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11 <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form <br /> NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No.1024-0018 <br /> Moorefields (Additional Documentation) Orange County, N.C. <br /> Name of Property County and State <br /> The fagade (south elevation) is asymmetrically fenestrated, with the off-centered entrance located <br /> in the westernmost bay of the main block followed by two narrow, rectangular window apertures <br /> in the middle and easternmost bays, while on the second story, only two windows are present in <br /> the first and third bays. The first-story windows are double-hung, nine-over-nine sash, while the <br /> upper-story windows are double-hung, six-over-nine sash. The east and west wings each have one <br /> double-hung, six-over-nine sash window. All of the windows have simple wooden surrounds with <br /> molded back bands and molded, wooden sills. Each window is adorned with paneled wooden <br /> shutters. The paneled,wooden entry door is encased in a simple wooden surround with back bands, <br /> above which is a rectangular, four-light transom. A carriage light is mounted to the exterior wall <br /> just west of the entrance. The full width of the main block is covered by a full-width, one-story, <br /> raised porch. Originally the porch was built atop brick piers,but a continuous foundation of parged <br /> concrete block was constructed in the mid-20th century. The moderately-sloping shed roof of the <br /> south porch is clad in composition asphalt shingles. Draper-Savage removed the exterior stairs on <br /> the south porch, making it inaccessible from the outside, at some point between 1958 and 1968 <br /> (Figures 2 and 3).The present porch dates after 1982 and is defined by a centered,six-step staircase <br /> that flares at the bottom, with curved handrails and newel posts; four turned, wooden posts that <br /> support the shed roof, and a molded wooden handrail with simple "tobacco stick"balustrade.12 <br /> 4 <br /> wk <br /> ry� <br /> F <br /> Figure 2:South elevation ofMoorefields showing porch stairs, 1958. Original photograph by Madlin Futrell;this is <br /> a photograph of a newspaper reprint of the original.Mary Claire Engstrom Photographic Collection, University of <br /> North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library,North Carolina Collection:P0050,Print Box 3,folder 151. <br /> Section 7 page 9 <br />