Hope Valley in Durham, NC - The History Runs Deep in Durham

Location: Southwest Durham

Hope Valley comprises about 930 households in a roughly triangular area extending from Chapel Hill Road south between Hope Valley and Garrett roads to Swarthmore Road.

Directions: From I-40, exit 751(Hope Valley Road)to Dover. Left onto Westover at Club House. 

Neighborhood Facts:

• Durham's first full-fledged country club suburb, developed around an 18-hole golf course in the late 1920s.
• Fastest growing area in Durham-Southwest Durham
• Just minutes from Streets of Southpoint shopping area
• Developed by the Mebane Company to attract the young professionals that were thriving with Durham's tobacco, textile, and health care industries.
• Norman Provincial style country clubhouse was designed by Milburn and Heister.
• The golf course was designed by Donald Ross and recently has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation and restoration.
• The early homes in Hope Valley are an eclectic mix of revival styles popular in the 1920s and 1930s: Tudor, English Cottage, Colonial, Norman Provincial, and even Spanish. Winding, narrow roads conforming to the hilly terrain weave their way throughout the neighborhood. 
• Hope Valley was the site of Historical Preservation Society of Durham's 2002 Annual Old Durham Home Tour. 
• Hope Valley has expanded over the years and there are now several sections within Hope Valley including newer neighborhoods like Hope Valley Farms, Woodcroft, and the Woodlake areas

Many of the houses in Hope Valley have interesting histories:   

• The Sheperd-Mebane House was built on the Sheperd Farm on Hope Valley Road perhaps as early as the turn of the 19th Century.  
• The Sheperd family sold it in the 1920s to the Mebane Company, and R. J. Mebane moved it to its present location, where he remodeled and enlarged it with two large wings.  
• The Alyea House was not only built in Tudor style, but with 16th Century building methods, taking three years to complete. 
• Raleigh architect Murray Nelson designed the Norman Provincial style Forbus House using a variety of dormers, towers, and decorative brick work to create a picturesque facade.
• The Hubert Teer House is well known for the exact miniature model of it that Mr. Teer built on the grounds as a playhouse for his daughter.                                                                        
• For more information on Hope Valley feel free to contact me.