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21 <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 /> circumscribed by four broad and orthogonally-laid pebble walks. Two intersecting pebble walks <br /> at the center met in a centralized rond-pont. The two intersecting pebble walkways formed four <br /> rectangular greenswards, while two narrow planting strips edged the garden on the northern and <br /> western ends.In the 1955 aerial photograph,the northeastern greensward was planted and bordered <br /> by small, shaped conifers. The other three greenswards were open lawn shaded by mature canopy <br /> trees. The southwestern greensward held a bust(sculpture) atop a wooden pole. By 1963,the west <br /> parterre garden featured more topiary, statuary, and defined planting beds (Figure 9). The two <br /> northern greenswards were planted with ornamental flora, conifers, and manicured shrubbery. <br /> Figure 9: West Parterre Garden, 1963.Mary Claire Engstrom Photographic Collection, University of North <br /> Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library,North Carolina Collection:P0050,Print Box 3,folder 152. <br /> In the 1970s, Draper-Savage transformed the southwest greensward into a small burial ground <br /> [31 OR816]. This quarter of the garden contains the gravesite of Edward Thayer Draper-Savage (6 <br /> January 1894— 15 February 1978), the last private owner of Moorefields. Draper-Savage's grave <br /> is marked by a flat, inscribed,granite slab flanked at the head and foot by two lumber poles,which <br /> act as pedestals for two bronze busts created by Draper-Savage: that at the head depicts him as an <br /> older man, while that at the foot depicts him as a boy. His burial is surrounded to the north and <br /> south by the flush, granite, inscribed grave markers of five of his cats. To the north is the burial of <br /> Section 7 page 19 <br />