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36 <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 Pro ert Count and State <br /> i <br /> L <br /> AW �► <br /> r *r <br /> \Weir �r 1 <br /> r <br /> w <br /> Figure 3: 1938 USDA aerial photograph of Moorefields. Courtesy Friends of Moorefields. <br /> In the postwar era, Moorefields was preserved as a rural retreat through the restoration efforts and <br /> legacy of Edward Thayer Draper-Savage (1894-1978), the estate's last individual owner. In May <br /> of 1949, June and Ada Ray sold Moorefields--described as 157 acres minus one exempt acre for <br /> a graveyard and 50 acres sold to Clifford E.King in 1923—to Draper-Savage.Within the following <br /> six months, Draper-Savage purchased 85 adjacent acres from Carrie M. King and the 50 acres <br /> belonging to Clifford E. King, reuniting previously subdivided parts of Moorefields.80 <br /> Draper-Savage was born in Wilmington,North Carolina, to a privileged family. He was just short <br /> of his 20' birthday when he registered as a Private in World War I. He served as an ambulance <br /> driver in France from November 1917 until his demobilization in May 1919, during which he <br /> operated a Red Cross ambulance called the "Wilmington."81 He returned to Europe almost <br /> immediately, and spent the 1920s living in Paris and studying the fine arts,becoming a painter and <br /> sculptor. He returned to North Carolina in 1934 and settled in Hendersonville to care for his <br /> mother,who passed away in February 1946. Over the course of the decade spent in Hendersonville, <br /> Draper-Savage offered private classes in drawing and clay modeling as well as French language <br /> instruction.82 But as early as 1943, Draper-Savage accepted a position as an instructor of French <br /> at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,where he was tasked with translating for French <br /> pilots training at the Navy Pre-Flight Training School. Draper-Savage worked in the university's <br /> French department until retiring circa 1953.83 <br /> During the early postwar years, Draper-Savage was in search of a country place where he could <br /> build a studio for his sculpting and painting when he discovered Moorefields. Apparent in a 1955 <br /> Section 8 page 34 <br />