{"nrhp_refnum":"99001723","name":"Mountain View Farm","other_names":["Pioneer Farms"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"199 Fredericksburg Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lexington","county":"Rockbridge County","state":"VA","lat":37.86505644050004,"lon":-79.47952683440788,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-01-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mountain View Farm is a historic farm of about 133 acres near Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia. It centers on a two-story brick Greek Revival house built about 1854, with seventeen contributing resources including barns, outbuildings and a windmill.","why_significant":"The farm is argued to be an extensive, diverse and nearly complete historic farm complex showing a century or more of farm building and agricultural practice in Rockbridge County. It is also tied to Rice Hotinger, a progressive farmer and first president of the Rockbridge County Fair Association. It is further linked to Sara Lantz Hotinger, the county's first superintendent of public welfare.","narrative":"Mountain View Farm occupies about 133 acres of pasture, cropland and woodland west of Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia, watered by Gilmer Creek and overlooked by Hogback Mountain. Its main house, a two-story brick dwelling built about 1854 for Charles Hyde Davidson, has plain Greek Revival interior detailing and some unusual features, including a walnut-railed stair and tie-rod battened doors. Around it stand fifteen outbuildings and structures grouped into domestic and agricultural clusters. These include a double-crib log barn, a large 1915 barn with an interior silo, a granary, a corncrib and wagon shelter, a sheep barn, a blacksmith shop and a 1931 windmill. Together they document a century or more of farming in a prosperous Shenandoah Valley county. The farm is also associated with Rice Hotinger, a progressive farmer, and Sara Lantz Hotinger, the county's first superintendent of public welfare. Its period of significance runs from about 1800 to 1949.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800-1949","architect_builder":"Charles Hyde Davidson (said to have built the main house in 1854)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Still a working farm: the house is a dwelling, the 1915 barn shelters cattle and equipment, and a repair shop in the blacksmith building operates.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.59218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/6834/41683428/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99001723.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001723/6b2c67fec3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001723/6b2c67fec3-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_View_Farm_from_I-64.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_View_Farm_from_I-64.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683428","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_Farm_(Lexington,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15260093"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockbridge-county/mountain-view-farm-99001723/"}