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22 <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 /> Draper-Savage's nephew, James Henry Durham (20 November 1914 — 27 March 1975); it is <br /> marked with an inscribed, granite slab headstone and small granite footstone. The area also <br /> includes a third bust set on the ground in the greensward's northwest corner and a plastic bench at <br /> the western end of the greensward. <br /> Today, the west parterre garden is shaded by mature canopy trees and large flowering shrubs. <br /> Plantings adorn the center of the garden, which is mostly covered in mulch and bordered by a thin <br /> band of grass. A young hackberry tree was recently planted where a mature specimen was felled <br /> by Hurricane Floyd. The flora in the garden is much more dense and overgrown than in Draper- <br /> Savage's time, but vegetation in a garden is ephemeral and reversible. Despite the changes in the <br /> planting palette, the west parterre garden retains its bones, or structure: namely, the four <br /> greenswards defined by broad pebbled walks. Therefore, the west parterre garden retains its <br /> integrity in terms of location, design, setting, workmanship, association, and feeling. <br /> Kitchen (East) Garden <br /> Between 1949 and 1968, Draper-Savage built an elevated terrace on the east side of the house <br /> (Figure 10). The packed-earth terrace is defined on the west and east sides by a low rubble wall. <br /> On the south end are three shallow, rubble steps that bleed into the gravel driveway. Two circular <br /> concrete planters flank the southern stairs. Presumably, the stone terrace connected the house's <br /> exterior door in the northeast chamber (which has since been converted into a window) to what <br /> Draper-Savage called the"kitchen garden."Today,the kitchen garden is a small,rectangular patch <br /> delineated by irregular, coarse rubble stones set into the earth. Currently, the planting material <br /> ranges from groundcover and grasses to irises, roses, and small juniper shrubs. When trustees <br /> assumed ownership of the property in 1982,the kitchen garden had been abandoned.Although the <br /> present-day flower bed in this location dates after 1982, which falls outside of both periods of <br /> significance, the elevated terrace not only dates to the second period of significance but retains its <br /> integrity in terms of location, design, setting,workmanship, materials, association, and feeling. <br /> ' r <br /> Figure 10:South elevation Moorefields,showing east terrace, ca. 1965.Mary Claire Engstrom Photographic <br /> Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library,North Carolina Collection:P0050,Print <br /> Box 3,folder 151. <br /> Section 7 page 20 <br />