{"nrhp_refnum":"97000149","name":"Rose Hill Farm","other_names":["VDHR File No. 34-115"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1985 Jones Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Frederick County","state":"VA","lat":39.15036054250004,"lon":-78.21598372650942,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Military"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rose Hill Farm is a roughly 300-acre farm near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia, centered on a 2½-story brick and stucco vernacular Federal-style house that grew from a late eighteenth-century log building (c.1797), with several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be an excellent example of additive expansion, in which a log house and a stone structure built by Irish immigrants in the Opequon settlement were folded into a larger, formally planned brick house around 1819. The farm is also tied to the First Battle of Kernstown (23 March 1862), when some of the bitterest fighting took place on its land.","narrative":"Rose Hill Farm, near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia, is a farm of about 300 acres built around a brick and stucco house in the vernacular Federal style. The house began as a small log building of about 1797 on a limestone foundation, and a one-room stone structure may have been added beside it. Around 1819 these parts were joined into a central-passage brick house, probably under Thomas Glass, whose family were Irish immigrants in the Opequon Creek settlement. Greek Revival details, including the front porch, were added around 1850. Outbuildings include a limestone summer kitchen from about 1862, a cistern, and a bank barn. The property is also linked to the First Battle of Kernstown on 23 March 1862, when intense fighting occurred around a stone wall east of the house and on nearby Sand Ridge. After years of tenant neglect and vandalism in 1993, the house was boarded up while restoration proceeded.","period_of_significance":"c.1797-1862","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Mid 19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as work in progress and vacant/not in use. The house was vandalized in 1993 and boarded up while restoration continues; the farmland is rented for agricultural and pastoral use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.751005-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/6808/41680818/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97000149.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000149/82b7a67b83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000149/82b7a67b83-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"AgnosticPreachersKid","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rose_Hill_Farm_(Winchester,_Virginia).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:Rose_Hill_Farm_(Winchester,_Virginia).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680818","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Hill_Farm_(Winchester,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713156"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/frederick-county/rose-hill-farm-97000149/"}