Piedmont Historic Homes

August 31, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1950s MCM in high Point, $260,000

701 Locust Place, High Point
The Richard and Lajeune Parrish House

• $260,000 (originally 269,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,696 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built in 1958 (per county, but probably a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed July 31, 2025
• Last sale: $77,200, July 2006

The property was bought in 1952 by Richard L. Parrish (1923-2006) and Lajeune McIntyre Parrish (1925-1997). They were listed at the address in 1956, the first year it appeared in the city directory. Richard may have built the house. He was initially identified in the city directory as a building contractor. In subsequent years, he was a draftsman, machinist and salesman.

August 30, 2025

A 1928 Tudor Mansion in High Point, $1.1 Million

207 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Kenneth and Alva Denny House

• $1.195 million
• 4 bedrooms (per county), 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,355 square feet (per county), 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $274
• Built circa 1928
• Listed August 30, 2025
• Last sales: $660,000, November 2022; $265,000, November 1990
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Realtor Babble from the 2022 listing: “A once in a lifetime opportunity … !”

District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, truncated-hip-roofed, Tudor Revival-style house has a steeply-pitched slate roof that extends down to the first-floor level on the facade and left (east) elevation. It has stuccoed exterior with brick veneer around the entrance and at the inset porch, and faux half-timbering in the dormers. It has a wide, partially inset gabled dormer on the left end of the facade and smaller, partially inset dormers on the right (west) end of the facade and on the left elevation.

The address first appeared in the 1928-29 city directory with Kenneth C. Denny (1887-1940) and Alva Weedon Denny (1891-1987) as residents. Kenneth founded Denny Veneer Company in High Point. He moved it to Rocky Mount in 1934.

August 30, 2025

Two 1920s Homes in Greensboro’s Fisher Park

209 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
The Edward and Elizabeth Wills House

• $875,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,412 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $256
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sales: $ $679,900, June 2021; $230,000, July 1996
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes an in-ground pool, an amenity rarely found in historic districts (the 2021 listing said it was a saltwater pool), also a freshwater spa and a koi pond.

District NR nomination: “Col Rev foursquare, 1920-25, E.S. Wills, Pres., Wills Book Stationary Co; VP, Gboro Real Estate Bd, Sec/trs, Matheson-Wills Real Estate Co”

Edward Swain Wills (1874-1947) and Elizabeth Crawford Wills (1888-1978) were listed at the address in 1924, the first year it appeared in the city directory. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1934. Edward started Wills Book & Stationery downtown in 1904. It survived well into the ’90s, then located at Four Seasons mall. The company also had at least one store out of town for many years, in Raleigh at the North Hills Shopping Center.

915 Olive Street, Greensboro
The John and Emma Shuford House

• $519,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,093 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 25, 2025
• Last sale: $365,000, August 2020; $82,000, September 1988
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Renovated before its last sale, the house was previously used as an office.

An odd feature is the way the house is sited at the corner of Olive Street and Bessemer Avenue. The narrow, nominally front side of the lot faces Bessemer, but the house faces the long side of the lot facing Olive. As a result, the house is much wider than it otherwise could have been. It faces a street with less traffic and has almost no backyard.

August 30, 2025

A Mayor’s 1825 Cottage in Milton, $349,900

11921 Academy Street, Milton, Caswell County

• $349,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,868 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1825
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sale: $78,000, October 2007
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)

A 1932 deed, the oldest identifiable online, refers to the house as the H.H. Dodson home place and later the J.J. Lipscomb home place. Dr. Henry Harding Dodson (1855-1926) was a longtime physician in Milton. He was a second-generation doctor, son of Dr. Charles Russell Dodson (1829-1898) of Milton, who practiced until he was 76 years old. John James “Jack” Lipscomb (1977-1951) was a merchant. The house was owned from 1932 to 2007 by members of the Angle family, including a mayor of Milton, Montrose Staton Angle (1900-1984).

August 29, 2025

Two Bungalows, A Queen Anne and a Craftsman, in Winston-Salem

415 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem

• $362,000
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1,056 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $343
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sale: $9,000, December 1994
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner with the kind of wildly expensive price ($343/square foot!) you’d expect on a landmark mansion in Buena Vista.

District NR nomination: “Pyramidal Cottage. One story; hip roof; pressed tin shingles; front-gable dormer; two-over-two, double-hung sash; engaged porch; chamfered posts; sawn brackets; spindle frieze; weatherboard.” The listing (and county records) show 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in 1,056 square feet, which wouldn’t seem to leave much room for anything else.

107 W. Devonshire Street, Winston-Salem

• $365,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,667 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 28, 2025
• Last sales: $227,000, April 2020; $200,000, February 2018
• Neighborhood: Washington Park

Craftsman cottage with a deep front porch wrapping around the right side, decorative brackets under the eaves and grouped multi-light windows. The earth-tone colors reflect traditional Craftsman style. The house is between the Washington Park and Sunnyside/Central Terrace historic districts.

August 28, 2025

An 1875 Foursquare in Yanceyville’s historic District, $350,000

270 W. Main Street, Yanceyville, Caswell County

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,624 square feet, 0.86 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1875
• Listed August 27, 2025
• Last sale: $100,000, October 1993
• Neighborhood: Yanceyville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Foursquare with Colonial Revival influence, including shutters and detailing. Hip roof with wide eaves, symmetrical facade, full-width front porch and central front door, this one painted yellow to make it jump out as a focal point.

The early history of the house is obscure. The first known owners were Parthenia Phillip Hodnett Page (1873-1940) and Ludolphus Brown Page (1866-1940). L.B. was a prominent farmer, He also was a great-grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Starling Gunn (1764-1852), who fired the first cannon shot at the battle of Yorktown.

August 26, 2025

A Textile Executive’s 1972 MCM Home in Eden, $377,000

1358 Tellowee Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Charles and Josephine Whisenant House

• $377,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,740 square feet, 1.62 acres (per county; see note)
• Price/square foot: $217
• Built in 1972
• Listed August 26, 2025
• Last sale: 1971, before the house was built.
• Neighborhood: Sauratown Estates, off N.C. 14 south of Eden near the Carter’s Grove community.

The original owner is selling the house. Charles Augustus Whisenant Jr. and Josephine Lingerfelt Whisenant (1932-2020) bought the property in 1971. Charles was the first plant manager for Spray Textured Yarns in 1970 and also had worked for Burkyarns in Valdese. Jo was a long time member and past president of the Eden Garden Club.

August 25, 2025

A Prominent Surgeon’s 1928 Brick Foursquare in Leaksville, $550,000

• $550,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,110 square feet (per county), 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1928
• Listed August 25, 2025
• Last sale: $315,000, April 2012
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing shows 4,198 square feet.
  • The property includes the original detached two-car garage with brick and roof matching the house and a brick fence around the backyard.

District NR nomination: “Spanish and Colonial Revival style elements ornament the Tyner House at 543 Patrick Street. This handsome brick Foursquare house was constructed in the mid-1920s and features green tile covering the hip roof (and originally a curved parapet above the entrance porch, now removed) and a fanlight and sidelights at the main entrance.”

The original owners were Carl Vann Tyner (1890-1969) and Nina Pearl Dickie Tyner (1891-1990). Carl was a surgeon and a founder of two hospitals, Johnston County Hospital in Smithfield and Leaksville Hospital.

August 24, 2025

An Architect’s 1906 Dutch Colonial, on the National Register in Lenoir, $399,900

• $399,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,202 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1906
• Listed August 17, 2025
• Last sales: $325,000, June 2023; $270,000, November 2021; $200,000, July 2020; $145,000, August 2013; $135,000, September 2010
• Note: The Poe family owned the house until 1999. It’s been sold seven times since then. The house was added to the National Register in 2001.

But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenoir?”

No, wait, that’s not right. It wasn’t Lenoir that was lost. And it wasn’t the legendary poet who built the house, it was a notable local architect and builder who had the same name. “The Poe House stands out as a highly intact example of the Dutch Colonial Revival style with especially notable interior woodwork and is representative of the work of local builder Edgar Allan Poe.” The interior really is outstanding, but there is no pale, placid bust of Pallas high above a chamber door.

August 22, 2025

A 1914 Queen Anne in Greensboro, Now a B&B, $569,900

808 Northridge Street, Greensboro
The Albert and Mamie Fordham House
Dailey Renewal Retreat Bed & Breakfast

• $569,900
• 6 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,248 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1914
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $175,000, October 2002
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house has been a B&B for 15 years.

“Its simple Queen Anne/Colonial Revival-style finish includes a cross-gable-and-hip roof, a stepped-back form and cutaway bay, and a square-columned wraparound porch.” (Greensboro: An Architectural Record)

The original residents were Albert Eugene Fordham (1865-1939) and Mamie A. Ball Fordham (1864-1916). Albert operated a shoe store on McAdoo Avenue and later on West Market Street. By 1918, the city directory identified him as a farmer.

August 21, 2025

Belmont, an Opulent 1912 Mansion in Reidsville, $2.4 Million

1700 Richardson Drive, Reidsville
Belmont, The Robert Payne Richardson Jr. House
Belmont Mansion (wedding venue)
The Robert Payne Richardson Houses Historic District
Blog post — Sold: Belmont, The Robert Payne Richardson Jr. House, a 1912 Mansion Among Mansions in Reidsville

• $2.4 million
• 6 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms and 5 half-bathrooms, 8,946 square feet (per county), 9.67 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $268
• Built in 1912
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $950,000, May 2021

Belmont is the grandest of the three Richardson family homes comprising the principal structures of the Robert Payne Richardson Houses Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1912 Robert Payne Richardson Jr. (1855-1922) bumped his father’s impressive mansion to another part of the property “and began construction of a magnificent Neo-Classical Revival house. Belmont, as this house is known, is an opulent example of the style, one of the finest in the state, and it amply demonstrated his family’s prosperity.”

It’s now a wedding venue with a beach volleyball court.

August 15, 2025

An Impressive 1927 Tudor Revival on a Big Lot in High Point’s Emerywood, $950,000

427 Woodbrook Drive, High Point
The Alex and Adele Rankin House

• $950,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,753 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 15, 2025
• Last sale: $460,000, January 2004
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Property includes three lots appointed with stone walls, slate walk-ways, gorgeous landscaping and a concrete pad with a basketball goal.”

Set well back from the street on a triple lot, the house has a slate roof and well-preserved Tudor detail inside and out. Young hosiery executive Alex Rankin (1902-1986) and Adele Wineskie Rankin (ca. 1900-1987) built the house after buying the lot in 1925. They lived there until 1980.

August 14, 2025

A Remarkable 1930 Craftsman in Hamlet For Sale Again, $287,900

• $287,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,388 square feet (per county), 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 14, 2025
• Last sales: $255,900, January 2025; $245,000, November 22, 2021; $65,000, June 2021

Unusual Craftsman design with porte-cocheres on both sides of the house and some fine Craftsman detail intact inside. The earliest known owner was John Alfred Bagwell (1907-1940). In 1939 he sold the house to his father and step-mother, William Henry Hawes Bagwell Jr. (1872-1952) and Lola J. Griffin Bagwell (1887-1968). William and John were in the real estate business together, along with John’s brother, William H.H. III.

August 13, 2025

A 1926 Colonial Revival in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore, $525,000

803 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• $525,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,348 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1923
• Listed August 20, 2025
• Last sale: $325,000, September 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof entry porch; large, Tuscan columns; side porch enclosed or sunroom; sidelights; multi-light door. 1926 CD: John Fuqua, a clerk at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”

August 11, 2025

A Factory Worker’s 1924 Foursquare in Winston-Salem, $425,000

1709 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Lula Holcomb House

• $425,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,800 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 14, 2025
• Last sale: $185,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached studio-style guest house.

District NR nomination: “Foursquare. Two story; hip roof; hip-roof dormer; vinyl siding; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch (enclosed).” The enclosed porch was reopened between 2014 and 2016 (per Google Street View photos). The earliest known residents were Robert Bruce Holcombe (1889-1938) and Lula Moody Holcomb (1888-1960), listed in the 1925 city directory. Robert was an employee of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Lula’s estate sold the house.

August 8, 2025

A Quickly Flipped and Very Expensive 1940 Cape Cod in Winston-Salem, $789,900

1365 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem

• $789,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,341 square feet (per county), 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $337
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 8, 2025
• Last sale: $352,000, April 2025
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

Flip job with a very quick turnover and a wildly higher price. On a price per square foot basis, this is the most expensive historic house in Winston-Salem now for sale (as of its listing date). The listing goes on and on about the high-end renovation, but for this kind of money a buyer should expect restored windows, not cheap replacements. Caveat emptor.

August 7, 2025

Who Wouldn’t Want to Live in a Former Bar (in Mount Airy)?

278 Old U.S. Highway 52, Mount Airy, Surry County
Miller’s Tavern

• $150,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, three half-bathrooms, 2,179 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $69
• Built in 1942 (per county, but maybe a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed August 7, 2025
• Last sale: October 1940, price not listed in deed
• Neighborhood: Boone’s Hill
• Note: The building includes the bar and “living quarters.”

James William “Bill” Miller (1894-1953) and Mae Nina Barbee Miller (1909-1999) bought the property in 1940. A sign over the door as recently as 2013 read, “Miller’s Tavern, Established 1941.” The blue door and awnings really don’t help, do they?

August 7, 2025

A 1920s Colonial Revival in Greensboro’s Sunset Hills, $1.1 Million

2105 Rolling Road, Greensboro

• $1.175 million
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,867 square feet (per listing; see note), 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $304
• Built in 1925 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed August 13, 2025
• Last sale: $352,500, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show 2,830 square feet. The listing says the house has been significantly expended.

District NR nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, side-gabled, wire-cut-brick Colonial Revival-style house displays molded brackets at its cornice. A flat-roofed portico topped by a metal balustrade and supported by fluted posts shelters the paneled wood door with multi-light sidelights with a wood panel below.

The address first appears in the city directory in 1929 with Francis M. O’Brien and Myrtle O’Brien as the residents. Francis was manager of Clauss Shear Company, a cutlery manufacturer and dealer. They sold the house in 1930. The house was bought in 1938 by Aaron Leon Hyman (1892-1964) and Gertrude Vogel Hyman (1896-1979). Aaron was manager of Hyman’s Furniture Company. He was a merchant in Greensboro for more than 50 years. Gertrude sold the house in 1969.

August 6, 2025

A Cotton Broker’s Cape Cod in Greensboro’s Irving Park, $825,000

703 Woodland Drive, Greensboro

• $825,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,342 square feet (per county), 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $352
• Built in 1935 (per county, but probably a year or two later; see note)
• Listed August 5, 2025
• Last sale: $95,000, February 1979
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The listing shows 2,957 square feet ($279/square foot).
  • House has had only two owners.

The property was bought in 1936 by Claud Carroll Inman (1907-1978) and Evelyn Murray Shieder Inman (1905-1976). The address first appeared in the city directory in 1937. Carroll and his brother Aubrey operated a cotton brokerage from 1927 to 1970. In 1979, the house was sold by Carroll’s heirs to Roy M. Phipps Jr. (1944-2025) and Elizabeth K. “Betty” Hooker Phipps. Roy was an executive with Burlington Industries.

August 6, 2025

A Prohibitionist’s 1930 home in Winston-Salem, $350,000

500 Cascade Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Andrew and Jessie Stroup House

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,780 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $197
• Built circa 1930
• Listed August 5, 2025
• Last sale: $215,000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner

District NR nomination: “Frame gable-sided Colonial Revival style house, three bays wide with brick exterior end chimney. Central entrance beneath hipped roof hood supported by modillions; front door with four-light sidelights and classical half-columns; 8/8 sash; one-story rear gable ell over garage bay.”

Andrew Benjamin Stroup (1872-1936) had a distinguished career as a prohibitionist. Born in Illinois, he was a school administrator in New Mexico before becoming a lawyer and going to work for the Anti-Saloon League. In the 1920s he served as prohibition control director in a number of states, including North Carolina.

August 5, 2025

A Significant Literary Figure’s 1910 Boyhood Home in Reidsville, $349,000

802 Lawsonville Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $349,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,700 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 5, 2025
• Last sale: $55,000, January 2023
• Note: A quote from C.S. Lewis is on a wall in the kitchen: “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

In 1922 the house was sold to Archibald Boyd Hooper (1889-1969) and Madge Anderson Kemp Hooper (1906-1995). Archie was a plumber and later a plumbing contractor. The family owned the house for 93 years. Archie and Madge had four children, including Walter McGehee Hooper (1931-2020). “All of us who know and love the writings of C.S. Lewis owe a great debt to another figure, highly regarded in the field of Lewis scholarship but less well known to the wider world of readers: Walter Hooper. Over the course of six decades, Hooper served as literary advisor to Lewis’ estate, dedicating his life to editing, preserving, and sharing the work of C.S. Lewis.” (Dr. Holly Ordway, WordOnFire.com)

August 5, 2024

An Impeccable Foursquare in Greensboro’s fisher Park, $550,000

201 Leftwich Street, Greensboro

• $550,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,807 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $304
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 6, 2025
• Last sales: $348,500, December 2020; $295,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Foursquare, Residence, 1920-25 2 [stories], A.G. Koenig, traveling salesman”

The house appears initially to be have been a rental for several years. Koenig lived in the house through 1930, but no deed bearing his name can be found. The first owner to occupy the house was Mary S. Phillips (dates unknown), who owned it from 1938 to 1947.

August 2, 2025

A circa 1800 House on the National Register with 27 Acres and a Detailed History, $1 Million

• $1.035 million
• 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,079 square feet, 27 acres (four lots)
• Price/square foot: $336
• Built in 1835 (possibly an overbuild of a home built some 40 years earlier; see note)
• Listed July 29, 2025
• Last sale: $219,000, two sales in 2001 and 2016
• Neighborhood: About 5 miles north of Norwood at Lake Tillery.
• Note: The property includes an original slave cabin (1,255 square feet), a 40×50 metal pole barn with 200-amp service and a former milking parlor, now an office/billiard room.
  • The house is protected by a 2015 preservation agreement held by Preservation North Carolina.
  • The National Register nomination says the family name evolved from “Randle” to “Randall” by the 20th century.

“The 1970 rehabilitation of the Randle House carefully restored the original portion of the house, as well as the later two-story ell with the exception of the installation of bathrooms. The only major changes are the remodeling of the kitchen/dining wing interior and the sunporch and bathroom additions next to the ell. Despite renovations and additions, the Randle House retains its salient architectural features, presenting the same facade that it did in the early nineteenth century. …

“On recommendation of the Stanly County Historic Properties Commission, the Randle House was designated a local historic property by the county Board of Commissioners in 1975. Current owners Mary Lou and Harold Harned purchased the farm with the remaining seventeen acres in 1986, adding another ten acres in 1989 for their nursery operation.” Mary Lou’s estate is now selling the property.

August 1, 2025

An 1895 Queen Anne on the National Register in Wilkesboro, $625,000

• $625,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,066 square feet, 1.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1895 (per county; see note)
• Listed July 31, 2025
• Last sale: $270,000 March 2006
• Note: The property includes a garage apartment.

National Register nomination: “The 1899 J.L. Hemphill House is the most prominent Queen Anne style dwelling remaining in Wilkesboro. More than any other house it embodies the salient characteristics of this late Victorian style — irregular massing and variety of texture and ornamentation — as often interpreted in frame houses of the turn-of-the- century period in North Carolina.” James Lafayette Hemphill (1862-1949) operated a wholesale dry goods company in North Wilkesboro. He was also may have built houses, including this one.

The house was owned for 79 years by the family of businessman Carl A. Lowe. Originally from Moravian Falls, he was unrelated to the Lowes of North Wilkesboro, who founded North Wilkesboro Hardware, now Lowe’s Companies Inc., and Lowe’s Foods.

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