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LIPS Farm 10-wa-. <br /> or a Aacb+.r sae aova <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sleet <br /> Maude Faucette House <br /> Section number .- 8 - Page 5 Orange Countv, i4C <br /> Maude Faucette compiled her family history and recorded <br /> a history of the family homestead in 1980. ;he wrote that the <br /> "home was built nsar a spring where food was ]sept fresh. <br /> Xelvinators were unknown at that time. Outlaws were truly a <br /> menace. They lived in caves approximately 2 miles south of <br /> the home. when they became hungry they would make a raid os0 <br /> the food at the spring sometimes Leaving a thank you note. " <br /> Maude remembered a "huge kitchen [no longer in existence ] located <br /> in the northeast corner of the yard where food was prepared <br /> and carried up to the main dwelling. There were also cottages <br /> occupied by students who wished to have a higher degree of <br /> education by walkijy to schools nearby, Mr. Sam Hughes Academy <br /> and my being one. " she recorded that "my great-grandfather <br /> [David Faucette ] .guilt the house and you rarely hear a will <br /> mentioned. it has just been passed on by the succeeding <br /> generations . " She also remembered that the combed wTV graining <br /> found on the doors and wainscot was done in 1904--05 . <br /> The Shearins, also educators, bought the property in the <br /> mid--1970s. The Shearins befriended :Miss Faucette and shared <br /> the house with her until she died in 1983 at age ninety-seven. <br /> in her will Maude left one-quarter of her property, including <br /> some family portraits to the nearby Fairfield Presbyterian Church <br /> of Efland (where she had been a life-long member) , and <br /> one-quarter of her estate to the Christian Children ' s Fund of <br /> Richmond. She 1left the remainder of her estate to Wiley and <br /> Erica shearin. six silver teaspoons, :Made c. 1.838 by Lemuel. <br /> ?synch, were discovered in her safe deposit boy; a�q are now <br /> displayed at the Hillsborough Historical Museum <br /> in .May and July, 1997 Robert A. Golan and1 .�is wife, Diana <br /> Montgomery, purchased the house and 5. 5 acres . They live <br /> there at present with their teenage son. <br /> Architectural Context : <br /> An architectural survey of Orange County conducted in 1997 <br /> revealed that, while a large number of one-story log houses <br /> from the nineteenth century survive, relatively unaltered frame <br /> houses from the early part of that century are rare. <br /> Architectural historian Richard Mattson noted in Orange County <br /> Architectural History, " . . .in a yeoman society dominated by <br /> small log dwellings , the tall frame houses stood apart, evoking <br /> a kinship in form and materials with the neighboring plantation <br /> seats of the upper class . " This history will accompany the <br /> architectural survey of Orange County when it is published in <br />