Piedmont Historic Homes

307stremont

307 S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro
The Rozelle and Giles Morris House

• Sold for $310,000 on February 23, 2026 (listed at $349,900)
  • Sadly, sold to a “real estate investor” LLC
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,607 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $193
• Built in 1930 (per county, but probably a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed December 6, 2025
• Last sales: $259,000, October 2020; $208,000, February 2018
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records date the house to 1930, but the neighborhood’s NRHP nomination has it built by 1928.
• District NRHP nomination: “The one-story, four-bay, low-pitched-side-gabled stucco Spanish-influenced house features an off-center recessed front gable. The side-gabled roof encompasses a recessed entrance porch with arched openings.
  • “A later pergola shelters the patio with a solid balustrade and French doors on the front gable. Façade windows are one-over-one with weatherboard skirts below. They are topped with arched wood trim.
  • “A porte cochere with arched openings and supported by battered stucco posts is located on the north elevation. A stucco chimney also occupies the north gable end.”
  • From 1926 to 1928 the property was sold four times. In 1928, Giles Chapman Morris (1890-1958) and Rozelle Marion Martin Morris (1894-1980) bought it out of foreclosure. The address was listed in the city directory for the first time that year. Giles was department manager for the Morrison-Neese Furniture Company. They lost the house to foreclosure two years later.
  • In 1970 the house was bought by James D. Terrell Jr. (1923-2008) and Susan Marjorie Dunham Terrell (1925-2009). Marjorie sold the house in 2009. James was a letter carrier with the Post Office. Marjorie was a secretary with the Internal Revenue Service.

122 Rosedale Circle, Winston-Salem
The Harry and Geneva Bailey House

• Sold for $318,000 on February 17, 2026 (originally $405,000)
  • It’s very rare to see historic houses sold at a loss, and this one wasn’t even close: $82,000 or 20 percent.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,979 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1937
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sale: $400,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Oak Crest Historic District (NR)
• Note: Sold by an LLC in Marietta, Georgia. The house has been owned by a series of five LLCs since 2014.
• District NR nomination: “The Bailey House is a one-and-a-half-story, brick-veneered, Period Cottage-style dwelling. The house has many distinctive features, among which are the clipped-gable primary roof and the steep front gable encompassing the south two bays of the four-bay façade.
  • “The front gable has a round-arched window under the peak and its north roof slope swoops downward to the side of the chimney. The front chimney is decorated with rusticated-stone inserts and terra cotta chimney pots. The front entrance is immediately north of the chimney and is accentuated by a steep gable above it. Two rusticated stone blocks are at the base of the gable, and above the door is a round-arched fanlight. A band of header bricks outlines the door and its fanlight. Immediately adjacent to the entrance on the right is an engaged porch with heavy brick posts.
  • “Concrete steps with brick side walls access the entrance and a relatively narrow terrace that carries across the façade from the porch southward to the north end of the south bay. Windows are one-over-one sash; the small, horizontal window south of the chimney likely was filled originally with diamond muntins. The small weatherboarded front dormer with broad gable roof and side-sliding window may be an addition.
  • “At the rear of the house is a brick-veneered garage with a front-gable roof that was likely built at the same time as the house. “However, a tall picket prevented a full view of the garage, so that it could not be recorded and evaluated.”
  • Harry Freed “Bill” Bailey (1902-1961) and Geneva Marie Hauser Bailey (1907-2003) purchased the property in 1934. Geneva sold it in 1995. Harry worked in the construction department of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.

805 N. Church Street, Greensboro
The Rees-Harrison House

• Sold for $293,000 (originally $345,000); see note regarding date
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,454 square feet (per county), 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $201
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sales: $242,000, November 2020; $87,000, August 2016
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park (just outside local historic district), Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The sale was recorded in a very peculiar deed. It was filed February 6, 2026, but it’s dated almost eight months earlier, June 13, 2025. After the latter date, online sources show the house was still for sale by the original sellers, going under contract twice and then relisted before a third offer was accepted in January 2026, seven months after the house was supposedly sold. Three weeks later, the deed was finally filed. Bonus weird fact: The notary who signed the deed last June is in Pennsylvania.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1925-30”
  • The address first appears in the 1925 city directory, listed as vacant. In August 1925, the property was bought by William Henry Rees (1860-1936) and Alice Wolfe Rees (1860-1936), and they were shown living there in 1926. William was a salesman for H.W. Clendenin & Son, a real-estate firm. He had been assistant postmaster of Greensboro for 15 years.
  • Shortly before their deaths in 1936, they sold the house to their daughter Mary Reese Harrison (1896-1966) and son-in-law William Sandidge Harrison (1895-1965). William was manager of the Carolina Maytag Sales Corp. Mary and William lived in the house for the rest of their lives. It was sold by Mary’s estate in 1967.

829w6th

829 W. 6th Street, Winston-Salem

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

12 Vance Circle, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $342,500 on January 26, 2026 (originally $400,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,972 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built ca. 1929 (see note)
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sale: $121,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Upstairs not heated but has window cooling units.”
  • The property includes a detached garage.
  • County records give a 1940 date
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story weatherboarded bungalow with a side-gable roof and a large clipped-gable dormer; wraparound porch engaged on the front, partially-screened and supported by tapered posts on brick piers; 4/1 sash, projecting hip-roofed bay on east elevation, brick interior chimney, wood-shingled gables, triangular eave brackets, exposed rafter ends.
  • “This house appears on the 1929 Sanborn map and was occupied by Bonnie B. and Ethel E. D. Mullis in 1937. Mr. Mullis was an insurance agent.” Newspaper accounts indicate that Bonnie Bivens Mullis (1897-1969) and Ethel R. Mullis (1901-1981) and their children, who were frequent correspondents with the children’s section of The Charlotte Observer, were living at this address by 1935.