Built 1883 (1883)-1885 VLR # 199-0003 Opened 1883 Phone +1 804-224-7000 | NRHP Reference # 87000692 Designated VLR March 17, 1987 Area 2,000 m² Added to NRHP 21 September 1987 | |
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Location 821 Irving Ave., Colonial Beach, Virginia Address 821 Irving Ave, Colonial Beach, VA 22443, USA Architectural styles Queen Anne style architecture, Stick style Similar Charles Williams Jr House, Bell Telephone Memorial, Volta Laboratory and Bure, Bell Homestead National, Alexander Graham Bell Natio | ||
Bell House, also known as the summer home of Alexander Graham Bell, is a historic home located at Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was built between 1883 and 1885, and is a 2 1⁄2-story, five-bay Stick Style frame dwelling. It features a wraparound porch with turned posts and sawn brackets and a central projecting tower with a pyramidal roof and balcony overhang. Also on the property are a contributing privy and garage (c. 1930). Alexander Graham Bell inherited the property in 1907 from his father Alexander Melville Bell, who acquired it in 1886, and held it continuously until 1918.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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