This week’s most notable new listing was built by a member of Alamance County’s Holt family in 1871. Sunny Side, 2834 Bellemont Alamance Road, was originally owned by Lawrence Shackleford Holt (1851-1937), a third-generation member of the pioneering mill owners. they were to 19th-century Alamance County what the Scotts were to 20th-century Alamance, although the Holts produced only one governor (Thomas, 1891-1893) compared to the two Governor Scotts (Kerr, 1949-1953, and his son Bob, 1969-1973).
The house is way down on the south side of the village of Alamance, an Italianate with well preserved Gothic Revival details.
The modest little bungalow at 904 Wharton Street in Greensboro’s Fisher Park Historic District went up for sale this week at $375,000. Its original owner in 1928, and probably its architect, was Lorenzo Winslow, who was then designing houses in the city. When the Depression hit, he left his practice here to join the federal government in Washington. By 1934 he was the White House architect, a result of his success in a competition to design a heated swimming pool for FDR’s physical therapy. He headed the compete reconstruction of the mansion’s interior during the Truman administration. (The pool still exists, but it’s now under the floor of the White House press room.)
A few of Winslow’s more notable Greensboro works:
A Mid-Century Modern house in High Point, 701 Locust Place, is for sale for a relatively affordable $260,000. Its three-sided fireplace is an especially 1950s-ish touch.
There were also some interesting houses coming onto the market whose original owners were regular working people:
- 1024 Franklin Street, Winston-Salem, 1915, originally owned by a blacksmith, $150,000 (a restoration project).
- 749 Morgan Road, Eden, 1900, originally owned by a stable keeper, $200,000. The stable was on the property but no longer exists.
- 410 Beaumont Street, Winston-Salem, a 1920s bungalow originally owned buy a carpenter, $279,900.
- 935 Carr Street, Greensboro, 1903; its original owner had been a carpenter, police officer and served as the city health officer at one time, $149,900 (another restoration project).
Piedmont Historic Homes 
