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�..— ,*.aoa_ tw OR" —. — »a—m. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 7 Page ? _ Orange Co., NC 7. Narrative Description The Cabe- Pratt - Harris douse is located on approximately twenty -seven acres near the Eno River in rural eastern Orange County. The house and acreage, known by its twentieth - century name, Riverbend Farm, is located at the end of a long gravel driveway off Pleasant Green Road (SR 1567), with no neighbors or roads in sight. The c.. 1820, one - and - one -half story, gable- roofed frame house faces north, and is sited on the crest of a small 'moll. It is surrounded by mowed, grass fields, which once produced large quantities of corn and wheat. The house is shaded by large oak, dogwood, magnolia, and chinaberry trees. A kitchen garden is located immediately south of a substantial rear and side addition which includes an attached garage, appended to the house in the mid - twentieth century and remodeled, on the same footprint, in the late- twentieth century. The old section of the house retains its early hall- and - parlor plan and original interior finishes, which include the original flush board pine sheathing, chair rails, six -panel doors, flush wainscot in the parlor, and arched and square fireboxes with needed, raised -panel mantelpieces. The Cabe - Pratt- Harris House is a significant and rare example of a small but substantial early- nineteenth century farm house of the Eno River Valley. The main block of the house stands on a raised fieldstone foundation (with a crawlspace below) and is bracketed by large stone chimneys with offset brick stacks. The gable -side roof, originally covered by shakes, is now sheathed with decorative v- crimped metal. The' house has a boxed cornice and nine - over -nine windows. Four - over -four windows in the gable ends light the loft sleeping area. The window muntins are delicate and narrow and the double -hung sash retains some early glass panes. The original main entrance to the old part of the house is approached via a flight of five slate steps which broaden and curve at the rase and have holes drilled where an iron handrail formerly stood. A standing seam metal, shed -roof portico shelters a replacement six raised -panel front door. At present, the principal entrance is located on the west side of the rear addition. The addition has multi -pane windows and and a multi -pane French door. The principal main entrance is marked by a landscaped brick side patio surrounded by a picket fence and gate. The original interior plan is basically two rooms. The square hall is entered directly from outdoors, with an arched 10