on the

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in 1979. File:Pinecrest at Elkins, entrance.jpg, Entrance to property File:Pinecrest stable of Richard C. Kerens, original elevation drawing.jpg, Stable elevation drawing

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Italianate architecture in West Virginia Houses completed in 1892 Houses in Randolph County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Randolph County, West Virginia Shingle Style architecture in West Virginia Peabody and Stearns buildings {{RandolphCountyWV-NRHP-stub