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Forest Hills

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1920s developed, J. Bryant Heard(?) and Earle S. Draper(?). Bounded by W. Main St., Mountain View Ave., Memorial Dr., and Ballou Park

Developed in the mid-1920s, Forest Hills was Danville's first upscale suburb for whites. Its wide, curving and leafy streets, undulating terrain, traffic circles, and mandated architect-designed houses on spacious lots make it an attractive neighborhood. The planning has been attributed to J. Bryant Heard, a cofounder of the project and designer of many Forest Hills houses, but it seems more likely that Earle S. Draper of Charlotte, North Carolina, was its landscape architect. Draper, whose other developments are similar to that of Forest Hills, is known to have done some work for the mill in Schoolfield a few years earlier and had a major commission in Martinsville (HR21) in the 1930s.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Flippen House
Peter C. Penn House
Schoolfield Division of Dan River Mills
Mill Houses
Mills

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Forest Hills", [Danville, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-PI63.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 377-377.

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