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AAIB ApMOVwI NO ~07~-rJOle Ni`S F<um 10-400-• 18 ie eei United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet t:2aucle ^auc~tte ?ious~ Section number - Page ~~range count~t, ;<;c Section 8: Significance Summary: The c. 1520 r~aude Faucette Flouse, significant under ~dational Register Criterion C, is a good representative example of an early-ninetePnt:l century, t~•ro-story frame farm house of the Eno River valley. The larq?ly unaltered house retains its early form and its original settine~ overlooking the banks of the F~no. ~i~tle House was built by Davicl Faucette, son of 4ichard Faucette chose far;ily settled in Orange County in 17G~i. The house was owned try the Faucette family members until 1977 when the pronert-{ was ~~ought by the Shear in family,- Carlo shared the house with the Laude Faucette, tale last descendant of Joseph Faucette, until her death on 1983 at the age of ninety-seven. The house retains many of its early original features including the conunon-bond bric'c exterior-enc. chimneys with slender freestanding brie.: stacks, six-over-si:c and six-over-four lainc3o~as, :,iantslpieces ~•rith vernacular swan crork, flush board interior sheathing, si:c-panel doors, anti enclosed staircasF~. The house is largely intact, although it sho~•rs evic'.ence of minor remodeling over the years including, Cree'.c Revival corner nlocia fro11 the mid-nineteenth century, an~i a c. 18$0 Victorian-st;'1e front porch, combed good graining added to the interior doors an•ry flush caainscot c. 1904, anti a sriall one-story side cuing ac-3dec1 ~y the ;hearins in t?^,e 1970x. '.Che property displays the seven aspects of intAgrity, retaining its ability to convey sini;`icance: location, design, setting, material, caor~cmanslzip, feeling ailci association. she house re~:lains in its original isolator' location anti setting on the :~an'a of the Eno River. ~~io other broc~erties are within i~n:u~diate sight ~ahi ch contri`nites to its historic ieeling of the ho,nesteac: of a y~~oulan iaruler. ^'he vernacular FAc'oral style of the tcro-story fra::le far:ahouse is larg`ly intact, as are its lnatarials, s11C~1 as the fiel~is~tone foun,ation, frame si/1inq, free ,tan~linc, connnon-road chimneys, and tie six-over-your anc~ sir.-over-six caindo~as. The house is aSSOCl3ted with the ~auc~tte fa,uiltr, early settlers in the Fiillsborou<?h area, snd eras occupied ~y ?Iaude Fauce~~ta, a direct ~?.Ascendant of the ori~7ina1 builder until her c'eata l.n 1~'a~. `:l ;tOr1C11 ''ELC..CJr'O11S1~' :Rh _'~?Uc:(?tt:~? l:il:!tll;/ Or111111cZti?1.' lil _'L'<lI1C~`. %llil'. 1'?~t C-iirlril.;