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East Forest Hills Boulevard
504 East Forest Hills Blvd – Harris-Denbo House
This home received a historical plaque from Preservation Durham. The following information comes from the plaque application. This house is a 1.5 story side-gabled brick Tudor Cottage features a slate roof, a gabled front wing, paired leaded glass windows with decorative iron balconies in the upper façade, a left side bay window with diamond panes...
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J. Fred Rippy House - 814 East Forest Hills Boulevard
Original owner, Dr. J. Fred Rippy, was a well-respsected scholar in the field of Latin American history and was a professor at the University of Chicago (1920-1926 and 1936-1958) before taking a position at Duke University (1926-1936). In the Hills Directory, the address for this property is listed as 814 Overhill until 192x, when it is listed as...
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410 E. Forest Hills Blvd. - Bugg-McBryde-Nashold House
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.
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Thomas A. Stokes House
The Thomas A. Stokes House – one of the finest examples of Tudor Revival architecture in Forest Hills - is situated atop a hill overlooking East Forest Hills Drive and the Forest Hills Park. The sizable parcel of land on which the home sits, and the impressive number of mature trees surrounding it, combine to give the home a feeling of a country home. For the current owners, this sense of living in the country within the city is what lends their home its special appeal.
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Forest Hills Shopping Center / Third Fork Creek
I've been trying to put together a shopping center chronology in Durham - suffice to say it is a work in progress - but Forest Hills, Northgate, Lakewood, and Loehmann's Plaza were among the early arrivals in the 1950s-1960s. Interestingly, low-lying riparian land seemed to be a preferred development location; my guess would be that these were some...
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