Residential

Herschel and Anita Caldwell House 3018 Devon Road, ca. 1950, Contributing Building

3303 Avon Road, ca. 1947, ca. 1990, Contributing Building

John and Harriet Moorhead House 3311 Avon Road, ca. 1953, Contributing Building Robert W. Carr, architect Low-slung, side-gabled, brick Ranch house that exudes the clean style of the mid-twentieth century; metal awning windows; three-panel glazed front door with wide matching sidelights; front-gabled wing projects at the dwelling’s east end; lower...

Dr. And Mrs. W. K. Boyd had this two-story Colonial Revival style frame house constructed in 1933. The main facade facing the golf course remained intact and featured sheathing of horizontal flush boards, a delicate multi-panned trabeated entrance suround and a monumental two-story full-facade portico with box posts and a Chippendale railing around the top of its roof, until it was razed. Dr. Boyd was a noted professor of history at Duke University and was famous for his book, A History of Durham. Mrs. Boyd was a librarian, who is said to have designed the house herself as a copy of her family home in Georgia. The Adamesque mantel-piece in the living room and the unusual winding staircase in the entrance hall were authentic elements of the Georgia home which Mrs. Boyd installed in her house. After Dr. Boyd’s death shortly after its completion Mrs. Boyd leased the house for several years. In the 1940s it was purchased by the, Dr. And Mrs. Grimson. Dr. Grimson was a retired Duke Hospital surgeon. The Grimsons executed several alterations to the house, all on the street side. French doors were converted to a large picture window, two bedrooms were added to the second story and a one-story utility wing was added to the northeast corner. After 1982 the house was purchased by Norman Mason, a self storage magnate, and he had it razed to build Hope Valleys first significant infill home. None of the historic elements, including the mantles or stairs from Mrs. Boyd's Georgia home are known to have survived. This teardown signaled the beginning of a trend to replace historic homes on premier lots with new construction and Hope Valley's awakening to its historic significance resulting in a 2009 listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

3007 Surrey Road, ca. 1931, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled house with brick exterior at main body, 8/8 sash, full-width inset front porches with vertical sheathing at first and second stories, board-and-batten siding at gable ends, single-leaf paneled front door, brick interior chimney and brick end chimney at west side, enclosed side porch at east side and low pierced-brick wall surrounding patio in front of enclosed porch. City records date the house to 1931. A deed shows that John and Elizabeth Lanning bought the house in 1936 from the Storm King Corporation; the previous owner has not been identified. John T. Lanning was an assistant professor at Duke University. Garage 3007 Surrey Road, ca. 1931, Contributing Building One-story, front-gabled frame garage with vertical wood siding and open entry.

Mid Century Ranch built by Ernest Wilkerson Construction Company for Albert and Harriett Smith, 1956. One level brick ranch with Colonial Revival details, louvered non fuctional shutters, recessed entry with leaded sidelights, dormers, and a central gable with semi-circular window. House has two semi-curcular driveways and a walled courtyard on south end.

3832 Somerset Drive, 1957 Brick ranch with recessed centered entry, and front facing carport wing on north end. 3832 Somerset is a brick Rambler Ranch, five bays wide and double-pile, with a central recessed entrance porch and side-gable-on-hip roof. A wide wing creates a carport and screened porch on the right side under an extension of the main roof, with a rear deck reaching out to the back yard behind the porch.

3615 Dover Road, ca. 1949, Contributing Building One-story side-gabled Ranch with board-and-batten and shake siding, replacement windows, deep boxed eaves, and smaller one-story flanking wings. One wing is a garage with decorative ventilator at roof ridge. City directories record that Duke Hospital physician Walter Thomas and his wife Maisie were the first residents.

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.