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NP$fNm I0•o00•A r7M8 Av ..m Hu.107&_7jd <br /> Is-") 62 <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register ®f Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> ?laude ?aucette E!ouse <br /> Section number Page orange County, NC <br /> Section 8 : significance <br /> Summary: <br /> The c . 1820 Maude Faucette Kouse, significant under National <br /> Register Criterion C, is a good representative example of an <br /> early-nineteenth century, two-story frame farm mouse of the <br /> Eno :liver valley. The largely unaltered house retains its early <br /> form and its original setting overlooking the Banks of the Eno. <br /> The house was built by David Faucette, son of Richard Faucette <br /> whose family settled in Orange County in 1768 . The mouse was <br /> owned by the Faucette family members until. 1977 when the property <br /> was bought by the Shearin family, who shared the house with <br /> Maude Faucette , the last descendant of Joseph Faucette, <br /> until her death on 1983 at the age of ninety-seven. The house <br /> ratains many of its early original features including the <br /> common-bond brick exterior-end chimneys with slender <br /> freestanding brick stacks, six-over-six and six-over-four <br /> windows , mantelpieces with vernacular sawn work, flush board <br /> interior sheathing, six-panel doors, and enclosed staircase. <br /> The Nouse is largely intact, although it shows evidence of minor <br /> remodeli <br />