1924 Rivermont Ave
Categories
- Middle Rivermont
Address
1924
Property Name
Richard D. Apperson House
Date Built
1901
Architect
Edward G. Frye
Contractor
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Function
Multi-Family
Style & Architectural Description
Queen Anne. Tall, 2 1/2-story, 3-bay hip-roofed, stone and frame house with projecting gable-roofed bays on the east and west. Corner tower on the southeast has truncated conical roof. Porte-cochere is on the east.
Owners
- 1901-1950 Unknown
- 1950-1954 A. F. Young
- 1954-1965 Alfred F. Young Estate
- 1965-1967 W. Henry & Bonnie G. Cheatham
- 1967-1975 W. Henry Cheatham
- 1975 W. Henry & Ann Rowe Cheatham
- 1975-1985 Ann Rowe Cheatham
- 1985-2024 Thomas Philip & Virginia Anne Nelson
- 2024-Present Robert M. II & Kellie Allen
Anecdotal Information
Built for R. D. Apperson, one of the founders of the Rivermont Land Company and a leader of the community. Apperson was president of the Lynchburg Traction and Light Company, as well as streetcar companies in Roanoke and Montgomery, Alabama. Built in 1901, its designer is not known, although possibly Edward G. Frye or J. M. B. Lewis. In an interview in 2015, Alex Dirom of 2325 Rivermont remembered that in the late 1930s the streetcar owner who lived at 1924 Rivermont would bring the streetcars onto his property to work on them.
