Dover Road

Betty Price Gwyn House 1963 (Razed) 3126 Devon Road

Hunter-Teer-Gantt-Markham House 3609 Exeter Way, ca.1958, Contributing Building

Ike and Mary (Teer) Harris - Frank and Betty Kenan House 3900 Dover Road Georgian Colonial Revival, Ca 1959

Cleveland and Catherine Kern House 3623 Dover Road, ca. 1953, Contributing Building

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.

Wiley and Elizabeth Forbus House (NR 2004) 3307 Devon Road, 1933, ca. 1985, 2004, Contributing Building G. Murray Nelson, architect George W. Kane, builder

Charles Allen House 3306 Devon Road, ca. 1939, Contributing Building

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

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.