Rugby Road

4006 Dover Road, ca. 1928, 2008, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story side-gabled Tudor Revival with brick exterior, replacement casement windows, projecting front-gabled bay with recessed front entry at one end of facade, gabled wall dormers, newly installed bay windows with copper roofs at first-floor. Additions in 2008 include shed-roofed sunroom over basement-level garage with half-timbering at garage entrance and additions with cementitous siding at northwest rear corner. Neighborhood oral history identifies this as the Swett House; the 1931 city directory does show Duke professor Francis Swett and his wife Elizabeth in Hope Valley. Dr. Swett was chair of the Department of Anatomy from 1930 through 1943 and was one of the original members of the Medical School faculty. Deeds show that in 1947 Barnes and Frances Woodhall purchased the house. Barnes Woodhall was the chief of neurosurgery at Duke from 1937 through 1960 and the Dean of the Medical School from 1960 through 1964.

3938 Dover Road, ca. 1928, ca. 1980, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled Colonial Revival with mitered weatherboard exterior, 6/1 sash, centered front entry with sidelights and transom sheltered by a barrel-arch gabled entry porch on Doric columns, two story side-gabled wing at left end of facade, sunroom at right end, and very large two-story side-gabled garage with side entry added at rear, attached by a hyphen. City records date this house to 1928 and neighborhood oral history identifies this as the Fuller House. Ralph B. Fuller, an insurance agent, appears on Dover Road as early as the 1932 city directory.

3934 Dover Road, ca. 1930, ca. 1985, Noncontributing Building Two-and-a-half-story side-gabled Colonial Revival with aluminum siding, replacement windows and front door, gabled dormer windows, bracketed open-gable roof at centered front entry, and brick exterior end chimneys. Neighborhood oral history identifies this as the Constable House. Palmer and Chrysteen Constable moved to Hope Valley between 1930 and 1931 according to city directories. Palmer N. Constable was the secretary of the Hope Valley Country Club in 1928. In 1940, the Constables sold this house to Richard and Mary Reid, who remained here though at least the end of the period of significance. Richard Reid was a supervisor at Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company. Garage 3934 Dover Road, ca. 1990, Noncontributing Building One-and-a-half-story three-car garage with gabled dormers and aluminum siding.

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...

Magazine plan chosen by Helen, may have been Better Homes and Gardens. Sold to Keith and Jill Kaye in 2000. Sold to Sally and David Vasbinder in July 2006. Renovations by Lee Tripi in late 2000s.

Local architect unknown.