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<br /> NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval Na.T024-0078
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<br /> United States Department of the Interior 13
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<br /> National Park Service
<br /> National Register of Historic Places
<br /> Continuation Sheet
<br /> Section number 7 Page 1
<br /> Dr.Arch Jordan House
<br /> Orange County,North Carolina
<br /> Narrative Description:
<br /> The Dr.Arch Jordan House is an ornate,center hall,single-pile,two-story frame house with
<br /> distinctive Italianate detailing and a projecting central gable built in the last quarter of the nineteenth
<br /> century for Dr.Jordan, a prominent physician in the Caldwell,North Carolina community.' The house is
<br /> located on the southeast side of NC 57,roughly .25 miles from the intersection with NC 157,a rural part of
<br /> Orange county dominated by farmland. The house faces northwest, sitting on a gently rising grassy expanse
<br /> of a farmland plot just north of the north fork of the Little River. Two mature shade trees stand fifteen
<br /> yards from the front of the house,and frame the porch and doorway when viewing the house face-on.
<br /> Other large shade trees stand ten and twenty yards off the northeast corner of the house and thirty yards off
<br /> the southwest side,and several smaller trees ring the back,southeast corner. A natural pond is situated to
<br /> the northeast of the house,across a rural lane that now serves as the driveway to the property which is lined
<br /> by a number of small spruce trees. Directly behind and east of the house is a small,two-room smokehouse,
<br /> and southeast of this structure,a more modern pumphouse. A board and batten garage twenty yards south
<br /> of the house,a frame barn seventy-five yards southeast of the house,and a tobacco barn approximately two
<br /> hundred yards east-southeast of the house constitute the remaining structures. The buildings sit on some
<br /> forty-seven acres of farmland which stretches off to the south.
<br /> The house is a single-pile form,center hall plan,with two rooms on each of two floors. There is a
<br /> projecting center bay under the center gable of a triple-A side-and center-gabled roof. The facade of the
<br /> house features paired,hooded 2/2 windows with curved window tops,original shutters and slightly
<br /> projecting hooded moldings. Underneath the center gable are projecting,returned eaves supported by
<br /> paired,elaborate brackets,as well as a decorative circular attic vent. The one-story porch which follows the
<br /> center gable has square posts with decorative bases and a low,hipped-roof configuration. Original porch
<br /> brackets and the sawnwork porch balustrade have been removed.2 The centrally-placed entrance door is
<br /> round-topped,divided,and crowned with carved,wooden,pedimented moldings.The house is sheathed in
<br /> weatherboard,has a triple-a,v-crimp tin roof and is supported on a stone foundation. The side elevations of
<br /> the house maintain the same style—decorative attic vents under the side gables,projecting,returned eaves
<br /> supported by paired brackets,and paired,hooded windows--except that the side windows are ill instead of
<br /> 2/2. The back of the house once had a full-length porch,but this has been enclosed to connect an originally-
<br /> The bulk of this description is taken directly from the narrative description located in the"Dr.Arch Jordan House"
<br /> file,North Carolina Division of Archives and History,Department of Cultural Resources,Survey Site#OR 931,no
<br /> author.
<br /> 2 Richard L.Mattson,"History and Architecture of Orange County,North Carolina,"unpublished manuscript
<br /> (Hillsborough,NC:Orange County Planning and Development Department,Orange County,North Carolina,
<br /> September 1996),49.
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