Piedmont Historic Homes

314 Fairview Drive, Lexington, Davidson County
The Edgar and Etrulia Sheets House

• Sold for $260,000 on December 20, 2024 (listed at $280,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,094 square feet (per county), 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1937
• Listed July 26, 2024
• Last sale: $177,000, March 2016
• Note: Most of the historic character inside the house has been lost.
  • The earliest known owners were Edgar Holmes Sheets (1909-1984) and Rhoda Etrulia Going Sheets (1906-1992). They were listed at the address by 1941 and lived there the rest of their lives. The house was sold by their son in 1992. Edgar was secretary and later president of B&B Laundry. He also was president of People’s Insurance and Finance Company. He was a Mason, Shriner and member of Scottish Rite. He was an honorary member of the N.C. Association of Laundries and Cleaners.

518 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Julia Eaton House

• Sold for $405,000 on December 20, 2024 (originally $420,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,587 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $255
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 19, 2024
• Last sales: $325,000, December 2023; $162,000, April 2002
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: Huge markup after owning the house less than a year.
  • The original owner was Julia Louise Boyd Eaton (1869-1939), widow of Samuel C. Eaton (1865-1923). Samuel was a lumber inspector for the Hickory Chair Manufacturing Company in Hickory. After his death, Julia moved to Greensboro, where their son Robert (dates unknown) lived.
  • After her death, her son and daughter-in-law Chester Alwyn Eaton (1905-1970) and Nancy McNeely Lentz Eaton (1907-1993) lived in the house. Chester was an auditor for Security National Bank; Nancy was a member of the Junior League and a board member of Gateway Education Center.
  • Julia’s daughter Faye sold the house in 1972.

409 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Edward C. Cridlebaugh House

• Sold for $365,000 on December 20, 2024 (listed at $335,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,698 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built in 1928
• Listed December 4, 2024
• Last sale: $65,000, November 1975
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Tudor Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a projecting, front-gabled bay on the right (west) end of the facade. The house has a brick veneer, metal casement windows with heavy timber lintels on the first story, and two exterior brick chimneys on the right elevation.
  • “A conical, projecting entrance bay to the left (east) of the front-gabled bay has an arched brick opening and shelters a pointed-arched batten door with four lights. There is an inset dormer on the left end of the facade and a one-story, gabled ell at the left rear (southeast).”
  • The house appeared in the city directory for the first time in 1929, listed as listed as vacant. In 1930, Edward Cameron “Cam” Cridlebaugh (ca. 1899-1991) and Frances Welch Cridlebaugh (ca. 1905-1993) were listed at the address. Edward was a graduate of N.C. State College and an Army veteran of World War II. He was secretary-treasurer of the Atlantic Insurance & Realty Company and later president of that company and of Atlantic Savings & Loan. Frances graduated from the Women’s College and was a school teacher. They owned the house until selling it to the current owners in 1975.
  • Hoyt Milton Hackney Jr. (1938-2023) and Dianne Martin Hackney bought the house in 1975. Hoyt was an industrial engineering graduate of N.C. State University. He spent most of his career in the furniture industry, serving as CEO of Wellington Hall Furniture for 24 years. Dianne is now selling the house.

2368 Walker Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Frederick and Cecelia Saunders House

• Sold for $405,000 on December 19, 2024 (originally $409,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,664 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1929
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $308,900, June 2020; $204,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; front-gable projection; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; side-gable, wrap around porch; battered posts on brick piers; stone retaining wall.”
  • The property first appeared in the city directory in 1931 as 1170 Walker Avenue with Frederick Daniel Saunders (1891-1976) and Cecelia Artie Melton Saunders (1895-1959) as residents. They owned the house until they died. Frederick was a mail carrier who worked for 30 years with the Post Office. He also was a Navy veteran of World War I and spent 11 years in the service.

209 N. Wilba Road, Mebane, Alamance County
The Tyson-Mace House

• Sold for $505,000 on December 18, 2024 (listed at $520,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,266 square feet (per county), 1.05 acres (per county)
• Price/square foot: $223
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 21, 2024
• Last sales $287,000, September 2020
• Note: The listing shows 2,607 square feet and 0.42 acre.
  • The original owner was Alta Jane White Tyson (1876-1953), who bought the property in 1919. Her husband, Dr. Thomas David Tyson (1872-1957), was not listed on the 1919 deed but was on the deed in 1942 when they sold the house. Alta and Thomas were married in 1901. Thomas was a graduate of Davidson College and the Medical College of Virginia. During World War I, he served with the U.S. Public Health Service. He practiced for 50 years and was “the dean of the Alamance County medical profession,” The News & Observer said. He also was chairman of the Mebane school board for 20 years.
  • Stanley Carse Mace (1892-1956) and Iola Patton Mace (1888-1977) bought the house in 1942. They owned it for 55 years. Stanley was a salesman with Rabb Motor Company. Iola’s estate sold the house in 1997.

208 Shawnee Street, Winston-Salem
The George and Nealie Knouse House

• Sold for $370,000 on December 18, 2024 (originally $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 24, 2024
• Last sales: $207,500, September 2017; $137,500, August 2005
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is on a double lot.
• District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame Craftsman bungalow with front shed dormer, full inset porch supported by full-height posts with plain picket balustrade. Paired windows at west elevation.”
  • The house has large stone retaining wall and steps shared with 204 Shawnee Street, next door. That house was built by George’s brother John E. Knouse (1893-1960).
  • George Romulus Knouse (1872-1935) and Cornelia Frances “Nealie” Yarborough Knouse (1866-1952) were the original owners. Both lived in the house until they died. George and John worked together as painters and contractors. Their company was later called George R. Knouse & Sons.
  • Epitaph on George’s gravestone: “A precious one from us has gone, a voice we loved is stilled, a place is vacant in our home which never can be filled.”
  • Epitaph on Nealie’s gravestone: “Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep”

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502 Thomas Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $70,000 on December 11, 2024 (listed at $100,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,724 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $41
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 26, 2024
• Last sale: $58,500, December 1993

812 Haywood Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $217,500 on December 6, 2024 (originally $239,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,222 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 8, 2024
• Last sale: $148,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Glenwood
• Note: The house is part of a preservation success story. Originally built nearby on Highland Avenue, it’s one of three houses on Gregory Avenue and Highland Avenue that were bought by UNCG as part of a major expansion project and then sold in 2011 to the Preservation Greensboro Development Fund so they could be relocated and preserved. UNCG also sold three lots on Haywood Street to the fund for the homes’ relocation.

301 S. 5th Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $920,000 on December 3, 2024 (originally $1 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,799 square feet (per county; see note), 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $329
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 2, 2024
• Last sale: $257,000, August 2008
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing gives the square footage as 3,626. County records are often wrong about the size of houses, but a discrepancy of almost 30 percent is unusually large.
  • The property includes a detached four-car garage, divided into two parts. One section is heated and cooled and has an attic with pull-down stairs.
• District NR nomination: “This is a 1½-story Colonial Revival-style house finished in square-butt wood shingles, with a side-gable roof which shields an engaged front porch supported by oversized Doric columns.
  • “A broad shed dormer is centered on the façade and a one-story shingled gabled wing on the north side features 6/6 sash and French doors; windows elsewhere are 1/1 sash.
  • “The first story is finished in stone and an exterior gable-end rock-faced stone chimney is on the north elevation. The foundation is of stone and stone steps access the front porch.”

408 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $340,000 on December 3, 2024 (listed at $315,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 960 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $354
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 30, 2024
• Last sale: $250,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable porch; square posts on brick piers; knee braces; six-over-one, Craftsman-style windows.”
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1925, when William Gwyn Binkley (1895-1985) and Nellie Laws Binkley (dates unknown) were listed as residents. It was the only year they were listed in the city directory, although they owned the house until 1928. They were divorced by 1936.
  • Gwyn had graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and received a correspondence-school law degree. Although he apparently was a practicing attorney at some point, he was better known to newspaper readers and the House Un-American Activities Committee as a Communist “agitator” — or labor organizer, to use a more current term — “participating in labor troubles in and around Winston-Salem,” as The Twin City Sentinel put it. In 1956 the Greensboro Daily News bellowed that he was a “professor of violence and subversion … a Red for more than 20 years, and the spiritual father of regional communism.” And that was in the news pages, not the editorial section.
  • By the 1930s, Binkley had become “a veteran of radical politics in the area: he had worked for the Trade Union Unity League, defied the efforts of Winston-Salem’s Board of Aldermen to keep Communist organizers out of the city, and run for Congress on the Communist Party ticket.” He wasn’t elected. (Civil Rights Unionism, Robert Rodgers Korstad, p. 230)
  • “Binkley had grown up in a log cabin on a farm in nearby Walnut Cove, gone to the University of North Carolina, and practiced law in Forsyth County. He would surface again in the Winston-Salem labor movement in the 1940s as an organizer for the fur and leather workers union …” (Civil Rights Unionism, Robert Rodgers Korstad, p. 125)
  • Early on, Gwyn was convicted of distributing “seditious literature” during labor troubles in Danville and again in New Orleans in 1936 for “possessing and distributing seditious literature tending to create rebellion against the government” (sentence: 25 days and $25, state and federal appeals denied). He was also charged in New Orleans with having no visible means of support, a crime.
  • “Police said thousands of pamphlets of Communist propaganda, telling of troubles in Spain and river front and railroad controversies in New Orleans, were seized at the apartment,” the Sentinel said in reporting his New Orleans arrest.
  • He was reported to be the secretary of the Communist Party of Louisiana and was elected to the Communist Party national committee in the late 30s. Korstad says he returned to Walnut Cove in the 1940s to take over his family’s farm.
  • He was an organizer of a Winston-Salem laundry strike in 1946 and was associated with the FTA-CIO Local 22 at the R.J. Reynolds plant. He denied widely publicized claims by an FBI informant that his farm was the site of a 1952 event variously described as a “Communist party cadre school” or leadership school. “William Binkley, the farm owner, was quoted as making a speech to the effect that united States capitalists would not surrender peacefully to Communism,” the Greensboro Record said. The FBI informant said attendees were trained in how to kill a person with a pencil to the throat or abdomen.
  • Gwyn was called to testify before a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956. He declined to answer their questions.
  • “Binkley, a tall spare man with a shock of gray hair, one bad eye, gold teeth and spectacles, is accused as the master of the ‘little Red school house’ where Communist leaders of this area were trained,” the Greensboro Daily News said.
  • After the Red Scare ended in the late 1950s, he appears to have been forgotten. Local newspapers didn’t even run an obituary when he died in 1985.

440 Granville Drive, Winston-Salem
The Luther and Naomi Sides House

• Sold for $269,000 on December 3, 2024 (listed at $269,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,265 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 1, 2024
• Last sale: $65,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage with electricity.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; front-gable projection; side-gable, wraparound porch; brick; battered posts on brick piers; one-over-one replacement windows; multi-light door.”
  • The original owners were Luther Christian Sides (1895-1953) and Naomi Valina Welfare Sides (1901-1999), shown at the address in the 1932 city directory, the first year it was listed. Luther was a mechanic with R.J. Reynolds, where he worked for 32 years. He later was a foreman in the Prince Albert department. By 1943, Naomi was listed at the address alone. She later worked for National Carbon and City Memorial Hospital. She sold the house in 1988.

815 Arbordale Avenue, High Point

• Sold for $650,000 on November 26, 2024 (listed at $674,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,341 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1935
• Listed October 2, 2024
• Last sale: $464,000, January 2018
• Note: The property includes a three-car carport.
  • The house had only two owners in its first 81 years. The original owners were Holland Broadis Leonard (1900-1970) and Mary Pauline Archer Leonard (1903-2002). Broadis owned the Leonard Drug Store.
  • In 1963 the Leonards sold the house to Jack Kenneth Greer (1924-1987) and Joye Lee Tilley Greer (1927-2016). Jack was a salesman for Davis Cabinet Company. He had served in the Army during World War II and was held as a prisoner of war.
  • The Greers’ children sold the house after Joye’s death in 2016.

324 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Oma Sills House

• Sold for $399,500 on November 20, 2024 (listed at $399,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,246 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $321
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 22, 2024
• Last sale: $90,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Small hipped·roof shingled bungalow with projecting hipped-roof porch over 2 bays; interior chimney, paired windows. Sills (wife Oma) was clerk, later assistant secretary at RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; they moved here from S. Main Street.”

303 Main Street West, Yanceyville, Caswell County (also here)
The S.T. Richmond House, aka the Sallie Martin House

• Sold for $285,000 on November 8, 2024 (originally $399,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1,164 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1840
• Listed November 3, 2023
• Last sale: $95,000, June 2019
• Neighborhood: Yanceyville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Oddly, the house doesn’t appear to be mentioned in the historic district’s nomination.
  • The listing says the house has “woodwork out of the Thomas Day shop,” a detail not documented in other online sources.
  • From An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, Ruth Little-Stokes (1979): “Sallie Martin House. Early 19th century. 1.5-story Federal brick-and stucco house with four exterior end brick chimneys. Considerably altered, but retains eave moldings, 9/9 sash.”
  • Sallie D. Walker Martin (1882-1968) was married to William C. Martin (c. 1866-42) a farmer. She sold the house to her granddaughter Mary Elizabeth Boswell Bradner (1927-2014), in 1952.
  • A 2005 Yanceyville walking guide describes the house as covered in stucco and under restoration. The for-sale listing refers to a 2006-2015 restoration.
  • The guide identifies the house as the home of Dr. Stephen Trib Richmond (1824-1878), a physician and pharmacist. “Dr. Richmond was a Klansman, named by John G. Lea in his posthumously published confession of the murder of Senator John W. Stephens. Today it is popularly known as the Sallie Martin House, a later owner.”
  • From the district’s NR nomination: “The Ku Klux Klan chapter in Caswell County was one of the most active in North Carolina, and the hatred and bitterness of the Reconstruction Period throughout the state was embodied in the murder by members of the Klan of John W. Stephens, a resented politician, in the Caswell County Courthouse on May 20, 1870. Governor William W. Holden immediately imposed martial law on the entire county.” Holden, who had opposed the war and fought the Klan afterward, was soon impeached and removed from office.
  • The Klan’s murder of Sen. Stephens is a particularly infamous incident in the county’s history. Lea’s detailed confession accuses Stephens of multiple cases of arson and of killing his own mother. “Stevens was tried by the Ku Klux Klan and sentenced to death. He had a fair trial before a jury of twelve men,” Lea’s confession said. He identified Richmond as one of a gang of men who attacked Stephens in a room in the county courthouse. They put a rope around his neck before a man named Tom Oliver stabbed him to death.
  • “The knife was thrown at his feet and the rope left around his neck. We all came out, closed the door and locked it on the outside and took the key and threw it into County Line Creek.”

302 Spring Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $207,500 on November 6, 2024 (originally $290,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,848 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1906
• Listed June 17, 2024
• Last sale: $143,500, August 2016
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Across the street from Blackmon Amphitheatre.
  • The property includes a detached garage.
• District NR nomination: Not mentioned

112 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem
The Edward and Edith Turner House

• Sold for $250,000 on November 4, 2024 (originally $289,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,592 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1919
• Listed June 26, 2024
• Last sale: $98,000, August 2006
• Neighborhood: “hip, Historic Sunnyside” Historic District
• Agent hype: “Instagram-ready”
• District NR nomination: “One-story side-gable Craftsman Bungalow with weatherboards; front-gable porch with scrolled lintel; stepped, solid balustrade; square columns on brick piers; five (vertical) over large single-light sash windows; knee braces.”
  • The address first appears in the 1921 city directory with Edward Evans Turner (1880-1953) and Edith Belle Snead Turner (1890-1965) as residents. Edward was a clerk and later a salesman at Rominger Furniture. They lived in the house until Edward’s death in 1953. They had four daughters. Two died in infancy; the others lived to be 90 and 92.

602 W. Parkway Avenue, High Point
The Philip and Sylvia Silver House

• Sold for $417,500 on November 1, 2024 (listed at $415,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,266 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1926
• Listed September 20, 2024
• Last sales: $365,000, November 2022; $314,000, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Tudor Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a two-story, front-gabled wing on the right (east) elevation. The house has a brick veneer on the first story and faux half-timbering on the second story and in the gables.
  • “It has twelve-light casement windows on the facade, six-over-six, wood-sash windows on the side elevations, and a six-light casement window in the front gable. The batten door has strap hinges and a stone surround; it is located in a projecting, front-gabled entrance bay with a feature window to its left (west) and a small window and faux half-timbering in the gable. Ten-light French doors on the left end of the facade access an uncovered brick terrace with wood pergola that extends across the left three bays of the facade. There is a front-gabled dormer on the left end of the facade.
  • The address appears in the city directory for the first time in 1928 with Philip Abraham Silver (1897-1959) and Sylvia Goldenberg Silver (1904-2001) as residents. Philip was president of N. H. Silver Company, a clothing store. Sylvia’s heirs sold the house in 2002.

412 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Robert H. Walker House II

• Sold for $402,000 on October 31, 2024 (listed at $410,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,729 square feet (per county), 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 26, 2024
• Last sales: $330,000, June 2021; $280,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• Note: The property includes a two-car detached garage with heated/cooled finished space upstairs.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, front-gabled, English Cottage-style house is three bays wide with a flared roofline and gabled dormers on the right(east) and left (west) elevations. The house has a stuccoed exterior, interior stuccoed brick chimney, and vinyl windows with wood lintels. An arched opening on the left end of the facade leads to a recessed six-light batten door. An inset, enclosed porch on the right elevation has arched openings. There is a shed-roofed wing at the rear of the left elevation that is covered with weatherboards.”
  • The address was listed in the city directory for the first time in 1927 with Robert H. Walker (1890-1958) and Blanche Pickett Walker (1893-1960) as residents. Robert was president of Pickett Mill and vice-president of High Point Yarn Mills. He also was vice president of the High Point Country Club. By 1935 they had moved.
  • The house was bought in 1962 by Charles Edward Diffendal Jr. (1981-2010) and Sarah Doggett Diffendal (d. 2007). They owned the house for 37 years. Charles was a stockbroker.

4647 Shattalon Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $220,000 on October 28, 2024 (listed at $199,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,696 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1932
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $220,000, October 2023
• Note: The listed price was lower than what the owners paid in 2023. The seller was an LLC in Charlotte.

1404 Waughtown Road, Winston-Salem
The Dread and Nonie Priddy House

• Sold for $215,000 on October 28, 2024 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,094 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1948
• Listed July 5, 2024
• Last sale: $140,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house includes an in-law suite/apartment with a bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen and separate entrance.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; side gable, wraparound porch; brick; stuccoed gable ends; knee braces; battered posts on brick piers; picture windows; exposed rafter tails. Comparison with 1951 Sanborn map indicates rear additions.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1949, with Dread Addison Priddy (1893-1968) and Nonie Fearrington Priddy (1901-1972) as the residents. Dread operated the Priddy Restaurant on North Chestnut Street for 30 years, retiring in 1958. He served in the Navy in World War I. Nonie’s estate sold the house in 1972.

5301 Yadkinville Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $210,000 on October 25, 2024 (listed at $219,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,404 square feet, 1.41 acres
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 25, 2024
• Last sale: $77,000, November 2012
• Note: Located between Pfafftown and Vienna. It has a Winston-Salem mailing address.

911 N. Rotary Drive, High Point
The Jack and Florence Wright House

• Sold for $347,000 on October 24, 2024 (listed at $339,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,126 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $163
• Built in 1937
• Listed October 4, 2024
• Last sales: $205,000, June 2018; $207,500, August 2008
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: The original owners were Walter Jacob “Jack” Wright (1900-1981) and Florence Grey Archer Wright (1897-1961). Jack was the owner of Wright’s Clothing Store. Jack’s heirs sold the house in 1982.

1100 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $376,000 on October 18, 2024 (listed at $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,002 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1917
• Listed September 7, 2024
• Last sale: $280,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: This is the sixth time the house has been sold in this century.
• District NR nomination: “This handsome bungalow is nearly identical to the house across the street, 1101 West End Blvd, (11540), It is a one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling with a weatherboarded first story, a wood shingled upper story, a broad gable roof with widely overhanging braced eaves with simple bargeboards, and a matching front dormer with four sets of casement windows.
  • “The engaged front porch with heavy brick posts and a plain balustrade shelters a Craftsman front door and three-part bungalow windows with fancier-than-usual diamond-patterned upper sash.
  • “Tax records and city directories suggest that the house has been used primarily as rental property, although it is now owner-occupied. Effie M. Vinson purchased the property in 1922, and the first city directory listing for this location was in 1924, when it was the residence of S.R. Harner. Although the Vinson family owned the property until 1975, they appear to have resided here for only a short while around 1940.”

200 S. Main Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County
The Haywood-Taft House

• Sold for $41,000 on October 17, 2024 (listed at $41,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,074 square feet, 0.75 acre
• Price/square foot: $20
• Built in 1910 (per county)
• Listed September 10, 2024
• Last sales: $22,500, March 2024; $30,000, March 2021; $5,000, January 1973
• 2021 listing: “The Haywood-Taft House requires a comprehensive rehabilitation including all new systems (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical), significant carpentry repairs, and updates to the kitchen and baths.”
• State Historic Preservation Office: “c. 1905 1-1/2-story side gable center passage double pile frame Queen Anne house w/ weatherboard siding”

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2118 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Stone-Wood House

• Sold for $490,000 on October 11, 2024 (originally $549,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,350 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built in 1929
• Listed May 8, 2024
• Last sale: $212,500, October 2002
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, two-bay, cross-gabled, painted-brick house displays a front-gable with and oculus and gable returns crowning an arched bay that fronts the southeast corner inset porch.
  • “A three-part window with a center replacement six-over-one sash flanked by replacement six-over-one sash pierces the larger front gable, also with gable returns. An arched window with six-over-one sash is located on its upper gable. A brick chimney rises from the west gable end.”
  • George H. Stone and Dora Stone (dates unknown for both) bought the property in 1928 and were listed at the address in the city directory that year. George was a salesman with Morrison-Neese Furniture Company. They sold the house in 1931.
  • After five sales in eight years, the house was bought in 1939 by Chester A. Wood (1885-1954) and Fleata Viola Garrison Wood (1903-1995). They owned the house for 37 years. Chester was a traveling salesman. Fleata sold the house in 1976.

834 Howard Place, High Point

• Sold for $296,500 on October 15, 2024 (originally $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,710 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 30, 2024
• Last sale: $193,000, September 2019
• Neighborhood: North Park
• Note: The address first appears in the city directory in 1928, with Gaston Ingram (1870-1928) and Idella May Israel Ingram (1873-1935) as residents. They were the proprietors of the North Park Grocery. Della continued to operate the store after Gaston’s death.

226 Vance Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $217,000 on October 10, 2024 (originally $230,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,225 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 3, 2024
• Last sale: $153,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Replacement windows
  • The property includes a wired 9×11 outbuilding.
  • District NRHP nomination: “One-and-one-half-story hip-roofed house with a large gabled dormer and a wraparound porch supported by square wood posts spanned by a metal railing; 9/1 sash, brick interior chimneys, rear gabled wing with shed addition, aluminum siding.
  • “This house appears on the 1923 Sanborn map and was occupied by Lewis Barrier, an employee of the Davidson Motor Company, in 1925-26.”

3740 Konnoak Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $170,000 on October 9, 2024 (originally $215,000)
  • Bought by an LLC in Winston-Salem
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,635 square feet, 0.79 acre
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1939
• Listed February 12, 2024
• Last sale: $96,000, May 2017
• Neighborhood: Konnoak
• Listing: “Price reflects buyer’s potential desire for renovation and updates.”
  • “Adjoining 0.19 acres can be purchased with home for $20,000 (Parcel ID 6833-26-6935 / 320 Skyview Drive).”

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115 N. Oakland Avenue, Eden, Rockingham County
The James and Janie Warren House

• Sold for $232,000 on October 4, 2024 (listed at $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,827 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1909
• Listed August 21, 2024
• Last sale: $136,900, December 3, 2020
• Neighborhood: Oakland Heights
• Note: The property includes a detached garage and a shed.
• A Tale of Three Cities: Eden’s Heritage, A Pictorial Survey of Leaksville, Spray & Draper: “Dentist J.E. Warren built this large one-and-one-half story frame house around 1915. On the north and east sides of the house, one-story gable-roofed wings project from a square central block with a very high hipped roof.
  • “All elevations are weatherboarded except for the front hip-roofed dormer, which is covered with imbricated shingles. Other decorative features include the multi-paned attic window in each gable and paired tuscan columns on brick piers at the wraparound porch.”
  • The property remained in the family of James Edward Warren (1875-1947) and Janie Glidewell Warren (1882-1953) until 2003. Dr. Warren practiced dentistry in Eden for 40 years. At his death at age 72, he was the oldest working dentist in Rockingham County, the Greensboro Daily News said. Ownership of the house passed to their daughter, Rebecca Warren Parker (1923-2006), who sold it in 2003.

609 Church Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County

• Sold for $450,000 on October 1, 2024 (originally $500,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,048 square feet (per county), 1.06 acres (three lots)
• Price/square foot: $220
• Built in 1935
• Listed August 28, 2024
• Last sales: $102,333, March 2021; $46,400, April 1988
• Note: The listing shows 2,737 square feet.
  • The property includes a shed with electricity and a greenhouse.

2517 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
The Edwin and Lois Blackwell House

• Sold for $365,000 on September 23, 2024 (originally $415,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,287 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1939
• Listed May 27, 2024
• Last sale: $215,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The original owners were Edwin Harrison Blackwell (1903-1981) and Lois Clary Blackwell (1904-1994), who bought the property in 1938. Their son sold the house after Lois’s death in 1996. Edwin was a machinist with Southern Railway.

• Sold for $239,000 on September 23, 2024 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,886 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 4, 2024
• Last sales: $225,000, May 2024; $89,000, November 1999
• Neighborhood: Lamrocton
• Note: One of at least four log cabins in the 2500 block of Pinecroft Road. All date from 1928 to 1930.

327 Gwyn Avenue, Elkin, Surry County
The Edward Lawrence House

• Sold for $328,000 on September 13, 2024 (originally $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,863 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1932
• Listed April 24, 2024
• Last sale: $127,500, January 2019
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
• District NR nomination: “Edward Lawrence operated what is purported to be the oldest dry cleaning business in Elkin, located on West Main Street. The Lawrence family was the earliest associated with the one-and-a-half-story brick bungalow.
  • “The house has a broad side-gable roof with braced eaves, a chimney and a shallow bay window on the north side, basketweave brick courses at water table height and above the first story, and six-over-one sash windows. The north two bays of the three-bay facade are sheltered by an off-center porch with brick corner posts set on brick plinths and an openwork brick balustrade.”

329 E. Devonshire Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $244,000 on September 12, 2024 (originally $324,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,794 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 3, 2023
• Last sale: July 9, 2009, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-and-a-half-story side-gable Craftsman house with large, gable-roof, wall dormer; vinyl siding; false beams; six-over-one, double-hung sash and multi-light hexagonal/diamond light sash over single light sash; battered columns on brick piers.”

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488 Pine Ridge Road, Davie County
The J.C. and Eula Ijames House

• Sold for $175,000 on September 9, 2024 (listed at $190,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,725 square feet, 0.91 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 14, 2024
• Last sale: $90,000, December 2020
• Neighborhood: The property has a Mocksville mailing address but is south of Cooleemee, about 8 miles south of Mocksville.
• Listing: “This home is for a buyer who does not mind fixing a few things to make it their own”
  • For what it’s worth, the roof looks bad in the listing’s photos, but it looks fine in a 2023 Google StreetView photo (above).
  • The property includes a two-sided fireplace in the backyard.
  • James Cleveland Ijames (1885-1973) and Eula Lois Blalock Ijames (1887-1944) bought the house from the Hanes Chair and Table Company in 1933 (the deed was dated November 1933 but wasn’t registered until October 1936). James was a textile worker. Ownership passed to their daughter and son-in-law, Thelma Arelia Ijames (1906-1995) and Romie Gregory (1902-1983), and the house has been owned by their family ever since.

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1905 Walker Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $325,000 on Auguster 31, 2024 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,410 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1928
• Listed August 7, 2024
• Last sales: $200,000, October 2018; $175,000, July 2013
• Neighborhood: Brice Street
• Note: The listing says the house is “in the sought-after Sunset Hills and College Park area.” The key word is “area.” What that means is that it’s near but not actually in either of those more attractive (and expensive) neighborhoods. The neighborhood is called Brice Street, and it has largely been taken over by apartment houses and landlords renting to students at nearby UNCG. In the 1900 block of Walker Avenue, there are 10 houses. At least six are rentals (though 1905 doesn’t appear to be). It’s a nice house, and this is not to say there are absolutely no other well-maintained, owner-occupied houses in the Brice Street neighborhood. But it’s not in Sunset Hills or College Park. If it were, the listing probably wouldn’t call it “perfect” for investors.
  • The original owners were John William Caffey Sr. (1903-1970) and Hattie Patton “Pattie” Brawley Caffey (1906-1998), who bought it in 1927. John and his brother Ireland Caffey operated Mi-Valet, a cleaning, pressing and repair shop with two locations. John and Pattie lost the house to foreclosure in 1929. John later practiced law and was the developer of the British Woods neighborhood in Greensboro. He served in the General Assembly from 1936 to 1940. He proposed converting the state House and Senate into a single body and recommended a constitutional amendment to allow North Carolina governors to succeed themselves, an idea that was adopted more than 40 years later. He also served as state president of the Elks Club and the first president of the N.C. Exchange Club.
  • In 1954, the house was bought by Arthur James Foster (1918-1986) and Thelma Lacy Houpe Foster (1917-2010). They owned the house for 45 years. Arthur was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II and worked as a supervisor at Burlington Mills and later personnel manager. Thelma was a graduate of Longwood College and taught school before joining the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. She attained the rank of captain and served as quartermaster property officer at Tyndall Field in Florida. She later taught at Aycock and Mendenhall middle schools and received a master’s degree from UNCG.

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603 W. Parkway Avenue, High Point
The John Norris House

• Sold for $430,000 on August 29, 2024 (listed at $449,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,605 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably several years later; see note)
• Listed June 6, 2024
• Last sale: $108,500, May 2000
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1933.
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and double-pile with a wide, front-gabled dormer on the facade. The house has weatherboards with wood shingles in the gables and in the front dormer.
  • “It has replacement windows, including on projecting, three-sided bays flanking the centered entrance. The eight-light-over-two-panel door has a four-light-over-two-panel sidelight and is sheltered by a full-width, engaged, shed-roofed porch on tapered wood posts on stuccoed piers.
  • “A flat-roofed porte-cochere extends from the left (east) end of the porch; it is supported by tapered wood posts on stuccoed piers and has exposed rafter tails. There is a projecting, side-gabled bay on the right (west) elevation, a shed-roofed bay on the left elevation, and side-gabled wing at the left rear (southeast).
  • “The house has deep eaves, exposed rafter tails, and knee brackets in the gables.
  • “The earliest known occupant is John I. Norris (furniture worker) in 1933.”

• Sold for $241,000 on August 27, 2024 (originally $249,900, later $239,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,514 square feet, 1.87 acres
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 29, 2024
• Last sale: $140,000, April 2021

2415 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Connelly-Avery House

• Sold for $439,500 on August 26, 2024 (originally $479,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,209 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1937 (per county, but probably a year earlier; see note)
• Listed June 28, 2024
• Last sale: $290,000, June 2016
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house is the single block of Wright Avenue that’s disconnected from the rest of the street in Sunset Hills. It’s off Northridge Street between Walker avenue and Camden Road.
  • The original owners were Earl Connelly (1904-1988) and Alma McDonald Connelly (1904-1985). They were shown at the address in the 1936 city directory, the first year the address was listed. Earl operated a servicer station. They sold the house in 1944.
  • In 1957, the house was bought by Thomas Settle Avery (1909-1995) and Mildred Dillard Martin Avery (1908-1991). Their family owned it for 35 years. Thomas was a collection agent for the Internal Revenue Service. The house was sold by their heirs in 1992.

811 F Street, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County

• Sold for $100,000 on August 26, 2024 (originally $175,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,570 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $39
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 6, 2024
• Last sale: $178,000, December 2008
• Note: Needs work, but it may livable (“a blank canvas for your design dreams”).
  • The selling price was far less than the owner paid more than 15 years ago.

114 Circle Court, Elkin, Surry County
The Walter and Sophia Turner House

• Sold for $459,000 on August 23, 2024 (listed at $469,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,317 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $198
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 7, 2024
• Last sale: $157,000, February 2003
• Neighborhood: Downtown Elkin Historic District (NR)
• Note: Circle Court is a one-block street running between Main Street and Market Street. It’s closed at Market Street, making it basically a cul-de-sac. There are four houses and a wooded, undeveloped lot on the block, with 114 in the middle of the east side.
• District NR nomination: “This is a fine one-and-a-half-story frame bungalow with a broad gable roof that encompasses the three-quarter-length front porch. The roof has widely overhanging braced eaves which are matched by those of the front gabled wall dormer. On either side of the house are slightly projecting bays.
  • “The front porch is supported by two heavy brick tapered piers and a central wood post set on a brick plinth. The arrangement of the multi-paned front door and of the windows is exceptional.
  • “Dr. W.D. Turner was the owner of the drug store at the northeast corner of W. Main and Church streets that opened in 1924.”
  • Walter (1877-1937) was called “the dean of Elkin druggists” upon his death at age 59. He graduated from the Richmond Medical School of Pharmacy, class of 1901.

618 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Crichton-Atkinson House

• Sold for $352,000 on August 23, 2024 (listed at $365,000)
  • The sale closed 14 days after the house was listed for sale.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,650 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1925
• Listed August 9, 2024
• Last sale: $320,000, June 2, 2023
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Across the street from Hanes Park
• District NR nomination: “The Crichton-Atkinson House is an unusual bungalow with simple Classical detailing. It is a one-story stuccoed house with a hip roof, six-over-one sash windows, and a symmetrical facade whose central bay is emphasized by a pedimented entrance porch with slender Tuscan columns and a vaulted ceiling.
  • “James H. and Hargaret Crichton, both employees of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., were the first to be listed at this location in the city directories (1925). In 1926 Mrs. Ada Atkinson, widow of J.B. Atkinson, purchased the property, but she was not listed here until the 1930 directory. The Atkinson family owned the house until 1972.”
  • City directories in the 1920s listed the house as 585 West End Boulevard. The district’s National Register nomination (1986) has it as 731. The State Historic Preservation Office lists it as 618.

8144 N.C. Highway 87, Wentworth, Rockingham County

• Sold for $230,000 on August 23, 2024 (listed at $230,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,376 square feet, 1.09 acres
• Price/square foot: $167
• Built in 1932
• Listed June 16, 2024
• Last sale: $180,000, May 2022
• Note: The house is about halfway between Wentworth and Reidsville. It has a Wentworth mailing address.
  • The property includes a detached two-car garage with a separate workroom.
  • The house was already under contract when it was listed.

227 W. Spring Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Ted and Avis Brown House

• Sold for $460,000 on August 22, 2024 (originally $449,900, later $465,500)
  • Bought by a Georgia LLC
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2,447 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1939
• Listed September 26, 2022
• Last sale: $119,000, May 2007
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Until Avis Brown’s death in 2005, she and Ted were the sole occupants of the house since its construction. To mark the date of construction, they placed a stone date block on the side of the central chimney that says, ‘Avis & Ted Oct 1939.’
  • “Ted Brown was a volunteer fireman in 1936 who later became Elkin’s long-time fire chief. He also owned Brown Machine Company across the river in Jonesville. In 1930, Ted and his brother, Jake Brown, constructed Elkin’s first airplane, a one-passenger Heath-Parasol. In this, they followed in the footsteps of their father, who nearly thirty years earlier had built Elkin’s first automobile.
  • “The one-and-a-half-story Period Cottage is sheathed with irregularly-laid cut stone. The unusual masonry includes flat arches with keystones over the casement windows and a round arch framing the small fanlight above the front door.
  • “The asymmetrical house has a gabled roof with flared eaves, including over the central door. A wing projects forward at the west end of the three-bay facade, a short ell projects from the rear, and a set-back porch extends from the east side. A ground-level terrace fronts the east two-thirds of the house.”

346 Crafton Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $220,000 on August 20, 2024 (originally $232,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 858 square feet, 0.08 acre
• Price/square foot: $256
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 1, 2024
• Last sales: $105,900, February 2020; $69,900, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman. One and a half-story; unusually steep pitched front gable; shed-roof side dormers; German siding; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; pilasters at entry. 1930 CD: Samuel and Mildred Hege, plasterer.”

1506 Courtland Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $169,900 on August 19, 2024 (listed at $164,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,295 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1952
• Listed June 27, 2024
• Last sales: $150,000, January 2023; $60,000, August 2022; $30,491, June 2022; $56,800, June 2021; $57,000, 2018
• Note: This would be the fourth year in a row for a sale of the house.

1021 Washington Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $157,000 on August 15, 2024 (originally $185,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,334 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1936
• Listed May 13, 2024
• Last sale: $67,000, November 2021
• Note: Owned by an LLC

328 Vintage Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Burgess House

• Sold for $355,000 on August 13, 2024 (listed at $365,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,290 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $275
• Built in 1922
• Listed July 11, 2024
• Last sales: $347,000, June 2024; $310,000, October 2022; $276,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• Listing: “Recent buyer’s circumstances changed.” Recent is right — the house went back on the market 17 days after closing.
• District NRHP nomination: “Side-gabled jerkin-head house with projecting front-gabled porch supported by paired square posts on brick piers; three bays wide with central entrance and paired windows with 8/1 vertical-paned sash.
  • “Shingled; false knee braces and exposed rafter ends.
  • “Mrs. O.O. Burgess lived here in 1922; (her son?) Troy L. Burgess (wife Eva) moved here by 1923 from Alex Apartments; he was a clerk with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”

934 W. Walnut Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $390,000 on August 12, 2024 (listed at $350,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,846 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1927
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $147,000, June 2016
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; brick; hip-roof dormer; engaged porch; battered posts on brick piers; brick balustrade; one-over-one replacement windows.”

• Sold for $279,000 on August 9, 2024 (originally $330,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,380 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1917
• Listed February 1, 2024
• Last sale: $200,000, October 2021
• Note: The house has a first-floor in-law suite.
  • The property includes an outbuilding that can be made into an apartment, the listing says.
  • The property is next door to the Benton Hall Community Arts Center, a former elementary school that has been turned into the home of the Wilkes Playmakers. It’s said to be haunted (“This location is wildly active at all hours of the day.”).
  • The state Historic Preservation Office calls this the Claude Gentry House, apparently for Claude Byron Gentry (1886-1967) and Hattie Hawkins Gentry (1894-1969). Claude was an electrician who worked for Horton Telephone Company and Duncan Electric Company.

387 Austin Traphill Road, Pleasant Hill, Wilkes County

• Sold for $157,500 on August 9, 2024 (originally $189,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,475 square feet, 0.78 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1940
• Listed June 26, 2024
• Last sale: $85,000, February 2007
• Neighborhood: Just across the county line from Elkin. It has an Elkin mailing address.
• Note: The owner got sold on vinyl siding and replacement windows, but otherwise the house retains some historic character.

2503 Walker Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $369,000 on August 7, 2024 (originally $389,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,395 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $265
• Built in 1935
• Listed May 31, 2024
• Last sale: $166,900, September 2006
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.

305 S. Fayetteville Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Jim Deaton House

• Sold for $327,000 on July 30, 2024 (listed at $339,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,257 square feet, 0.9 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 5, 2024
• Last sale: $200,000, June 2015
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The Jim Deaton house is the best example of the Bungalow-Craftsman style present in the district. It is a one-and-one-half story, frame, lateral gable dwelling with an extended hipped roof porch that across the entire facade.
  • “It features battered, paneled wood porch supports mounted on raised, masonry piers and a porte-cochere at its south comer.
  • “The double-hung wood sash windows have asymmetrically divided lights (eight-over-one) and are grouped and paired. There is also a large, gable-front dormer.”
    • James Floyd Deaton Sr. (1869-1969) was a lumber dealer.

1203 W. Northwood Street, Greensboro
The Parrish-Simmons House

• Sold for $425,000 on July 26, 2024 (listed at $420,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,040 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built circa 1929
• Listed June 15, 2024
• Last sale: $272,500, July 2019
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: On the exterior, a picture-perfect cottage; on the interior, every trace of historic materials, design and character have been eliminated except the hardwood floors.
  • County records give 1938 as the date, but the address first appears in the city directory in 1929.
  • The original owners were Nelius Joseph Parrish (1970-1938) and Mary Liza Parks Parrish (1873-1958). Joseph was a carpenter. They sold the house in 1937.
  • In 1957, the house was bought by Meryle Clutter Simmons (1914-2007). She owned it until her death 49 years later. She operated the Hollywood Beauty Shop and later worked at Wesley Long Hospital. When she died at age 92, she was the last surviving charter member of West End Christian Church.

401 E Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
The John and Lola Pugh House

• Sold for $300,000 on July 23, 2024 (originally $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,054 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $285
• Built in 1930
• Listed May 27, 2024
• Last sales: $265,000, August 2021; $90,000, January 2002
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The house is in the National Register Historic District but just outside the local historic district.
  • The house was probably built by 1928, when the address first appeared in the city directory. The property was sold eight times between 1926 and 1932, making it difficult to identify which owner built the house.
  • It was a rental house until 1935, when John Clifford Pugh (1895-1974) and Lola Ethyl Shields Pugh (1902-1971) moved in. He had bought the house in 1932 and owned it until his death. His daughter, Nancy Pugh Felton, sold the house in 1977. Cliff Pugh was a department manager at Ellis-Stone Department Store.

300 Woodbine Court, Greensboro
The Bates-Goodwin House

• Sold for $635,000 on July 17, 2024 (originally $685,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,258 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $281
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 8, 2023
• Last sale: $382,500, March 2016
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District
• Note: The property includes a new two-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, three-bay, cross-gabled, Craftsman house is brick on the first level and wood-shingled on the second and displays triangular knee braces.
  • “The flat-roofed porch is supported by square posts and graced with a Chippendale balustrade and curved brackets along the soffits. It shelters a multi-light door and extends across half of the façade. An arched-head louvered wood vent pierces a one-story, front-facing gable on the façade, while the principal front gable displays a six-over-six window topped with a fanlight and an upper gable pierce with half-circle vents on each side of a knee brace.
  • “Windows are nine-over-one and framed by soldier-course lintels and header-course sills. A brick chimney rises from the south elevation, forward of the roof ridge, while an interior brick chimney rises from the interior of the north side of the rear ell.
  • “A side-gabled brick projection with knee braces and an arched-head gable vent occupies the rear (east) side of the south elevation.
  • “Jean and Harry Bates bought the property in July 1926 and first appear at this address in the 1928 city directory. His occupation is listed as representative. In April 1928, Jean Bates sold the house to Nellie and Frank Goodwin. Goodwin heirs owned the house until 1988.”

721 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $283,000 on July 15, 2024 (originally $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,630 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 2, 2024
• Last sale: $75,000, September 1971
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property has a detached storage building.
  • The house needs some updating, paint, etc., as you would expect from a house that the owner has lived in for more than 50 years.
  • Listing: “bathtub piping leaks, DO NOT turn on.”
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable projection; shed-roof dormer; six-over-six, double-hung sash; front-gable roof over entry; aluminum siding.”

806 W. Bank Street, Winston -Salem

• Sold for $175,000 on July 14, 2024 (listed at $190,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,008 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1915
• Listed June 11, 2024
• Last sale: $72,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The most numerous house type in the West Salem Historic District until after 1915 is the one-story, side-gable, single-pile cottage with about forty examples. … These workers’ houses tended have modest ornament including turned porch posts and balustrade, sawn brackets, and decorative wood shingles. Slightly more robust is the house at 806 Bank Street, which has a tri-gable roofline and decorative wood shingles in the gable ends. …
  • “Tri-gable Cottage. One story; side gable; single pile; tri-gable; asbestos shingle siding; wood shingled gable ends; six-over-six, double-hung sash; diamond attic vent; hip-roof porch; turned posts.”

829 Jay Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $345,000 on July 12, 2024 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,870 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1932
• Listed June 1, 2024
• Last sale: $115,000, February 2003
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a two-car garage, two-car carport and a detached office/art studio with heat and air conditioning.
• District NR nomination: “Charming, intact one-and-one-half story frame bungalow with triangular brackets at the eaves, two tall interior chimneys, shed-roof dormer, full facade engaged porch with paired square columns on brick plinths and decorative staggered balusters, and twelve-over-one sash windows. Built by Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Fields.”

234 Silver Lake Drive, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $275,000 on July 12, 2024 (originally $290,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,406 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 28, 2024
• Last sale: $120,000, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Country Club Estates
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with a 300 square-foot second floor.

104 S. West Street, Wilkesboro, Wilkes County
The Waverly and Pearl Morrison House

• Sold for $325,000 on July 11, 2024 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,649 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $197
• Built in 1940
• Listed June 6, 2024
• Last sale: $55,000, July 2023 (one of two properties sold, separate prices not broken out)
• Neighborhood: Downtown Wilkesboro Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house is at the corner of South West Street and West South Street.
  • The property includes a detached garage.
• District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story-with-basement brick-veneer house is a good example of the Period Cottage style. The steep front-gable roof swoops downward in a curve toward the north, ending with an engaged porch with segmental-arched openings. At the south end of the façade, a slightly projecting gabled entrance bay with a round-arched door echoes the main body of the house in the swoop of its roof.
  • “Windows are six-over-six sash, except for two small casement windows within the cross gable that flank the chimney on the south elevation. All are set under brick flat-arched lintels. An interior chimney rises from the southeast corner of the house.
  • “On the north side of the house is a steep and narrow shed-roofed dormer covered with asbestos shingles. At the rear of the house is a shed-roofed screened porch.”
  • The nomination misidentifies the original owner. The first owner was Waverly Gaither Morrison (1893-1946); the nomination says it was his brother Worth Edwin Morrison (1903-1936), who died before the house was built. A deed shows Waverly received the property from his parents, hardware store owner Columbus Franklin Morrison and Corrie Lee Morrison, in 1931. Waverly and his wife, Pearl, were listed at the address in the 1939-1940 city directory. They sold the house in 1940 to Lottie E. Kennedy Johnson (1895-1949), widow of Mack C. Johnson.
  • The house was the office of the local chapter of the American Red Cross from 1991 to 2012.

429 Worth Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

• Sold for $209,900 on July 8, 2024 (listed at $209,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,330 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1935
• Listed June 6, 2024
• Last sale: $88,000, August 1999

713 West Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $430,000 on July 3, 2024 (listed at $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and 2 half-baths, 2,019 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 7, 2024
• Last sales: $386,000, May 2021; $182,000, November 2007
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable … eight-over-one, Craftsman-style windows; front-gable dormer; shed-roof porch; square posts on brick piers; knee braces. 1925 [City Directory]: Oliver and Rose Peddycord, a foreman at L.B. Brickenstein; 1934 CD: Thomas and Sudie Vuncannon, a clerk at David Hire; 1945 CD: Harry and Blye Collins, occupant, a baker at Kent Bakeries; 1955 CD: Francis and Beatrice Jarrard, owner-occupant, Jarrard’s Self Service Laundry.”
  • The listing shows the house having wood siding. It apparently had vinyl siding at some point.

312 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro
Blog post — 312 S. Chapman Street: Here’s Your Chance (Again!) (August 2, 2020)

• Sold for $802,000 on July 2, 2024 (listed at $759,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,318 square feet
• Price/square foot: $346
• Built in 1939
• Listed June 8, 2024
• Last sales: $500,000, September 2020; $452,500, April 2018
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: It’s a very nice house in a great neighborhood, but county records show the property having an unusually busy history:
  • It has been sold six times in the past 19 years. In the past 38 years, the house has been sold 11 times. In the previous 44 years, it had just two owners.
  • County records show 1939 as the home’s date, but city directories don’t show the address until 1942, when it was listed as vacant. In 1943 it was occupied by Joseph Harrison Johnson (1904-1990) and Hattie R. Johnson (1908-2008), who had bought the house that year. Joseph was a partner in Johnson, Cornatzer & Aulbert, a men’s clothing store that he operated for 44 years. He had previously taught drama, English and history at Greensboro High School. He served as program director for the Greensboro Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1958 and as director of the Greensboro Coliseum dedication ceremony in 1959.
  • Hattie graduated from the Women’s College. She worked as employment manager for Vick Chemical Company and was head librarian at Aycock and Mendenhall junior high schools for 13 years. She later worked as a medical librarian for Moses Cone Hospital.
  • The Johnsons owned the house for 12 years, selling it to Walter (or Walker) P. Mueller and Dorothy S. Mueller in 1955 (dates unknown for both). He was manager of Sonotone of Greensboro, which sold hearing aids. The Muellers owned it until 1986.