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-01 s.... <br />,�..ao.. <br />Imo" 19 <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number 8 Page 10 <br />Cabe - Pratt - Harris House <br />Orange Co., NC <br />eighteenth- century town of Hillsborough or in rural areas of <br />adjacent Durham County, which was formed from Orange County <br />in 1881. The rural examples, all intact and in good condition, <br />include Moorefields constructed in 1785 (NR 1972), Stagville, <br />c. 1790 (NR 19731, and Fairntosh built in 1810 (NR 1973). Both <br />Stagville and Fairntosh are located in present -day Durham County. <br />The main house on each of these properties is a two -story frame <br />structure, with fine late- Georgian details. The <br />Cabe - Pratt - Harris House is smaller than these two -story examples, <br />but the details are equally fine and well- executed. <br />The Georgian style continued to be popular in back- co�jtry <br />North Carolina much longer than in urban areas nationally. <br />Some substantial middle -class dwellings continued to follow <br />the hall- parlor plan with an enclosed corner stair in the hall <br />room as late as the mid- nineteenth century. Late examples <br />include the 1848 Samuel Couch House near Durham and the 1850s <br />Smyth House near Chapel Hill. Both houses clearly demonstrate <br />their owners' economic achievement and social standing. 4 <br />