Hilltop House Restaurant

The Hilltop House is a fine dining restaurant located in an elegant home from the early 1900's and is situated in the historic Haymount district of Fayetteville.  It has a rich and varied history. On March 14,1910, Augustus Hiram Kelly and Duncan Ray Kelly purchased a parcel of land in the country on the Old Plank Road.  The two brothers were the sons of Andrew and Parthenia Burns Kelly who had settled in the area between Cameron and Carthage.  The family originally came from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The brothers built the house that can still be seen today.  Over time, many changes have been made, but the house is essentially the same building that has stood for almost 100 years - a frame house of two stories built in the Georgian tradition with many features popular in the period, such as bay windows, stained-glass windows, gabled roof, machine-made balusters and ornamentations.