John Hite House

John Hite House

Springdale or John Hite House, April 2012
Location US 11, near Bartonsville, Virginia
Coordinates 39°06′32″N 78°12′11″W / 39.10889°N 78.20306°W / 39.10889; -78.20306Coordinates: 39°06′32″N 78°12′11″W / 39.10889°N 78.20306°W / 39.10889; -78.20306
Area 12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built 1753 (1753), portico is 19th-century, pre-Civil War[1]
Built by Hite, John
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 82004558[2]
VLR # 034-0127
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 8, 1982
Designated VLR April 21, 1981[3]

John Hite House, also known as Springdale, is a historic home located near Bartonsville, Frederick County, Virginia. The original house was built in 1753, and is of native limestone laid in irregular ashlar with some random-coursed limestone rubble used on its secondary walls. It was remodeled in the Greek Revival style about 1835–40 and again in the Colonial Revival style about 1900. The front facade features a 19th-century four-bay, two-story portico. Also on the property are the contributing stone ruins of what is believed to be Jost Hite's tavern/house of the 1730s, a stone shed, and small wood-frame spring house. Springdale was originally, the home of Jost Hite, the earliest white settler in the lower Shenandoah Valley. Colonel John I. Hite, son of Jost Hite, built the Springdale family dwelling.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2]

References

  1. Colt, Margaretta Barton Colt, Defend the Valley, 1873 photograph p. xi
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (April 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: John Hite House" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


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