{"nrhp_refnum":"82004558","name":"Hite, John, House","other_names":["Springdale"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 11","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bartonsville","county":"Frederick County","state":"VA","lat":39.10897375750005,"lon":-78.20271034033433,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Springdale, also called the John Hite House, is a large limestone house built in 1753 beside Route 11 and Opequon Creek near Bartonsville, Frederick County, Virginia. It was built by John Hite, with the ruins of an earlier house and tavern on the grounds.","why_significant":"The house is a large stone dwelling in the German vernacular tradition, built by John Hite, a soldier and public official of early Frederick County. It stands on land tied to his father Jost Hite, the earliest white settler in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The house and the ruins of the 1730s house and tavern are described as key landmarks of the valley's first period of settlement.","narrative":"Springdale is a limestone house on the east side of U.S. Route 11 near Bartonsville, beside Opequon Creek. A date stone in the south gable gives 1753, the year John Hite built it. Its steep gable roof reflects German Valley building traditions. The house was remodeled in the Greek Revival style around 1835-40 and again in the Colonial Revival style around 1900, and it retains a late 18th-century cast-iron fireback bearing the Fairfax coat of arms. The ruins of a stone house and tavern, probably built in the 1730s by John's father Jost Hite, stand on the grounds. Jost Hite, a German Palatine immigrant, received a 40,000-acre grant in 1731 and became the earliest white settler in the lower Shenandoah Valley. John Hite served as a justice, assemblyman and militia colonel in Frederick County. The house and ruins mark the valley's first period of settlement.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"John Hite (builder per the narrative); the form lists the builder/architect as unknown","architectural_style":"German vernacular tradition with Greek Revival (ca. 1835-40) and Colonial Revival (ca. 1900) remodelings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, altered, on its original site, and occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.622383-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6808/41680806/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004558.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004558/ef8a5a1abe-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004558/ef8a5a1abe-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Joel Bradshaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springdale-FrederickCountyVA-JohnHiteHouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Joel Bradshaw</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springdale-FrederickCountyVA-JohnHiteHouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680806","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hite_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712634"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/frederick-county/hite-john-house-82004558/"}