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SIGNIFICANCE PEFIOO ( Check One or more as Appropriate ) ❑ Pre - Columbian ; ❑ 16th Century ❑ 18th Century ❑ 20th Century ❑ 15th Century ❑ 17th Century 19th Cent , ory SPECIFIC 0ATVSI (I1 Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE ( Check One or $lore as Appropriate) A bar iginoi ❑ Education ® Political Lam„ Urban Planning Q Prehistoric ❑ Engineering ❑ Religion/ Phi . ❑ other (Specify) . ❑ Historic ❑ Industry losaphy ❑ Agriculture O Invention ❑ Science 7) Architecture ❑ Landscape ❑ Sculpture Mingo ❑ Art Architecture ❑ Social /Human - Commerce ❑ Literature itarian ❑ Communications ❑ Military ❑ Theater ❑ Conservation ❑ Music ❑ Transportation STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The builder of Moorefields was Alfred Moore of Wilmington , a distingui. s ed soldier and judge . In 1758 Moore was appointed captain in the First North Carolina Regiment , which later fought at the Battle Moore ' s Creek Bridge . `^ After resigning his commission in 1777 , he returned to his Wilmington plan - t tation where his activities in the local militia caused the British to burn p his home . - At the war ' s end Moore found himself destitute and turned to the At practice of law , having previously studied for that profession under his fat er . U At Hillsborough in 1782 , Moore acted as prosecutor in several to cases while the state attorney general was absent . The services he rendered on this occasion won him an appointment that year as attorney general . While holding this office , in 1785 , he built Moorefields west of Hillsborough . �. Moore served until 1790 when , secure financially , he left his position for plantation life . ' During this , period of retirement he helped prepare an ordi nance to establish. the seat of the University of North Carolina and to lay ' Z off the town of Chapel Hill . In 1798 Alfred Moore returned to public life when he was elected one of the judges of the North Carolina Supreme Court . w His tenure on the state bench was cut short when in 1799 he was appointed W to fill the position of the late James IreGell on the United States Supreme Court . Justice Moore served in this position until failing health forced his resignation in 1804 . Moore died October 15 , ' 1810 , and willed Moorefields to his son , Alfred , ition of practicing law and entering politics . who followed the family trad Alfred Moore ' the younger was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1813 and again in 1817 . SerVing . until 1826 , he further distinguished himmon self in the 1823 - 1824 term when he was elected speaker . He died in 1837 , leaving Moorefields to his son -in -law , Francis Nash Waddell * In 1847 the estate was divided with the tract containing the house going to Alfred Moore s daughter, Augusta . It remained in the family until 1913 when it . was adver - tised for public sales In the following years the subsequent owners were not members of the Moor family . Ia 1949 , however , ' Edward T . Draper - Savage , who is related to the Moore family by marriage , acquired and began restoring the house . It is now i.n excellent condition . MoorefAeds , historically significant as the home of the politically prominent Moore family , is architecturally important as one of the earliest appearances of the FedeYal style in the state . It is further distinguished b the well - executed mantels and fine Chinese qChippendale stair . - -