Friendly Hills, also known as Margaret Culkin Banning House, is a historic estate located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina.

The house was built in 1924, and is a large, two-story, Tudor Revival style dwelling with stuccoed exterior walls decorated with hewn, half timbering.

Also on the property are the contributing swimming pool (c. 1920s-1930s), log cabin used as a writing retreat by author Margaret Culkin Banning (1891-1982) (c. 1920s-1930s), and fish pool (1920s).

Ms. Banning purchased Friendly Hills in 1936 and enjoyed the property seasonally for the remainder of her life.

This article about a property in Polk County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.