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<br /> United States Department of the Interior
<br /> National Park Service 060
<br /> National Register of Historic Places
<br /> Continuation Sheet
<br /> Section number 7 Page 1
<br /> Dr. Arch Jordan House
<br /> Orange County, North Carolina
<br /> Narrative Description :
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<br /> The Dr. Arch Jordan House is an ornate, center hall , single -pile, two-story frame house with
<br /> distinctive Italianate detailing and a projecting central gable built in the last quarter of the nineteenth
<br /> century for Dr. Jordan, a prominent physician in the Caldwell , North Carolina community. l The house is
<br /> located on the southeast side of NC 57, roughly .25 miles from the intersection with NC 157 , a rural part of
<br /> Orange county dominated by farmland. The house faces northwest, sitting on a gently rising grassy expanse
<br /> of a farmland plot just north of the north fork of the Little River. Two mature shade trees stand fifteen
<br /> yards from the front of the house, and frame the porch and doorway when viewing the house face-on.
<br /> Other large shade trees stand ten and twenty yards off. the northeast comer of the house and thirty yards off
<br /> the southwest side, and several smaller trees ring the back, southeast corner. A natural pond is situated to
<br /> the northeast of the house, across a rural lane that now serves as the driveway to the property which is lined
<br /> by a number of small spruce trees . Directly behind and east of the house is a small , two-room smokehouse,
<br /> and southeast of this structure, a more modern pumphouse . A board and batten garage twenty yards south
<br /> of the house, a frame barn seventy-five yards southeast of the house, and a tobacco barn approximately two
<br /> hundred yards east-southeast of the house constitute the remaining structures. The buildings sit on some
<br /> forty-seven acres of farmland which stretches off to the south.
<br /> -pile form, center hall plan, with two rooms on each of two floors . There is a
<br /> The house is a single
<br /> projecting center bay under the center gable of a triple-A side- and center-gabled roof. The facade of the
<br /> house features paired, hooded 2/2 windows with curved window tops, original shutters and slightly
<br /> projecting hooded moldings. Underneath the center gable are projecting, returned eaves supported by
<br /> paired, elaborate brackets, as well as a decorative circular attic vent. The one-story porch which follows the
<br /> center gable has square posts with decorative bases and a low, hipped-roof configuration. Original porch
<br /> brackets and the sawnwork porch balustrade have been removed. The centrally-placed entrance door is
<br /> round-topped, divided, and crowned with carved, wooden, pedimented moldings. The house is sheathed in
<br /> weatherboard, has a triple-a, v-crimp tin roof and is supported on a stone foundation. The side elevations of
<br /> the house maintain the same style- decorative attic vents under the side gables, projecting, returned eaves
<br /> supported by paired brackets, and paired, hooded windows- except that the side windows are 1/ 1 instead of
<br /> 2/2 . The back of the house once had a full-length porch, but this has been enclosed to connect an origmally-
<br /> The bulls of this description is taken directly from the narrative description located in the "Dr. Arch Jordan House"
<br /> file, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, Survey Site # OR 931 , no
<br /> author.
<br /> 2 Richard L. Mattson, "History and Architecture of Orange County, North Carolina," unpublished manuscript
<br /> (Hillsborough, NC: Orange County Planning and Development Department, Orange County, North Carolina,
<br /> September 1996), 49 .
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