{"nrhp_refnum":"03000452","name":"Ketoctin Baptist Church","other_names":["Short Hill Church","DHR File No. 053-0308"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Approx. 2 mi. N of VA 7 at the jct of Allder School Rd. and Ketoctin Church Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Round Hill","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.15734241650006,"lon":-77.74966457885021,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Greek Revival-style Baptist meetinghouse built in 1854 near Round Hill in western Loudoun County, Virginia, with an adjoining cemetery and fieldstone wall on about 18.75 acres. It is believed to be the fourth meetinghouse on the site.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is significant under Criterion C for architecture, as a well-preserved example of a mid-nineteenth-century Virginia meetinghouse with little alteration since 1854. The congregation dates to 1751 and hosted the founding of Virginia's first Baptist association in 1766. The interior includes a trompe l'oeil painting attributed to local artist Lucien Whiting Powell.","narrative":"Ketoctin Baptist Church is a one-story brick meetinghouse completed in 1854 at the foot of Short Hill Mountain, east of Round Hill in western Loudoun County. Laid in five-course American bond on a fieldstone foundation, it has a standing-seam metal front-gable roof, deep cornice returns, and twelve-over-twelve windows. Inside, a large meeting room is ringed on three sides by a gallery, with a trompe l'oeil painting above the platform attributed to local artist Lucien Whiting Powell. A cemetery with over six hundred burials, the earliest dated 1777, lies north and west of the building and is enclosed by a fieldstone wall. The congregation traces its origins to 1751 and hosted the 1766 formation of Virginia's first Baptist association. The building is considered notable for its Greek Revival design and its few alterations since construction. Electricity has been added, but there is no plumbing, and the church and grounds remain in use and well kept.","period_of_significance":"1854","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Well maintained and retaining integrity; still used for religious services, and burials continue in the cemetery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.039372-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/6815/41681577/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000452.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000452/d50ac7397c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000452/d50ac7397c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KetoctinBaptistChurch_0823.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KetoctinBaptistChurch_0823.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681577","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoctin_Baptist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712664"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/ketoctin-baptist-church-03000452/"}