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15 <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 /> west bedchambers on the first floor have corner fireplaces that share the end chimney. Similarly, <br /> the east bedchambers share the interior east chimney that also serves the parlor. The southeastern <br /> chamber has a small fire box in the corner with no mantel.None of the second-story bedchambers <br /> have fireplaces. The fireplace wall in the southwestern chamber has a paneled overmantel and a <br /> decorative mantel with a finely reeded central panel. As the overmantel in the northwest room had <br /> been removed, Draper-Savage had the overmantel in the southwest room copied. The bedrooms <br /> are otherwise sparingly adorned with simple molding and chair rails. Draper-Savage had a replica <br /> of the chair rail, which was absent from the southwestern chamber, made and installed. In fact, <br /> most of the interior trim throughout the house had been lost and was replicated and installed by <br /> Draper-Savage.14 <br /> Directly across from the side-passage's entry to the southwestern bedchamber is the parlor entry. <br /> The parlor's tall ceiling (I I-feet, 6-inches above the floor) is supported by heavy timber framing <br /> that incorporated whole tree trunks. Draper-Savage installed a sheetrock ceiling in the parlor and <br /> re-plastered the parlor's walls (as well as the interior walls of several rooms). A steel beam, <br /> spanning east-west, was installed under the sheetrock in the early 1980s to support the sagging <br /> ceiling. The piece-de-resistance in the parlor is the full-height fireplace with a paneled overmantel <br /> and a finely reeded mantel(Figure 6).A detailed description of the fireplace surround was provided <br /> in the 1972 National Register of Historic Places nomination. <br /> Figure 6:Moorefields House interior,Parlor, detail fireplace mantel, 1968.HABS NC-271.Library of Congress <br /> Prints and Photographs Division. <br /> Section 7 page 13 <br />