Durham, North Carolina Forest Hills Historic District

The district encompasses 312 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Durham that was the city's first automobile suburb. The buildings primarily date between about 1923 and 1955 and include notable examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture. Notable contributing resources include Forest Hills Park, the subdivision plan, the original campus of Durham Academy, and the separately listed Mary Duke Biddle Estate.

Forest Hills Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Houses on Hermitage Court
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Location	Roughly bounded by Kent St., Bivins St., Wells St., American Tobacco Trail, Forestwood Dr. and Beverly Dr., Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°58′55″N 78°54′53″W / 35.98194°N 78.91472°W / 35.98194; -78.91472
Area	245 acres (99 ha)
Built	1923 (1923)
Architect	George Watts Carr, et al.
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman, Colonial Revival
MPS	Durham MRA
NRHP reference No.	05001476
Added to NRHP	December 28, 2005

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

On December 9, 2001, Nortel executive Kathleen Peterson was reportedly murdered by her husband, the writer Michael Peterson, in their mansion in Forest Hills.

• Mary Duke Biddle Estate

• Kathleen Peterson, business executive and murder victim
• Michael Peterson, writer and convicted criminal
• Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress and philanthropist
• Mena Webb, journalist and writer