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United Stages Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Bolden- Roberts Farm <br />Sectionnnmber_7 Page 2 Orange County, NC <br />loon, Wthbuilt ca. 1910 by Cain Roberts, have deteriorated, and a large cunvere block rltirken <br />home west of the faromm a built ca. 1950 by the Gamed; has be,sn extensively, renovated. <br />After 1950, the hot year for which the Holden - Roberts Fronts elynble for the National Register, <br />Thomas Baron added a frame and mn¢ete block egghwse nocherat of fly farmhouse in 1963; <br />James Rae Frzelarul bast a fame pole been m the east field m. 1965; and Nels Anderson <br />mnshrmod a home baseball dad east of Ole Cowards barnsm 1998. <br />1N7pE=i S ATEWcsn <br />The Holden-Roberta Form has a Imrg histoq, of continuous ussee. Heaton, land use patterns <br />and the lay of the land is mouth the same as Ostrich. Factures and fields aze N ¢hers <br />early twentietheennuy locations, cat aUhmgh livestock and poWtry are m lo, mired, the <br />(arm protons a large armmel area of grass hay. Buildings on the farm have been wnstruned <br />repassed, and destroyed, or allowed to detenorm, by nwous oxmers ad tenant as bmvng <br />cracker and m�p�ass Faye Changed over time. TFc most Important early- and nria- <br />-nntieWcenhuy bu0dmte are m goad repay and cmwey a long same of asmadmal rose <br />whole the nortmntrebumg bmldings complement them sWe ad dorwe, <br />1. LANDSCAPE, coMibuNrg. <br />Is today a dar yrelght- and <br />gsrtly upward from the <br />wane bmmdanas. Nature <br />a rmge rpm nets of appPP mmety umry-nva <br />es on she west horn nvo smU1er fenced fields of approvmately aqd ad ten acres on the <br />east As it macMs the (armdwse O the northcentml ector of the farm, tM lane curves to the <br />westand thin =m u�ur a rues(- northwest Chaisson off me property to State Monte 1536 On <br />-aNe eastern slope, the farmhouse faces west toward the lane, ehelosaw on th, east by two <br />tall pecen laws. Outbdliinga amend the farm, commonest ova a fifty-year period of <br />gncd(wal eigrO icence and set m knew prowlers to the lane from awed to mt7baraet, d ody <br />ronvey an association with Orange Canary diverae6ed fwdng mmanny tmm 1900 to 1950. <br />2. It IE 11OIDEN- RC6h12T5 FARMHOUSE, ca. 167374 with additions ca. 1900, 1930, and <br />1970 (floor pass ofthr lmusen.e onamcd as Exhibits Aand Hk <br />The Holder kinetics Farmhouse co m,,,,s a handsome faun In pass, I -home coernacted O <br />1673 and 167¢ a ca -1900 onestory Immekerrhen -parlor porch additive w tde east elevation, <br />