Second floor plan, Moorefields, Orange County, North Carolina
Moorefields (Hillsbourough, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Second floor plan, Moorefields, Orange County, North Carolina
- Description:
- 3 of 16
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Houses
- Original Format:
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Measured drawing
- Extent:
- scale: 1/4 in. = 1 ft.; 483mm x 610mm
- Item identifier:
- bh025703102
- Delineator:
- Ogburn, Harold more info on Ogburn, Harold
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural drawings
Floor plans (architectural drawings)
- Location:
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Orange County (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Moorefields (Hillsbourough, Orange County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Community:
- Hillsbourough
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Alfred Moore (planter, Revolutionary War officer, state attorney general, justice of U.S. supreme court), first owner; Alfred Moore, Jr., second owner
- Architectural note:
- The home was possibly updated upon Moore, Jr.'s inheritance in 1818. Notable interior features include a Chinese lattice stair railing and a reeded mantel with an overmantel. There are no fireplaces in the upstairs bedrooms.
- Historical note:
- "Moorfields" was built in 1785 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alfred who lived on "Beau Choix," his plantation near Wilmington, N.C. during the winter. During the summer when the hot weather and mosquitoes were so unbearable on the Cape Fear, he moved to this summer home near Hillsborough. Justice Moore positioned his home on top of a hill in a stream of southwesterly wind and was raised on piers. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Location:
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Hillsborough (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Houses
National Register of Historic Places
Summer houses (Seasonal dwellings)
