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CVM No 10 . 3008 01 1 <br /> Rev 1 D• 7 '4 ) <br /> UNITED STATES DEPARIONIENT O THE I NT k1Uk FOR NPS USE ONLYof <br /> NATIONAL PARK SERVICE <br /> RECEIVED ' . ;• <br /> NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Y ' <br /> DATE ENTERED <br /> - INV.ENTOR 'Y``=-- NOMINATION FORM <br /> CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER ? PAGE 2 <br /> One of the most interesting and unusual features of the house is the beautiful <br /> shaded courtyard bordered on two 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 /> 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 /> . .) und 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 date exist as well . <br /> I <br />