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222 East Main St., ~1900 The Z.I. Lyon house was built prior to 1881, likely during the 1870s. Lyon had a tobacco factory located just on the other side of the railroad tracks from this house, on the southwest corner of East Pettigrew and Pine (South Roxboro) Sts. By 1903, the house is noted as a boarding house run by Elizabeth Jones, widow of...

The Five Points Boarding House sat at the northwest corner of West Main and Morris Streets. Perhaps built as a private dwelling, it does not appear on the 1865 Blount Map, but does appear on the first Sanborn Map for Durham in 1884. It is noted as the Five Points Boarding House in the 1890s-1900s. By 1913, a fruit stand had been built in front of...

House 3210 Surrey Road, 1962, Noncontributing Building

Ted Bovard House 3620 Stratford Road, ca. 1950, ca. 2004, Noncontributing Building

Betty Price Gwyn House 1963 (Razed) 3126 Devon Road

Norman Mason House 3313 Devon Road, ca. 2005, Noncontributing Building Two-and-a-half-story side-gabled Neocolonial house with cementitous siding and 9/9 sash. The house replaced the Boyd House, a two-story Colonial Revival-style frame house built in 1933 for Dr. Boyd, a history professor at Duke who wrote The Story of Durham: A City of the New South, published in 1925. This home was the first significant teardown in Hope Valley where a large out of character structure replaced the razed home on a premier lot. See listing for W. K. Boyd House.

3304 Devon Road, ca. 1939, Contributing Building

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.

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.

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.