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24 <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 /> trees have been felled or culled over the succeeding years, there are approximately 12 cedars in <br /> each row, spaced approximately 6 feet apart on the vertical (north-south) axis and approximately <br /> 10-12 feet apart on the horizontal (east-west) axis. The all6e begins just northwest of the house <br /> and runs in a straight line to the natural copse beyond the north parterre garden and an adjacent <br /> lawn area. Draper-Savage had designed the copse as a picturesque ramble that he called the North <br /> Park.26 The all6e,therefore,was a formal feature tying Draper-Savage's formally designed hedge- <br /> garden spaces with more naturalistic ones.At the south end of the all6e is a small, circular planting <br /> bed edged in fieldstones. The Cedar of Lebanon all&e retains its integrity in location, design, <br /> setting, workmanship, materials, association, and feeling. <br /> Moorefields Drive: 1 Non-contributing site <br /> (By 1938, reconfigured ca. 1955-1978) <br /> It is believed that Moorefields was, from its late 18th-century inception, accessed via a road <br /> originating to the south of the house and so the primary approach was always from the south. The <br /> exact location and design of the original drive remains unknown. The first documentation of the <br /> Moorefields drive is a 1938 aerial photograph(see Figure 14),which shows a single lane extending <br /> north from present-day Moorefields Road. In this photograph, the lane traveled straight and due <br /> north until it reached the Cameron-Moore-Waddell Cemetery, then it veered slightly to the <br /> northeast. Just south of the house, the road split into a V-shape that encircled the house and south <br /> lawn. From the north leg of the driveway, a second road wended east-west through pastures and <br /> woodlands until it emptied onto Dimmock's Mill Road. A land survey and plat drawn in April <br /> 1951 shows the main drive extending from the south and encircling the house.27 Aerial <br /> photographs from 1955 and 1960 show that a single-lane driveway continued to encircle the house <br /> after Draper-Savage purchased the property, although the east-west north road was abandoned and <br /> overgrown by that point. However, by 1964, the drive began to assume its present-day <br /> configuration, in which the single-lane branches into two, parallel lanes at a point south of the <br /> Cameron-Moore-Waddell cemetery. Also visible in the 1964 aerial photograph is the elliptical <br /> drive, which was truncated by that time: an east-west drive was built immediately south of the <br /> house's southern fagade, and the northeast corner of the old driveway pattern was being erased <br /> from the landscape, although the drive continued north on the west side of the west parterre garden <br /> and accessed the house's north elevation and port cochere. By a 1972 aerial taken by the USDA, <br /> the western end of the drive continued north to the barn although the full ellipses had been severed. <br /> By 1982, the western portion of the north ellipses was completely erased and the circular drive <br /> terminated at the southern fagade of the house. The western extension that traveled north to the <br /> barn was also absent by 1982. The wide gravel parking area adjacent to the house's south fagade <br /> was on the landscape by the turn of the 2Is'century. <br /> Section 7 page 22 <br />