April 30, 2024
A 1905 Queen Anne in Greensboro’s Dunleath Historic district, $375,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,950 square feet, 0.16 acre
- Price/square foot: $192
- Last sales: $218,000, October 2016; $210,000, July 2006
County records date the house to 1905, but the address was first listed in the city directory in 1901.
April 30, 2024
A 1924 Bungalow in Mebane’s Residential Historic District, $325,000
504 S. 4th Street, Mebane, Alamance County
- 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,637 square feet, 0.26 acre
- Price/square foot: $199
- Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
The house was sold in 1941 to Dewitt Albright Pender (1903-1991) and Dora Mildred Stone Pender (1012-1994), and it has been in their family ever since.
April 28, 2024
Today’s special: Small-Town Bungalows Under $300,000
6851 Siloam Road, Siloam, Surry County
- $280,000
- 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,884 square feet, 3.36 acres (per county)
- Price/square foot: $149
- Built in 1910
The house needs some work, but it has a lot of unpainted woodwork, an increasingly rare quality in older homes. Siloam is in southern Surry County, about 18 miles south of Mount Airy and 30 miles northwest of Winston-Salem.
518 Church Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County
- $235,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,440 square feet, 0.92 acre
- Price/square foot: $163
- Built in 1927
Red flag: No interior pictures are included in the listing.
505 Atwater Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Wingfield-Cox House
- $290,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,355 square feet, 0.26 acre
- Price/square foot: $214
- Built in 1928
The original owners may have been Charles T. Wingfield (1887-1954) and Susanne Miles Wingfield (1891-1963). Charles was the proprietor of Wingfield’s Barber Shop.
April 28, 2024
An Eclectic and Relatively Affordable 1920 Home in troy, $259,000
202 W. Main Street, Troy, Montgomery County
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,868 square feet, 0.54 acre
- Price/square foot: $51
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Originally a residence, it was later a funeral home. 2005 Historic Architectural Survey Report, N.C. Department of Transportation: “Daniel Hurley in the 1920s built a substantial two-story, brick residence that combined nationally popular Italian Renaissance Revival and Prairie Style elements. This eclectic design blends the horizontality of the Prairie Style with the arched openings of the Italian Renaissance Revival, and is unique for Troy and Montgomery County.”
April 27, 2024
A Mill Owner’s 1897 Home on 3 acres in Glencoe, $625,000
2402 N.C. Highway 62 North, Burlington, Alamance County
The Robert Holt House, aka the Holt-Green House
- 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,569 square feet, 3.39 acres
- Price/square foot: $243
- Last sale: $27,000, June 1995
- Neighborhood: Glencoe, just outside the mill village
The home was built by Glencoe Mill owner Robert Lacy Holt (1866-1923). Robert bought the Glencoe mill and village in 1897; it had been started by his father and an uncle. A successor in running the mill was a grandson, James Holt Green, who likely lived in the house before becoming one of North Carolina’s great heroes of World War II, fighting behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia and Slovakia.
April 26, 2024
A Nice Little Bungalow in Mebane with a Nice, Round Price, $1 Million
301 S. 5th Street, Mebane, Alamance County
- 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,799 square feet (per county; see note), 0.69 acre
- Price/square foot: $357
- Built in 1922
- Last sale: $257,000, August 2008
- Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
Mebane is a hot market, and, occasionally, there are still houses in the region being sold far beyond the going rate. So it’s not impossible. But it is a real reach.
April 25, 2024
A Circa 1930 Colonial Revival in a Mount airy Historic District, $359,900
528 Country Club Road, Mount Airy, Surry County
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,596 square feet, 0.53 acre
- Price/square foot: $137
- Neighborhood: Country Club Estates Historic District (NR)
The Mount Airy Country Club golf course is across the street.
April 25, 2024
A 1978 Octagonal House in Elkin, $166,000: Affordable, But Only 1 Bedroom
164 Johnson Ridge Road, Elkin, Surry County
- 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 1,233 square feet, 0.70 acre
- Price/square foot: $135
- Last sale: $61,000, October 2014
An unusual octagonal house with an open floor plan upstairs and the lone bedroom downstairs.
April 24, 2024
An 1850 Italianate Home in Alamance County, $699,900, Recently Sold for Far Less
1100 Reatkin Lane, Swepsonville, Alamance County
The Quackenbush House
- $699,900
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,180 square feet, 1.47 acres
- Price/square foot: $220
- Last sale: $475,000, September 2023
When the house was sold in September 2023, it was in very good condition. Now it costs $225,000 more, almost a 50 percent increase. Click here to compare pictures from the 2023 listing.
April 18, 2024
One the Piedmont’s Grandest Homes, Double Oaks in Greensboro, $1.5 Million
204 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast
The Harden Thomas Martin House
Blog post — One of Greensboro’s Most High-Profile B&B’s, the Iconic 1909 Double Oaks, $1.795 Million
- $1.5 million (originally $1.795 million)
- 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, 6,700 square feet, 0.54 acre
- Price/square foot: $224
- Built in 1909
- Neighborhood: Westerwood
The house has been for sale, on and off, for two years. It was relisted again on April 18. Listing: “This is a turnkey business sale with all furnishings, fixtures and equipment included.” NRHP nomination: “The dominant exterior feature of the Martin residence is the broad front porch with Tuscan columns and a turned balustrade which carries across the full facade and the forward bays of each side elevation. The centerpiece of the porch — and of the entire house — is the bowed, two-story portico supported by four fluted Ionic columns with large terra cotta capitals. The portico shelters a bowed, second story balcony with a turned balustrade.”
April 16, 2024
Note the Unpainted Woodwork in this 1918 House in Winston-Salem’s West End
1218 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
- $598,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,663 square feet, 0.38 acre
- Price/square foot: $225
- Built in 1918
- Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
District NR nomination: “The Sullivan House is one of the most handsome of the ‘Dutch’ Colonial Revival houses in the West End.” The Sullivan family owned the property from 1917 to 2009.
April 16, 2024
A 1910 House in the Reidsville Historic District, $459,900
211 Lawsonville Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,190 square feet, 1.91 acres
- Price/square foot: $144
The property includes a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom guest house, an in-ground pool with a two-level pool house and a two-car garage with storage space.
April 15, 2024
An elegant Italianate Mansion in Reidsville, Only $250,000
803 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Andrew Jackson Boyd and Isabella Richardson Boyd House
- 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,840 square feet, 1.7 acres
- Price/square foot: $65
- Built in 1870
- Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
“The most elaborate of the several important Italianate houses in the district, this elegant frame residence is said to have been built in the mid 1870s by Robert Payne Richardson, Sr., for his daughter Margaret Isabella [1847-1911] and her husband Col. Andrew Jackson Boyd (1836-1893).” There are only four photos in the listing, and what they show of the house is in very good condition. It’s priced like a fixer-upper, though, so you have to wonder what the photos don’t show.
April 15, 2024
A Classic 1953 Mid-Century Modern in Winston-Salem, $799,000
1801 Georgia Avenue, Winston-Salem
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,655 square feet, 0.64 acre
- Price/square foot: $483
- Neighborhood: West Highlands
The home’s original owners were Floyd Smith Burge Sr. (1903-1998) and Vivian Mildred Saylor Burge (1903-1977). N.C. Modernist: “Designed and built by their son, J. Kenneth Burge [1926-2017], based on classes he took with George Matsumoto at the NCSU School of Design.”
April 15, 2024
An eclectic 1923 Cottage in Greensboro’s Dunleath Historic District, $495,000
701-703 5th Avenue, Greensboro
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,136 square feet, 0.75 acre (two lots)
- Price/square foot: $232
District NR nomination: “This eclectic cottage draws from a number of late nineteenth and early twentieth century styles,” including Richardsonian Romanesque, Shingle, Tudor Revival and Craftsman.
April 12, 2024
A 1968 Mid-Century modern in Reidsville, $499,000
1828 Trentwood Circle, Reidsville, Rockingham County
- 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,706 square feet, 1.12 acres
- Price/square foot: $184
- Last sale: $245,000, March 1999
- Neighborhood: Pennrose Park
The lower level contains an office, bedroom and kitchen.
April 9, 2024
An 1893 Queen Anne Mansion in Graham That Needs Much Work, $425,000
312 N. Maple Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Bain-Thompson House
- 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,676 square feet, 1.89 acres
- Price/square foot: $91
- Last sale: $18,700, November 1966
- Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
Being sold by an estate. The house has been owned by only three families in its 131 years. This one is listed on the website twice, as a mansion and as a restoration project.
April 8, 2024
A 1914 Queen Anne in Mebane on a Spacious but Unusual Lot, $460,000
103 W. Lee Street, Mebane, Alamance County
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,316 square feet, 0.48 acre
- Price/square foot: $199
- Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
Sitting at the corner of West Lee and South 4th streets, the lot has an unusual shape, and the house is positioned on it a bit oddly. Most of the yard is to either side rather than in front or to the rear. It would be more typical for it to face 4th Street rather than Lee Street (as the photos and the GIS image above show).
April 8, 2024
An Impeccable 1915 Colonial Revival in Winston-Salem’s West End, $879,900
1105 Glade Street, Winston-Salem
- 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,873 square feet, 0.18 acre
- Price/square foot: $306
The house includes an indoor endless pool. The lower level is “a contemporary transition to rest of home” that can be used as a separate apartment. District NR nomination: “The Walker-Skinner House is a typical Colonial Revival dwelling of the 1910s. The house is simple in form but has several decorative details.”
April 5, 2024
An 1880 Winston-Salem Home, Scene of the ‘Bitter Blood’ Triple Murder, $689,999
3239 Valley Road, Winston-Salem
Blog post — Four Houses with Infamous Pasts, Including a Triple Murder
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,168 square feet, 4.05 acres
- Price/square foot: $217
- Neighborhood: Old Town
Something the for-sale listing doesn’t mention, understandably: The house was the scene of an infamous 1985 triple murder. The owner, her son and daughter-in-law were shot to death in the house by Fritz Klenner. Jerry Bledsoe wrote a best-selling book, Bitter Blood, about the killings and the relationship between psychopath Klenner and Susie Newsom Lynch, daughter of the son and daughter-in-law.
April 4, 2024
A 1902 Developer’s Home in Burlington, $1 Million
623 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
- 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,913 square feet (per county), 1.18 acres
- Price/square foot: $204
- Built in 1902
- Last sale: $37,000, November 1985
- Neighborhood: West Davis-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
District NR nomination: “Standing on a large elevated lot at an important corner in the West Davis Street neighborhood, this frame Tudor Revival house is associated with two locally prominent businessmen significant for their roles in Burlington’s late nineteenth and twentieth century development.”
April 4, 2024
A Cadillac Salesman’s 1915 House in Winston-Salem’s West End, $649,000
1315 Brookstown Avenue, Winston-Salem
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,366 square feet, 0.24 acre
- Price/square foot: $274
District NR nomination: “Perched high atop a terraced hill with a stone retaining wall, the Thomas-McClung House reflects a combination of influences from the Craftsman, Prairie, and Colonial Revival styles.” The original owner was Gilmer Charles Thomas (1880-1977), a salesman at Carolina Cadillac Company. Many years later, his son, Gilmer Jr., was vice president of Thomas Cadillac in Charlotte.
April 4, 2024
An Intriguing 1899 Restoration Project on 2-Plus Acres in the Uwharrie, $129,000
593 Cedar Creek Road, Biscoe, Montgomery County
- 3 bedrooms, no bathrooms, 1,782 square feet, 2.79 acres
- Price/square foot: $72
- Built in 1899
Located in the Uwharrie National Forest, about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Biscoe and 7 miles southeast of Troy. No heating or air conditioning systems or bathrooms. Several outbuildings. Listing: “One in a million find.”
April 3, 2024
Hillsdale Farm, a Guilford County Landmark on 28 Acres, $3.59 Million
6043 Lake Brandt Road, Greensboro
- 7 bedrooms, 6 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 13,625 square feet, 28.56 acres
- Price/square foot: $263
- Built in 1929
The Colonial Revival house overlooks Lake Brandt. The property includes a 1/6 ownership of the private, 26-acre Richardson Lake. The driveway runs a half-mile from Lake Brandt Road, across the Richardson Lake dam to the house. On a square-foot basis, the house is far less expensive than many less remarkable properties for sale in Irving Park, Sunset Hills and other Greensboro neighborhoods.
April 2, 2024
A distinctive 1922 Home in Mount Airy, $449,000
1010 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,302 square feet, 0.53 acre
- Price/square foot: $136
- Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
District NR nomination: “Oversized cornice brackets in exceptionally deep eaves, classical porch columns, and a pergola treatment of the one-story side wings are some of the refinements of this two-story frame house … Wood-shingle siding covers the two-story core and flanking wings; the right wing encloses living space, perhaps originally a music room or conservatory; the left wing is a porch with classical columns in antis between wood-shingled piers.
April 2, 2024
A Simple Queen Anne in Winston-Salem’s West End, $539,000
156 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,351 square feet, 0.17 acre
- Price/square foot: $229
- Built around 1905 (see note below)
The National Register nomination for the West End lists the date of the house as circa 1905. The county property listing says 1921. NRHP district nomination: “The Taylor House is an example of one the more simple Queen Anne-influenced houses built in the West End in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”
April 1, 2024
A 1900 House in on 2 Acres in Pine Hall, $110,000
1691 Pine Hall Road, Pine Hall, Stokes County
- 1 bedroom (per listing; see note), 1 bathroom, 1,014 square feet, 2.74 acres (two lots)
- Price/square foot: $108
- Built in 1900
- Listed April 1, 2024
- Last sale: $25,000, July 2020
Another case of a property owner buying a house, letting it deteriorate for years and then jacking up the price to sell it. Something the listing doesn’t mention: A right-of-way cuts through the property right behind the house, providing a driveway for an adjoining property that has no road frontage.
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