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006 <br /> tenth National Register site in the unincorporated areas of Orange County . Staff finds <br /> that the Dr . Arch Jordan House meets the criteria for eligibility for listing on the National <br /> Register . <br /> 3 . Questions from the Commission <br /> None . <br /> 4 . Comments from the Public <br /> None . <br /> 5 . Close Public Hearing <br /> With no one wishing to be sworn in for public comment, Allison closed the public <br /> hearing portion of the meeting . <br /> 6 . HPC Discussion and Recommendation <br /> Dickinson stated that he had an opportunity years ago to look at this house when it was <br /> for sale and found it in very good condition inside , very intact. It was interesting that it <br /> had the plank walls still surviving . The projecting front gable was typical in the last part <br /> of the 1800 ' s . From his experience in Orange County, he definitely goes along with <br /> Criteria C in which this house embodies a very high quality of Italianate architecture in <br /> Orange County . Rarely, certainly in the Piedmont, is a house seen that is executed as <br /> attractively as this one . It has quite nice vertical massing - most of the detailing is still <br /> there . Dickinson has no trouble at all embracing it under Criteria C for architecture . <br /> Also , the significance of the relationship of the Dr . Arch Jordan House to the school <br /> certainly makes sense to also authorize this nomination under Criteria A . <br /> Anderson stated that Dr. Jordan ' s son had told her that his father had a very good practice <br /> and had devised a pill for his patients that was very effective . These patients happened to <br /> be in Durham, so this was after he had moved . The drugstore was run by two men, <br /> Council and Bernard, and when they saw that this medicine was so effective , that he gave <br /> it to so many people and they kept coming back to have it filled, they asked if they could <br /> patent it. Dr . Jordan said that they could , so they were the ones that started the BC <br /> Headache Company that existed for so long . Anderson isn ' t sure if it still exists now . <br /> But according to his son, Dr . Jordan is the originator of that formula. <br /> Allison stated that they are in the process of doing local landmark designations into the <br /> coming years and this certainly is a house that, once it is on the registry , he sees no <br /> problem with going forward and is free to come back to the Commission for discussion of <br /> landmark designation . There are some significant . tax benefits from local landmark <br /> designation . <br /> 6 <br />