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"Making Way for Parking Lot" - 07.03.63 "Making Way for Parking Lot" - 07.03.63

"New Red Cross Building" - 05.24.57 This house was either demolished or removed in the 1960s, and, oddly, replaced by another house of only slightly newer vintage. Where the latter house came from is anyone's guess. 2008

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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.

The center of the Forest Hills community and the golf course in the 1920s, the clubhouse would become a school, a library, and a community center in subsequent lives.