The property for the Forcade House was purchased in 1918 for $85 from the Oakland Lodge No. 18 of Bagdad, and the house, completed in 1919, is an outstanding example of Shingle style architecture that is rarely seen in the South. Elzear “Exie” Fournier, a French Canadian, built it from locally cut and milled heart pine for his sister Emma Fournier Forcade, with the help of his brother-in-law, Edward V. Forcade, and both men worked for the Bagdad Land and Lumber Company. The house features excellent craftsmanship, including a curved upper front porch, hip, gable, and shed roof styles, butt shingles on the upper exterior made of locally cut heart pine, a Dutch front door whose top half can open for ventilation while the bottom half remains closed for safety, and a narrow dining room window that could be opened fully and used as a door. While working at the Bagdad lumber mill, Edward Forcade brought home small scrap end cuts of heart pine to create designs in the floors, walls, and ceilings, with floor patterns varying from herringbone and parquet with intricate borders to squares of different sizes, grains turned in opposing directions for visual effect, walls arranged in different styles including exterior wood versions set in different directions, and a dining room ceiling with a curved design on all four sides made with heart pine. The house remained in the Forcade family until 1952, when Donald and Nina Youngblood bought it, and in 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the Bagdad Village Historic District. When Nina Youngblood sold it in 2004, she gave a stern warning never to paint the original woodwork.