The William Lindsay White House is important historical structure because of its association with aspects of New Jersey history that are little known and interpreted in Hunterdon County. Its association with White presents an opportunity to interpret aspects of journalism and politics during World War II and the post-war era, especially White’s role as a controversial harbinger of the change in the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States from allies to adversaries in the Cold War era. 

Through its association with White, the property also is linked with the Delaware Valley intelligentsia (painters, sculptors, visual artists, authors, journalists, poets, playwrights, musicians, composers, etc.), who in the 20th century formed a remarkable concentration of individuals of varied accomplishment, geographically centered on New Hope-Lambertville, but spreading throughout Hunterdon County, N. J., and Bucks County, Pa. This community and country places like the White residence played a prominent role in the development of Hunterdon County’s cultural landscape as place of rural retreat and exurban residence, a history worthy of interpretation.

The house is located via the Horseshoe Bend East driveway and parking lot.