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Charles And Frances Jones House

3920 Dover Road, ca. 1950, ca. 1990, Contributing Building One-story, side-gabled, Ranch house with brick exterior, replacement windows, projecting frontgabled bay at one end of facade, recessed front entry, and large addition at rear. The 1951 city directory lists Charles and Frances Jones as the first residents. Charles Jones was president and treasurer of the First Securities Corporation. Shed 3920 Dover Road, ca. 1990, Noncontributing Building One-story side-gabled shed with weatherboard exterior, 4/1 sash, and double-leaf doors.
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Lickle-Perlzweig House

3918 Dover Road, ca. 1930, Contributing Building Two-story hip-roofed Colonial Revival with shingle siding, 6/6 double-hung wood sash, intersecting front-gabled wing at one end of facade, projecting gabled entry with fluted pilasters and open pediment, and interior brick chimney. William and Margaret Lickle purchased the parcel from Hope Valley, Inc., in 1929; Lickle was the sales director for Mebane and Sharpe who lived at the Washington Duke Hotel before moving to Hope Valley. The Lickles sold the house to William and Olga Perlzweig in 1931. Dr. William Perlzweig was among the Johns Hopkins medical school faculty that moved to Durham to establish the hospital and medical school at Duke University.
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Paul And Gladys Gross House

3816 Dover Road, ca. 1928, ca. 2000, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story side-gabled house with brick and weatherboard exterior, 6/6 sash, smaller oneand- a-half-story wing at south end of main section, two-story projecting front-gabled bay at north end of main facade, and hyphen at north end joining house to large weatherboarded front-gabled wing. This wing, apparently originally a single story building, has been raised to two stories by the addition of a sunroom below the original structure. Paul M. Gross started teaching at Trinity College, later Duke University, in 1919 as an assistant professor of chemistry; from 1920 through 1965, he was a full professor in the chemistry department. Gross chaired the chemistry department from 1920 through 1948, during Duke University’s evolution into a research institution, and later served as Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of the University, and a Vice-President in the Education Division. His work on the Frangible Bullet Project, Duke’s largest military research project, won him a Presidential Medal of Merit. The chemistry building on Science Drive at Duke University is named for him.
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Watts And Anne Ivey Norton House

3812 Dover Road, 1928, ca. 1967, Contributing Building George Watts Carr (original house) and Kenneth Scott (rear addition), architects Two-story side-gabled Tudor Revival with brick exterior,
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Albert And Ruth Wackerman House

3610 Dover Road, ca. 1941, Contributing Building Two-story on basement side-gabled Colonial Revival with weatherboard sheathing, 8/12 sash, and oneand- a-half-story wing at north side. City records date this house to 1941 and city directories show that Albert and Ruth Wackerman were the first residents. Albert E. Wackerman was a professor at Duke University.
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Amoss-Sprunt-Hudson-Uzzle House

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.
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Toms-Council House

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.
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C.T. And Madeline Council House

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.
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William And Ophelia Edwards House

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.
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Frank And Sara Erwin House

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.
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