Pinecrest (Elkins, West Virginia)

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

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

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Pinecrest

| nrhp_type =

| image = Pinecrest house of Richard C. Kerens, original elevation drawing.jpg

| caption = Front elevation drawing

| location = Kerens Hill, Elkins, West Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|38|55|53|N|79|51|11|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = West Virginia#USA

| built = 1892

| architect = Peaboby & Stearns

| architecture = Shingle Style

| added = December 11, 1979

| area = {{convert|1|acre}}

| refnum = 79002600{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

"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.{{cite web|url=https://wvculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pinecrest.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pinecrest|date=July 1979|accessdate=2011-09-10 |author=James E. Harding|publisher=State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 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