{"nrhp_refnum":"95001169","name":"Long Meadow","other_names":["VDHR File No. 93-06"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Co. Rd. 611 about 0.9 mi. S of jct. with Co. Rd. 612","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middletown","county":"Warren County","state":"VA","lat":38.983422941500066,"lon":-78.30172922944516,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick plantation house built in 1848 for Col. George W. Bowman, with associated outbuildings and a family cemetery, on 175 acres near Middletown in Warren County, Virginia, on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of Warren County's finest examples of transitional architecture from the Federal/Adamesque style to Greek Revival. It is also a representative mid-nineteenth-century Lower Shenandoah Valley plantation dwelling. Eighteenth-century outbuildings and a cemetery from the Isaac Hite era, plus later farm buildings and a pristine setting, add to its integrity.","narrative":"Long Meadow is a brick plantation house near Middletown, Virginia, on land close to where Cedar Creek meets the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. Col. George W. Bowman built it in 1848, replacing an earlier dwelling associated with Isaac Hite, whose father Jost Hite received the tract in a 1734 grant. The two-story house has a five-bay west facade, a Greek Revival doorway with sidelights, a pedimented portico, and Adamesque touches such as a tripartite window and a fanlight-style gable. Inside, a central passage, an elliptical arch, and a curving staircase combine Federal and Greek Revival woodwork. A frame kitchen wing was added around 1891. The property also retains an eighteenth-century overseer's house, a stone springhouse with an icehouse, a Hite family cemetery, and a late-nineteenth-century bank barn and workshop. It was recognized for its architectural quality as a transitional Federal to Greek Revival house and for its largely intact rural setting.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Col. George W. Bowman (builder/owner)","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Well preserved and little altered; owners are restoring it. The overseer's house is in poor condition and a smokehouse has collapsed. Historic farm and residential uses continue.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.847005-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/6840/41684017/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95001169.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001169/1f33a15c92-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001169/1f33a15c92-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LONG_MEADOW,_MIDDLETOWN,_WARREN_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:LONG_MEADOW,_MIDDLETOWN,_WARREN_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"69000243","name":"Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/cedar-creek-battlefield-and-belle-grove-69000243/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684017","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Meadow_(Middletown,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15242778"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/warren-county/long-meadow-95001169/"}