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<br /> <br /> 1 <br />Orange County <br />HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br /> <br />Approved Meeting Summary <br /> <br />August 24th, 2022 at 6:30 pm <br />Bonnie Davis Center, 1020 US 70 West, Hillsborough <br />___________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Tom Loter, Cecelia Moore, Paul Noe, Steve Peck, <br /> <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: None <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Peter Sandbeck GUESTS: Todd Dickinson, Art Menius <br /> <br /> <br />ITEM #1: CALL TO ORDER <br />The meeting was called to order at 6:35 pm. <br /> <br />ITEM #2: CHANGES OR AD DITIONS TO AGENDA: Dickinson asked for some time to highlight the <br />two fine recent Ribbons of Color editions of the Eno River Association Journal. <br /> <br />ITEM #3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES for June 22, 2022 (Attachment 1): Moore moved to approve <br />the minutes; seconded by Noe; motion approved. <br /> <br />ITEM #4: TEMS FOR DECISION: <br />a. Troy and Roberta Andrews House National Register Nomination: Staff provided an <br />overview of the historical and architectural significance of this unique modernist house, <br />which the HPC first evaluated as a possible local landmark candidate back in 2018, when <br />it passed that test with flying colors. Discussion followed about the restriction on our ability <br />to designate a local landmark within the special zoning district around Carrboro, as <br />landmarking is essentially a form of zoning ordinance. However there is no restriction on <br />our ability to undertake a National Register project. Most of the land of the Andrews family <br />farm was placed in a conservation easement a few years ago so the larger 60+ acre <br />parcel is protected. This house sits on a small lot surveyed out of that larger farm, which <br />also includes a farmhouse dating from 1890 and updated in the 1920s, and an important <br />log house that probably dates to the first quarter of the 19th century. The site is dramatic <br />and rocky, hence the house is built of the local rocks that were gathered up and laid up by <br />two Black stonemasons from Carrboro. The house was designed by a student of Frank <br />Lloyd Wright’s. Members remarked on the special Modernist and Wrightian architectural <br />qualities of the house and its setting. Noe moved to direct staff to proceed with the <br />National Register nomination process, seconded by Moore; motion passed. <br />b. Dickerson Chapel AME Church: Staff included in the agenda to allow the HPC to make <br />and approve a motion to officially support Dickerson Chapel’s proposed application for a <br />grant from the National Trust’s new Preserving Black Churches Grant Program. Members <br />viewed a brief PowerPoint presentation on the architectural and historical significance of <br />this structure, which was built in 1790 as the third Orange County Courthouse, then later <br />moved up Churton St. in 1846 after the present courthouse was built, to its present site <br />where it served as the town’s first Baptist Church. It was then sold in 1862 to George <br />Bishop of New Bern who moved up to Hillsborough as one of the refugees from the Union <br />Occupation of the coastal plain. He ran a woodworking shop there, then sold it in 1866 to <br />the Quakers who opened a Freedman’s School there, at the same time the Rev. Job <br />Berry founded the first AME congregation in the area and later the Rev Billy Payne <br />preached here. You can see the original hewn oak and pine 1790 framing members under