Forest Hills

(Below in italics is from the National Register listing; not verified for accuracy by this author.) Theo T. Pickett House. 2-story side-gable brick Colonial Revival-style house with a round-arched door, a small corner entrance porch with decorative iron posts, and a front bay window with shed roof. Other features are 6-over-1 sash windows and an...

1544 Hermitage Court

This small farmstead is included in the Forest Hills Historic District as the only surviving example of the land use that preceded the development of the subdivision.

Two-story brick Colonial Revival-style house with a hip roof, exterior end chimney, a French door, and a 1-story porch with classical columns, a wood railing, and an iron railing around the porch roof. In 1940 this was no. 2011, and was owned, but not occupied, by James O. Cobb, developer of Forest Hills.

3 Bedroom 1 Bath period cottage built in 1929 by David Deaver, a banker working in downtown Durham, NC.

Symmerty and a refined, streamlined manipulation of the neoclassical idiom distinguish this stately brick house situated at the crest of a gently sloping hill. Mr. and Mrs. William Muirhead had the house built between 1936 and 1938 according to plans ordered from the New York Times.

H. Raymond Weeks, partner in the prestigious Durham architectural firm of Atwood and Weeks designed the Georgian Revival style house for attorney Egbert Haywood and his wife Margaret around 1940. The rich ornamentation of the five-bay facade is concentrated in the entrance bay where paired pilasters rise a full two stories to a slgihtly projecting...

George Watts Carr designed this house for Mr. & Mrs. Everett Bugg during the earliest phase of the Forest Hills development. Bugg owned and managed the Malbourne Hotel that was located on the site of the current Durham County Judicial Center on Main Street.

106 Forestwood Drive was built in 1928. It appears in the city directory as an address occupied by Mr. R. Thurman Taylor and his wife Rosa in 1929. Mr. Taylor, who worked primarily as a sales representative for several companies during his professional life, continued to reside here with his family for many years.

Forest Hills archItect George Watts Carr designed this house and #15 next door for his own family and they are two of the oldest houses on Oak Drive.