Kerens Hill, Elkins, West Virginia. County/parish: Randolph.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 11, 1979. NRIS 79002600.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
"Pinecrest", also known as the Richard C. Kerens House and Kerens-Spears House, is a historic home located at Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was built in 1892 to a design by the Boston architecture firm Peabody & Stearns as a summer home for Richard C. Kerens (1842–1916). It is a large sandstone dwelling in a modified Shingle Style. It has an asymmetrical shape with gable-fronted sections in the main portion, a hip roof on the servants wing, and two cone-shaped tops on rounded turrets. 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 National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86536089