A guide to the most historic, notable and distinctive 18th-, 19th- and early- to mid-20th-century homes now for sale in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region and nearby areas.
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August 19, 2026
Blog Post: Four Historic Buildings Now for Sale in Greensboro
When owners of historic homes want to sell, they typically draw as much attention as possible to the opportunity — for-sale signs in the front yard, online listings on a dozen or more websites, open houses. Historic buildings are often different. Most don’t put up for-sale signs. If you don’t know where to look, you’ll never know what landmarks are on the market. Here are four historic buildings in Greensboro that are now for sale.
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August 18, 2026
An Elegantly Restored 1876 House on 18 Acres along the Yadkin River, $999,000
8670 U.S. Highway 601, Rowan County
The Lindsay-Tatum-Wyatt House
AKA the Centennial House
- $999,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2,757 square feet, 18.0 acres
- Price/square foot: $362
- Built in 1876 (see note)
- Listed August 13, 2026
- Last sale: $200,000, March 2017
- Neighborhood: Just across the South Yadkin River from Davie County, about 5 miles southeast of Cooleemee and 8 1/2 miles north of Salisbury. The property has a Salisbury mailing address.
The current owners restored the house. The home’s front porch has a pierced wood railing. Inside are “original shiplap walls and ceilings in many of the rooms. In the living room and upstairs en suite sitting room, the shiplap walls are unpainted and stained.”
The property has about 1,600 feet of frontage on the river. The house is situated on a hill over the flood plain. “The property includes a historic 1,173 sq. ft. original bathhouse overlooking a sandy beach area below at the river — a popular bathing and picnic spot in the late 1800s.”
The Rowan County register of deeds really knew how to do it up right back then.
August 18, 2026
A Saloon Owner’s ‘Uniquely Milton’ House, ca. 1850, in Pretty Desperate Condition, $75,000
148 Bridge Street, Milton, Caswell County
The Gordon-Brandon House
- $75,000
- 1,968 square feet, 1.7 acres
- Price/square foot: $13
- Built around 1850
- Last sale: $30,000, June 2022
- Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
- Note: According to the 2022 listing, the house “was purchased by an absentee owner in 2000 and suffered several years of neglect. Happily, it was recently purchased by a local preservationist who has enlisted Preservation NC’s assistance to find someone to purchase and restore it to its former elegance.” Now they’re looking for a new owner again.
Preservation North Carolina: “The Gordon-Brandon House is an unusual example of a uniquely Milton house type: a modest-scale raised Greek Revival cottage consisting of a brick lower level and a wood frame upper level containing the main entrance and ornamentation. Located at the end of N. Bridge (‘Warehouse’) Street, the house is set near Country Line Creek on a secluded wooded lot entered through masonry gates. Nearby is the last remaining tobacco factory in Milton.” The property is located in the Milton National Register Historic District and is eligible for tax credits.
“The Gordon-Brandon House may have been built c.1850 by Field Gordon who owned a local saloon.” In 1948 it was purchased by James Hunter Brandon Jr. (1908-1964) and Annie Page Carter Brandon (1907-2000). Hunter owned Brandon Shell Service Station. Annie was a teacher.
August 17, 2026
A Surgeon’s 1983 Mid-Century Modern in Thomasville, $569,900
11 Culbreth Avenue, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Bill and Laurel Busby House
Sale pending August 17, 2026
- $569,900
- 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,948 square feet, 2.61 acres
- Price/square foot: $144
- Built in 1983
- Listed July 30, 2026
- Last sales: $435,000, December 2023; $250,000, March 2009
- Note: The house has had only three owners.
The house was built by Dr. William Jarvis Busby (1944-2020) and Laurel H. Busby. Bill was Thomasville’s only orthopedic surgeon for more than 30 years. In 2009, Bill sold the house to Dr. B. Gray Bowman and Anita Hill Bowman. Gray was a professor of chemistry at High Point University. Anita was an instructor in physical science at the school. They sold the house to the current owners in 2023.
August 16, 2026
A ca. 1860 House in a Graham Historic District, $575,000
309 N. Maple Avenue, Graham, Alamance County
The Holt-Clapp House
- $575,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,833 square feet, 0.44 acre
- Price/square foot: $203
- Built ca. 1860
- Listed August 15, 2026
- Last sale: $470,000, August 2024
- Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
- Note: The property has an in-ground swimming pool that it didn’t have when it was sold two years ago.
District NR nomination: “The historic district features large dwellings erected for the leading businessmen, doctors, and industrialists in Graham, as well as smaller houses for tradesmen. Many of the residences are sited on spacious lots with mature shade trees and boxwoods, and epitomize nationally popular architectural styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. … This vernacular Italianate house, apparently built about 1860, is one of the oldest houses in Graham. Its deep front yard sets it apart from adjacent dwellings.”
Joseph J. Holt or his son Rev. John H. Holt are said to have built this house. William Franklin Rhinehart Clapp (1860-1944) and Ella Foust Clapp (1957-1949) bought the house in 1905. Descendants sold it in 2018.
August 15, 2026
Maud Gatewood’s 1979 Mid-Century Modern in Yanceyville, $499,000
183 S. Gatewood Road, Yanceyville, Caswell County
The Maud Gatewood House
- $499,000
- 3 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,513 square feet, 2.16 acres
- Price/square foot: $142
- Built in 1979
- Listed August 15, 2026
- Last sales: $410,000, November 2021; $170,000, March 2018; $220,000, August 1999
- Note: Built by Maud Florance Gatewood (1934-2004), probably the most historically significant person born in Caswell County since its boom days in the early 1800s. Maud was one of the most renowned painters in North Carolina history.
“… an exceptional figure in the art history of North Carolina and the American Southeast. A painter of exacting technique with a keen eye for composition and cultural commentary, her pictures capture the Carolinas (and the expanding world beyond) across much of the 20th Century. A native of Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC, Gatewood’s paintings reveal rural landscapes and their denizens in the midst of transformation while also cleverly framing the experience of modern life with acerbic wit and a surprising wealth of empathy.” (Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, 2024)
August 15, 2026
A Classic 1920 Bungalow in Winston-Salem’s West End, $470,000
1037 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Johnathan R. Walker House
- $470,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,087 square feet, 0.33 acre
- Price/square foot: $152
- Built in 1920
- Listed August 14, 2026
- Last sales: $167,500, April 1997; $122,000, May 1988
- Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
District NR nomination: “The Walker House is an example of one of the standard bungalow types popular during the 1910s and 1920s. It is a one-and-a-half-story house with a weatherboarded first story, a wood shingled upper story (some now covered with asbestos shingles), a broad gable roof with widely overhanging braced eaves and simple bargeboards, a matching front dormer, a Craftsman front door, and a broad front porch with heavy brick posts and a plain balustrade.”
The original owners were assistant postmaster Johnathan R. Walker and his wife, Mattie. They owned and occupied the house until the early 1940s.
August 14, 2026
A 1924 Farmhouse on 18 Acres in Chatham County, $599,900
1884 Silk Hope Liberty Road, Silk Hope, Chatham County
- $599,900
- 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,761 square feet, 18.54 acres
- Price/square foot: $341
- Built in 1926
- Listed August 7, 2026
- Last sale: 1953, price not recorded on deed
- Neighborhood: About 6.7 miles northeast of Siler City and 11 miles west of Liberty. The property has a Siler City mailing address.
- Note: The listing says the house has propane heat and no air conditioning.
- “There are two kitchens, one upstairs and one downstairs. There is original shiplap and wood flooring under carpet and sheet vinyl. The home has NO AC and propane heat. There are six usable outbuildings, 2 barns, 2 tractor sheds, 1 chicken coop, and 1 smokehouse.”
The property was bought in 1953 by Barney Ross Hargrove (1895-1960) and Lillie Blanche Buckner Hargrove (1895-1989). It has been in their family ever since. Ross was a farmer and mechanic.
August 14, 2026
A Grocer’s 1924 Queen Anne in Winston-Salem, $224,900
2842 N. Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Roy and Ellen Hauser House
- $224,900
- 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,622 square feet, 0.26 acre
- Price/square foot: $86
- Built in 1924
- Listed August 13, 2026
- Last sales: $47,500, January 2019; $30,000, June 2013
- Neighborhood: Bon Air
The original owners were Roy Marvin Hauser (1900-1970) and Ellen Odessa Owen Hauser (1906-1997). They were listed at the address in 1926, the first year it was listed in the city directory. Roy operated the Hauser-Moser Grocery, Seed & Feed Company and later Roy Hauser’s Seed, Feed & Grocery. Roy and Ellen sold the house in 1965.
August 13, 2026
An Elegant 1935 Colonial Revival in a Burlington Historic District, $525,000
912 W. Davis Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
- $525,000
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,851 square feet, 0.43 acre
- Price/square foot: $184
- Built in 1935 (per county, but possibly a bit later; see note)
- Listed August 13, 2026
- Last sales: $472,000, August 2022; $243,000, May 2011
- Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
- Note: The property includes includes a two-car garage with a distinctive upstairs room, a garden shed with loft, a brick patio and raised garden beds.
District NR nomination: “Sanborn maps and city directories indicate a late 1930s construction date for this two-story frame Colonial Revival ‘Period House’ which features a gambrel roof, a full-facade shed dormer, and a brick exterior end chimney. The central bay of the three-bay facade is a sidelighted entrance framed by a one-story porch with pedimented gable roof on slender square posts.”
August 13, 2026
A 1928 Tudor, For Sale Again After Just 4 Months with a Substantially Higher Price, $850,000
- $850,000
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,494 square feet (per county, see note), 0.31 acre
- Price/square foot: $341
- Built in 1928
- Listed April 10, 2026
- Last sales: $700,000, May 2026; $65,000, May 1974
- Neighborhood: Irving Park
The photos above are from the April 2026 listing. Compare it to the photos with the current listing, and see if you can tell what justifies a price 21 percent higher than the seller paid four months previously. Aside from a bit of landscaping, the house appears to be in essentially the same condition it was in April.
The house is a well detailed Tudor cottage with brick and stucco walls. Most of the front windows are casement. Dormers sit atop the wings; one has the only double-hung window on the front elevation. An arched hood and doorway lead to a batten door with strap hinges and diamond-paned, leaded-glass window.
The original owner was Madeline Stafford White (1896-1983). She bought the property in July 1928, three months after the death of her husband, Leonard White (1894-1928). Leonard had been chief associate of prominent Greensboro architect Harry Barton. He was a veteran of World War I. His tragic death, after a period of illness, was front-page news in the Greensboro Daily News, reported in the straightforward manner of the time.
August 6, 2026
A 1957 MCM in Morganton, Connected to a Prominent Family of Psychiatrists, $600,000
120 Woodland Drive, Morganton, Burke County
The Taylor and Janice Vernon House
- $600,000
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,657 square feet, acre
- Price/square foot: $226
- Built in 1957 (per county, but possibly 1958; see note)
- Listed August 13, 2026
- Last sale: $465,000, September 2023
- Note: Designed by Stewart Penn of Asheville
Although the house wasn’t built until the late 1950s, the property was owned by members of the closely entwined Taylor and Vernon families from 1914 to 2023. The property was bought in 1914 by Dr. Isaac Montrose Taylor (1857-1921), an early psychiatrist and owner of the Broadoaks Sanatorium in Morganton. His son-in-law Dr. James William Vernon succeeded Isaac as superintendent of Broadoaks. James and Isaac’s daughter Sarah (1894-1984) had a son, Dr. James Taylor Vernon (1921-2005), known as Taylor, also a psychiatrist. Taylor and his wife, Florence Franklin Royal Vernon (d. 1982), built the house and lived in it for the rest of their lives.
James Taylor Vernon and his brother, Livingston Vernon, had grown up in a household that included a cousin, Isaac Montrose “Ike” Taylor (1921-1996), named after their grandfather. Ike Taylor named two of his sons James Taylor and Livingston Taylor. You know them.
August 3, 2026
A Project in Eden: A Mill House with Ties to Marshall Field and the Moreheads, $45,500
1611 E. Meadow Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Schilling House
Sale pending May 8, 2026
No longer under contract August 3, 2026
- $45,500
- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,488 square feet, 0.35 acre
- Price/square foot: $18
- Built in 1906 (per county, or, more likely, about 10 years later; see note)
- Listed May 6, 2026
- Last sales: $5,000, May 2026; 1940, price not recorded on deed.
- Neighborhood: Draper
When A Tale of Three Cities was written in the 1980s and ’90s this was “one of the best preserved examples of the several two-story frame houses with the unusual gambrel-front form built in the late 1910s by Marshall Field and Company as private residences for its employees.” Apparently, the Morehead family had retained at least some of the surrounding land when they sold the mills because in 1940 the house was sold by Morehead’s granddaughter Lily Connally Morehead Mebane (1869-1943).
The buyers in 1940 were Joseph Haden Schilling (1876-1947) and Martha Elizabeth “Betty” West Schilling (1879-1959). Joseph was a retired coal miner from West Virginia. In May 2026, the house was sold by their grandchildren.
August 2, 2026
A Prominent Businessman’s 1910 Home in Rockford, $229,000
137 Old Rockford Road, Rockford, Surry County
- $229,000
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,872 square feet, 4.0 acres (per county; see note)
- Price/square foot: $122
- Built in 1910
- Listed August 6, 2026
- Last sale: $26,500, July 1978
- Note: Online listings show only 2.3 acres. The lot appears to be split by Old Rockford Road, with a long, narrow triangular piece on the side of the street toward the river and the bulk of the 4 acres across the street.
- Deeds describe the property as “known to all as the Hamlin Mill lot.”
- The historic character of the interior has been diminished with vinyl flooring throughout.
The house is associated with James Dillard Hamlin (1847-1915). He owned a store and a roller mill in Rockford. He originally was from Yadkinville, where he was a farmer and operated a tobacco manufacturing business. He was the first Democrat elected sheriff of Yadkin County after the Civil War. The Winston-Salem Journal called him “one of the most highly respected and prominent men in Yadkin and Surry counties.”
August 1, 2026
A 1912 Farmhouse, Heavily Remodeled, on 16 acres in Guilford County, $946,764
1714 Brookhaven Mill Road, Greensboro
- $946,764
- It’s rare to see a house priced at a figure ending in anything except 0, 5 or 9.
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,048 square feet (per county), 16.79 acres
- Price/square foot: $311
- Built in 1912
- Listed July 23, 2026
- Last sales: $250,000, July 2015; $5,500, December 1962
- Neighborhood: Near I-85 just east of Greensboro, between McConnell and Millpoint roads.
- Note: The property includes a remarkably narrow, two-floor guest house.
- “Designed as the builder’s personal residence,” most of the historic character of the interior has been renovated away. Instead, it has replacement windows and a whole-house Lutron automation system with Siri-controlled blinds.
The house may have been built by Barney Caldwell Tucker (1860-1943) and Cleodora Boon Boone Troxler (1864-1941). He operated a nearby flour and feed mill and was a prominent farmer. He sold the property in 1924.
The property is adjacent to a 500-home D.R. Horton housing development, called Brookhaven. Below left, 1714 Brookhaven Mill Road is marked with a star; the adjoining D.R. Horton property is highlighted in red. Right, a 2023 diagram of part of the development is cut off at the bottom north of 1714. For reference, the nearby property 1614 Brookhaven Mill Road is shown on both images.
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