As of 2001 Glen Cove had 173 houses. Many houses in Glen Cove were one story 1940s houses. The houses from the 1940s were built to be smaller than houses in other eras, due to a shortage of materials that occurred in that decade. On Glen Cove Street, in Glen Cove section 1, many of the houses were originally built in the 1950s and 1960s. In that era, architect Herbert Cowell had designed one of the houses in Glen Cove for himself.