Hope Valley

Duke cardiologist, Dr. Edward Orgain and his family loved this fine Colonial Revivalist house and called it home for more than 50 years. The Orgains did not build it, however, nor did they seek it out. It fell into their hands through the fortunes of war. In 1937 Duke economist Herbert von Beckerath and his wife, Guelda, bought two Devon Road lots...

3918 Dover Road, ca. 1930, Contributing Building Two-story hip-roofed Colonial Revival with shingle siding, 6/6 double-hung wood sash, intersecting front-gabled wing at one end of facade, projecting gabled entry with fluted pilasters and open pediment, and interior brick chimney. William and Margaret Lickle purchased the parcel from Hope Valley, Inc., in 1929; Lickle was the sales director for Mebane and Sharpe who lived at the Washington Duke Hotel before moving to Hope Valley. The Lickles sold the house to William and Olga Perlzweig in 1931. Dr. William Perlzweig was among the Johns Hopkins medical school faculty that moved to Durham to establish the hospital and medical school at Duke University.

Shepherd-Mebane House 2814 Chelsea Circle, ca. 1800, moved and expanded 1927, Contributing Building - Hope Valley National Register Historic District George Watts Carr, architect for 1927 additions

Hertha Sponer House 3309 Avon Road, ca. 1943, Contributing Building, Razed 2013

Perry-Aldridge House 3401 Windsor Way, ca. 1959, Contributing Building

Hope Valley Country Club Golf Course, 1927 (National Register 2009) Hope Valley University and Country Club Community, Hope Valley, Durham, NC Donald Ross, golf course architect

Harry and Julia Van Straaten House 7 Littlewoods Lane, ca. 1955, ca. 2007 Contributing Building George Watts Carr, architect

Albert W. and Margaret W. Kennon House 3801 Hope Valley Road, ca. 1957, Contributing Building

J. Howell and Nellie Miller House 3725 Hope Valley Road, ca. 1951, Contributing Building

H. Spurgeon and Neola Boyce House 3719 Hope Valley Road, ca. 1958, Contributing Building