Piedmont Historic Homes

812dover

812 Dover Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $700,000 on May 29, 2026 (listed at $725,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,494 square feet (per county, see note), 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $281
• Built in 1928
• Listed April 10, 2026
• Last sale: $65,000, May 1974
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: Online listings show 3,351 square feet, an unusually large discrepancy.
  • 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.
  • Madeline was living in the house by 1929. She worked as the manager of the Junior League Shop. In 1943, she married Lt. Col. Reginald Van Trump Waters (1887-1980). A Realtor in civilian life, he was a veteran of World Wars I and II. Madeline sold the house in 1944.
  • Jack A. Cheek (1917-2007) and Katherine Whittier Kearns Cheek (1919-2002) bought the house in 1944. After a divorce, Katherine lived in the house until selling it in 1974. Jack was a certified public accountant and owned Cheek & Company Wholesale Grocers.
  • Katherine sold the house to Ronald H. Davis (1932-2019) and Parke B. Davis. Ronald worked in personnel for Ford Motor Company in Detroit and Reynolds Metals in Richmond before coming to Greensboro to work for Gilbarco. He later served as vice president for administration for Carolina Steel Corporation. Parke Davis is now selling the house.

606espringfield

606 E. Springfield Road, High Point
The Marshall-Jay House

• Sold for $35,000 on May 28, 2026 (listed at $45,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,360 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $26
• Built in 1846
• Listed March 31, 2026
• Last sale: $25,000, October 2025
• Neighborhood: Springfield
• Note: The house is a Friends landmark, now badly damaged by a fire in 2023. The original occupants were Zelinda and David Marshall, teachers who came to Springfield from what is now Guilford College. The house is said to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
  • In 1868 it was bought by a post-war relief organization, the Baltimore Association to Advise and Assist Friends in the Southern States. Allen Jay, a prominent Quaker minister from Indiana, led the group’s efforts and lived in the house.
  • In the 1940s, the house was restored and given to the Springfield Friends Meeting across the street. The meeting used the house for various purposes. It also served as an office for the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Emergency Material Assistance Program, a disaster-relief ministry.
  • The house was badly damaged by the 2023 fire, and the Springfield Meeting decided to tear it down, very reluctantly, they said.
  • Instead, the meeting was persuaded to sell the house to the High Point Preservation Society, which is now seeking a new owner to preserve it. Preservation and rehabilitation easements apply.

207hillcrest

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

• Sold for $990,000 on May 18, 2026 (originally $1.195 million)
• 4 bedrooms (per county), 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,355 square feet (per county), 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $227
• 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 house has metal casement windows with rough-hewn lintels. Windows in the large front-gabled dormer are paired, diamond-light casement windows.
  • “The decorative brick chimney with double flues rises to the right of the entrance, a batten door with strap hinges in a basketweave brick surround.
  • “An inset porch across the left half of the facade is supported by rough-hewn posts with slender braces. A one-story, shed-roofed porte-cochere on the right elevation has matching supports and faux half-timbering in the gables.”
  • 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.

200albright

200 Albright Avenue, Graham, Alamance County
The William Long House

• Sold for $277,000 on May 15, 2026 (originally $335,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,146 square feet (per county), 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 31, 2025
• Last sale: $25,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “A number of late-nineteenth century Queen-Anne-style houses stand in the district. These are generally two-story frame dwellings with a gable and wing form built by prominent townspeople. The most intact example of this style is the well-preserved Dr. William Long House at 200 Albright Avenue. Built by a local dentist and fire chief circa 1900, the three-bay house features a decorative front porch and front gabled bay wing. …
  • “The three-bay house features a gabled roof with a front gable wing with a cutaway bay with sawnwork brackets with finials, decorative gable end shingles, and a triangular vent. The house has plain siding and one-over-one sash windows with molded caps. Other features include a transomed front door and a one-story wraparound porch with original turned posts with curvilinear brackets and turned railing.”
  • Dr. William Long Jr. (1867-1954) was the state’s oldest fire chief when he died at age 87, even though he had been confined to his bed for a year. He was a founder of the fire department and served as chief for more than 40 years. He also was a dentist, served a term in the state House of Representatives in the 1930s and was the longtime chairman of the county Democratic Party. He was choir leader at Graham Presbyterian Church for 33 years. He was said to be the last person living who attended the unveiling of the Battle of Alamance monument in 1880.

526scaroline

526 S. Caroline Street, Rockingham, Richmond County
The H.C. Watson House

• Sold for $475,000 on May 14, 2026 (listed at $495,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 4,888 square feet, 1.30 acres
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1883
• Listed February 27, 2026
• Last sales: $284,900, February 2024; $187,000, May 2005
• Note: The property includes the original detached cookhouse and a three-bay carriage house with living quarters.
  • The current owners have extensively restored the house.

National Register nomination: “The H.C. Watson House, located at 526 Caroline Street approximately one-half mile south of downtown Rockingham, was constructed in the mid-1880s as a High Victorian residence. During a remodeling effort of the early 1900s the two frame house received numerous Classical Revival additions.

“In Rockingham during the early 1900s, fortunes were being made in the textile industry and related commercial enterprises. This newly acquired wealth was manifested in a burst of residential construction. Because of the resources available and the desire to keep a status residence. wealthy owners of older nomes continually remodeled to keep pace with. changing architectural trends, Rockingham’s elite who regarded the house as a visual symbol of prosperity were drawn to the theatrical and grandiose expression of Classical Revival style.

“The elegant two story pedimented portico with fluted Ionic columns, dentiled cornice, formal wraparound porch and attached porte-cochere demonstrate the strong influence of the Classical Revival style, as do the striking beveled and leaded glass door and window transoms and the crowning upper deck widow’s walk. The truncated hipped roof exhihibits a colorful decorative use of slate shingle work, the only example in the Rockingham vicinity. Features retained from its Victorian origins include ornamental splayed door surrounds, long narrow paired second story windows, and rounded transom and sidelights surrounding the entrance to the balcony. …

“In ca. 1895, H.C. Watson commissioned an itinerate Irish craftsman to stylishly update the entrance hall and two front parlors of the house, with exceptionally fine and unspoiled plasterwork. The cornices of the south parlor are pierced with a highly decorative leafy pattern and the cornice of the central hall features an alternating series of small plaster modillions and flowerettes.

“The ceiling medallions are formed from a repetitive use of leaves and flowers in a circular pattern, Other applied plaster motives include large ornamental bosses, elaborately scrolled console brackets supporting shallow arched niches, and elegantly curved window pediments.

“The resulting effect is richly designed and beautifully executed. The R.C. Watson House is distinguished as possessing the most notable and well preserved late nineteenth century plasterwork in the Rockingham vicinity and perhaps Richmond County.”

Henry Clay Watson (1855-1926) “was a prominent landholder, cotton gin operator and respected downtown merchant. … Among other accomplishments, he was co-founder of the Watson-King Funeral Home in 1911.” His death was front-page news in the Rockingham Post-Dispatch:

904wharton

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro
The Lorenzo and Albinia Winslow House

• Sold for $315,000 on May 5, 2026 (originally $375,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $276
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed August 22, 2025
• Last sales: $285,000, April 2023; $205,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is in the National Register historic district but outside the local Fisher Park Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled bungalow with stone porch piers and chimney”
  • The original owners were Lorenzo S. Winslow (1892-1976) and Albinia Daggett Fish Winslow (1889-1969), who bought the property in 1923, the first year the address appeared in the city directory. Lorenzo was one of Greensboro’s most significant architects. He had come to Greensboro to work for Harry Barton and by 1923 was designing homes for A.K. Moore Realty. He may well have designed this house for himself.
  • Lorenzo went into practice on his own in 1927. Among his local works are the Winburn Court Apartments on Tate Street, the Irving Park Apartments on North Elm Street, the Mary and Hugh Preddy House at 303 W. Greenway Drive North and the R.L. Holloway House at 2100 W. Market Street.
  • In 1932 he moved to Washington to work for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. North Carolina Architects & Builders: He became the White House architect after he won a competition to design a heated swimming pool for President Franklin Roosevelt’s therapy for polio (photo from National Archives). Between 1948 and 1952 he directed the removal and reconstruction of the entire interior of the White House.

127boulevard

127 Boulevard Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Krantz-Stewart House

• Sold for $280,000 on May 5, 2026 (listed at $275,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,358 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1916
• Listed April 8, 2026
• Last sale: $99,000, November 2025; $18,000, December 1984
• Neighborhood: South Spray
• Note: Flipped house. Caveat emptor, although they appear to have done a better job than usual in maintaining the historic character of the house.
  • “One of the largest of the very few brick houses in the South Spray area, the two-and-one-half story Krantz House dominates the northwest end of The Boulevard,” says A Tale of Three Cities (1998). “The two-room deep dwelling features a slightly projecting central pavilion that rises through the first ad second floors to the attic, where it is capped by a gabled dormer extending from the steeply pitched hipped roof of the main block.
  • “Other identifying features include patterned pressed tin on the roof and dormer walls, segmental arched windows throughout, and a Tuscan-columned porch that wraps around to the polygonal one-story wing on the southeast elevation.
  • “Spray Water Power and Land Company built the house early in this century for J.W. Krantz, general superintendent of the American Warehouse, where all of the products manufactured in the Morehead family’s area mills were finished.”
  • John Walter Krantz (1877-1944) and his wife Albertina Skeens Krantz (1879-1942) lived in the house for the rest of their lives. It remained in their family until 1984.
  • “He had suffered with heart attacks but he had continued in an executive capacity with Marshall Field and Company after 40 years of continuous service,” J.W.’s obituary said.
  • J.W. left the house to their daughter Claudine (1914-1987). Claudine worked for Fieldcrest Mills. Ownership passed to nephew George W. Krantz Jr. (1934-1996), who sold it in 1984 to Carlton Edward Sterwart (1940-2025). Carlton was a manager at Kmart. His estate sold the house in 2025 to the current owners.

1602west

1602 West End Place, Greensboro
The Carroll-Keith House

• Sold for $430,000 on April 29, 2026 (listed at $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,060 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 20, 2026
• Last sale: $345,000, July 2021
• Neighborhood: College Park
• Note: The house is across the street from College Park.
  • A distinctive Tudor Revival/English Cottage, with a lighter color than is typical of the style and intersecting gables creating a more complex roofline.
  • Comment from my architecture consultant Claude: “That’s a wonderful street! You’ve got a real architectural variety there – the Craftsman at 1606 and this Tudor Cottage at 1602, both from that same golden era of the 1920s. Those early-to-mid 20th century neighborhoods often have that kind of delightful mix of period styles, each house with its own character but all working together to create a cohesive streetscape. West End Place must be a pleasure to walk through!” He’s right again.
  • The property was sold seven times between 1924 and 1927. The first residents appear to have been Walter Jonathan Carroll (1895-1943) and his wife, Chat Ratley Carroll (1898-1994). Walter was a veteran of World War I in a field artillery unit. He was identified in the city directory as simply a manager. They bought the house in December 1925 and sold it in April 1927, by far the longest ownership during that period. They moved to Gastonia, where Walter became president of Grocers’ Baking Company.
  • The Carrolls sold the house to Johnsie Glass Keith (1875-1954). Johnsie and her daughter, Blanche Keith Watson (1901-1988), owned it for 40 years. Johnsie was the widow of Flavius Keith (1872-1906).

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217 S. Main Street, Roxboro, Person County
The James and Laura Long house
National Register

• Sold for $687,000 on April 28, 2026 (listed at $699,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 5,006 square feet (per county), 0.71 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1896
• Listed March 18, 2026
• Last sale: $82,000, August 2004
• Note: Original architectural features inside the house include a grand wooden staircase, 11 fireplaces, pocket doors, appliqued ceilings and ornate moldings.
  • Most of the interior is terrific, but for a house this expensive, the kitchen and bathrooms are conspicuously underwhelming.

National Register nomination: “Completed in 1896, the James A. and Laura Thompson Long House is Roxboro’s most outstanding Queen Anne dwelling and a well-preserved, intact representative of the style in a North Carolina town that prospered after the Civil War. It also exemplifies the changes in the style that took place as Beaux Arts design reemerged in American architecture after the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. At the time of its completion, the Roxboro Courier described the Long House as ‘magnificent,’ ‘a modem design and strikingly beautiful,’ and ‘the most costly dwelling ever built in Person County.’ …

“J.A. Long, the ‘founder of modern Roxboro,’ built the locally significant house, and this is the only extant residence associated with him. Long, a local businessman and industrialist founded Roxboro’s first cotton mill and is credited with bringing the railroad to Roxboro. A fellow Roxboro businessman recalled that Long worked day and night, traveling, writing letters, and ‘talking much at home and abroad in an effort to get others interested’ in rail service.

“Long also owned a tobacco factory, was a founder and president of People’s Bank, served as a state senator, and held a seat on the board of the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad. Beyond Roxboro’s town limits, Long served as a trustee for the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh, Trinity College, and Greensboro Female College.

“In addition to its association with J. A. Long, the house is the most outstanding example of Queen Anne design in Roxboro, and its grandeur and mass-produced materials represent post-Civil War mechanization and Long’s personal prosperity that resulted from New South industrialization.

“The symmetrical two-story facade with prominent round towers flanking a central entrance bay, incorporates Queen Anne elements as well as classical motifs that were reinvigorating popular architecture after the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The interior reveals lavish use of mahogany paneling and decorative mantelpieces with fanciful tiles surrounding the fireboxes.

“A grand mahogany staircase leads from the first floor hallway up three flights to the attic, which is finished with the same paneled doors with enriched Eastlake style hardware seen on the two lower levels.

“With the exception of a small 1940s addition to the rear elevation, two missing balcony railings, a missing tympanum in one gabled dormer, and early twentieth century alterations to the floor plan of the rear ell and back porch, the house remains intact and is an outstanding illustration of the enthusiasm and optimism of the age in which it was built.”

James Anderson Long (1841-1915) was born in Person County. His life was recalled as a classic rags-to-riches story. “Beginning life a poor boy giving four years of his best to a cause he loved so well, he returned from the war disconsolate and sad at the great devastation, but he was not discouraged,” The Roxboro Courier said upon his death. “Without a dollars capital he went to work and today his estate is worth probably half a million dollars, and every penny of it clean money.”

911e

911 E Street, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County
The John George Finley House

• Sold for $160,000 on April 28, 2026 (originally $178,000)
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 1,696 square feet (per county), 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1881
• Listed January 6, 2026
• Last sale: $85,000, July 2015
• Note: From the National Register nomination for the nearby Thomas B. Finley House: “E Street, on which the Thomas B. Finley House is located, retains some of the best examples of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century houses in North Wilkesboro. …
  • “[T]he one-story frame John George Finley House at 911 E Street, probably built ca. 1900, shows the same type of stylistic influences as the larger houses. It boasts a multi-gabled roof, a decorative frieze beneath the eaves, two projecting asymmetrical front bays, and bracketed front and side porches.”
  • J. George Finley (1853-1898) was elected mayor of North Wilkesboro in 1892 by a vote of 32-21. His brother Arthur was elected a city commissioner in the same election. Another brother, Thomas Brown Finley, was a judge. George died young after a lengthy illness, reported variously as “sclerosis or hardening of the liver” or “an attack of catarrh of the stomach.” His death received newspaper coverage throughout the state, invariably describing him as “one of the most highly respected citizens of North Wilkesboro.”
  • He was associated with various businesses, including hotels in Blowing Rock and Watauga, of which he was a co-owner, and a hotel, a brick works and a land development company, all in nearby Gordon. He was an organizer of the Brushy Mountain Iron & Lithia Springs Company in 1893, along with at least two of his brothers.
  • For unknown reasons, George was sometimes identified as “Colonel”; since he would have been only eight years old when the Civil War started, it was likely an informal title.
  • Worth noting, from The Union Republican of Winston, 1892:

• There are at least seven historic houses in North Wilkesboro named for members of the Finley family, built between 1881 and 1926.

2850galsworthy

2850 Galsworthy Drive, Winston-Salem
The Butler House

• Sold for $1.76 million on April 20, 2026 (listed at $1.996 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 7,040 square feet (per county), 2.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $250
• Built in 1964
• Last sales: $1.7 million, June 2025; $860,000, May 2012
• Listed February 25, 2026
• Neighborhood: Reynolda Woods
• Realtor hype: “a stunning home beyond imagination! A MASTERPIECE!” It really is a masterpiece (which is why you don’t have to say it, much less scream it).
• Note: The property is adjacent to Reynolda Gardens.
  • The house now has a travertine pool.
  • Designed by Byron Simonson of Palm Beach, landscape design by the remarkable Dick Bell of Raleigh.
  • The house was featured in an eight-page spread in Architectural Digest in 1970.
  • The original owners once hosted a seated dinner for 60 people in the living room.
  • Listed on locationshub.com, a directory of locations available for film or television productions: “The 1963 Albert Butler House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the exemplar of high Mid-Century Modern style. Designed by Addison Mizner protégé Byron Simonson (designer of the Colony Hotel and the now-defunct Coquille Club, Palm Beach), the house is 7500-SF of glam ready for filming.
  • “Some of the spectacular features of the Albert Butler House are crotched mahogany walls, carved wall divider screens, inverted ship’s prow cypress ceilings with quatrefoil skylights, indoor and outdoor soaring green marble and quartz walls, coromandel screen custom fitted around a stainless fireplace, hand-pegged diagonal wood floors, octagonal dining room in Tiffany blue with bespoke starburst chandelier, convex ceiling and hand-poured plaster moldings, ceiling-to-floor circus stripe curtains, carved teak double front doors, and turquoise and malachite kitchen with colored stove, hood, and wall oven.”
  • Online listings show 7,625 square feet.
  • “With the exception of a few strategic steel beams, used to span the living room, the house is supported structurally by wooden beams and masonry walls. To show off the wood that covers part of the exterior, Simonson created fir squares, glued together, sandblasted to bring out the grain and mounted diagonally.
  • “Sliding glass doors let the outdoors in when open, and shut the outdoors out when closed to give a spatial continuity between the house and the nature beyond.” (Winston-Salem Journal, 1966)
  • The original owners were Albert Louis Butler Jr. (1918-1997) and Elizabeth Hill Bahnson Butler (1919-1996). Albert studied economics at Princeton and served in the Army during World War II. He returned to become president of the Arista Company, a textile firm owned by his wife. He moved it into data processing in 1969, sold that business in 1984 and turned Arista into a real-estate holding company.
  • The Winston-Salem Journal called him “a distinguished man who poured himself into making his hometown a better place to live.” He was active with the YMCA, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Children’s Home of North Carolina, the Urban League, the Arts Council, the library, the symphony and the Chamber of Commerce. He chaired the Winston-Salem Foundation for 19 years. He also served on the board of trustees of Salem Academy and Wake Forest University and received the Distinguished Service Award from the WFU Medical Alumni Association.
  • Albert was a politically active conservative Democrat. He campaigned for Republican Wendell Wilkie in 1940 against President Franklin Roosevelt.
  • He was a director of several corporations, including R.J. Reynolds and Wachovia. He served on the RJR Nabisco board committee that reviewed bids for the conglomerate in 1989 (the result was a $25 billion sale to the investment group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, then the largest leveraged buyout in U.S. history).
  • “He has been with Arista since 1946 and a director of RJR Nabisco since 1976,” The New York Times said. “Mr. Butler has been involved in several corporate restructurings and takeovers, including Ashland Oil’s acquisition of the Filter Corporation, of which he was a director.”
  • The house was sold by Albert’s estate in 1998 to Michael E. Pulitzer Jr. and Ramelle C. Pulitzer. Michael is a great-grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. He was an executive with WXII-TV in Winston-Salem. The Pulitzer company owned WXII from 1983 to 1998. The Pulitzers sold the house in 2012.

1006nhamilton

1006 N. Hamilton Street, High Point
The Montgomery House

• Sold for $212,000 on April 14, 2026 (listed at $209,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,351 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1922 (per county, but likely a few years later; see note)
• Listed March 20, 2026
• Last sale: $155,000, August 2020
• Note: The address first appears in the city directory in 1933 with sisters Frances Montgomery (1899-1964) and Jewel Montgomery (1891-1983) and their widowed mother, Sarah (1866-1942), as residents. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Frances was assistant secretary and later vice president of Piedmont Insurance & Realty. Jewel was a department-store saleswoman. Her estate sold the house in 1984.

427woodbrook

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

• Sold for $850,000 on March 30, 2026 (originally $950,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,753 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• 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.”
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, Tudor Revival-style house is four bays wide and double-pile with a front-gabled section flanked by one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled wings.
  • “The house has a slate roof and a painted brick veneer with faux half-timbering on the second story of the main front-gabled section and in the gables and dormers of the other wings. It has eight-over-eight, wood-sash windows, grouped on the facade, with a group of three four-over-four windows at the second-floor level of the front gable. The one-light, pointed-arched batten door is sheltered by a small, front-gabled porch supported by square posts with arched braces.
  • “An inset porch on the left (south) end of the facade is supported by square posts with braces. It has faux half-timbering on the lower one-third of the wall and the upper two-thirds are enclosed with leaded glass.
  • “There is an exterior brick chimney in the left gable end of the left wing, a shed-roofed wall dormer on the right (north) wing, and two gabled wall dormers on the rear wing. There is a two-story, gable-on-hip-roofed wing extending from the rear at a slight angle.”
  • Alexander Martin Rankin Jr. (1902-1986) and Adele Wineskie Rankin (d. 1987, age 87) bought the property in 1925. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1927. They lived in the house until selling it in 1980.
  • Alex was vice president of Diamond Full Fashion Hosiery (the National Register listing and other faulty reference works show him as secretary/treasurer of Consolidated Mirror Company, which is not listed in the city directory). He later worked as a stock broker.
  • Adele was a graduate of Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a charter member and president of the High Point Junior League, charter member of the Hospital Guild and board member with the Cancer Society, Family Service and Red Cross.

2840 Reynolds Drive, Winston-Salem
The Leet and Nancy O’Brien House

• Sold for $1.525 million on March 26, 2026 (originally $1.695 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 4,838 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $315
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 16, 2025
• Last sale: $939,000, March 2011
• Neighborhood: Westview/Buena Vista
• Note: Designed by Northup and O’Brien, “one of the most prolific and distinguished architectural firms in North Carolina during the first half of the 20^th century,” according to N.C. State’s Architects & Builders: A Biographical Dictionary. Most likely by partner Leet O’Brien.
  • Red Ludowici tile roof
  • The original owners were Leet Alexander O’Brien (1891-1963) and Nancy Lee Simmons O’Brien (1890-1953). O’Brien went to work for Willard Northup as a draftsman in 1907. They established their architectural partnership in 1916. O’Brien’s most notable works include the library at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, the state government office building in Raleigh and the medical school and Hospital at UNC-CH.
  • Their son, Leet Alexander “Alex” O’Brien Jr., owned the house after Leet Sr. retired and moved to Florida. He was in sales in the insurance and hotel industries. Alex had sold the house by 1971.

931w5th

931 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
Formerly First Church of Christ, Scientist

• Sold for $575,000 on March 26, 2026 (originally $589,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,024 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $284
• Built in 1924
• Listed July 22, 2023
• Last sale: $380,000, January 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Facing the corner of Brookstown Ave. and W. Fifth St., the Christian Science church is a small building of strong Federal Revival classicism. The well-developed design features a one-story rectangular structure lined with fifteen-over-fifteen sash windows accented by tall, keystoned round arches.
  • “The corners of the stuccoed building are accented by tall Tuscan pilasters. The facade features a central entrance porch with Tuscan posts and a full pedimented entablature which echoes the larger pedimented entablature of the gable roof.
  • “In 1915 a Christian Science Society was organized in Winston-Salem, and in 1916 the Society rented space in an office building at 418 N. Liberty St. In May, 1924, a lot was purchased at Brookstown and Fifth for the erection of a church, and by October of that year work on this handsome building was completed. In May, 1925, the Society formally became the First Church of Christ, Scientist.”
  • The church sold the building in 2005.

442smendenhall

442 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
West End Hose Company

• Sold for $300,000 on March 13, 2026 (listed at $300,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,457 square feet, 0.2 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built circa 1920
• Listed February 19, 2026
• Last sale: $24,500, January 1979
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Gothic Revival style … Former West End Hose Company Firehouse (II): Converted to a dwelling in the early 1960s, this brick structure was originally a firehouse. Erected not long after the city acquired its corner lot in 1918, it replaced an earlier firehouse a block to the south. Pointed arches at its corner porch give it a Gothic flair.”
  • The city bought the property in 1918. The firehouse was in operation by 1921. It was sold in 1964 and converted into a rental house.
  • In 1968 the home was bought by Leon’s Maison de Paris Beauty College, located two blocks away on Tate Street. In 1979, it was bought by Leon’s renowned owner, Aileen Oldham (1918-1994), known in Greensboro as “Mrs. Leon.” She had been a young widow when she and Leon Oldham (1914-1975) married in 1966, 20 years after he founded Leon’s Beauty Salons. Mrs. Leon ran the business after he died. “A savvy businesswoman and quiet philanthropist, she was also one of the city’s most colorful personalities,” the News & Record said.
  • Aileen’s daughter Patricia “Parker” Washburn (1946-2024) retained a share of ownership in the house until her death.

1020wkent

1020 W. Kent Road, Winston-Salem
The Richard and Hortense Stockton House

• Sold for $1.4 million on March 10, 2026 (listed at $1.8 million)
  • The house was demolished by its new owner, Reynolda Development Group, an LLC associated with a personal-injury lawyer.
• 6 bedrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms, 6,653 square feet, 2.33 acres
• Price/square foot: $210
• Built in 1927 (per county; see note)
• Listed November 19, 2025
• Last sale: $590,000, February 2012
• Neighborhood: Reynolda Park
• Note: Designed by Charles Barton Keen (1968-1931), the architect of Reynolda House, R.J. Reynolds High School and many other prominent homes and buildings in Winston-Salem and the Piedmont.
  • The house was built by Fogle Brothers and completed in October 1926, according to Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage.
  • The house essentially has two front sides. The original address was 1001 Reynolda Road; the side toward Reynolda is Tudor Revival. The side facing West Kent Road is Georgian.
  • The property includes a swimming pool.
  • The original owners were Richard Gordon Stockton (1892-1960) and Hortense Haughton Jones Stockton (1893-1969). Richard was the second of seven children in his family; his older brother was Norman Stockton, whose menswear store is still in business in Winston-Salem.
  • Richard originally was a lawyer, joining the bar in 1912. He served with the Army’s advocate general’s office during World War I. He joined Wachovia in 1922 as secretary and trust officer and rose to become chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee (online listings mistakenly identify him as an R.J. Reynolds executive). He also served as president of the Methodist Children’s Home and the N.C. Foundation for Church-Related Colleges.
  • Hortense was a graduate of St. Mary’s College in Raleigh. She was initially a school teacher and later served as president of the Community Council, commissioner of the Girl Scouts, president of the Juvenile Relief Association and chair of the Community Nursing Service. She sold the house in 1961.

2079 Shady Grove Road, Providence, Caswell County
The Hodges-Carter House

• Sold for $315,000 on March 3, 2026 (originally $475,000)
  • The buyer’s address of record is in Port Richey, Florida.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,472 square feet (per county), 11.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1840
• Listed July 7, 2025
• Last sale: $85,500 (bought in three transactions between 1989 and 1994)
• Neighborhood: Located about halfway between Providence and Pelham, about 11 1/2 miles northwest of Yanceyville. The property has a Providence mailing address.
• Note: The house is given an 1840 date in An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina. County records say 1940.
  • “1 1/2 story Federal-style house overbuilt by addition of 2-story frame house in late 19th century. Almost no original exterior fabric remains on earlier section. Later house has decorative cross gables. A log kitchen or quarters and a smokehouse, perhaps contemporary with early house, remain [as of 1979].” (An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, p. 175)
  • Some of the log walls of the original house can be seen on the interior.

829w6th

829 W. 6th Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $290,000 on February 5, 2026 (originally listed at $269,000, later $199,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,035 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 21, 2019
• Last sale: $150,000, July 2013
• Neighborhood: West End
• District NR nomination: “The Hinshaw House is a delightful one-and-a-half-story frame Shingle style dwelling whose primary characteristic is that it is sheathed entirely in fishscale-cut wood shingles.
  • “Other features include a steep clipped gable roof, intersecting side gables, and a partially engaged front porch with rectangular posts and a solid balustrade.
  • “Guy F. Hinshaw, Winston-Salem’ s city engineer and president of the Hinshaw Co. (grocers), purchased the property in 1912, and he and his wife, Aileen, occupied the house. They sold in 1932.”
  • What it looked like before the current owner bought it:

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321-329 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
North Washington Avenue Workers Houses
National Register

• Sold for $179,000 on January 21, 2026 (listed at $179,000)
• Five houses, each with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 800 square feet; 0.50 acre total
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built circa 1912 (county records say 1900; see note)
• Listed November 18, 2025
• Last sale: March 2011, part of a sale of three properties; no separate prices were broken out.
• Neighborhood: North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District (NR)

Reidsville has two remarkably tiny historic districts — the Richardson Houses Historic District, with three houses; and the North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District, with these five houses. The Richardson mansions and the workers houses couldn’t be more different. 

The five lots have been combined into one with 329 N. Washington as the address.

District NR nomination: “The cluster of five simple frame houses located on the east side of the 300 block of North Washington Avenue is significant in the history of Reidsville as the only surviving, intact group of a type of house built in the early 20th century for black workers employed by the American Tobacco.Company shortly after construction of its tremendous new facility in Reidsville in 1912.

“As such, they are representative of a larger pattern of housing construction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as increasing numbers of industrial workers, drawn from the depressed agricultural sector to work in the cotton mills and tobacco factories, required housing in growing towns across the state. The five essentially identical houses are also closely related to traditional rural house forms, such as the early North Carolina single-pen houses of both log and frame construction. …

“The five workers’ houses … are the simplest of frame houses, consisting originally of three rooms — one-over-one with a shed room behind. The side gable roof extending over the rear shed room produces a saltbox form. The central entrance on the single-bay facade is sheltered by an attached, shed-roofed porch which spans approximately two-thirds of the facade.

“Basic materials include plain weatherboard siding and a standing seam metal roof. A brick chimney rises between the front and rear rooms, and six over six windows light each room on both stories on the north and south side elevations. Door and window surrounds are flat-board post and lintel with a beaded lintel. The foundation is brick piers with cinder block infill.

“At the rear, a ca. 1940 shed-roof addition provided a bathroom and back porch. On three of the five houses, this rear porch has been enclosed. The bathroom is clad in German siding.”

210 Kemp Road East, Greensboro
The Ellen and Edgar Marks House

• Sold for $1.75 million on January 14, 2026 (originally $2 million)
• 6 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 9,621 square feet (per county), 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $182
• Built in 1965
• Listed April 21, 2025
• Last sales: $920,500, November 2017; $385,000, May 1982
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: Designed by Edward Lowenstein
  • The house has a sunroom with an indoor swimming pool.
  • The original owners were Dr. Edgar Seymore Marks (1921-2023) and Ellen Spear Marks (1930-2021). Edgar grew up in Greensboro. He earned his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his medical degree from Wake Forest Bowman Gray School of Medicine. As an Army Captain and WWII veteran, he served as a public health director for the U.S. military government in South Korea. He practiced in Greensboro for more than 40 years.
  • Ellen was a real estate executive. She was named Arbitrator of the Year for the Better Business Bureau of Central North Carolina. She also was a licensed pilot. She sold the house in 1975.
  • In 1983, the house was bought by George Whitehead Page Jr. (1933-2022) and Carroll Israel Page. George graduated from Hargrave Military Academy and left college to join the Air Force during the Korean War, where he flew the F-86 Sabre fighter jet. Later, he founded Unitex Chemical Corporation, initially a textile chemical marketer and later a manufacturer of components to the plastics industry. They owned the house for 34 years, selling it to the current owners in 2017.

1142westover

1142 Westover Terrace, Asheboro, Randolph County

• Sold for $440,000 on January 5, 2026 (listed at $447,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,978 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $222
• Built in 1964
• Listed October 24, 2025
• Last sale: $282,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Dave’s Mountain
• Note: Designed by Greensboro architect J. Hyatt Hammond.
  • The early history of the house is obscure. Hal Hammer Walker (1918-1987) and his sister Jane Page Walker Croom (1923-1976) bought the property in 1961. Hal served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II. He was a lawyer, state senator and for 10 years a Superior Court judge. They had sold the property by 1981, but it’s not clear when.