Piedmont Historic Homes

2834 Bellemont-Alamance Road, Alamance Village, Alamance County
Sunny Side

• Sold for $470,000 on September 28, 2021 (listed at $449,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,320 square feet, 1.77 acres
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1871
• Listed July 1, 2021
• Last sale: $275,000, May 2016
• Note: The house was built by Lawrence Shackleford Holt (1851-1937), third generation member of the local family that dominated the Alamance textile industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • Nation Register nomination: “Sunny Side is a well~detailed, little-altered, two-story T-shaped frame Italianate style house with some Gothic Revival style features constructed in 1871 …. The cross-gable roof house with an elaborate bracketed cornice faces north and has a three-bay wide, single-pile main core with ornate two-bay hip-roof front porch, a projecting double-pile gable-front wing and rear ell at the east, and a small one-story single-room wing at the west. …

• “Approached by a long gravel driveway, Sunny Side is situated on a slight knoll near the rear of a well-landscaped two-acre yard which retains remnants of the gardens planted by the original owner, textile magnate Lawrence S. Holt. The present house tract, once the center of a 600-acre working farm, is now bordered by contemporary houses located on large lots which line the road.”
  • The house has a Burlington mailing address but is well to the south, just off N.C. 62 south of the village of Alamance.