Piedmont Historic Homes

903ncameron

903 N. Cameron Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $132,000 on July 20, 2026 (originally $145,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,564 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 4, 2026
• Last sale: $47,500 November 2019
• Neighborhood: Reynoldstown Historic District (NR)
• Note: Built by R.J. Reynolds as worker housing.
  • The permastone siding wasn’t original. It was sold as an after-market “improvement” to wooden siding — no need to paint, lasts forever, etc. It was invented in the late 1920s; by the 1960s, aluminum siding had become a more popular alternative.
  • Permastone was made of Portland cement, crushed quartz, aggregates, and mineral colors. It was mixed on site, applied to the walls and then pressed with molds to make it look more or less like stone.
  • District NR nomination: “Side-gabled bungalow, shed dormer above entrance, 3 bays wide, engaged shed 1-bay corner porch wraps to south (house on corner), supported by square wood posts and knee braces, false knee braces also at gable ends, flared-base Craftsman door surround with dog ears, replacement plate-glass front windows, 6/6 windows on sides, aluminum siding on sides, permastone on front and south side, interior permastone chimney and interior brick chimney with cast-stone cap, composition shingle roof, metal awnings, stone retaining wall.
  • “House built by RJR; tenant in 1921 was Charles Thrift (white), tobacco worker. RJR sold Sept 1938 to Lawrence W. Penn and wife Douschka Penn.”

305ehendrix

305 E. Hendrix Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $459,900 on July 16, 2026 (originally $474,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,745 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $264
• Built in 1918
• Listed May 15, 2026
• Last sales: $425,000, March 2023; $335,000, February 2021; $240,000, June 2014; $210,000, September 2009
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a storage building with power.
• District NR nomination: The original owners were John August Kleemeier (1879-1957) and Helen L. Bouldin Kleeneier (1884-1920). John, a native of Cincinnati, was president of Wysong & Miles. He sold the house in 1937.
  • Wysong & Miles is a manufacturer of machine tools and woodworking machinery established in 1903 (still in business).
  • For 48 years, from 1955 to 2003, the house was owned by Guy Delafield (1920-2008) and Letitia Carter Delafield (1920-2008). Guy was the office manager for the Lassiter Corporation, which sold cellophane products. Carter was an associate professor of English at Guilford College. She received her master’s degree in English from UNCG in 1966. Her thesis was titled, “Flannery O’Connor: Prophet and Evangelist.”
  • Guy and Carter were born six months apart in 1920 and died eight days apart in February 2008.

705delmont

705 Delmont Street, High Point
The John Shore House

• Sold for $220,000 on July 15, 2026 (originally $252,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,276 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1926
• Listed January 5, 2026
• Last sales: $203,000, May 2021; $40,000, September 2020 (per deed)
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “This property qualifies for High Point’s regular down payment assistance and Core City assistance.”
• Note: The historic character of the house has been compromised by replacement windows and cheap vinyl flooring.
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-story, parapet-roofed, Spanish Mission-style house is three bays wide and triple-pile. The house has a brick veneer and twenty-light French door with twenty-light sidelights centered on the facade.
  • “The door is sheltered by a half-round, flat-roofed porch supported by columns and with a turned balustrade at the roof. The porch floor extends the full width of the facade as an uncovered terrace with brick knee wall.
  • “The house has paired, ten-light, French doors on either side of the entrance, each with a tiled pentroof. Windows on the side elevations are one-over-one windows.
  • “The house is listed as vacant in 1928; the earliest known occupant is John Shore (employee, Marine Oil Company) in 1930.”

514wparkway

514 West Parkway Avenue, High Point
The Franklin C. Welch House

• Sold for $325,000 on July 14, 2026 (listed at $350,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,356 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1934
• Listed April 2, 2026
• Last sale: $137,000, August 2003
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes its original one-car garage with a second-floor room.
• District NR nomination: “This one-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and double-pile with a gabled rear ell at the right rear (northeast).
  • “The house has a brick veneer, six-over-six, wood-sash windows, and an arched vent in the gable of a projecting, front-gabled bay on the left (west) end of the facade. The batten door has strap hinges and is inset in a front-gabled entrance bay with arched opening.
  • “An uncovered brick terrace extends across the right (east) two bays of the facade and wraps around the right elevation where it is sheltered by a side-gabled roof on tapered full-height brick piers.
  • “The house is listed as vacant in 1935; the earliest known occupant is Franklin C. Welch (bookkeeper, High Point Furniture Company) in 1937.”
  • Franklin Clinard Welch (1909-1964) and Evelyn Mardell Hutchins Welch (1914-2004) bought the house in 1935. Evelyn sold it in 1994.

410ewhittington

• Sold for $94,000 on July 14, 2026 (online auction)
  • The buyer is an LLC in Wake Forest.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,307 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $72
• Built in 1900
• Last sales: $195,000, March 2023; $39,000, June 2020
• Listed December 16, 2025
• Neighborhood: Arlington Park
• Note: Much of the historic character of the house has been stripped away and replaced with cheap plastic floors, replacement windows and siding.
  • The listing shows 1,444 square feet.
  • The original address, 446 E. Whittington, doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1912, when Shubel A. Strunks (1890-1944) was listed as the resident. He was a lineman.
  • In 1914, Ella May Davis Bittings (1872-1955) bought the house out of foreclosure. Her son-in-law Arthur Archie Brame (1892-1943) was listed at the address. He was an assistant steward at the Guilford Hotel.
  • Ella’s daughter (Arthur’s wife), Bessie Virginia Bitting Brame (1893-1981), bought the house from Ella in 1916 and owned it until 1933. Although she and Archie were married, only her name appeared on the deed.
  • By 1931, Bessie was listed as Arthur’s widow, although he apparently didn’t die until 1943. She had become a clerk with Dixie Fire Insurance Company. She sold the house in 1933.
  • What it looked like when it was sold in 2020:

810olive

810 Olive Street, Greensboro
The Blackmon-Hinton House

• Sold for $692,000 on July 10, 2026 (listed at $699,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,320 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $298
• Built in 1919 (per county, but probably a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed May 21, 2026
• Last sale: $339,500, June 2014
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, residence, 1915-1920”
  • George F. Blackmon (1861-1932) and Viola Eula Lindsay Blackmon (1863-1937) bought the property in 1916 and were listed at the address in 1917, the first year it appeared in the city directory. George had been a milliner but by 1917 was operating a grocery store. They sold the house in 1920.
  • George was the eldest of 13 children (Henrietta Lucinda, Mary, John Figuars, Oliver Columbus, Robert Judson, William Benjamin, Nannie, Tinie, Edward Centennial, Ida May, Lewis Levi, and Eulah). He was born when his mother was 17; his youngest sibling, when their mother was 42.
  • In 1929 the house was bought by Annie Stockard Hinton (1873-1966). She owned it for 34 years. Annie attended Graham Normal School, now known as Elon University. She taught music at the Thompson Academy in Siler City before marrying Walter Robert Hinton (1872-1941). Walter was a “well known traveling salesman,” according to his front-page obituary in the Greensboro Daily News.
  • Annie sold the house in 1963. At her death at age 93, she was the oldest member of the Congregational Church of Christ.

212gwyn

212 Gwyn Avenue, Elkin, Surry County

• Sold for $295,000 on July 7, 2026 (originally $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,810 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $163
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 20, 2026
• Last sales: $242,500, February 2022; $172,500, August 2018
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue – Bridge Street Historic District (NR)
• District NRHP nomination: “The one-story, frame, vernacular Queen Anne-style house has a stuccoed foundation, replacement aluminum siding, and a gabled roof with an intersecting gable on the front.
  • “All gable ends display pointed, wood-louvered vents. The four-bay-wide house features a left front projecting bay whose angled corners are decorated with sawnwork brackets.
  • “A fanciful hip-roofed front porch with turned posts and sawnwork brackets and balustrade carries across the remainder of the facade.”
  • “Charles W. Moseley (1865-1942), a physician, likely was the original owner of this house.” He was raised on a farm near Elkin and practiced medicine at Kapps Mill in Surry County and Jonesville before moving to Elkin. He later moved to Greensboro, where he became a widely recognized specialist in stomach ailments.

716washington

716 Washington Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Arthur and Anna Disher House

• Sold for $470,000 on July 6, 2026 (listed at $449,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $329
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 29, 2026
• Last sale: $174,000, March 2008
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; hip-roof porch; metal posts on brick piers; asbestos shingle siding; eight-over-one, windows; decoratively cut knee braces.”
  • The address first appears in the 1923 city directory with Arthur Eugene Disher (1889-1971) and Anna Joyce Bryant Disher (1896-1946) as residents. Arthur was a partner in a plumbing and heating firm, Crater, Disher & Ketner. Arthur sold the house in 1969.