 As one of the original houses in Valley Creek, it was nominated for helping to depict one of the many small Washington County settlements that formed around a commercial venture—though one that never progressed to formal platting—and the community's two-decade preference for Greek Revival architecture.Valley Creek was later formally incorporated into Afton.The Erastus Bolles House is a one-and-a-half-story wood-frame building on an L-shaped floorplan.