Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
NP3 Fwm 40 M- GA40 .nnProveif.�j' x+-G4f6 <br /> (A."I <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Maude Eaucette House <br /> Section number 3 Page h orange County, Nc <br /> 2000 . He notes only a feta local examples of the two-story frame <br /> farmhouse, among them the -latthew Atwater House located in the <br /> White Cross Community of Orange county. Another, notable <br /> slightly earliez example is c . 1792 Oakland, located in <br /> neighboring Person County. Most surviving frame houses are <br /> gable--roofed structures, usually with shed-roofed front porches <br /> and exterior-end chimneys. Most of the dwellings are one-bay <br /> deep and three bays wide. Usually the stairs to the second <br /> story are enclosed and located in a corner of one of the first- <br /> story rooms, and are often enclosed by a door. The taro-story <br /> arrangement of the Faucette House is unusual in that doors in <br /> both :first--floor roornts provide access to the enclosed, <br /> centrally-located staircase, which rises from the rear to the <br /> front. The mantelpti eccs display, decorative sawnwor1k, rather <br /> than the more usual reeled mantels found in the Hillsborough <br /> area. The c^aucette house has ''been little altered since the <br /> Victorian-era hip-roof front porch was added. The small one-story <br /> east Laing added in the 1970s blends in almost imperceptibly <br /> with the original main block, sharing the same type multi-pane <br /> sash windows ornamented with Greek Revival corner blocks found <br /> on the original main block. The original setting on the banks <br /> of the Eno River is picturesque and evocative of the life of <br /> a small farmer of the Eno River Valley in the early nineteenth <br /> century. <br />