Masonry Brick

December 2017, photograph by Heather Slane - hmwPreservation The original occupants were James Elwood Carter, advertising manager at the Carolina Times, a black-owned and operated newspaper, his wife, Sara, a school teacher and their two children, Lana and James, Jr. The house stayed in the family until 2014 when it was sold by the daughter.

The same architect that designed the Hill Building, VA hospital, watts hospital, wg person, east end school, nccu bulidings. It's in danger of demolition in 2019; we need to save this historic building.

Wilbert C. Davison House (Razed) 3004 Norwich Way Ca. 1929 Architect - Charles Barton Keen

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.

3936 Dover Road, ca. 1929, ca. 2000, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story side-gabled Tudor Revival with brick exterior, wood casement windows, slightly projecting front-gabled bay, gabled wall dormers, and flanking side-gabled wings. Off-center front entry is in the front-gabled bay; the wing at the left side of the facade and a large gabled rear wing with shed-roofed porch, casement windows, wall dormer, and cementitous siding are much later additions. Edgar Cheek, owner of a namesake insurance agency, and his wife Adelaide purchased this parcel for $3,000 from the developers in 1929, according to deeds. City directories list the Cheeks in Hope Valley as early as 1931. In 1934, they sold the property to Zebulon Vance Waller and his wife. Zebulon Waller was the supervisor of the leaf department at Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company at the time. Garage 3936 Dover Road, ca. 1929, ca. 2000, Contributing Building Two-car side-gabled garage with brick exterior, overhead lifting door, and cementitous siding in gable ends.

1544 Hermitage Court

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) House. Small brick 1-story side-gable Minimal Traditional-style house with 6-over-6 sash windows and a classical door surround. An added porch with metal posts and awning shelters the entrance. Not on 1937 SM. 1940 CD. C Garage. Ca...

This is a side-gabled brick Tudor cottage with a comer recessed porch with brick piers and balustrade and a stuccoed gable. Albert and Pearl Osteen lived here with their 3 children.

This one story side-gable brick duplex is of modest Colonial Revival style, with 2 gabled dormers and an engaged porch with boxed posts. Ira and Vera Lynn lived here in 1951.

This substantial brick bungalow has side and front- gabled roofs and an engaged porch with a dentil frieze, brick posts, and a solid brick railing with ramped concrete coping. It was owned by DW Brown, who owned a dry cleaners on Driver Street for many decades.