Stucco

11.13.2009 (Durham County tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) A combination of neoclassical and gothic motifs decorate this stucco-on-frame cross gable- roofed cottage constructed between 1925 and 1930 for Claude B. Willams, secretary-treasurer of the Austin-Heaton Company...

1999 (DC tax office) (Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Handsome 2-story Georgian Revival-style house with random rusticated stone walls, a hipped roof, and an extetior end chinmey. Other features are an entrance with sidelights, an elliptical-arched entrance porch with boxed fluted...

01.17.12 (DC Tax Photo) (Below in italics is from the 1984 National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Two-story stuccoed Foursquare with slate-covered pyramidal roof over main block and slate hipped roof over slightly recessed wing on east side. Twelve-over-one sash windows on first floor of main block with paired nine...

House 2819 Chelsea Circle, ca. 1964, Noncontributing Building

Arthur and Mary Pearse House 2815 Chelsea Circle, 1927, Contributing Building

Carolyn M. Lontz House 3122 Surrey Road, 1989, Noncontributing Building

3301 Devon Road Brewster Snow built this, Charles Barton Keen, provincial Tudor Revival style house in 1927. The rambling dwelling is faced with rust-cast stucco, applied half-timbering, stained weatherboards, and tapestry brick. A large exterior chimney constructed of Hillsborough Quarry stone surmounted by decorative terra cotta chimney pots dominates the entrance facade. The large mass of the house is broken by shallow gable-roofed wings at various heights and by gable and hip-roofed dormers. The peaked gables are fanciful features that characterize several of Hope Valley’s Tudor Revival style houses.

3102 Dover Road This large Tudor Revival style dwelling is probably the most truly Tudor house in Durham as it is the only house identified in the inventory as built according to Tudor construction methods. The lengthy three-year construction period is explained by this reversion to medieval techniques. E. Hayes Clement, who was the principal stone contractor for the West Campus of Duke University, began construction of this house for his own residence in 1932, according to designs by Charlotte, N.C. architect M. E. Boyer, Jr. Clement used only the very best materials, including New York slate, leaded zinc gutters, limestone and flagstone. The house is timber framed with the same eight-inch by eight-inch oak beams that were used in the Duke Chapel. The brick walls are twelve inches thick and the construction of much of the upper stories is authentic half-timbering with pegged beams and stucco infill. Cut limestone was used for the porch surround and the windowsills. A principal feature of the main facade is the enormous double-shouldered chimney with polygonal chimney pots. Clement, who constructed more than 200 houses in his career, lived in this house for only two years before financial difficulties forced him to sell the property. He was succeeded in the home by Dr. and Mrs. Edwin P. Alyea. Dr. Alyea was the first Chief of Urology at Duke Hospital. A Charlotte landscape architect landscaped the large yard with multiple terraces and seventy five different kinds of shrubbery.

3437 Dover Road, ca. 1928, Contributing Building George Watts Carr, architect Two-story side-gabled Spanish Colonial Revival with stucco exterior, wood casement windows, Spanish-tile roof, projecting front-gabled wing at north end of facade, exterior end chimney at south elevation, iron balconettes, and recessed asymmetrical entry with slate surround. A low stucco wall edges the street-facing front and south side yards, stepping down towards the back of the parcel. Previous survey and research identified this as the David T. Smith House; city directories show that Smith and his wife Susan lived on Swift Avenue in the very early 1930s before moving here. Smith was a chairman of the microbiology department at Duke Hospital and established the Division of Infectious Diseases there in 1930. Claudia Brown identified this house as one of the ten George Watts Carr-designed spec houses during her 1980-1982 survey of Durham.

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.