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11 <br /> Modern workshop <br /> 2014 <br /> A modern workshop stands north of the tenant house. This new building houses <br /> tools and equipment. <br /> Architecture Context <br /> A small number of I-houses with Victorian-era decorative elements remain in <br /> Orange County, but none exhibits the level of picturesque mode decoration seen on <br /> the Hester House. <br /> The Brown-Faucette (OR 1411) Farm at 3017 Frank Perry Road near Hillsborough <br /> includes an early twentieth-century I-house with a late nineteenth-century rear <br /> wing. A large two-story rear addition dates to the last quarter of the twentieth <br /> century. The house has a weatherboard exterior,vinyl windows, and a hip-roofed <br /> front porch with paneled square columns,turned balusters, and sawnwork brackets. <br /> The front entry is notable: sidelights and a transom set into a molded architrave <br /> frame a double-leaf paneled door. <br /> The circa 1900 Bill Crabtree House (OR 370) at 2013 Damascus Church Road near <br /> Chapel Hill features simple exterior detailing including porch posts with chamfered <br /> edges, sawnwork porch brackets, and a shingled front-facing gable with a circular <br /> vent adorned with a sawn star.All gables have returns, and the two gable ends each <br /> have a stone chimney with sloped shoulders and freestanding brick stacks. Inside, <br /> there is flush-board sheathing at the first floor and headboard walls and ceilings <br /> upstairs. Heart pine flooring remains, as does a hefty turned newel post and similar <br /> slender balusters at the stair rail. The original center stair hall has been opened to <br /> the room to the south. Mantels in the four rooms are identical. The vernacular <br /> design has a simple shelf on a frieze supported by plain pilasters on plinths.The <br /> frieze is nearly plain too, featuring just a pair of shouldered flat arches at the bottom <br /> edge. Stone hearths bring a rusticity to the interior.A circa 1872 log pen serves as <br /> the rear ell for the Crabtree House. <br /> 7. Historical Overview <br /> The Nicholas Corbett Hester House stands on the farmstead established by Nicholas <br /> Corbett Hester's father in the first half of the nineteenth century. The senior <br /> Nicholas Hester (1786-1875) was born in Caswell County to Robert and Harriet <br /> Hester. In 1807,he married Elizabeth Jones Hines (1790-1836) and the couple had <br /> eight children. Between 1834 and 1845, Nicholas Hester acquired hundreds of <br /> 5 <br /> October 26, 2015 <br /> Orange County Local Landmark Application: Nicholas Corbett Hester House <br /> 9501 NC 86 North <br /> Cedar Grove,NC 27231 <br />