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Carbon copies of three typescripts containing a budget, September 1928, and cost estimates, November 1928, prepared by Frank T. Miller, consulting engineer, of Greensboro, North Carolina, for Hope Valley, Incorporated, owners and developers of Hope Valley, a suburban neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. They contain estimates of costs for construction of each road proposed, including costs of grading, waterways, water installation, sewer installation, and paving.
Hope Valley, a suburban neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina, was developed in the late 1920s. The neighborhood is built around a country club and golf course.
English
Mebane & Sharpe of Greensboro, North Carolina, began developing Hope Valley in Durham, North Carolina, in 1927. "In a thoroughly rural, picturesque setting, Hope Valley," according to historic preservation consultant Claudia Roberts Brown, "is considered by many to be Durham's first neighborhood to epitomize our traditional image of the suburb." Mebane & Sharpe established Hope Valley Country Club with a circuitous eighteen-hold golf course designed by nationally known golf course architect J. Donald Ross of New York City so that an optimum number of lots front it. The developers commissioned the architectural firm Milburn & Hiester Company to design the clubhouse. They hired George Watts Carr to design eleven speculative or "seed" houses. (Claudia Roberts Brown, Durham's Early Twentieth-Century Suburban Nieghborhoods, in Catherine W. Bishir and Lawrence S. Early, ed., Early Twentieth-Century Suburbs in North Carolina: Eassays on History, Architecture and Planning, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1985, p. 45.)
Carbon copies of three typescripts containing a budget, September 1928, and cost estimates, November 1928, prepared by Frank T. Miller, consulting engineer, of Greensboro, North Carolina, for Hope Valley, Incorporated, owners and developers of Hope Valley, a suburban neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. The budget contains estimates of costs for construction of each road proposed, including costs of grading, waterways, water installation, sewer installation, and paving. The cost estimates contain similar information for later periods of time. The three typescripts are titled: Hope Valley Development, 1928 Budget, as Revised and Adopted in September 1928; Hope Valley Development, Estimate of Cost to Finish First Unit after Completion of 1928 Program, Authorized September 1928; Hope Valley Development Estimated Cost--1928 Program as Contemplated in November 1928.
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[Identification of item], Hope Valley Development budget and cost estimates, MSS 00022, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Purchased, 1998.
Processed by Linda Sellars; finding aid by Linda Sellars, September 2009; updated by Susan C. Rodriguez, 2015 November.
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[Identification of item], Hope Valley Development budget and cost estimates, MSS 00022, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.