Bon Air is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. The population was 16,366 at the 2010 census. The community is considered a suburb of the independent city of Richmond in the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a allocation of the Southside neighborhoods. Originally developed as a resort, a central allowance of Bon Air has been designated as a National Historic District in the same way as many structures of Victorian design from the late 19th and in the future 20th centuries. Its say means “good air,” reflecting its role as a resort getaway that wealthy Richmonders enjoyed for its fresh expose as not approving of the dirty air of Richmond’s industrial downtown of the late 19th century.

Bon Air is located categorically within Chesterfield County, Virginia and mostly within the 23235 zip code. It is bounded to the north by Huguenot Road, to the east by the city of Richmond, to the south by Midlothian Turnpike, and to the southwest by Robious Road.

Prior to the advent of the 1877 resort in Bon Air, the area had some settlements. Brown Road and Belleau Drive each follow portions of the obsolescent Warwick Road that dates urge on to the 18th century Warwick plantation. The Bon Air Place came to be known as Brown’s Summit, probably named for the Brown associates farm which was located close the southwest corner of present-day intersection of Jahnke Road and Brown Road.

In the first half of the 18th century, Anderson Edwards owned a large plantation upon the current site of Bon Air. He sold parts of it to Nathaniel and James Duval in 1840. The Duvals’ two portions of Anderson Edwards’ land would eventually comprise large parts of modern-day Bon Air.