Piedmont Historic Homes

307victoria

307 Victoria Street, Greensboro
The Ginsberg-Hall House

• Sold for $500,000 on May 12, 2026 (listed at $495,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,558 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $321
• Built in 1917
• Listed April 11, 2026
• Last sales: $276,000, October 2005; $285,000, September 2002
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Gable-end bungalow with shaped triangular knee-braces; stuccoed first story, shingles above; engaged front porch with replacement posts”
  • The address first appeared in the city directory in 1921, and by 1924 it had had two owners.
  • In 1924 the house was bought by the third owners, Benjamin G. Ginsberg (1888-1969) and Ella Frankl Ginsberg (1893-1971). They owned it for 25 years. Ben was a manufacturer’s agent for Thomasville Furniture.
  • In 1949, the impressively long-lived couple Calvert Royal Hall (1899-1998) and Ruth Kohn Hall (1901-1999) bought the house and owned it for 44 years. Ruth had been a school teacher. Calvert was a salesman and later district manager for American Enka. He served on the boards of Goodwill Industries, the Mental Health Association in Greensboro, the UNC Greensboro Musical Arts Guild and the local chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society. They were into their 90’s when they sold the house in 1993.

4798 Cherry Street, Winston-Salem
The Styers-Severt House

• Sold for $338,000 on May 5, 2026 (originally $379,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,881 square feet, 1.13 acres
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 2, 2025
• Last sale: $100,000, May 2020
• Neighborhood: About a block north of where Germanton Road splits off Cherry Street.
• Note: In 1922, Jesse James Styers (1886-1935) and Dollie Ogburn Styers bought an 18-acre tract, including this property, from Jesse’s widowed aunt, Malinda Ann Hester Styers (1873-1946). Jesse was a sheriff’s deputy; he died in an auto accident at age 48. Dollie sold or donated the property to the N.C. Baptist Homes in 1963.
  • The Baptists soon sold the house to Earl Wiley Severt (1928-2011) and Inez P. Severt (1930-1987). Earl sold the house until 1989. They both were born in Ashe County. Earl worked in the data processing department of the city of Winston-Salem for 33 years.

549epine

549 E. Pine Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $318,000 on May 5, 2026 (listed at $339,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,522 square feet, 1.91 acres
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 13, 2026
• Last sale: $139,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: Just past the Ararat River
• Note: The house has a lot of unpainted woodwork, an increasingly rare feature.
  • The property includes a garage, hoop greenhouse, chicken coup and a barn with a pole shed.
  • Old deeds refer to the property as part of the J.A. Tesh homeplace. Joseph Alexander Tesh (1865-1944) was a prominent lumber dealer.

904wharton

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro
The Lorenzo and Albinia Winslow House

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

1721smain

1721 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem
The Edward and May Raper House

• Sold for $280,000 on May 5, 2026 (originally $329,000, later $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,683 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $166
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 6, 2025
• Last sale: $168,000, November 2016
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings position the house as a restoration project, but it looks very livable.
  • Previously a rental property, the house has two kitchens.
• District NR nomination: “Hipped-roof frame house with cross gables facing west (front) and south; front gable dormer. At first floor level of (root gable is three-sided bay; 2/2 windows. Central entrance with sidelights; porch removed. Triple grouping of 2/2 windows on north side elevation. House reroofed in 1940s.
  • By 1910, Edward Eugene Raper (1873-1934) and Emmy May Shore Raper (1881-1973) were listed at the residence. Edward was a salesman and clerk for the N.L. Cranford Company, a men’s clothing store, and later for the Gentry Clothing Company.
  • In 1910, Edward’s brothers Emery Elisha Raper (1863-1931) and Samuel Tilden Raper (1876-1936) lived next door.
  • Edward died at age 60. May lived to be 92. They had four sons; two died in their 50s and two in their 90s.

608west

608 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Wall-Shoemaker House

• Sold for $675,000 on May 4, 2026 (listed at $699,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,404 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $198
• Built in 1920 (per county, but possibly a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed February 27, 2026
• Last sale: $62,000, May 1982
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property overlooks Hanes Park.
• District NR nomination: “The Wall-Shoemaker House is a handsome one-and-a-half-story bungalow with a pebbledash first story, a wood shingled upper story, a steep gable roof with overhanging bracketed eaves, a front shed dormer, and grouped windows.
  • “The front porch with tapered posts on brick plinths shelters a typical Craftsman entrance and extends beyond the house on the south side to form a large sun room.
  • “Dr. Roscoe L. and Mary G. Wall are the first known owner-occupants. They owned the house from 1918 to 1929.”
  • Roscoe Legrand Wall Sr. (1889-1980) was the state’s first anesthesiologist. He received his M.D. from Wake Forest in 1912. The next year, he anticipated the college’s relocation by 43 years and moved to Winston-Salem. He started a general practice but in a few years gave it up to work in the new field of anesthesiology.
  • When the college’s Bowman Gray School of Medicine opened in Winston-Salem in 1941, he joined as a professor, establishing the school’s anesthesiology program for residents and nurses. He retired in 1957.
  • In 1939, the house was bought by Franklin Fife Shoemaker (1893-1969) and Antoinette Shelton Shoemaker (1894-1962). Franklin was manager of the Noland Company, a wholesaler of electrical, heating, mill and plumbing supplies. In 1945, the deed was put into Antoinette’s name, and she lived in the house by herself for the rest of her life. Her estate sold it along with several other properties she owned.

507columbia

507 Columbia Avenue, Ramseur, Randolph County

• Sold for $219,900 on May 4, 2026 (originally $229,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,440 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 5, 2025
• Last sales: $170,000, September 2022; $90,000 on August 5, 2020

406westdale

406 Westdale Place, Greensboro
The Clarence and Lou Frick House

• Sold for $405,000 on May 1, 2026 (listed at $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,918 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1939 (per county, but probably a year or two later; see note)
• Listed March 27, 2026
• Last sale: $245,000, November 2015
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: A granite Cape Cod.
  • Westdale Place is a one-block, dead-end street off Walker Avenue.
  • The original owners were Clarence Adam Frick (1909-1986) and Margaret Lucile “Lou” Atkins Frick (1911-2014). They bought the property in 1939, but the address didn’t appear in the city directory until 1941. They sold the house in 1945.
  • Clarence was a machinist with Southern Railway. He later became a foreman and a master mechanic.
  • Lou graduated from the Women’s College in 1932 and then studied dietetics at Duke University. She worked as a hospital dietician. Clarence died after 53 years of marriage. Nineteen years later, at age 94, Lou married again. She died at age 102; her second husband died three weeks later at age 100.

314pershing

314 Pershing Street, Asheboro, Randolph County
The Lambe (Lamb) House

• Sold for $214,900 on April 29, 2026 (listed at $219,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,080 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1929
• Listed February 6, 2026
• Last sale: $57,500, April 2023
• Note: The house is now a short-term rental.
  • The original owners may have been William Branson Lambe (1884-1958) and Etta Alma Ferree Lambe (1884-1966). They owned many properties in Asheboro in the 1920s. William was co-owner of the L&P Gulf Station and later operated W.B. Lambe & Son, general contractors, with son Norman Frank Lambe Sr. (1907-1984). Norman also worked as a carpenter and at the Eveready Battery plant.
  • In 1935 they sold it to their daughter-in-law Ethel Mae Yeargan Lambe (1903-1996). She was either divorced from Norman or soon would be. Ethel was a mill worker with Acme Hosiery. She lived in the house for the rest of her life, although in 1970 she passed ownership to her children Lena Inez Lambe Raines (1929-1998) and Norman Frank Lambe Jr. (1926-2023). A grandson of Norman is selling the house now.
  • Various sources (city directories, deeds, newspaper obituaries) spell the family name as both Lambe or Lamb.

911e

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

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

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

1602west

1602 West End Place, Greensboro
The Carroll-Keith House

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

6325us21

6325 U.S. Highway 21, Jonesville, Yadkin County
The Pardue-Hinton House

• Sold for $260,000 on April 27, 2026 (originally $262,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 1 bathroom (per county), 2,148 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1936
• Listed October 15, 2025
• Last sale: $242,000, February 2024
• Note: Online listings claim there are 2 bathrooms.
  • The house is a Cape Cod-style variation on a Cotswold Cottage. The stone exterior and arched entry porch are characteristic of Tudor Revival, of which Cotswold Cottage is a subset. The symmetrical roofline with dormers are typical of Cape Cod, a particularly popular post-war home style.
  • It was bought in 1938 by William Freel Pardue (1892-1986) and Mamie Sue Burchette Pardue (1895-1974). It remained in their family for 86 years. William worked for Chatham Manufacturing. Ownership passed to daughter Violet Pardue Mackie (1914-2004). Violet also worked for Chatham Manufacturing.
  • In 2002, Violet passed the house to her sister Betty Jean Pardue Hinson (1928-2019) and the remarkable Gilmer Watson Hinton (1927-2020). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. They were married for 67 years.
  • After serving in the Navy, Gilmer took an entry-level job with Lowe’s Home Improvement, where he worked for 40 years. He bought Lowe’s stock through the years, eventually owning 75,000 shares. Shortly before his death, he donated $10 million in Lowe’s stock to seven organizations, $1.4 million each, including the Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Foundation, Surry Community College, a Bible college, two churches and two local foundations.
  • Gilmer and Bettie had put the house into two trusts, which sold it in 2024.

806granville

806 Granville Drive, Winston-Salem
The William and Daisy Dorton House

• Sold for $352,000 on April 21, 2026 (listed at $335,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,468 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably later; see note)
• Listed March 13, 2026
• Last sale: $158,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Granville Park is across the street.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; front-gable projection; brick; side-gable, wraparound porch; battered posts on brick piers; brick balustrade; Craftsman-style, six-over-one, double-hung sash; multi-light sidelights.”
  • The house first appears in the city directory in 1930 as 758 Granville with William Gaither Dorton (1885-1961) and Daisy Boggs Dorton (1894-1987) as residents. William worked for Duke Power for 38 years, retiring as a line supervisor. They owned the house for the rest of their lives.

335 N. Bridge Street, Jonesville, Yadkin County

• Sold for $219,000 on April 21, 2026 (originally $244,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms. 2,143 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $199,900, October 2023; $70,500, April 2018
• Note: This house has the oddest half-bathroom.
  • The house was owned from 1952 to 1987 by Robert Lee Smitherman (1919-1974) and Helen Lucille Davis Feimster Smitherman (1923-2003). Robert was a World War II veteran who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He was an employee of Chatham Manufacturing Company in Elkin.
  • Helen sold the house in 1987 to her daughter Bobbie Feimster Reinhardt (dates unknown) and her husband, James Donald Reinhardt (1939-2008). They owned the house from 1987 to 2006.

788nmain

788 N. Main Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Will and Ethel Howard House

• Sold for $278,000 on April 20, 2026 (listed at $278,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,100 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1911
• Listed March 9, 2026
• Last sale: $168,000, March 2018
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The backyard contains four sheds and a carport.
• District NR nomination: “small, triple A Classical Revival style frame cottage with tin-shingled roofs [no longer present]; hipped porch with Tuscan columns across front and part of north end; rear gabled, hipped and shed wings; central corbelled cap chimney; two over two sash; vinyl siding; built for Will Miller Howard (1879-1953) and wife Ethel Nail Howard [1885-1976] on lot given by her mother, Ida G. Nail [1851-1946]; sold in 1919.”
  • Will was a livestock dealer and farmer.

1006nhamilton

1006 N. Hamilton Street, High Point
The Montgomery House

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

2250rosewood

2250 Rosewood Avenue, Winston-Salem
The William and Effie Saylor House

• Sold for $563,750 on April 13, 2026 (originally $587,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,043 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $276
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 6, 2026
• Last sale: $352,500
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; gable-roof dormers; vinyl siding; shingled gabled ends; one-over-one replacement windows; engaged porch; paneled posts on brick piers; front-gable porch entry with decoratively shaped architrave; exposed rafter tails. 1928 [city directory]: William and Effie Saylor, salesman.”

205kensington

205 Kensington Road, Greensboro
The Carter-Gilbert House

• Sold for $525,000 on April 8, 2026 (originally $627,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,196 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $239
• Built in 1930 (per city directory and NR nomination; see note)
• Listed January 17, 2026
• Last sales: $465,000, May 2022; $285,000, October 2016; $255,000, May 2009
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner
  • County records give a 1948 date.
  • Deeds refer to the neighborhood as the Shaw Estates subdivision.
  • Oddly, online listings mistakenly locate the house north of West Market Street between Market and West Friendly Avenue. It’s actually south of Market between Market and Walker Avenue.
• District NR nomination: “Like suburban neighborhoods that developed across the state during the first half of the twentieth century, the Sunset Hills Historic District includes an extensive collection of Period Cottages. Related to the Tudor Revival style in form and finish and built extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, the overwhelming majority of these small houses are brick, but many are of stone or exhibit significant stone detailing. Period Cottages are typically side-gabled dwellings with steep front-facing gables and chimneys on their facades or side gables. …
  • “The ca. 1930 Dorothy and James B. Carter House at 205 Kensington Road is a Period Cottage with Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival elements including a classical tracery fanlight and sidelights at the columned entry. …
  • “[The house] includes a front-gabled portico with a vaulted soffit that fronts an off-center, brick, front gable pierced with an arched-head window on its upper level.
  • “Modern slender columns and original curved triangular knee braces support the portico, which shelters a paneled wood door topped with a semi-elliptical fanlight and flanked by sidelights composed of paneled wood and lights with diamond-shaped muntins.
  • “A projecting, shed-roofed porch features arched openings and shelters paired windows. All windows are composed of an upper sash with diamond-shaped muntin pattern over a single sash. Soldier-course brick lintels and header-course sills frame the windows. A paved-shoulder brick chimney rises from the south elevation, forward of the roof ridge.
  • “The Carters bought parcel in February 1930 and built the house soon thereafter; they first appear at this address in the 1930 city directory.”
  • James Bain Carter (1899-1964) was manager of the Ballard and Ballard Company, a flour manufacturer. They owned the house until 1937, but by 1933 they had moved to North Wilkesboro, where James worked as secretary-treasurer of Oak Furniture Company until 1955.
  • After several changes of ownership, the house was bought in 1965 by Fay Feageans Gilbert (1913-2007). Although she was married, only her name appears on the deed. Fay was the owner of the Campus Cupboard, a clothing store on Tate Street near UNC Greensboro.
  • Fay’s husband, Thomas Ray Gilbert (1903-1993), was a Navy veteran and for 45 years an engineer with Southern Railway. He also served as secretary-treasurer and state representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers Local 728. The wonderfully long-lived couple were married for 60 years.
  • The house remained in their family for 44 years. Ownership passed to son Norman Ray Gilbert (1938-1997) in 1994 and then to daughter Mary Gilbert Eanes in 1997. Mary sold the house in 2009.

800 Brent Street, Winston-Salem
The Carl and Pauline Charles House

• Sold for $426,500 on April 2, 2026 (originally $454,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,097 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built circa 1938
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $380,806, July 2023; $90,000, April 1990
• Neighborhood: Ardmore historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show the date as 1942, but the city directory lists the address beginning in 1938.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable projection; brick; front-gable entry pavilion; six-over-six, double-hung sash; stuccoed gable ends; recessed entry with arched opening; arcaded, engaged side porch; facade chimney with decorative brickwork.”
  • The original residents were Carl Teague Charles (1898-1975), Pauline Hyatt Charles (1904-1998) and their son, Carlyle Hyatt Charles (1927-2022). Charles was a postal clerk. Carlyle grew up to become a colonel in the U.S. Army and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Tenants were listed along with the family until 1941. The Charleses lived in the house until 1955.

5608us421

5608 E. Old U.S. Highway 421, Yadkin County
The Hoots-McCollum House

• Sold for $356,000 on March 30, 2026 (listed at $360,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,645 square feet, 2.20 acres
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 4, 2026
• Last sale: $349,000, September 2023
• Neighborhood: About a quarter mile from Forbush Elementary School, 8 1/2 miles south of East Bend and 19 miles west of Winston-Salem. The property has an East Bend mailing address.
• Note: The home’s interior has an unusually high degree of historic integrity, including beadboard paneling on walls and ceilings.
  • The property was owned by members of the locally prominent Hoots family for 97 years. The original owner of the house was Zeno Hoots (1893-1967), who bought the property in 1915 from his parents, Henry Winfield Hoots (1861-1929) and Rachel Jennette Rose Etta Cranfill Hoots (1864-1962). Henry owned Hoots Mill in Yadkin County. The deed described the property as being on “the new road.”
  • Zeno sold the property in 1930 to his brother Guy Andrew Hoots (1891-1971) and wife Lillian Russell Hoots (1898-1987). The two brothers had moved to Winston-Salem in 1923 and started Hoots Brothers Inc., distributors of flour and feed. Around 1935, Zeno established Hoots Milling Company in Winston-Salem. Its roller mill is listed on the National Register. In 1951, Zeno made the first contribution to build the Lula Conrad Hoots Memorial Hospital in Yadkinville, named for his first wife.
  • In 1940, Guy and Lillian sold the house to Guy’s brother Ronald S. “Rant” Hoots (1900-1987). Rant sold it back to them in 1944.
  • In 1954, Guy and Lillian sold the house to their daughter Dorothy Ann Hoots McCollum (1932-2024) and son-in-law Coy Monroe McCollum (1929-2017). Coy worked at R.J. Reynolds and after retiring worked in real estate. Dorothy taught just down the road at Forbush Elementary School for 35 years and was a part-time choir director for 50 years. She sold the house in 2022.

1016west

1016 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The William and Stella Paschal House

• Sold for $428,000 on March 27, 2026 (listed at $415,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,066 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1921
• Listed February 27, 2026
• Last sale: $278,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Like the Lott-Woodall House next door, the Paschal House adopts an unusual form to fit the odd shape of its lot. In most respects it appears to be a typical bungalow of its period. It is a one-and-a-half-story frame house with coursed 1qood shingle siding, a broad gable roof with overhanging braced eaves, a large front hipped dormer, and an engaged porch with heavy shingled end posts and a plain balustrade,
  • “Convention is dismissed on the south side of the house, however, where the back slope of the gable is ‘chopped off’ and recessed toward the center of the house before continuing its downward slope, and is then recessed again, creating a rather modern effect. The house is complemented by the stone retaining wall at the sidewalk and by the double flight of front steps.
  • “Although William J. Paschal, manager of the Southern Mirror Co., acquired the property in 1916, he and his wife, Stella, were not listed at this location in the city directories until 1921. The Paschals owned the house until 1943.”
  • William Jennings Paschal (1886-1960) served two terms on the city Board of Aldermen. “Mr. Paschal spent 47 years in the mirror manufacturing business and was recognized as one of the outstanding men in the business in this part of the country,” the Winston-Salem Journal said.
  • Stella Farrow Paschal (1887-1963) was a 1905 graduate of Salem College. She taught in the city schools until she and William married in 1912.

1113clyde

1113 Clyde Place, High Point

• Sold for $265,000 on March 24, 2026 (originally $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,527 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1924 (per county, or a few years later; see note)
• Listed November 26, 2025
• Last sales: $321,000, February 2020; $40,500, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Sheraton Hills
• Note: The address wasn’t listed in the city directory until 1928. The original owners were Earl J. McFarland (1903-1953) and Dorothy Ninestein McFarland (1903-1988), who bought the property in 1926 from Carolina Homes Inc. Earl was credit manager at Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing. Dorothy attended the Pratt Institute for Institutional Management. She was a bookkeeper with Creative Print Shop. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1935.
  • Joseph Gordon (dates unknown) and Lilly Riff Gordon (1910-1942) bought the house in 1940. Joseph was a partner in H. Gordon & Sons, junk dealers. He sold the house in 1946.

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630 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Altah and John Walker House

• Sold for $435,000 on March 18, 2026 (listed at $465,000)
  • The buyer’s address of record is in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,172 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1922
• Listed January 29, 2026
• Last sales: $268,000, July 2023; $130,000, April 1993
• Neighborhood: Sheraton Hills/Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • Double lot
• District NR nomination: “This one-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and four-pile. The house has a brick veneer with board-and-batten in the gables.
  • “It has sixteen-over-one, wood-sash windows with twenty-over-one windows flanked by sixteen-over-one windows on the left (west) end of the facade and the right (east) elevation.
  • “The twenty-four-light French door is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers. There are exposed rafter tails, exposed purlins, and knee brackets in the gables.
  • “Several gabled wings and projecting bays extend from the right and left elevations.
  • Mary Altah Pickett Walker (1895-1978) bought the lot in 1922 and owned it for 55 years. She was married, to John Harris Walker Jr. (1898-1978), but only her name appeared on the deed. John was a bookkeeper for Beeson Hardware Company. She, or perhaps they, built the house soon after.
  • Altah bought the adjoining lot in 1946. The 1946 deed describes the second lot as adjoining the land of John Walker, not Altah, even though only Altah’s name was on the 1922 deed (her name alone was on the 1946 deed as well).
  • How it looked when sold in 2023:

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634 Brent Street, Winston-Salem
The Bill and Ruby Ingool House

• Sold for $260,000 on March 18, 2026 (listed at $249,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,064 square feet (per county), 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $244
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 13, 2026
• Last sale: $40,000, May 1990
• Neighborhood: Highland Park, Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Offer Deadline- February 16 by 12:00 noon.”
  • The listing says the house wood floors and original moldings, windows and doors. Some of the beadboard ceilings remain as well.
  • The house appears to be in good shape overall except for one room.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; asbestos shingle siding; eight-over-one, Craftsman-style windows; hip-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; knee braces; exposed rafter tails. 1928 CD: (632, later 620) W.M. Ingool.”
  • William McKinley Ingool (1896-1971) and Ruby Theo Knott Ingool (1899-1975) were listed on Brent Street (without a house number) in the 1925 city directory. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. The house remained in their family until 1990.
  • Bill was a batteryman at Jarvis Service Station. He later worked for the Hastings Company, an auto parts rebuilder in the Winston-Salem that moved to King in the 1950s. Ruby worked for Hanes Hosiery Mill.
  • Ownership passed to daughter Betty Ingool Higgins (1928-1979) and son-in-law Reece McCoy Higgins (1917-2003). Their grandson James sold the house in 1990 to the current owner.

104 N. Madison Street, Yadkinville, Yadkin County

• Sold for $277,750 on March 17, 2026 (originally $318,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,693 square feet, 0.77 acre (per county; see note)
• Price/square foot: $164
• Built in 1941
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Note: The property consists of two lots across the street from each other that have been combined, totaling 0.77 acres. The listing refers to the property for sale as “almost a half acre,” suggesting that only the part on the east side of Madison is being sold.
  • That’s the Yadkinville Methodist Church right behind the house on West Main Street.

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413 Hillside Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $269,000 on March 16, 2026 (listed at $260,000)
  • Sold to a buyer in Gastonia
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,037 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $259
• Built in 1921
• Listed January 27, 2026
• Last sales: $205,000, May 2022; $15,500, March 1994
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • The original owners were Ernest Rankin Rudd (1892-1966) and Irene Mattie Fulton Rudd (1892-1934), who bought the property in 1922. Ernest worked for the Railway Mail Service. Irene was active in the women’s auxiliary of the RMS. Ernest sold the house in 1946.

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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.

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1224 Franklin Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $275,000 on February 23, 2026 (listed at $275,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,144 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1938
• Listed January 30, 2026
• Last sale: $75,000, December 2001
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: The house includes an attached accessory dwelling unit with a separate entrance at the back deck.

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.

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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.