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united otaies ueparcmecic Ui ine inCerivr National Park Service y National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 1 Pisr. oric District ( NR ) are the Nash - Hooper House ( NHL ) , Seven Hearths , Twir► Chimneys a : the Peter . Brown Ruffin House . The early Federal style interior trim of the Faucett House , including raised panel doors and mantels , are typical of the handsome , conservative woodwork in other Orange County houses of the Period . Commerce Context The Faucett dill and House , a grist mill and tavern complex situated on the east side of the Eno River where the major east - west highway through Hillsborough forded the river on its way to Greensboro and Salisbury , represent an unusual survival of a rural , antebellum commercial center . It is the only known mill - tavern complex surviving in North Carolina . The tavern ceased operation about 1860 , according to local tradition , although the mill operated until ca . 1930 . The local name of the Faucett House , the " Coach House , " comes from the tradition that the house was a stagecoach stop , and old residents remembered a large three - story barn across the road from the house - where - spare horses were stabled . In his famous 1858 travelogue , ' A Journey . in the Seaboard • Slave States , Frederick Uw Olmsted mentions a number of stagecoach stops where he spent the night in North Carolina , including Walker ' s Inn , still standing in Cherokee County , but he does not mention the Faucett House . Faucett House is of statewide significance in the area of commerce because of its early function as a tavern . Although there are a small number of antebellum tr^ verns surviving in )`forth Carolina , including the Eagle Tavern in Halifax ( pre - 1772 ) , Yellow Tavern ( NHL ) in Milton ( ca . 1818 ) , Wright Tavern , Wentworth ( pre - 1814 ) and Person ' s Ordinary , Littleton , Halifax County ( late 18th c . ) , the Faucett House is one of only two whose original floor plans reflect commercial functions . The floor plans of most of these taverns are indistinguishable from dwellings of the period . However , the Yellow Tavern in Aiilton has three front entrances , and the first floor vas originally two " great rooms , " ( each " great room " is actually txlo rooms connected by a wide wooden archway through the middle ) . The unusual variation on a center hall plan in the Faucett House , with one front door enterirl = the center hall and a second front door enterIng the so - called " public room , ' implies that ulnas building was built as a tavern . historical Background ., cLual ronstructi. or dates dad our+ ei. ship rh. rc. gi Lhp nearly tuvo i � �.ri� :; G � ci �• eaY :, of t' be mill ar: d house are di .E ficlt + t tno :1etermine . Deed sea rche6 P : e :: c' r: � Isi the fact that rile 17aucett family was 'large and active in land purchases i ^ this section of Orange County , and boundaries of these purchases are d :. ficulL tU plct