Beverly Hills Historic District

Beverly Hills is a residential district of about 48 acres in northeast Burlington, North Carolina, built around a curving street plan platted in 1927 by civil engineer J. L. Thrower under city engineer A. C. Linberg. Developers D. R. and C. C. Fonville founded Fonville Realty Company that year and sold lots to middle-class buyers, with twenty-five houses erected by August 1928. The district holds 148 primary and 95 secondary resources, mostly built between the late 1920s and the 1950s. Its houses range from bungalows and Colonial, Tudor and Mediterranean Revival dwellings to Minimal Traditional and Ranch houses. Most are frame or brick, with granite gate posts marking the Rolling Road entrance. The district is considered significant for its planning and for its cohesive collection of early to mid-twentieth-century residential architecture, with most primary buildings retaining their historic character.