Dover Road

In 1930, Dr. Paul M. Gross was a relatively new chemistry professor at Duke when he and his wife, Gladys, moved from Trinity Park to Hope Valley. Their new house, in the English Cottage style, was designed by George Watts Carr, as one of the original "seed" houses commissioned by Hope Valley's developers, the Mebane & Sharpe Company.

This charming little house is like no other in Hope Valley and, architecturally speaking, it is one of the most significant houses in Durham. What makes it so special, of course, is its high-style Spanish Eclectic design.

The Brown-Maggs House Elegant one-and-a-half-story Dutch Colonial Revival house with full-width engaged front porch sheltering flush sheathing, French doors, and a centered entry with leaded-glass sidelights and fanlight; other details include flared eaves, gabled dormers with 6/6 sash, casement windows, small side-gabled wing, and. Later additions...

Designed by Aymar Embury - who taught architecture at Princeton and had designed houses in New York - he would go on to be involved in the design of a bevy of public projects in New York City, and, interestingly, designed the Distinguished Service Cross and Distinguished Service Medal for the Armed Services while serving in World War I - the Hope Valley Country Club was designed as the heart of the golf course and Mebane and Sharpe's development.