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taa� 066 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Nati6nal Register of Historic Places Continuation - Sheet Section number 7 oo 8 Page 2 Dr. Arch Jordan House Orange County, North Carolina separate two-story kitchen building to the house and enable a more recent shed-roofed rear addition to be attached to the house. The concrete foundation for this recent addition apparently covers what was once a well . The side-gabled kitchen has the same decorative detail as the house but the windows are 4/4 instead of 2/2 or 1 / 1 . There is a central interior ridgeline chimney on the kitchen. The house also features two interior ndgeline brick chimneys with patterned brickwork and corbelling. The interior of the house is similarly ornate, and has remained largely unaltered. Original plaster finish exists in the two first floor rooms -- painted in one room and papered over in another. There is also an unusual diagonal wood tongue-and-groove sheathing covering the walls of the center hall , a pattern which is reflected in the paneled wainscoting in the lower rooms . The center hall contains as well an elegantly curving open staircase with a handrail supported on lathe- turned balusters . Upstairs rooms feature tongue-and-groove paneling on the walls and ceilings and built- in closets . Heavily molded post-and lintel mantels frame the fireplaces in each main room. The house retains interior four-paneled doors with original hardware intact, and both the doors and the windows are bordered by molded wooden surrounds. % To the rear of the house is a two-room, combination smokehouse/food storage shed, with original sub-grade excavation storage space in the northeast room. The structure is windowless, has two doors (one into each room of the structure), and is built on a foundation of fieldstone . As with the house, this smokehouse is constructed of weatherboard and features a v-crimp metal roof. Two hundred yards further to the east sits a side-gabled log and weatherboard tobacco barn, with intact interior tier poles and an enclosed side bay. The main barn, located southeast of the house, is a one and a half story, multi-use barn with weatherboard sheathing and a v-crimp, side gabled roof. The roof extends over the southwestern elevation, covering a runway and half-story equipment storage rooms. The site also contains non-contributing outbuildings which include a pump house and a modem board and batten garage. It is estimated that these structures were built after the period of significance. Statement of Significance._ The Dr. Arch Jordan house, located in the northwest corner of Orange County, is eligible for National Register listing under Criteria A and C. Significant in the area of Architecture under Criteria C, the Dr. Arch Jordan house is the best-preserved and most stylish example of the Italianate architectural style in rural Orange County. Built for Dr. Archibald Currie Jordan in the latter part of the nineteenth century, this center hall, single-pile, two-story house features extensive and ornate architectural characteristics of the Italianate style, including bracketed, overhanging eaves; paired and rounded doors and windows; a columned porch; and a low-hipped roof. The house has also preserved much of its ornate, original interior,