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Np8 Fame tOaCOa O Me Apar *No 102,&Wl# (pov.M6) 24 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Jacob Jackson Farm / Maple Hill Section number 7 Page 4 Orange County, NC C. Greek Revival Wing: The Greek Revival wing, built shortly after 1855, is a rectangular two-room structure with an attached hip-roofed porch that is three symmetrical bays long and one bay deep. Its low rubble-stone foundations support walls of hewn oak logs covered by weatherboard siding. A gable roof with shallow overhanging eaves caps the structure and a rectangular chimney, offset east of center on the roof ridge, serves two firebox openings within. Windows are oversize 6/6 sash with many original 12" x 14" lights. Identical early double-paneled doors on the south facade flank a central window notable for initials J. R. W. and A. J. T. inscribed on the lower right light of the upper sash. The doors open onto the porch that, like the porch of the Federal block, has been rebuilt of brick and clay tile. Wooden posts, placed in pairs and ornamented with slats that cross each other to form a distinctive X, were saved and reused here. A series of steps rising along the divider and a short section of roof inserted above it serve as a bridge between the porches of the Greek Revival wing and the Federal block, joining them to create one long multilevel porch that spans the entire south block of Maple Hill. Other elevations of the Greek Revival wing are symmetrical. One 6/6 sash is placed over another on the east gable end. Two 6/6 windows, once evenly spaced on the north facade, are made to seem asymmetrical by the connector ell which has overlapped a portion of the earlier structure on the far right. An investigation of the attic shows that the Greek Revival wing was constructed of hewn V notched logs apparently moved to the site from another location and reused. Evidence for this is offered by a heavy sawn rafter plate on the south side which is secured to an earlier hewn rafter plate beneath it. The sawn rafter plate was fitted into the wall at the time the wing was built to provide additional height. Square nails and a consistent nailing pattern indicate that the rough-sawn rafters and decking planks above are undisturbed since construction. When the connector ell was added to the north side in 1940, the roof slope was altered to accept a shed addition with a 4/4 sash. To accomplish this, the rafters were lifted and reseated on a new rafter plate very different in size and appearance from the nineteenth- century ones on the opposite side. Below the attic, the living space contains two bedrooms that adjoin one another. The east bedroom, to which a closet and built-in chest of drawers were added in 1950, is smaller but the two are otherwise similar in shape and decor. Both are notable for original vertical board wainscotting and simple, well-proportioned Greek Revival mantels around shallow back-to- back fireplaces in the center of the partition wall. A smooth plaster finish on the upper portion of the walls and the ceilings, repaired in 1950, is exposed in the east bedroom and covered with . a dark, patterned wallpaper in the west bedroom.