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6 <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 /> 7. Description <br /> Architectural Classification <br /> (Enter categories from instructions.) <br /> EARLY REPUBLIC: Federal <br /> LATE 19th AND 20th CENTURY REVIVALS: Beaux Arts Classicism <br /> Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) <br /> Principal exterior materials of the property: _WOOD: Weatherboard; BRICK; STONE: <br /> Rubble <br /> Narrative Description <br /> (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe <br /> contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that <br /> briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, <br /> method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has <br /> historic integrity.) <br /> Summary Paragraph <br /> Moorefields is a late 181h-and early 19th-century estate purchased in 1784 by Alfred Moore(1755- <br /> 1810), later appointed an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1799-1804). The 76-acre <br /> property—of which ten acres is within the nominated historic district—is the vestige of a 1,200- <br /> acre farm located approximately 4 miles southwest of Hillsborough in Orange County. The focal <br /> point of the property is the Federal-period house constructed circa 1784-1805. It stands in a gently <br /> rolling landscape nestled between three tributaries of the Eno River. Moorefields contains <br /> woodlots, agricultural fields, lawns, hedgerows, and designed gardens that reflect both the <br /> property's historical use as a subsistence farm that utilized enslaved labor as well as a site of leisure <br /> for members of a privileged class. <br /> Classified as the Moorefields Historic District for the purposes of this National Register <br /> nomination amendment, the property also contains two family cemeteries. Moorefields' last <br /> owner, Edward Thayer Draper-Savage, renovated the house and added Beaux-Arts-style gardens <br /> to the grounds. Draper-Savage listed the house in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, <br /> making it one of the earliest recipients of this honorary designation in the state of North Carolina. <br /> This Additional Documentation submission is intended to supplement the original National <br /> Register nomination with an enumerated inventory, an expanded architectural description of the <br /> main resource, a revised resource count (Section 5), expanded Statement of Significance (Section <br /> 8), and to delineate the historic district boundary. <br /> Section 7 page 4 <br />