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20 <br />x-v <br />United States Department of the Frontier <br />Naticnel park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuatilm Sheet <br />Holsomilt berts Fzrm <br />Sectionnumber 6 Pagu 7 Orange Country, NC <br />STATEMENT OF 9gtFFT VNa <br />The Holdm- W+berm Fvm qualifies for freedom on the National greater of Ifistarlc Marc, <br />under Utdaam A with led sihmmsm, an Otmrge Own ry North Catchall as a latest) inuact <br />mplel repnacnbag divem'ified 6eminoand spcvli i Iken towns during the first half of <br />the rv,rificdt mnnuy. Although the land has bean bram] more or less commm ay .awe the <br />latrelghteenth seemed, the remtiwg radiograms depict the period him, 1900 m 1958. The <br />cmtenp,eva o£ the farm complex, a haMsume, wellyrewsved, to -gable bidder built for <br />Addisn Holden in 1873 -1674, also has 10d significance and is elgtble for the Naum,1 <br />register under G'R'nn C for its fine venucWar ardtiteoh e. The dwelling is disgust for it, <br />mymmemical front facade that exhbib four bays on the fast floor with a beak of thee, <br />widows at thenorthcnd, a centr:.l double -leaf door, 4 two windows at the south road that <br />mirror of suit windows in the bred:. Mom ty prd of I- bounce in central North <br />G oliroo second -Floor windows am regularly spaced, one abwc the crnMr window of the <br />baNCanshe north end, one above die doe ,and one abnw the space bawem the wumc ws at <br />the ranch end. Uack'ne -made mmtels and newak, a wader wall gable with a Un,, ml <br />wtdatuc and la,geimpresvon lmorve lunged are other rem,a4able dMails. Ore of a vefv few <br />dwellings in Orange County to M built during Remmwctom the house was erdmge t wi a <br />kitchen - parlor -porch addition m. 1980, and a wing mncrhmrg a bedrmm and bath ca 1930. <br />elmund 1970, the wing was m.watN, arul die inure updated with another bmhmom on the <br />a. 19M poroic The additions road entreat tions have been sensitive to the odgirol page and <br />hbde of the designs, and the Holden- Romah, Farmhouse what, the 1873 -1874 Form of in <br />arrltitnn0.il ce'fiCdKe. <br />ARCHI'1CCTUJRAb CONTGffiI; ' <br />Before the uemrW quarter of the twm a, mentury, famthouxcs constructed in the opined 619th <br />were fterr rectangular, twoeloryry e-rmm deep sttumvcsxidt gable or hop mofsandatmor <br />chimneys that are now called 1-lwmes." The hwse type onguated in 2 laish folk culuue but <br />cmm,[ far minders who tbnught to lave baup [ t� fomr hom Iowa, <br />Ind,m,, ad lllinde, roams where names begin with "L" to bruuivta. The first libouses had <br />maple upward decisions of the hall and pastor plan, but by the mid- wreeenth minim, a <br />rynnatocd wamr -bun men am transient was prefe_ d° The corporations and £canner of <br />aired boar of fire(omklaevival style lhronehtheureot mnurerentms and drmblcleaf my <br />coon they also began m utilize a prontinem decorative treat record wall or rich gable. Un, <br />f-atare, x-hen simulated with the tradieanal gable care, xrved M cream a to- -„able truant that <br />demod, extremely popular throughout the state. The front gable was retired trum the Ccdnc <br />Revival or Ddvcrwg cottage style that featured steep resulted gables aM riddy mrsagented <br />