{"nrhp_refnum":"83003262","name":"Old Stone House","other_names":["Robert Sitlington House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Milboro Springs on VA 664","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millboro Springs","county":"Bath County","state":"VA","lat":37.92627864550005,"lon":-79.73118142350656,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story coursed fieldstone farmhouse, known as the Robert Sitlington House or Old Stone House, on a 125-acre farm overlooking the Cowpasture River near Millboro Springs in Bath County, Virginia. It is believed to have been built in the 1790s.","why_significant":"It is believed to be the oldest stone house in Bath County, an area with few stone buildings. Its stone construction and three-room plan with central passage reflect Germanic-influenced farmhouse traditions of the Shenandoah Valley, carried across the Allegheny Mountains by builder Robert Sitlington, a prominent local citizen who helped organize the county in 1790.","narrative":"Set on a hill above a bend in the Cowpasture River in southeastern Bath County, this two-story stone farmhouse is locally called the \"old stone house.\" Believed to date from the 1790s, it was built by Robert Sitlington, a Revolutionary War militia veteran, county justice and wealthy landowner who helped organize Bath County in 1790. The walls are coursed fieldstone laid in clay-and-hair mortar, and the stone is said to be foreign to the area, likely hauled over the Allegheny Mountains. The three-room plan with central passage and corner fireplaces resembles farmhouses of the Shenandoah Valley rather than the local frontier. It is believed to be the county's oldest stone dwelling. Later changes include a late-nineteenth-century double gallery, replacement windows and brick chimneys, and a 1920s interior remodeling by Robert V. Porter that gave the rooms a bungalow character. The house retains its basic exterior form and original plan, and it is currently vacant pending restoration.","period_of_significance":"1790s","architect_builder":"Robert Sitlington (builder, per the historical narrative); form lists Builder/Architect as N/A","architectural_style":"Germanic-influenced Shenandoah Valley farmhouse tradition; 1920s bungalow-style interior woodwork","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in a good state of preservation and presently vacant, with restoration plans to preserve the exterior and interior with few modifications.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.970742-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/6797/41679714/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003262.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003262/5612d011e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003262/5612d011e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLD_STONE_HOUSE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:OLD_STONE_HOUSE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679714","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stone_House_(Millboro_Springs,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bath-county/old-stone-house-83003262/"}