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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.

(Courtesy J. Stuart McCracken) The George and Blanche McCracken House, which was a large Queen Anne structure similar to the Manning house still standing next door. Mrs. Gladys Culbreth was resident in 1958. Sometime between 1960 and 1980, the house was torn down. I don't know why. In 1987, New Morning Construction built several multitenant passive...

November 2002, photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers. According to the Durham County Tax Administration, this house was built 1944. According to the 1939 City Directory, the resident of 812 N. Elizabeth Street was Lemuel Barbee, professional ball player. According to the 1960 City Directory, the resident of 812 N. Elizabeth Street was...

This home, hidden away on Hope Valley, was home to the Gibbs family who ran a dairy on the property, as well as an apartment complex and grocery store in the 1950s and 1960s.

John and Annie Gregory House 3108 Devon Road, ca. 1930, Contributing Building George Watts Carr, architect

3433 Dover Road, ca. 1930, Contributing Building Two-story side-gabled Colonial Revival with vinyl siding, 6/6 sash, brick end chimneys, centered gabled portico on squared posts sheltering a five-panel front door, and single-story side-gabled flanking side wings, including a screened porch on the south side. Between 1931 and 1932, Duke professor George S. Eadie moved to Hope Valley from a residence on Duke’s campus. Eadie, another early member of the Medical School faculty, lived here through at least 1958, according to city directories. Garage 3433 Dover Road, ca. 1990, Noncontributing Building

3934 Dover Road, ca. 1930, ca. 1985, Noncontributing Building Two-and-a-half-story side-gabled Colonial Revival with aluminum siding, replacement windows and front door, gabled dormer windows, bracketed open-gable roof at centered front entry, and brick exterior end chimneys. Neighborhood oral history identifies this as the Constable House. Palmer and Chrysteen Constable moved to Hope Valley between 1930 and 1931 according to city directories. Palmer N. Constable was the secretary of the Hope Valley Country Club in 1928. In 1940, the Constables sold this house to Richard and Mary Reid, who remained here though at least the end of the period of significance. Richard Reid was a supervisor at Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company. Garage 3934 Dover Road, ca. 1990, Noncontributing Building One-and-a-half-story three-car garage with gabled dormers and aluminum siding.

3816 Dover Road, ca. 1928, ca. 2000, Contributing Building One-and-a-half-story side-gabled house with brick and weatherboard exterior, 6/6 sash, smaller oneand- a-half-story wing at south end of main section, two-story projecting front-gabled bay at north end of main facade, and hyphen at north end joining house to large weatherboarded front-gabled wing. This wing, apparently originally a single story building, has been raised to two stories by the addition of a sunroom below the original structure. Paul M. Gross started teaching at Trinity College, later Duke University, in 1919 as an assistant professor of chemistry; from 1920 through 1965, he was a full professor in the chemistry department. Gross chaired the chemistry department from 1920 through 1948, during Duke University’s evolution into a research institution, and later served as Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of the University, and a Vice-President in the Education Division. His work on the Frangible Bullet Project, Duke’s largest military research project, won him a Presidential Medal of Merit. The chemistry building on Science Drive at Duke University is named for him.

3610 Dover Road, ca. 1941, Contributing Building Two-story on basement side-gabled Colonial Revival with weatherboard sheathing, 8/12 sash, and oneand- a-half-story wing at north side. City records date this house to 1941 and city directories show that Albert and Ruth Wackerman were the first residents. Albert E. Wackerman was a professor at Duke University.