In 1937 Duke economist Herbert von Beckerath and his wife, Guelda, bought two Devon Road lots. George Watts Carr designed a small, but elegantly appointed Colonial Revival design. Duke cardiologist, Dr. Edward Orgain and his family loved this fine Colonial Revival style house and purchased it in 1944 - calling it home for more than 50 years.

Having arrived at Duke in 1925, Professor Harvie Branscomb and his wife, Margaret, bought this delightful and richly-detailed Tudor Revival house on Chelsea Circle two years later. The Mebane & Sharpe Company had built the house as one of a handful of "seed" houses intended to attract people to the new development; the Branscomb House is one of the very first built and occupied in Hope Valley.

This one-story, flat-roofed commercial building is four bays wide. It has a brick façade and painted concrete-block side and rear elevations. The parapet is topped with terra cotta coping. There are two businesses in the building, each with an entrance and picture window on the façade. There are two small square windows on each side elevation. The...

(Below in italics is from the 2004 East Durham National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) One-story gable-and-wing type house with a front cross-gable, 2-over-2 sash windows, and a wraparound porch with boxed posts. Alterations include asbestos siding and an added front window. 1930 CD, 1937 SM. Demolished in 2010

Large 2-story Queen Atme-style house of gable-and-wing form, with a 2-story cutaway bay window in the front wing, a secondary front gable, German siding, and 1-over-1 sash windows. Mrs. Lydia Griffin bought this house about 1920 when she moved to Durham from Chatham County. Mrs. Griffin sold the house to Arthur and Frances Barbee about 1930.

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One-story hip roof Ranch house with flanking lower-roofed wings, German siding, 6-over-6 sash windows, and a front multi-pane fixed window. The right bay may have originally been a garage. Henry B. Webb, city editor of The Durham Herald, was the owner-occupant in 1950.