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40 OMB No. 1024 -0018 NPS Form 1"00a ("rp) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 7 Page 5 Murphey School name of property Orange County, NC county and state elevation is topped with an arched transom light that matches the arched windows. Portions of the ceiling and the floor are damaged and/or missing. Teacherage c. 1923, Contributing Building Constructed c. 1923 and possibly designed by Henri C. Unthicum, the teacherage is a one -and- one -half story frame bungalow with a one -story gabled ell. While constructed with a typical bungalow farm, it exhibits little of the architectural detailing common to that or any other style. The house features a side -gable roof that engages the full -width front porch; a shed - roofed dormer with paired three -over -three sash windows rests on the roofs front slope. The building is covered in German siding and has simple wooden trim. The teacherage faces west towards the back of the schoolyard rather than toward Murphy School Road, reinforcing its role as an integral part of the school complex. Four wooden square-m- section posts support the porch sheltering a central door flanked by two tail s'ur- aver -six sash. The front door is rectangular solid beveled -glass and wood with original hardware. It also retains its original wooden screen door. Its porch flooring and central steps are concrete and its foundation is made of brick pillars that have been filled in with stone and painted. Two interior stuccoed chimneys extend from the roofline on the north and south ends. The north and south elevations mirror each other and each contain two bays of six- over-six sash on the first-floor level and two bays of six -over -six sash plus an unusual horizontal three light window at the east end of each elevation at the half -story level to light the bedroom closets. The rear, or east elevation, can be divided into two parts: the southern half containing the original house and a modern enclosed porch (c. 1950 -1965) and the northern half containing the garage addition (c. 1950 - 1970). The southern half contains one six-over-six sash window on the main block and a gable ell with two bays: one three-over-three sash window and a pair of casement windows (casement screens open to the interior) with eight lights each. The modern enclosed porch has in a tight group: one narrow window with three lights running horizontally; a metal six - panel door; and two windows with three metal awning sash each. The garage addition, making up the northern half of the east elevation and extending northward from the main house, has a shed roof and two open garage bays on its north elevation. Three large windows pierce its east elevation, one with twenty-four lights in the center and two with eighteen lights on the north and south ends of the elevation. It too is covered in wooden German siding and its interior walls are unfinished with exposed studs and joists. The interior of the garage has a poured concrete floor. The garage addition is supported by cinder blocks and three wooden posts on its north elevation.