Banbury Way

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.