{"nrhp_refnum":"87002018","name":"Monte Vista","other_names":["Cedar Grove Farm","Heater House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8100 US 11","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middletown","county":"Frederick County","state":"VA","lat":39.02024708600004,"lon":-78.28904872199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Monte Vista (also Cedar Grove Farm or the Heater House) is a three-story, five-bay brick dwelling built in 1883 on a five-acre lot at 8100 Route 11 South, south of Middletown, Frederick County, Virginia, with a group of farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare, high-style late-19th-century country residence in the lower Shenandoah Valley, combining Eastlake and Queen Anne features. It is described as the major domestic building of its period between Winchester and Woodstock. It was built for Charles W. Heater, a prominent farmer, and its intact farm dependencies and Heater family history add to its significance.","narrative":"Monte Vista is a large red-brick house of three stories and five bays, built in 1883 for Charles W. Heater on part of the family's Cedar Grove farm south of Middletown, Virginia. A date stone beside the front door reads \"C.W.H. 1883.\" The design mixes Eastlake and Queen Anne details, including a hipped slate roof with iron cresting, pedimented dormers with Diocletian windows, and a tall five-sided bay. A two-story portico was added around 1942. The five-acre lot retains a bank barn with cupola, a scale house from about 1907, a summer kitchen, smoke house, stone ice house and brick bake oven, some of which may predate the house. The nomination presents the house as having no rival in the countryside between Winchester and Woodstock. It also links the property to the Heater family, whose farm lay on both sides of the Valley Turnpike and was affected by the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. The house and its dependencies are in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":"1843-1919; 1883","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Eastlake and Queen Anne elements (stylistically eclectic)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and occupied; used as a private residence and agriculture. The ice house has been converted to a rental residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.825531-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/6807/41680784/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/87002018.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002018/ed60f1f231-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002018/ed60f1f231-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"AgnosticPreachersKid","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monte_Vista_-_Middletown.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AgnosticPreachersKid</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monte_Vista_-_Middletown.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680784","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Vista_(Middletown,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712877"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/frederick-county/monte-vista-87002018/"}