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M'Sfioem 10.900.a (Rsv. B -88) OMB Approwl Na 1024 -0018 United States Department of the Interior' National Park Service National Register of Aistoric Places Continuation Sheet Holden- Roberts Farm Section number _ 7 Page __ 2_ Orange County, NC farm, both built ca. 1910 by Cain Roberts, have deteriorated, and a large concrete block chicken house west of the farmhouse, built ca. 1950 by the Garrards, has been extensively renovated. After 1950, the last year for which the Holden - Roberts Farm is eligible for the National Register, Thomas Bacon added a frame and concrete block egg house northeast of the farmhouse in 1963; James Rae Freeland built a frame pole barn in the east field ca. 1965; and Nels Anderson constructed a frame sawmill shed east of the Garrards' barns in 1998. INTEGRITY STATEMENT: The Holden- Roberts Farm has a long history of continuous usage. Historic land use patterns remain, and the lay of the land is much the same as formerly. Pastures and fields are in their early- twentieth - century locations, and although livestock and poultry are no longer raised, the farm produces a large annual crop of grass hay. Buildings on the farm have been constructed, repaired, and destroyed, or allowed to deteriorate by various owners and tenants as fanning activities and emphases have changed over time. The most important early- and mid, twentieth- century buildings are in good repair and convey a strong sense of agricultural use while the noncontributing buildings complement them in scale and character. 1. LANDSCAPE, contributing: Although its acreage has varied over time, the Holden - Roberts Farm is today a sixty - eight- and seven - tenths -acre tract, dominated by agricultural fields that slope gently upward from the south boundary near SR 1002 to woodlands along the north and west boundaries. Mature poplars, oaks, maples, and pines dominate the woodlands and cedars grow intermittently near fence lines around the farm. Beginning at SR 1002, a winding dirt and gravel lane, part of a network of unimproved roads abandoned by Orange County before 1936,1 extends in a north- south direction and bisects the farm to divide a large open field of approximately thirty -five acres on the west from two smaller fenced fields of approximately eight and ten acres on the east. As it reaches the farmhouse in the north - central sector of the farm, the lane curves to the west and then continues in a west - northwest direction off the property to State Route 1538. On a gentle eastern slope, the farmhouse faces west toward the lane, sheltered on the east by two tall pecan trees. Outbuildings around the farm, constructed over a fifty -year period of agricultural significance and set in loose proximity to the lane from south to northwest, clearly convey an association with Orange County's diversified farming economy from 1900 to 1950. 2. THE HOLDEN - ROBERTS FARMHOUSE, ca. 1873 174, with additions ca. 1900, 1930, and 1970 (Floor plans of the house are attached as Exhibits A and B): The Holden - Roberts Farmhouse comprises a handsome frame tri-gable I -house constructed in 1873 and 1874, a ca. 1900 one -story frame kitchen - parlor -porch addition on the east elevation,