Hope Valley

3436 Dover Road, ca. 1928, ca. 1990, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled Colonial Revival house with mitered-corner weatherboard exterior, 6/6 sash, projecting front-gabled single-story wings on either end of the house, five-panel centered front door, partially enclosed shed-roofed front porch with multilite picture windows and weatherboard exterior. A deed recorded in 1932 shows that Harold L. Amoss and his wife purchased this parcel from Hope Valley, Inc., although city directories show Duke professor Amoss living in Hope Valley as early as 1931. Douglas Sprunt, also a Duke professor, purchased the house from the Amosses in 1933 and lived here with his wife Edith until 1940 when they sold the house to Mrs. Willie Elaine Massey Mitchell, a music teacher and apparently a widow. Mrs. Mitchell married Charles F. Hudson, a reporter for the Durham Morning Herald around 1941. The Hudsons sold the house to Gran Uzzle and his wife in 1948. Uzzle owned the Cadillac - Oldsmobile dealership in Durham.

3432 Dover Road, ca. 1928, ca. 2005, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled Tudor Revival house with brick, stone, and stucco exterior; wood casement windows; slightly projecting centered front-gabled entry wing and slightly shorter recessed two-story side-gabled wing at north end; slate roof; shed-roof dormers; compatible addition made at side and rear side wing, using similar and complementary materials. City directories and deeds show that Clinton and Annie Toms moved from Hermitage Circle in Forest Hills to this house between 1928 and 1931; Toms was the president of the Venable Tobacco Company. From the mid-1940s through the end of the period of significance, Commodore and Bettie Council lived here. Commodore T. Council Sr. was one of the formulators of the BC Remedy, a headache powder invented and manufactured in Durham through the 1960s.

3430 Dover Road, ca. 1946, ca. 1995, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival side-gabled house on raised basement with brick exterior; 6/6, 4/4, and multi-lite fixed sash; interior corbelled brick chimneys; gabled wall dormers flanking center gable-front entry bay faced with stone; single-leaf centered entry set into molded surround with fluted pilasters, half-round arch, and sidelights and transom window; triple window topped by fanlight in gable end above main entry; large addition at rear repeats gabled roof line and fanlight details and includes garages and additional living space. Neighborhood oral history identifies this at the C. T. Council Jr. House. The 1947 city directory shows C. T. Council Jr., the plant manager of his father’s BC Remedy Company, living on Dover Road in Hope Valley. He and his wife Madeline apparently moved from W. Club Boulevard, near Watts Hospital, sometime after 1944. His father lived next door around the same time.

3810 Dover Road, ca. 1958, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story side-gabled Neoclassical house with brick exterior, 6/6 and 4/4 double-hung sash, hip-roofed and front-gabled flanking wings, interior brick chimneys, and pedimented front porch with Ionic columns. City records date this house to 1958 and city directories show William and Ophelia Edwards were the first residents. William W. Edwards was an owner of the Clements and Edwards Insurance Agency. Outbuilding 3810 Dover Road, ca. 1960, Noncontributing Building One-story, hip-roofed outbuilding on brick foundation with mitered weatherboard siding, 1/1 windows, single-leaf glazed door, and shed-roofed addition at back.

3414 Dover Road, ca. 1953, ca. 1990, Noncontributing Building Two-story gable-roofed house with weatherboard siding, 6/6 sash, single-story side-gabled wings, and exterior facade chimney. This house was originally known as 3416 Dover Road; the 1954 city directory is the first to include that address, and shows Frank and Sara Erwin in residence. Frank T. Erwin was president and treasurer of Erwin Oil. Shed 3414 Dover Road, ca. 1980, Noncontributing Building One-story gambrel-roofed building with vertical wood sheathing and attached pole shed. Shed 3414 Dover Road, ca. 1980, Noncontributing Building One-story, side-gabled building with inset front porch and weatherboard exterior.

3426 Dover Road, ca. 1938, Contributing Building Two-story Norman Revival house with hip roof and flared eaves, brick exterior, 8/8 sash, exterior end chimney, projecting center bay, brick dentil cornice molding, corner quoins, side-gabled one-and-ahalf- story wing with hipped dormers, and hip-roofed one-and-a-half-story wing with hipped dormers. Neighborhood oral history identifies this as the Wily house and maintains that Wily was the vicepresident of Durham’s Fidelity Bank. The 1939 city directory is the first to show John F. Wily Jr. living in Hope Valley; in 1938, the directory shows him living at the Beverly Apartments on Watts Street in Trinity Park. Garage 3426 Dover Road, ca. 1938, Contributing Building Pyramidal-roof garage with brick exterior, two bays, and overhead lifting doors, and eyebrow dormer window in front roof slope. Carport 3426 Dover Road, ca. 2000, Noncontributing Building Pyramidal-roof carport with brick foundation and lattice walls stands north of the house, set slightly back from the facade.

3406 Dover Road, 1928, Contributing Building George Watts Carr, architect One-and-a-half-story Tudor Revival house with steeply pitched hipped roof, brick veneer and stucco at ground floor, stucco with applied half-timbering in gable of front wing, 4/4 sash, intersecting clippedgable wing, single-leaf front entry beneath an engaged shed-roof porch with carved and pegged beams, and screened side porch inset at south elevation. George Watts Carr designed the Brownell House, one of the speculative houses built by Mebane and Sharpe, according to research by Claudia Brown during her 1980-1982 survey of Durham. Dr. Brownell, an education professor at Duke University, purchased the house from the real estate company. Later owners, who purchased the house in 1977, rehabilitated the interior and exterior, including Tudoresque doors, woodworking, and a stone mantelpiece. William A. Brownell first appears in the 1931 city directory, when he is listed as Duke University professor living in Hope Valley.

One-and-a-half-story Tudor Revival house with steeply pitched hipped and gabled rooflines, 6/6 sash, stucco exterior with applied half-timbering at the upper floor, shed dormers and gabled wall dormers, and front porch inset under massive front gable. Deed records show that George L. Lyon purchased this parcel from Hope Valley, Inc. in November 1928. The 1931 city directory lists Lyon and his wife Elizabeth as living in Hope Valley. George Lyon was an agent for the Columbian National Life Insurance Company.

3406 Windsor Way, ca. 1956, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story Cape Cod with brick exterior, weatherboard siding in gable ends, 2/2 horizontal sash, replacement front door, single-story side-gabled wing at north elevation, basement garage, and added sunroom at rear elevation. The Vickers first appear on Windsor Way in the 1956 city directory; C. Wallace Vickers was a lawyer.

Hope Valley Gateway Markers, 1927, Contributing Object Windsor Way at Chapel Hill Road, double set; Dover Road at Chapel Hill Road, single set. Aymar Embury, designer Two large, curving gateway markers flank the roadway where Windsor Way meets Chapel Hill Road and Dover Road meets Chapel Hill Road. The markers have a stucco exterior and classical detailing, including dentil molding and fluted pilasters with Ionic capitals. The name “Hope Valley” is inscribed on a shield in each marker.