Piedmont Historic Homes

162piedmont

162 Piedmont Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Henry and Kate Pulliam House

• Sold for $470,000 on August 31, 2026 (listed at $485,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,030 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $232
• Built in 1921
• Listed June 12, 2026
• Last sale: $131,000, December 2000
• Neighborhood: West End South, West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house was once covered with aluminum siding and formstone, but all that has been replaced with siding.
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story frame bungalow bears many typical features of its house type. Among these are a broad gable roof with widely overhanging braced eaves, a right front cross gable and a small gabled dormer — both treated like the main roof, four-over-one sash bungalow style windows, and an engaged porch — which extends beyond the east end of the house — with tapered wood posts on formstone-covered [now removed] plinths and a plain balustrade. …
  • Henry B. Pulliam (1864-1934) and Kate Grogan Pulliam (1874-1972) bought the property in 1915 but weren’t listed at the address until 1922. Henry had a varied career, initially operating a grocery store, Walker and Pulliam, before joining the Ogburn-Hill Tobacco Company and later Wachovia. At the end of his career he was secretary of the Orinoco Supply, a lumber company.
  • After Henry’s death, Kate continued to live in the house until selling it by 1959.

110wdevonshire

110 W. Devonshire Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $325,500 on August 19, 2026 (listed at $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,072 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $304
• Built in 1921 (per county, but probably later; see note)
• Listed July 16, 2026
• Last sale: $215,000, November 2019
• Note: The original owners were Alfonse Fabian Caron (1899-1992) and Nannie E. Lambe Caron (1905-1996). Alfonse was born in Canada. He was a furniture worker. They bought the property in 1928; the address first appeared in the city directory in 1929. Alfonse and Nannie rented it out until losing it in a foreclosure in 1931.
  • In 1937, the lender sold the house to Finley Rewwork Harrold (1894-1966) and Ruth Gilliam Harrold (1905-1989). They owned the house for 59 years. Finley worked for R.J. Reynolds. Ruth had been a school teacher before marrying.

738smain

738 S. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $470,000 on August 3, 2026 (listed at $470,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,000 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 30, 2026
• Last sales: $392,000, April 2024; $111,000, June 2003
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)
• Note: The last time the house was sold, the seller added a bit of local color to the listing.
• District NR nomination (1985): “A remarkably large number of unaltered, classic Bungalow style houses survive throughout the district. They are typically frame or brick residences, one-and-one-half stories with broad gable roofs and gracious, engaged front porches. … [A] notable large brick bungalow is the c. 1928 Benbow House at 738 South Main Street which exhibits Tudor Revival influences in its stuccoed gable ends with applied wooden trim imitative of half-timbering. …
  • “Spacious, handsomely detailed one-and-one half story brick bungalow … The large attached front porch, with wide, gabled entry bay, extends across the main elevation to the north to encompass a porte-cochere; heavy, battered brick piers support the porch.
  • “Both the porch gable and an offset gabled dormer feature rough stucco and applied wooden trim imitative of half-timbering and are lighted by Palladian windows. The main entrance is composed of leaded glass sidelights and multi-paned door.”
  • Early Quincy Benbow (1895-1962) and Hallie Stanton Benbow (1900-1981) were the original owners. They bought the house in 1931 and lived in it until 1951.
  • Early was born in Guilford County; he was a veteran of World War I. He came to Mount Airy in 1926. He and his partners opened the Grand Theatre in 1928 and the Earle in 1935.

110cypress

110 Cypress Street
The Hester House

• Sold for $360,000 on July 31, 2026 (listed at $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,526 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1919
• Listed July 1, 2026
• Last sale: $227,500, November 2017
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: The seller was ready to get this house sold and be done with it. After one day, he accepted an offer $25,000 below his asking price.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, residence, c1920”
  • Laura Jane Bobbitt Hester (1856-1941) bought the property in 1919 and apparently had the house built shortly after. It remained in her family for 68 years. Laura was a widow. She moved to Greensboro from her native Granville County around 1919.
  • Laura passed ownership to daughter Hallie Maud Hester (d. 1985) in 1940. Like Laura, Hallie lived in the house for the rest of her life. Hallie was a clerk in the Guilford County Welfare Office. A nice and nephew sold the house in 1987.

509park

509 Park Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $449,000 on July 30, 2026 (originally $475,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,339 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $335
• Built circa 1917
• Listed December 11, 2025
• Last sales: $122,500, August 2024; $30,500, April 2013
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: The 2024 listing showed 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
  • When it was sold in 2024, the house had been condemned (20-page documentation). It had no heating or air conditioning systems. Click here for photos.
  • The renovation is unusually well done, and the amount of work that was required was huge. But the price per square foot is wildly beyond anything seen in the neighborhood. It even would be high for an Irving Park mansion.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1915-20”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1917 with Edward Bruce Mastin (1890-1971) and Gertrude Lillian Smith Mastin (1885-1961) listed as residents. The Mastins bought the property in 1917; it was sold by their son in 1976. Edward was a telegraph operator for Southern Railway. Edward and Gertrude had two sons; one died in infancy, the other lived to be 93.

1004albert

1004 Albert Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $349,000 on July 29, 2026 (originally $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,211 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $288
• Built in 1905
• Listed February 18, 2026
• Last sale: $175,000, September 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Heavily remodeled, but some historic character and materials remain, though not the windows, wood siding or most ceilings.
  • $330/square foot is far higher than the prices that houses have been selling for in West Salem (highest 2025 price among seven historic houses on the website: $266).
  • The house was a rental initially and changed ownership frequently. It was listed in the city directory from 1906 as 32 A Street, the original name of Albert Street. Different residents were listed until 1913, when George W. Krites (1859-1952) and Rhoda Hamilton Krites (1861-1920) were listed at the address. George was a carpenter with Fogle Brothers and later worked for R.J. Reynolds. He remained in the house as its address changed to 950 A Street and then 950 Albert Street (an address it retained for decades). In 1919 it was bought by his son Henry Harrison Krites (1888-1970) and Lillian M. Ellis Krites (1890-1968).
• District NR nomination: “Gable Ell Cottage … asbestos shingle siding; two-over-two, double-hung sash.”

411s3rd

411 S. 3rd Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $332,500 on July 21, 2026 (listed at $332,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,484 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1919
• Listed June 11, 2026
• Last sale: $145,000, March 2009
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This is a 1-story vernacular gable-and-wing house of wood, finished in vinyl siding, with an L-shaped façade and a hip-roofed porch in the angle of the ell, supported by replacement turned posts and trimmed with what appear to be replacement sawn brackets. An interior brick chimney is present and windows are flat-topped set singly and in pairs, with multi-light replacement sash and exterior fixed shutters. Rear shed-roofed additions are present.”

148wpoplar

148 W. Poplar Street, Mount Airy
The R.F. Sumner House

• Sold for $185,220 on July 21, 2026 (auction)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,924 square feet, 0.75 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1906
• Last sale: $150,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-story Queen Anne-influenced house of weatherboard-sided frame construction is a textbook example of the triple-A cottages built throughout the state around the turn of the twentieth century.
  • “The triple-A moniker refers to the roof, which has a decorative front gable at the center of the composite-shingled side-gable main roof. The three As or gables are sheathed with beveled wood shingles and have peaked openings: a louvered vent in the front gable and windows in the side ones.
  • “Paired brick chimneys with flaring corbelling rise from the middle of the roof ridge, indicating a center-passage plan within. The front porch has turned balusters and turned posts grouped in twos and threes.
  • “Other features include a granite foundation, a wood and glass front entry door, one-over-one wood sash (apparently) windows, and a landscaped yard with a granite fishpond and granite riprap on the bank at the sidewalk.
  • Rush F. Sumner (1876-1944) and Mary Jane Branscome Sumner (1880-1947) are the earliest known residents. They bought a number of properties in the mid-1920s; this is likely one of them (the online copies are illegible). Rush was a farmer. Their children sold the house in 1947 after Mary’s death.
  • Norwood Lewis Hodge (1914-2000) and Mary Lee “Polly” Hawks Hodge (1915-2002) bought the house in 1947 and lived in it until at least the mid-1960s. Norwood was the proprietor of Hodge Motor Company, which sold Packards, Studebakers and Mercedes. They sold the house in 1995.

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.