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o vn Na 10.300a 034 <br /> Rev.10.741 VV <br /> UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY ' ., <br /> NATIONAL PARK SERVICE •`` <br /> RECEIVED r M <br /> NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ;:. ::'' ' <br /> INVENTORY--NOMINATION FORM _DATE ENTERED.'• <br /> CONTINUATION SHEET' ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 2 <br /> One of the most interesting and unusual features of the house is the beautiful <br /> shaded courtyard bordered on tvo.sides by the colonnaded porch that carries along the <br /> rear of the 'two-story section and the front of the ell. A shed roof is carried on <br /> sturdy columns of Doric character, constructed of wedge-shaped bricks and stuccoed; - <br /> these unusual masonry columns are seen also at the rear porch of the Ruffin-Roulhac <br /> House in Hillsborough. The raised floor of the porch is surfaced with square paving <br /> TM; bricks, and the ceiling of the porch is lathed and has traces of plaster. The <br /> enclosed feeling of the porch and courtyard is intensified by the presence of the <br /> office and by a wooden partition linking the front section of the house and the ell. <br /> To the rear of the house is a small well-house, a frame gable roof structure of <br /> _d-nineteenth century date whose gabled overhang, sheltering the well, is carried on <br /> ..aund brick columns like those of the porch. To the east of the house is a smokehouse <br /> of traditional heavy timber frame construction. . Several other outbuildings of <br /> uncertain or later data exist as well. <br /> • <br /> • <br /> t w: • <br /> 4101 <br /> • <br /> 7 <br />