Moorefields, State Route 1135, Hillsborough, Orange County, NC
Summary
Significance: Moorefields was built in 1785 by U. S. Supreme Court Justice Alfred Moor and the Moores and Waddells have owned it for all except 37 years of its 178 year life...Moorefields is a notable small rural manor house...One [window] in the north wall of the Great Hall, bears Justice Alfred Moore's signature, "A. Moore" cut with a diamond....
A family cemetery at Moorefields contains graves of various members of the Moore, Nash, and Waddell families.
Survey number: HABS NC-271
Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1949-1963 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Draper-Savage, Edward T
Moore, Alfred
Clay, Henry
Benton, Thomas Hart
Moore, Augusta
Moore, Sarah Louisa
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Location
Hillsborough, 36.04094, -79.14174
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html