Bon Haven

Built in 1884 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Bon Haven, also known as The Cleveland House, was an historic house located in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1884, and was a two-story, brick Second Empire style dwelling with 1920s Neo-Classical style additions.”
Wikipedia article Bon Haven, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1884, Second Empire style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 728 North Church St., Spartanburg, 29303
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. building
Census division. Spartanburg
When was it built? 1884
Architectural style. Second Empire style
National Register reference number. 76001711 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Bon Haven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73
Debris and open burning	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bon Haven: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	North Spartanburg	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

60 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spartanburg, the town this property stands in, in 123 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 61 thunderstorm wind, 36 hail, 10 flash flood, 7 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Lightning	Spartanburg	1 killed, 1 hurt	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	1 hurt, $50,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, some of which fell on structures. Two mobile homes had their roofs blown off in Roebuck. A female was injured by a fallen tree.
May 2003	Lightning	Spartanburg	1 hurt	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Spartanburg	$9,000,000	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Spartanburg	$3,000,000	Public reported up to golf ball size hail from the west side of Spartanburg to the area around Spartanburg Regional Hospital.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Spartanburg	$2,500,000	A flash flood developed rapidly late in the evening following 4 to 5 inches of rainfall in a short time. The flash flood affected several creeks from the city of Spartanburg southward to Roebuck, Walnut Grove, and Pauline. The most damage may have occurred along Timms Creek and Lawson Fork Creek. Several roads were washed out, several people required rescue from their homes, a country club experienced severe damage, and a restaurant was destroyed. Most of the severe flooding was in the first 2 hours.
August 1999	Hail	Spartanburg	$1,000,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Spartanburg	$500,000	For the second consecutive night a flash flood hit Spartanburg. This time the primary flood occurred along Fairforest Creek and the communities affected were the west side of the city, Arcadia, Una, and Reidville Road. A road buckled leaving a 6 to 8 foot crater, rescues of motorists were required at Una, and a motel was flooded which required evacuation of the residents.
May 1998	Lightning	Spartanburg	$150,000	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Spartanburg	$100,000	Hail on the east side of Spartanburg was responsible for extensive damage to vehicles on auto dealership lots.
July 1997	Lightning	Spartanburg	$100,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	west Spartanburg	$62,000	,,,,,,,,Urban Flooding
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$35,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$30,000	A microburst in the Arcadia community caused several trees to snap off at their bases. One tree fell on a mobile home.
October 2005	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	$20,000	Saturated ground caused a retaining wall to collapse, crushing 2 vehicles.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Spartanburg	$20,000	Severe urban flooding developed in the city. Several vehicles were trapped by flood waters, and some motorists required rescue. Flooding also developed along Lawson's Fork and Fairforest Creeks. A couple of bridges were washed out by flood waters.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in and around the city. At least one tree fell on a home and an automobile.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$5,000	Large limbs down near the highway 29 exit of Interstate 85. Trees down along highway 176 near its intersection with Interstate 26. Quite a few trees down in Boiling Springs at around 9:25, at least one of which fell on a house.
July 2004	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	$5,000	Heavy rainfall caused some street flooding in the city. Flood water entered some businesses.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$2,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
November 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$1,000	Some trees were blown down. At least one fell on a house.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	$1,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	East Spartanburg	-	County comms reported a couple of trees down on the southeast side of Spartanburg.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	East Spartanburg	-	County comms reported multiple trees blown down southeast of Spartanburg.
July 2018	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Public reported (via Social Media) ping pong ball to golf ball size hail on the south side of Spartanburg.
July 2015	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Spotter reported quarter size hail in the city of Spartanburg.
May 2014	Hail	Spartanburg	-	County comms reported hail of at least quarter size at Croft State Park.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down at Woodburn Rd and Country Club Rd.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Multiple trees were blown down onto roads and power lines on Connecticut Ave and North Church Street in Spartanburg.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Trees were blown down around the city of Spartanburg, mainly on the east side. Some trees damaged structures and vehicles, including a tree that fell on a vehicle on Woodland St. Another tree fell on and damaged a business on Pine St and another tree fell on a home on Palmetto St.
February 2009	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Hail reported in the Converse Heights area.
June 2009	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Hail was reported on North Church St.
December 2009	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	-	Urban and poor drainage flooding caused closure of a handful of roads in the northern half of Spartanburg County, including portions of Monks Grove Church Rd and highway 221 near Spartanburg.
April 2008	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Several reports of hail, up to half dollar size, on the south side of Spartanburg.
June 2008	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Hail reported in the Arcadia area.
May 2007	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Reported near the intersection of Reidville Rd and Camelot Dr.
April 2006	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Nickel hail reported at Converse College.
June 2006	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	-	Torrential rain from a thunderstorm caused some urban flooding in Inman, especially on Park Rd, which was covered with over a foot of water at Asheville highway and E Street.
June 2006	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Nickel size hail near the intersection of highway 29 and Interstate 26.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Several trees downed around the city. Wofford College DPS reported several large limbs blown down around campus.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Power lines down at the intersection of Beechwood and Beech Hill in the city. Large tree limbs down near the intersection of Southgate Rd and highway 176.
July 2006	Hail	Spartanburg	-	Dime size hail at the intersection of highway 296 and I-26.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Two trees blown down near the intersection of Anderson Mill and Old Anderson Mill Roads.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Numerous trees and power lines blown down and some roof damage, mainly in the southwest and south part of the city.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	A sign blown down and trees blown down on power lines on Asheville Highway.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Quite a few trees and power lines down in and around the city.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	A tree and power line down off highway 9 in the Lake Bowen area. Large limbs down close to town.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Two trees down along highway 9.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Large limbs blown down in the Pacolet Mills area. A spotter measured a 53 mph gust and reported a 1 foot diameter tree blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Tops blown out of large oak trees along a city block wide area in Cherokee Springs. Some debris fell on power lines.
July 2005	Lightning	Spartanburg	-	Lightning ignited a house fire.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Several 3-to-5 diameter limbs were blown down near the intersection of highway 221 and Floyd Rd.
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	-	Poor drainage caused flooding to develop near the intersection of West Main and North Highpoint during a heavy thunderstorm.
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	-	Heavy rainfall caused high water to enter 2 warehouses: one in the city, and the other at Camp Croft.
August 2004	Heavy Rain	Spartanburg	-	Heavy rainfall caused some urban flooding to develop around the city.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	A few trees were blown down in the Converse area.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	Numerous trees were blown down on the east side of the city.
December 2002	Flash Flood	Spartanburg	-	Some roads flooded, along with some small creeks and streams.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	A blown down tree fell on a mobile home.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Spartanburg	-	A few trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg County

Newspapers printed here

40,444 digitised pages

6 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 4,530 issues, 40,444 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Spartan	1843 to 1852
The Spartan	1896 to 1898
Spartanburg Journal	1900 to 1906
The Carolina Spartan	1898 to 1913
The Journal and the Carolina Spartan	1913 to 1920
The Carolina Spartan	1852 to 1896

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fremont School	0.2 miles	2000
Evins-Bivings House	0.3 miles	1970
Wofford College Historic District	0.6 miles	1974
Bishop William Wallace Duncan House	0.7 miles	2009
Hotel Oregon	0.8 miles	2001
Central Methodist Church	1.0 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001711 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg County	All 64 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.