Orange County NC Website
2~ <br />Nf S fam 10.OM1 a O~.IR AC!`~r..l Nn IO?a-MIl1 <br />,p ~, 21 <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />'[~~ure ~ e.ucette 'IOLl3O <br />Section number ~ Page ~ orange Count~~, :~7c <br />2000. !ie notes only a few local ~va:n4~les of the tero-story ~rar~e <br />farmhouse, arnong the.a the ?,a-ahecr ~terater ?iousa located in the <br />~:?hite Cross Co,amunity of Orange count7. Another, notable <br />slightly earlier exar~~~le is c. 179 Oa~:lanci, located in <br />neiy-hboring Person County. :~Io~t surviving ~ra~ne houses are <br />r_,aule-roofed structures, usually ~•rith sh`d-roofed front scorches <br />and e:aerior-end ciiianeys. _•~ost of the a*.rellinc?s are one-bay <br />deep and three bays. ~,riue. i7sually the stairs to the seconc: <br />story are enclos~_c? anc~ locator', in a corner of ona of the first- <br />story roon?S, ant' arm often enclosvcz ~y a caoor. Th^ two-story <br />arr3nge~aent of tn~a ~ aucett? douse is unusual in that doors in <br />'~oth ~~irst-~loor roo~t,s provide access to the enclosed, <br />centrally-located s taircas~, which rises ~ro~a the rear to tae <br />front. T'le mantelpi aces display decorative sa~m~ror:;, rat'_Zer <br />than the .core usual re~c.ec'. ::iantels fount in t?Za 'Iills`.~orough <br />area. Tie ^attcette houses has been little altered since t'.ze <br />Victorian-era hip-roof front ~~orch ~•ras acdod. Tho small one-story <br />east ~Illlf! added in tale 1970s blends in al ;post ial~erceptibly <br />with the original :nai_Z '~loc}:, sharing tha sa.ae tyre :aulti-pane <br />sa."ii1 ~~rlndocrs OrnFi:aCntL'C~ :,rlt~'1 Cr32~i R?V1Val Corner ;:~IOC.i:S foutlca <br />on the ori~~inal :actin bloe':c. The original setting on t;1e~ 's~a.n';s <br />of the Eno .river is nicturesrue ant, evocative of the li~~ of <br />a small far ;per of thA Eno ~?iver Valley in t.e early ninet`ent;z <br />century. <br />