Bishop House (Graysontown, Virginia)

{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Bishop House

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = June 20, 1989{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=5 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archive-date=21 September 2013|url-status=dead}}

| designated_other1_number = 060-0107

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Bishop House Graysontown Virginia.JPG

| caption = Bishop House, October 2013

| location = 0.1 miles (0.16 km) north of the junction of VA 693 and 613, near Graysontown, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|37|2|16|N|80|33|19|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = c. {{Start date|1890}}

| architecture = Double-pile center-passage

| added = November 13, 1989

| area = less than one acre

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500684|title=Montgomery County MPS}}

| refnum = 89001812{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Bishop House is a historic home located near Graysontown, Montgomery County, Virginia. The house was built about 1890, and is a one- to two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling with a double pile central passage plan. It has a standing seam metal gable roof. Its front porch features turned posts and a baluster bracketed spindle frieze with drop pendants, and a pointed window in the steep pedimented gable.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Montgomery/060-0107_Bishop_House_1989_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bishop House |author=Gibson Worsham| date=June 1988|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Montgomery/BishopHouse_photo.htm Accompanying photo]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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