About John Hite House
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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.
