Agenda 05-16-2023; 5-a - Joint Public Hearing with the Historic Preservation Commission Regarding the Proposed Designation of Three Properties as Orange County Local Landmarks

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HP9 Fw_40-900•a M19 Apwnv.l ka�l�T i-OO a (6.96! U United States Department of the interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Maude Faucette Douse Section number 7 Page 1 Orange County, NC Section 7 : Architectural Description The Maude Faucette House is located in a rural area five miles northeast of Hillsborough, the Orange County seat, and approximately three miles north of the unincorporated village of Efland. The property is known locally as the Maude Faucette House, after the last descendant of the builder, David Faucette. She lived in the house until her death in 1983 at the age of ninety-seven. The house is also known as The Elms, the name given to the property by Dr. and Mrs. Wiley Shearin who purchased the house in 1977 from Plaude, who remained in the house until her death. Until recently the house was surrounded by large elm trees which have since succumbed to age and disease. It is surrounded now by walnut, pecan and red bud trees and large American boxwoods. The house faces north and stands can a grassy bluff which overlooks the Eno River at the east and the bridge which crosses the river on Halls Mill Road ( SR 1336 ) . Bane Road (SR 1337) bisects the five acre tract at the west. The c. 1320 Faucette house is a vernacular interpretation of the Federal style, a two-story, gable-roofed, frame farmhouse with a mid to late-nineteenth century hip -roofed front porch with turned posts and sawn brackets. It rests on a fieldstone foundation, has exterior-end common-bond brick chimneys with slender free-standing stades, and a rear frame kitchen wing with an exterior end chimney and a rear screened-in porch. A one-story side wing was added to the east end of the house in the 1970s. The main block of the singly:--pile house is three-bays wide and two-bays deep and has plain boxed eaves. The symmetrical facade of the house has six-over-four windows on the first ,tory and six-aver-six sash on the second story. The windows are set in molded frames with plain sills and Greek Revival style corner blocks. The windows in the 1970s east wing are ornamented by replicas of the corner blocks . The main entrance is a six-panel door. It is protected by a Victorian-style screen door with carved brackets , probably added when the porch was replaced. ( Date of this porch is unknown, but probably c. 1830 ) . iqo original outbuildings survive. family tradition maintains that a detached, kitchen building, no longer in existence, stood in the northeast corner of the back yard. Two small late--nineteenth century cottages were moved onto the property in the early 1980s. one is used as a garden cottage and is located in the bade yard on the south side of the house .