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1 11 <br /> NFS Fo_nn 10.900-a - - - OMB Approval No.1014-0018 <br /> (8-8S) .. <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number 7,8 Page 2 <br /> Dr.Arch Jordan House <br /> Orange County,North Carolina <br /> separate two-story kitchen building to the house and enable a more recent shed-roofed rear addition to be <br /> attached to the house. The concrete foundation for this recent addition apparently covers what was once a <br /> well. The side-gabled kitchen has the same decorative detail as the house but the windows are 4/4 instead <br /> of 2/2 or 1/1. There is a central interior ridgeline chimney on the kitchen. The house also features two <br /> interior ridgeline brick chimneys with patterned brickwork and corbelling. <br /> The interior of the house is similarly ornate,and has remained largely unaltered. Original plaster <br /> finish exists in the two first floor rooms--painted in one room and papered over in another. There is also <br /> an unusual diagonal wood tongue-and-groove sheathing covering the walls of the center hall,a pattern <br /> which is reflected in the paneled wainscoting in the lower rooms. The center hall contains as well an <br /> elegantly curving open staircase with a handrail supported on lathe-turned balusters. Upstairs rooms feature <br /> tongue-and-groove paneling on the walls and ceilings and built-in closets. Heavily molded post-and-lintel <br /> mantels frame the fireplaces in each main room. The house retains interior four-paneled doors with original <br /> hardware intact,and both the doors and the windows are bordered by molded wooden surrounds. <br /> To the rear of the house is a two-room,combination smokehouse/food storage shed,with original <br /> sub-grade excavation storage space in the northeast room. The structure is windowless,has two doors(one <br /> into each room of the structure),and is built on a foundation of fieldstone. As with the house,this <br /> smokehouse is constructed of weatherboard and features a v-crimp metal roof. Two hundred yards further <br /> to the east sits a side-gabled log and weatherboard tobacco barn,with intact interior tier poles and an <br /> enclosed side bay. The main barn,located southeast of the house,is a one and a half story,multi-use barn <br /> with weatherboard sheathing and a v-crimp,side-gabled roof. The roof extends over the southwestern <br /> elevation,covering a runway and half-story equipment storage rooms. <br /> The site also contains non-contributing outbuildings which include a pump house and a modern <br /> board and batten garage. It is estimated that these structures were built after the period of significance. <br /> • <br /> Statement of Significance: <br /> Summary: <br /> The Dr.Arch Jordan house,located in the northwest corner of Orange County,is eligible for <br /> National Register listing under Criteria A and C. Significant in the area of Architecture under Criteria C, <br /> the Dr.Arch Jordan house is the best-preserved and most stylish example of the Italianate architectural style <br /> in rural Orange County. Built for Dr.Archibald Currie Jordan in the latter part of the nineteenth century, <br /> this center hall;single-pile,two-story house features extensive and ornate architectural characteristics of the <br /> Italianate style,including bracketed,overhanging eaves;paired and rounded doors and windows; a <br /> columned porch; and a low-hipped roof. The house has also preserved much of its ornate,original interior, <br />