Built by Hite, John VLR # 034-0127 Opened 1753 Added to NRHP 8 July 1982 | NRHP Reference # 82004558 Designated VLR April 21, 1981 Area 5 ha | |
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Location US 11, near Bartonsville, Virginia Built 1753 (1753), portico is 19th-century, pre-Civil War Architectural styles Gothic Revival architecture, Colonial Revival architecture, Greek Revival architecture | ||
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.