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<br /> Burnice Hackney,left,unfastens a plywood panel so the Rev.Thomas Nixon can open the front door to the
<br /> historic Lloyd-Rogers House during a visit by members form the Chapel Hill Historical Society
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<br /> `TREASU:EZE' HOUSE
<br /> St. Paul AME aims to move, restore historic Lloyd-Rogers House
<br /> BY DAVE HART .�. er -• r�4:„ story Greek Revival known as the
<br /> dhart®newsobserver.com k: +• '1 Lloyd-Rogers House—is a treasure of
<br /> On the front porch at 1621 Purefoy ` ��" 4 sorts,and one worth preserving.
<br /> Drive,Burnice Hackney removed the x f 1_ "It was built,we think,around 1845,
<br /> final screw from a big sheet of particle by the Hogan family,a very prosperous,
<br /> board and slid it to the side,revealing a ,, , g, white,Orange County family with ties
<br /> tattered,cobweb-laden screen door and • to the Revolutionary War,"said Dollar,
<br /> a dim interior beyond. . i1 who organized the expedition to unseal
<br /> "It's like opening KingTut'stomb,"said 1 " # the house earlier this month."The
<br /> Tom Heffner,one of a half-dozen people ) ■ w t' house passed into the possession of de-
<br /> standing on the concrete porch,which " V + , scendants of slaves in the early 20th
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<br /> was half-covered with the periwinkle � y.� century."
<br /> vines that had swallowed the front steps. "- r you The location of the Lloyd-Rogers
<br /> David Caldwell pushed the door open, House,just east of Rogers Road,may be
<br /> and everyone followed him carefully. its undoing—but Dollar and others
<br /> No golden riches lay within,alas.The y 4 1 %' hope that location might be its salva-
<br /> house,which has been boarded up for a e " a ;4 tion as well.
<br /> number of years,was a mess.Broken '4 s 1`.t a; St.Paul AME Church plans to move
<br /> furniture,shards of glass,discarded The 19th century frame home may its church—literally deconstructing the
<br /> shoes,beer cans were everywhere.One be carefully moved to make room existing building and transporting it—
<br /> room was filled wall to wall with cloth- for a new St.Paul AME church. from its location on Merritt Mill Road
<br /> ing,while a single dress and jacket were to the exact spot where the Lloyd-Rog-
<br /> draped neatly on a hanger on the wall. nal stuff here:some of the trim,floor- ers House now stands.St.Paul's pastor,
<br /> Here and there,the floors,ceilings boards,part of the stair rails.This is the Rev.Thomas Nixon,said he hopes
<br /> and wallboards had broken through,in certainly what you would have seen to break ground on the Purefoy Drive
<br /> some places revealing rough-cut wood mid-19th century or earlier." site by late this year or early next.
<br /> underneath. Although most of what was strewn That means,of course,that the house
<br /> "This is hand-sawn lumber,"said throughout the rooms was trash,Er- has to go.
<br /> Heffner,preservation committee chair- nest Dollar,executive director of the Dollar and the staff of the Rogers
<br /> man of the Preservation Society of Cha- Preservation Society of Chapel Hill,
<br /> pel Hill."There's quite a bit of the origi- says the house itself—a pale green,two- SEE HOUSE, PAGE 12A
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