Piedmont Historic Homes

702 5th Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $253,000 on June 30, 2025 (listed at $260,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,057 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $239
• Built in 1931
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sales: $234,000, January 2023; $116,000, July 2012
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue historic District (NR)
• District NRHP nomination: Bungalow, ca. 1920-25

1221 Briarcliff Road, Greensboro
The Stacey and Myrtle Gifford House

• Sold for $500,000 on June 27, 2025 (listed at $699,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,546 square feet (per county), 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $323
• Built in 1934
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sale: $650,000, November 2024
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: Brick Cape Cod-style house with a small wing added to the left of the front, sitting up above a terraced front lawn with two brick retaining walls.
  • The price per square foot is astoundingly high.
  • In 1932 Pilot Life acquired 32 tracts totaling more than 100 acres in Latham Park, Irving Park and other neighborhoods from the Irving Park Company and Sedgefield Inc. in a foreclosure auction. The house was built as a rental before being sold in 1939 to Albert Stacey Gifford (1899-1954) and Myrtle Cline Fulenwider Gifford (1911-1950). They lived in the house until their deaths.
  • Stacey was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and served in World War I. He graduated from Dickinson College and Washington and Lee law school. He came to Greensboro to practice with a law-school classmate but soon established his own practice, becoming known as an advocate for the poor and for affordable housing.
  • Myrtle was born in Stanly County and attended the Women’s College. She was a member of the board of trustees of the Greensboro Public Library.

7810 Broad Street, Rural Hall, Forsyth County

• Sold for $328,000 on June 27, 2025 (originally $425,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,544 square feet, 0.62 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 26, 2022
• Last sale: $39,000, January 2006
• Note: Covington Memorial Park is across the street.
  • The property was owned from 1929 to 1965 by Foster Holloway Kiger (1899-1965) and Eulalia Clayton Kiger (1903-1987). Foster and his brothers operated the E.L. Kiger Grocery Company in Rural Hall. He was one the original three commissioners of the Rural Hall Sanitary District.
  • Elma Dot Gordon Simmons (1921-2005) bought the house in 1965 and owned it for the rest of her life. She was a nurse who worked in physicians’ offices. Her estate sold the house in 2006.

523 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage

• Sold for $510,000 on June 26, 2025 (originally $545,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,058 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1917 (or circa 1900; see note)
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $245,000, July 2024
• Neighborhood: Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house, caveat emptor. Owned by an LLC in Chapel Hill. Replacement windows.
• District NR Nomination: “The one-story, three-bay pyramidal hipped-roof cottage with cross gables stands on a raised brick foundation. All windows have been replaced with one-over-one aluminum sash, and vinyl siding covers the exterior. A one-story hipped porch with plain railing and Doric posts shelters the front glazed and paneled door with sidelights.
  • “The house was built circa 1900 as the Methodist Episcopal Parsonage.” The Methodist church sold the house in 1962.
  • In 1962 the house was bought by Badger Graham Rogers (d. 2007) and Ruth K. Rogers (1922-2020). They owned the house for the rest of their lives. Badger was president of Central Production Credit in Graham for 22 years. After retiring he served as a regional official of the Farm Credit Administration in Washington, Kentucky and Ohio.

1059 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $411,500 on June 26, 2025 (originally $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,045 square feet (per county), 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $201
• Built in 1938
• Listed March 25, 2025
• Last sale: $294,500, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house includes an attached two-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a halfstory; side gable; front-gable projection; brick; one-over-one replacement windows; side porch; metal awning at entry [no longer present].” The address was first listed in the city directory in 1939 with J. Malbert Smith (1895-1972) and Adelaide Howard Smith (1895-1967) as residents. Malbert was district manager for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

2353 Walker Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $349,000 on June 25, 2025 (listed at $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,522 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1948
• Listed May 5, 2025
• Last sale: $180,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; gable-roof dormers; asbestos shingle siding; six-over-six, double-hung sash and one-over-one replacement windows; front patio; small sidelights; steeply pitched, front-gable entry pavilion. 1938 CD: (1153) Thomas Wilson, an engineer at Piedmont Engraving.”

1301 Richardson Drive, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Herman and Martha Kernodle House

• Sold for $337,750 on June 25, 2025 (originally $376,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,740 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1940
• Listed May 11, 2024
• Last sale: $167,000, January 2019
• Note: The original owners were Herman Kernodle (1898-1967) and Martha Louise Wray Kernodle (1899-1977), who bought the property in 1940. The house was sold by Martha’s estate in 2017.
  • Herman and Martha both worked for American Tobacco Company. He was a deacon at Congregational Christian Church and a member of the men’s garden club. She belonged to the Out Our Way Home Demonstration Club.

312 W. Ray Avenue, High Point
The Hugh and Nellie Culclasure House

• Sold for $190,000 on June 24, 2025 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,220 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in ca. 1925
• Listed October 5, 2024
• Last sales: $85,000, February 2023; $35,000, July 1991
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile with projecting, shed-roofed bays on the right (east) and left (west) elevations. The house has weatherboards, nine-over-one, wood-sash windows, and decorative exposed purlins in the gables.
  • “The six-light-over-two-panel door is sheltered by a front-gabled porch on grouped square posts with decorative lattice between the posts and an original wood railing. There are low gabled dormer vents on the facade.”
  • The house appears on the 1924 Sanborn map, but the address isn’t listed in the city directory until 1927. That year, the listed residents were Hugh Johnson Culclasure (1890-1969) and Nell Dixon Culclasure (1898-1982), who bought the property in 1925. Hugh was a watchmaker and proprietor of the The Watch Shop.

531 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Ward-Hogan House

• Sold for $490,000 on June 23, 2025 (originally $599,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,240 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1906
• Listed March 3, 2025
• Last sales: $225,000, April 2008; $165,000, October 1997
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half story pyramidal hipped-roof cottage with a front-gabled wing exhibits a one-story shed porch with wide wood railing, Doric columns, and a hip roofed dormer. Fenestration includes single and paired nine- over-one sash windows and a multi-paned door. The interior brick chimney appears to have a replacement stack.
  • “The house was built by the Ward family circa 1900.”
  • The original owners may have been Zebulon B. “Zebie” Ward (1862-1921) and Mary Olivia Martin Ward (1874-1958). Zebie and Olivia were listed at the address in the 1909 city directory (the oldest available online). The house remained in their family until 1984. Zebie was a carpenter. Olivia gave the house in 1949 to one of her daughters, Lelia Ward Gordon (1904-1984), who lived in Illinois. Olivia continued to live there until she died in 1958 at age 84.
  • By 1957, another of Olivia’s daughters, Bernice Ward Hogan (1905-1990), son-in-law Harvey Theodore Hogan (1904-1980) and their son, Harvey Jr. (1938-2007) were living with her. Harvey was a shipping clark with Travora Textiles. Bernice was a bookkeeper with Graham Motor Sales. They continued to live in the house after Olivia died. At some point after 1969, Lelia came back from Illinois and lived there until she died in 1984. Her heirs then sold the house.

6851 Siloam Road, Siloam, Surry County

• Sold for $242,000 on June 18, 2025 (originally $280,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,884 square feet, 3.36 acres (per county)
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 24, 2024
• Last sale: $65,500, November 2000
• Neighborhood: Siloam is in southern Surry County, about 18 miles south of Mount Airy and 30 miles northwest of Winston-Salem.
• Note: The house needs some work, but it has a lot of unpainted woodwork, an increasingly rare quality in older homes.

141 E. Lexington Road, Mocksville, Davie County
The Kimbrough House

• Sold for $245,000 on June 12, 2025 (listed at $240,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,272 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $193
• Built in 1933
• Listed May 5, 2025
• Last sale: $75,000, July 2020
• Note: The property includes a detached office.
  • The original residents may have been Alex McGuire Kimbrough (1883-1949) and Mamie A. Horne Kimbrough (1888-1978), who bought the property in 1933. It remained in their family for 55 years. The deed suggests a house was already on the lot. Alex worked for Southern Railway for 47 years. He was the railroad’s agent in Clemmons when he died. In 1958 they sold the house to their daughter Louise Kimbrough Osborne (1907-1999). She sold the house in 1988.
  • The house has lost some of its historical detailing since it was last sold. How it looked in 2020:

7308 York Loop, Mebane, Orange County

• Sold for $325,000 on June 11, 2025 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,479 square feet, 0.60 acre
• Price/square foot: $220
• Built in 1947
• Listed April 22, 2025
• Last sales: $170,000, October 2018; $50,000, December 2017
• Neighborhood: The listing describes it as being “in the heart of Mebane,” but it’s actually in the part of town across the county line in Orange County.
  • County property records show only one bathroom.

617 S. Green Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $299,000 on June 10, 2025 (listed at $299,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,531 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1918
• Listed May 20, 2025
• Last sales: $241,500, May 2021; $55,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Originally a single family home, now divided into two apartments.
  • County records give 1918 as the date of the house, but it appears on the 1917 Sanborn map. The district National Register nomination puts it at circa 1915.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; diamond-pane transom over single-light windows; stuccoed, square posts on brick piers; shingled balustrade. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”
  • The original owners were Frank Theodore Foy (1885-1934) and Bessie Arelia Norman Foy (1890-1957). Frank was foreman of the machine shop at R.J. Reynolds for more than 20 years. They lived in the house the rest of their lives.

2317 Walker Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $452,700 on June 6, 2025 (listed at $424,700)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,514 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $299
• Built in 1928
• Listed April 24, 2025
• Last sale: $161,600, April 2012
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; vinyl siding; wood shingles in gable end; four (vertical light)-over-one windows; paired, square posts on stone piers; diamond-shape attic vent; knee braces.”
  • Harry E. Pugh (1905-1967) and Clara Pugh (1899-1967) were listed at the address in the 1928 city directory. Harry was a brakeman with Southern Railway and later worked as a cab driver. They had moved by 1931.
  • The house was bought in 1954 by William Ashburn Masten (1911-1995) and Alice Turner Masten (1917-2003). They owned the house for 48 years; it was sold by Alice’s estate. William graduated from Sedge Garden High School and UNC-Chapel Hill. He taught in high schools for several years before going to work for Sherwin Williams in 1937. He spent 37 years with the company. Alice graduated from Reynolds High School and worked for Woolworth’s, Ohio State Life Insurance and R.J. Reynolds.

317 Maple Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $295,000 on June 5, 2025 (listed at $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,287 square feet (per county), 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1917
• Listed April 22, 2025
• Last sales: $276,000, January 2024; $85,000, September 1998
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Located across the street from the Penn House, a National Register mansion now owned by the city and operated as a wedding and event venue.
• District NR nomination: ”Although clad in aluminum siding, this one and one-half story frame residence remains a handsome example of a craftsman bungalow dating probably from the early 1920s. Topped by a side gable roof, it has a small gable dormer, and a larger gable above the entrance bay of the one-story porch; large triangular brackets support the deep roof over-hangs. An exterior end chimney rises through the roof overhang on the north elevation.”

1714 Virginia Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $870,611 on June 4, 2025 (listed at $850,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,472 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $352
• Built in 1926
• Listed April 25, 2025
• Last sale: $59,000, November 1979
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a two-car garage.
  • The original owners were Dudley Babcock Anderson (1886-1941) and Stella Reece Anderson (1890-1959). Dudley was a bookkeeper at R.J. Reynolds and later worked as an auditor for the state Department of Revenue. By 1931, they had moved to Yadkinville.

1311 Clover Street, Winston-Salem
The Hutchins-Christian House

• Sold for $630,000 on June 2, 2025 (listed at $649,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,326 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 9, 2025
• Last sales: $431,500, March 2020; $390,000, July 2016
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “The Hutchins-Christian House is a neat one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame cottage of Craftsman style influence. Primary exterior features include a steep gable roof whose front cornice breaks into a round-arched hood over the entrance, front and rear shed dormers, and a partially engaged left front corner porch with a hipped roof and fat stuccoed columns. Behind the house is a frame garage shared with 1309 Clover St.
  • “Attorney Fred S. Hutchins built the house in 1925 and lived there until the late 1930s. In 1944 Misses Leta and Hartha Christian, both teachers at Summit School, purchased the property and occupied the house with their mother.” The sisters sold it in 1978.

342 W. Pine Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $280,000 on May 30, 2025 (listed at $300,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,142 square feet (per county), 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1900 (per county, or 20 years later; see note)
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sales: $143,300, April 2020; 1964, price not available in online records
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Charming one-and-one-half-story frame bungalow, constructed between 1922 and 1929, with shingled gabled dormer with returns, engaged porch with paneled posts on brick piers and turned balusters, paired one-over-one windows, and glass and molded panel front door. Matching one-car garage in rear yard.”

222 Vance Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $115,000 on May 29, 2025 (originally $199,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,698 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $68
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 18, 2025
• Last sale: $13,500, October 1978
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings show only 1,259 square feet.
  • No central air conditioning
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable bungalow with a gabled dormer and a recessed front porch supported by square posts on concrete block piers; 4/1 sash, brick interior chimney, exposed rafter ends, projecting shed-roofed bay on south elevation, vinyl and asbestos siding.
  • “This house appears on the 1923 Sanborn map, was vacant in 1925-26 and was occupied by William A. and Sadie L. Dunning in 1937. Mr. Dunning was a weaver at Lexington Silk Mills. Oral tradition holds that the Seacrest family built this house as rental property.” No family with that name is found in city directories of the era or in cemeteries included on findagrave.com.

611 Bellemeade Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $345,000 on May 28, 2025 (listed at $339,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,024 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1921
• Listed April 16, 2025
• Last sales: $279,000, November 2021; $200,000, May 2010
• Neighborhood: Cedar Street

2443 Stockton Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $190,000 on May 28, 2025 (originally $209,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 867 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1925
• Listed January 13, 2025
• Last sale: $70,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-story front-gable bungalow with vinyl siding; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; metal posts on stuccoed piers; engaged porch; knee braces.”
  • The house may have been a rental in its early days; city directories show different renters each year, with some years vacant. By 1942, William Otis Lancaster (1905-1970) and Fannie Knott Lancaster (1905-1987) were listed at the address. The house was sold by the estate of their son, William Jr., in 2021.
    • William was a salesman with Home Laundry and later plant supervisor. Fannie worked for R.J. Reynolds for 22 years and for N.C. Baptist Hospital for 15 years. William Sr.’s name disappeared from the address by 1945; he remarried in 1947. William Jr. worked in the radiology department at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He was a board member with Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful and played trombone in the Advent Hopewell Moravian Band for 50 years.

312 Forest Hill Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $149,500 on May 28, 2025 (listed at $149,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,195 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1930
• Listed April 18, 2025
• Last sale: $140,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Forest Hill
• Note: No interior photos are included in online listings.

706 Chestnut Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $349,000 on May 27, 2025 (listed at $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,737 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $201
• Built in 1937 (per county, or a year or two later; see note)
• Listed April 10, 2025
• Last sale: $180,000, September 2007
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The Colonial and Tudor Revival styles, popular from the teens through the thirties, are found in smaller numbers in the district than they are in other contemporary Greensboro neighborhoods. The Tudor Revival style appears only at a small number of late brick-veneered cottages, such as those of … insurance agent Clifton R. Berrier at 706 Chestnut Street (ca. 1935-40).”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1939 with Clifton Ray Berrier (1905-1988) and Juanita Lewis Hinshaw Berrier (1911-2010) listed as residents. They bought the property in 1938 and owned it for 50 years. Clifton was an agent and later assistant sales manager for Metropolitan Life Insurance. Juanita’s father was a minister of Hinshaw Memorial Methodist Church, for whom the church was named. She was a graduate of Greensboro College and taught school in Alexander County for two years. 

212 Tate Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $380,000 on May 23, 2025 (listed at $379,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,784 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 7, 2025
• Last sale: $245,000, October 2020; $160,000, June 2002
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: You’d never know from looking at it now, but this was one of the worst, most run-down rental houses in College Hill until the city took it into the neighborhood redevelopment program in 1997.
  • The house’s front elevation has an inset double dormer with a shed roof, a distinctive feature unique in the neighborhood.
  • The house has had 14 owners, none of whom owned the house more than 14 years, according to county records.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1920-25”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1922. Hampton Baker Cousins (1876-1970) bought the property in 1920 and lived there with his wife, Minnie Ingold Cousins (1897-1957), until selling the house in 1926. Hampton was a steamfitter. He had two wives, both named Minnie (Minnie Ingold was his second). One was one 10 years younger than him and the other 21 years younger, and he outlived both of them.

1112 Melrose Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $495,000 on May 22, 2025 (listed at $465,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,666 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $297
• Built in 1947
• Listed April 23, 2025
• Last sale: $258,500, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore, but outside the historic district
• Note: The walkout basement has been finished with two bedrooms.
  • The house apparently was built by Burke Edward Thompson (1916-2002) and Ruby Estelle Disher Thomson (1915-1999), who bought the property in 1945. They were shown at the address in the city directory in 1946, the first year is was listed. Burke worked as an accountant for more than 50 years, operating his own firm for 20 years. Ruby was a music teacher.
  • From 1947 to 1953, the house was owned by Francis W. “Frank” Waser (d. 1965, age 66) and Jeanne H. Waser (1902-1976). Frank was a supervisor at Western Electric, where he worked for 41 years.
  • John James Whalen (1921-1974) and Mary Jane Stallcup Whalen (1915-2008) bought the house from the Wasers and lived there into the 1960s. John was a research chemist for R.J. Reynolds. Mary Jane was a librarian with the Winston-Salem Public Library.

806 S. Sunset Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $354,000 on May 22, 2025 (listed at $354,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,405 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $252
• Built in 1939
• Listed March 15, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, June 2024
• Neighborhood: Ardmore (outside the historic district)
• Note: Flipped house with cheap replacement windows — caveat emptor. Owned by an LLC in Huntersville.
  • Old deeds refer to the neighborhood as Highland Park.

2020 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $365,000 on May 21, 2025 (originally $429,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,214 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $301
• Built in 1939
• Listed February 18, 2025
• Last sale: $222,100, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; brick; front gable projection; smaller front gable entry pavilion; round-head door; front facade chimney with asymmetrical shoulders; six-over-six, double-hung sash.”

5019 Summit Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $375,000 on May 20, 2025 (originally $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,244 square feet, 1.97 acres
• Price/square foot: $167
• Built in 1913
• Listed January 25, 2025
• Last sale: $59,000, April 2020
• Neighborhood: Located immediately north of Interstate 840, the relatively new northern leg of the Greensboro Urban Loop. Summit Avenue passes over the highway, so the house is well above the interstate. There are no exit ramps at I-840 and Summit.

909 W. Walnut Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $365,000 on May 19, 2025 (originally $389,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,372 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $266
• Built in 1924
• Listed April 8, 2025
• Last sale: $85,000, October 2018
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings show 1,876 square feet, an unusually large discrepancy from county records.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable porch with wood shingles; battered posts on brick piers; knee braces; paired, four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash.”
  • The house was first listed in the city directory in 1924 with James Everette Cook (1891-1971) and Lessie Veigh Everhart Cook (1896-1971) as residents. Everette was an assistant foreman with R.J. Reynolds. They lived in the house until about 1938.

417 Brent Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $344,000 on May 19, 2025 (originally $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,265 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $272
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 13, 2025
• Last sale: $166,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. Front gable with small front gable projection; asbestos siding; single and paired six-over-one sash; partially engaged, hip roof porch supported by Tuscan Columns. 1925 CD: George S. Ward, an engineer with the City Street Department, and wife Mary.”

614 5th Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $280,000 on May 16, 2025 (listed at $285,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,128 square feet (per county), 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1918 (per county)
• Listed March 28, 2025
• Last sale: $62,200, September 2004
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1920-25”
  • Ms. M. Clyde Peele (dates unknown) may have built the house. She bought the property in 1916; she was first listed on 5th Avenue in 1920. Also at the address were Hattie O. Peele; Judson J. Peele, a real-estate salesman; Mary M. Peele, a widow; and Minnie C. Peele (dates and relationships unknown for all).
  • Clyde was secretary for the Home Service Section of the American Red Cross and treasurer for the organization. She sold the house in 1924.
  • In 1925, the house was bought by Leila Estella “Lula” Fentress or Fentriss (1884-1968; her name appears with an “e” on deeds and in city directories, but with an “i” on her gravestone; both parents spelled it with an “e,” but one of her siblings also spelled it with an “i”). She was principal of Liberty Hill School. She lived in Pleasant Garden and apparently rented the house out for a few years. By 1931, she was living in the house and working as a Post Office clerk. She sold the house in 1946.

1615 Queen Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $225,000 on May 16, 2025 (listed at $214,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 810 square feet (per county), 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $278
• Built in 1935 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sale: $ 18,000, February 1984
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings show 810 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. Front gable; brick; one story; decorative shingles in gable end (may be modem); modem scroll work at gable peak; knee braces; engaged porch with brick pier; six-over-one, double-hung sash; deck addition to porch.
  • “1930 CD: Ralph H. and Lillian Cain, a solicitor with Smithdeal Realty and Insurance.”

2322 Glenn Avenue N., Winston-Salem

• Sold for $190,000 on May 15, 2025 (originally $229,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,256 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 28, 2024
• Last sale: $100,000, December 2023
• Note: Caveat emptor — quickly flipped house (it was when it was originally listed). But at least they didn’t replace the windows and floors.

411 Circle Drive, Burlington Alamance County

• $465,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,427 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 24, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, August 1991
• Neighborhood: Central Heights

306 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $625,000 on May 13, 2025 $650,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,950 square feet (per county), 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $321
• Built in 1935
• Listed March 13, 2025
• Last sale: $225,000, May 1999
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, four-bay, side-gabled, brick Period Cottage displays a projecting front-gabled bay whose south eave extends across the façade’s brick chimney with random granite blocks.
  • “An arched opening outlined with granite and culminating in a crowning granite keystone pierces the projecting bay that shelters a batten door with three lights set in a stepped arrangement. The granite elements embellish the brick arches that front the southeast corner porch that is set under a side-gabled porch; a multi-light, single-leaf door on the leads from the interior to the porch.
  • “Windows throughout are six-over-six, including the one in the front-gabled, aluminum- sided dormer on the north end of the front roof slope.”
  • The house was apparently a rental property in its early days. By 1942, David M. Cowan (d. ca. 1976) and Ruth Bremer Cowan (1910-1984) were renting it; they bought the house in 1946. Ruth sold it in 1980. David was manager of the Sun Life Assurance office in Greensboro.

334 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $380,000 on May 13, 2025 (listed at $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $266
• Built in 1916
• Listed March 13, 2025
• Last sale: $125,000, March 2024
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside, Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house — caveat emptor.
• District NR nomination: “One-story Queen Anne cottage with hip roof; weatherboard; gabled dormer; gable ell; decorative shingles in gable ends; hexagonal multi-light-over-one windows; Tuscan columns.”
  • The nomination says the house appears on the 1917 Sanborn map, apparently under its original address, 238 E. Sprague. George H. Little (1886-1950) and Hattie Clodfelter Little (1888-1951) were shown there in the city directory from 1916, the first year the street was listed, through 1920. George was the manager of the mechanical department at R.J. Reynolds, where he worked from 1911 to 1945.

2112 Queen Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $296,000 on May 12, 2025 (listed at $312,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,304 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $227
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 16, 2025
• Last sales: $205,200, December 2020; $100,000, October 2012
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Real Estate Babble: “Cuteness Overload!”
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival Bungalow. One story; front gable; wood shingle siding; multi-light picture windows; segmental arch hood on knee braces at entry; blind fanlight; tripartite attic vent/window with segmental arch head; exposed rafter tails.
  • 1926 [City Directory]: Charles and Lelia Wilkinson, employed at Southern Railroad; Miss Essie Wilkinson, a teacher; and Miss Louise Wilkinson a stenographer.”

4224 United Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $275,000 on May 8, 2025 (listed at $269,995)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,081 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1938
• Listed April 3, 2025
• Last sale: $130,000, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Highland Park
• Note: The two lots were bought in 1938 and 1940 by Gordon Francis Roseberry (1902-1989) and Snoda Mae Lineberry Roseberry (1904-1993). The road was called Winston-Salem Highway at the time, renamed Oakland Avenue by 1941, when Gordon and Snoda were listed there for the first time. They sold the house in 1965. Gordon had a varied career — overseer at Pomona Mills, agent for Farm Bureau insurance and supervisor at Western Electric.

231 Edgedale Drive, High Point

• Sold for $320,000 on May 7, 2025 (originally $345,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,181 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 27, 2025
• Last sale: $200,000, January 2004
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, clipped-side-gabled, Craftsman-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with full-width, shed-roofed dormers on the facade and rear elevation. The house has vinyl siding, six-over-one, wood-sash windows, generally grouped, and exposed exposed purlins in the gables. It has a six-panel door centered on the facade and sheltered by a two-bay-wide, inset porch supported by squat, tapered wood posts on brick piers. There is an inset screened porch at the left rear (southeast) corner.”
• The original owners were Claude Elwood Miller (1897-1978) and Erdene Denning Miller (1898-1987), who bought the property in 1926. Claude was co-proprietor with his brother George of C.E & G.B. Miller, a mortgage and insurance firm. They apparently used it as a rental property until, ironically, losing it to foreclosure in 1936. An investment company owned the house until 1940.
• The buyers in 1940 were Gerry D. Pettibone (d. 1960) and Edith Baughman Pettibone (1891-1946). Gerry was an industrial engineer. They sold the house in 1943 and moved to Charlotte.
• Louis J. Fisher Jr. and Ethel McMullan Fisher bought the house from the Pettibones. They owned it until 1968. Louis was a lawyer.

407 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Alf L. Schwartz House

• Sold for $316,500 on May 7, 2025 (listed at $312,000)
• 3 bedrooms 1 bathroom, 1,436 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $220
• Built in 1940 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed March 28, 2025
• Last sales: $277,000, May 2022; $165,000, August 2020
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• NRHP district nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and triple-pile with a full-width, gabled rear ell. The house has a brick veneer, a decorative brick chimney on the facade, and replacement windows, generally paired, except for a single six-over-six wood-sash window in the front gable.
  • “The arched, batten door has four small lights and strap hinges; it is recessed slightly in a front-gabled entry bay and has an arched brick surround. An uncovered brick terrace extends to the right (west) of the entrance.
  • “A second entrance on the left (east) elevation is sheltered by a gabled roof on knee brackets and there is a small frame addition with vinyl siding at the left rear (southeast).
  • “The house was listed as vacant in 1937; the earliest known occupant is Alf L. Schwartz (manager, Rosaine Shop) in 1938.”

739 N. Main Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Tatum-LeGrand House

• Sold for $264,900 on May 7, 2025 (originally $325,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,868 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1927 (or a few years earlier; see below)
• Listed June 13, 2023
• Last sale: $66,500, April 1988
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The historic district’s National Register nomination dates the house to 1924.
• District NR nomination: “three-bay, front-gabled frame Craftsman style house; side gable on west elevation; hipped porch across front with posts on brick piers; triangular knee braces in eaves; shallow bay on north elevation; six-over-one and eight-over-one crossette pattern sash; central chimney; built for professor Ezra C. Tatum; occupied in 1926 by John P. LeGrand (1895-1964), who lived there the rest of his life; LeGrand was a state representative and Mocksville postmaster.”
  • Ezra Carl Tatum Sr. (1898-1959) was veteran of World War I and a graduate of N.C. State College. He taught agriculture in Winston-Salem and Mocksville, according to his obituary in the Winston-Salem Journal, which provided no further details on his teaching career. He also worked for 20 years as a cotton buyer for Erwin Mills and operated a dairy farm.
  • Ezra was a prominent civic leader on the local and state levels as well. He served as chairman of the Davie County Board of Commissioners, chairman of the county civil defense unit, and president of the county Farm Bureau, the North Carolina Farmers Convention and the North Carolina Poultry Association. He served on the boards of the Biblical Recorder and the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation.
  • LeGrand had an unusual career. He operated a drug store and was elected to the state House in 1931. In 1936 he became postmaster of Mocksville, giving up both his political career and his drug store. In 1947 he left his position as postmaster to become a rural mail carrier. He retired from the Post Office just a year before his death.

1776 Polo Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $349,000 on May 6, 2025 (listed at $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,765 square feet, 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $198
• Built in 1937
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $150,000, March 2022
• Note: The original owners were John Marion McElrath (1904-1943) and Mary Louise Tesh McElrath Gamblin (1905-1993), who bought the property in 1937. Mary’s estate sold it in 1993. John worked for Duke Power for 20 years.

211 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro
The W. Howard Gardner House

• Sold for $799,900 on May 1, 2025 (listed at $799,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,834 square feet (per county), 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $282
• Built circa 1935 (see note below)
• Listed March 13, 2025
• Last sales: $355,200, October 2021; $92,000, May 1984
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: To support a price more than double what the house sold for less than four years ago, the roughly 100-word listing includes the words luxury, updated, sought after, charming, modern, timeless, stunning, elegant, warmth, ambience, thoughtfully upgraded, breathtaking, sophistication, elegance, stylish, updated (again), sought after (again) and high end.
  • County records give a 1941 date, but the address first appeared in the city directory in 1935.
  • District NRHP nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, three-bay, side-gabled brick Colonial Revival cottage features a prominent front gable with a classical entrance composed of a flat-roofed portico with dentils supported by slender Tuscan columns sheltering a paneled wood door topped with a blind fanlight set in wood and framed by multi-light and paneled sidelights. Pilasters frame entrance.
  • “An oculus window is set in the tympanum of the front gable. Eight-over-eight windows with paneled skirts and soldier-course radiating flat arches pierce the façade. Two front-gabled dormers sheathed in vinyl are situated on the front roof slope; one retains its six-over-six sash, while the other displays a replacement one-over-one window.
  • “A shed-roofed, south elevation wing with synthetic siding also displays eight-over-eight sash. The gable ends are partially sheathed in synthetic siding and display triangular louvered vents at their crowns. A brick chimney rises from the south end of the two-story block, while another brick chimney rises from the interior rear roof slope, just above a hip- roofed dormer. A gabled-roof ell extends from the rear.”
  • The property was sold nine times between 1926 and 1938. The first recorded resident was W. Howard Gardner (1910-1959), who bought the property in 1933. The 1935 city directory identifies him as cashier for the local office of E.A. Pierce & Company, the nation’s largest stock brokerage (after many acquisitions and mergers, E.A. Pierce eventually became Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America after the financial collapse of 2008).
  • Also listed at the address were Marshall J. Gardner (1914-1989), one of Howard’s brothers, and their step-mother, Florence F. Gardner, about whom little is known. Howard and Marshall’s father, Thomas E. Gardner, died in 1932; he had been superintendent of White Oak Mill. Their mother, Enah Mae Lowdermilk Garner, had died in 1919.
  • One month after buying the house, Howard sold it to Marshall. Marshall sold it in 1936, and everyone moved to Garland Street. Howard lived at 1407 with his newly married wife, Ruth McLeod Lang Gardner; Marshall and Florence moved in with brother Herman at 1508.

2428 Maplewood Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $445,000 on April 30, 2025 (originally $495,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,150 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1928
• Listed March 17, 2025
• Last sale: $356,500, April 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; cross gable; brick; shed dormer sheathed in shingles; six-over-one windows; engaged porch with battered, brick pier; arched hood at entry; exposed rafter tails; stone retaining wall.”
  • Early deeds refer to the neighborhood at Westover Park.
  • The earliest known residents were Floyd S. Greene and Lucille Greene (dates unknown for both). Floyd was secretary-treasurer of the Zinzindorf Laundry Company. They had moved by 1932.
  • In 1971 the house was bought by the Rev. Harry Anderson Goble (1921-2010) and Doris Anne Cash Goble (1936-2020). They owned the house for 43 years. Harry served in the Navy during World War II and served as a Southern Baptist missionary in Guam from 1960-66, starting three churches. In the United States, he was pastor at several churches and served at N.C. Baptist Hospital for 15 years. Dorie gave piano lessons in their home and worked as a radiological transcriptionist at Baptist Hospital. They sold the house in 2005.

312 Maple Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $350,000 on April 30, 2025 (originally $449,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (see note), 3,192 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1918
• Listed June 28, 2024
• Last sales: $203,000 on March 2024; $210,622, December 2023
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Something you don’t see everyday: The house has “a secret entrance to the attic in an upstairs room” (according to a previous listing).
• Note: Three-month turn-around on flipping this house.
  • Previous listings have shown 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
  • Next door is the Penn House, a National Register mansion now owned by the city and operated as a wedding and event venue.
  • The listing says the property includes “a huge studio/workshop” behind the house. It looks like a second house with an unfinished interior and no kitchen or bathrooms.
• District NR nomination: “At the same time that the classical revival styles were enjoying popularity in Reidsville and elsewhere, the less formal bungalow became a dominant house form, with the craftsman style being the prevailing fashion. some of its elements were grafted onto other forms, particularly the four-square, many examples of which have porches very similar to those frequently found on bungalows. In its various guises, the bungalow was built for professionals, merchants, foreman at local industrial plants, as well as members of the blue-collar community.
  • “Two of the finest examples of the bungalow in Reidsville are located on Maple Avenue and were built at about the same time. Constructed in 1917 for attorney and Recorders Court Judge Ira R. Humphreys, the house at 312 Maple Avenue has a clipped gable roof, wide shed dormer, a shed-roofed porch supported by tapered wooden posts on brick piers, and wood shingle siding in the gable ends. …
  • “[T]his handsome one and one-half story frame bungalow was an attractive addition to the landscape as a somewhat unusual example of the style. Set on a well-shaded, elevated lot with a stone retaining wall, the house features a clipped gable side roof, a wide shed dormer with exposed rafter ends and a smaller shed attic dormer layered above.
  • “A one-story, attached, shed-roofed porch with tapered posts on brick piers and a turned balustrade spans the three-bay facade, paired ten over one windows flanking the entrance, which has beveled sidelights and transom.
  • “Interior end chimneys on the north and south elevations have exposed faces. A bay window on the south elevation and a porte cochere on the north complete the house, whose only exterior change has been the application of aluminum siding [now vinyl] on the first floor, leaving the wood shingle gable ends intact.”

636 S. Green Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $341,500 on April 29, 2025 (listed at $335,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,588 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 19, 2025
• Last sale: $125,000, November 2014
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; front-gable projection; front-gable, wraparound porch; weatherboard; shingled gable ends; brick piers; knee braces; tripartite, four-over-four windows and paired, six-over-one windows.”
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1916. The residents were identified as Henry Nathaniel Spainhour and Mary Crater Spainhour along with Mary’s brother Howard Rondthaler Crater and Lillie M. Ziglar Crater. Henry was a foreman at the S.J. Nissen buggyworks. Howard was a tinsmith with L.B. Brickenstein, plumbers and tinsmiths.

1127 W. Webb Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
The Walker House

• Sold for $269,000 on April 28, 2024 (originally $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 1,943 square feet (per county), 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 23, 2024
• Last sale: $170,000, November 2021
• Note: Located across the street from Westminster Presbyterian Church.
  • The listing shows 2,462 square feet.
  • The earliest known owner was Viola Florance (with an “a”) Walker (1889-1978), who bought the property in 1926. It remained in her family for 75 years. Although she was married, only her name appears on the deed, which is unusual but not unheard of in that time. Her husband, Samuel Eli Walker (1880-1940), was a truck driver for the Happy Feed Store.
  • On Florance’s death in 1978, ownership passed to their son Billie Linwood Walker (1917-1995). Billie was an Army infantry veteran of World War II and owner of Walker & Hooper Feed. He left the house to sister Florance Walker Kirkpatrick (1924-1998). Florance owned Kirk’s Motor Court and was a charter member of the women’s division of the Alamance Chamber of Commerce. Her husband and daughter sold the house in 2001.

208 Chestnut Street, Lexington, Davidson County
The Earl and Catherine Andrews House

• Sold for $405,000 on April 23, 2025 (listed at $410,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 2,545 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $159
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 22, 2022
• Last sales: $395,000, September 2022; $257,700, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Grimes Park, Lexington Residential Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable-roofed Colonial Revival with a polygonal bay window in a projecting gabled wing on the north side of the façade; very wide, triple, multi-paned window on the east side of the façade; 6/6 sash, slightly recessed entry, two gabled dormers, vinyl siding, brick front patio.”
  • Lee Earl Andrews (1901-1980) was superintendent of the Lexington public schools from 1937 to 1967. Catherine M. Andrews (dates unknown) was organist of the First Baptist Church of Lexington.

531 Circle Drive, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $350,000 on April 23, 2025 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,039 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1935
• Listed April 8, 2025
• Last sale: $129,000, February 1995
• Neighborhood: Central Heights

111 N. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem
The Peter and Ella Blum House

• Sold for $797,000 on April 20, 2025 (listed at $797,500)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,644 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1902
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sales: $600,000, August 2020; $396,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: Peter Wilson Blum (1878-1971) and Ella Mason Blum (1880-1938) lived in the house from 1902 until they died. It remained in the family until 2002. (Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage, p. 149)
  • The garage includes a 1-bedroom apartment, built around 1920. “This is a two-story garage apartment with a stucco and board-and-batten exterior. Windows are six-over-six and six-over-one. Altered garage bays are located on the alley facade of the building.” (NR district nomination)
• NRHP district nomination: “This house was originally a side gabled one-story, Queen Anne cottage with a rear ell. The facade retains that configuration, but on the rear of the house is a substantial, two-story rectangular, 1912 addition with a nearly flat hip roof and exposed raftertails.
  • “The slate roof on the original section of the house has castellated cresting with finials. Gable ends are have continuous pent roofs. The porch has turned posts, brackets, and a sawnwork balustrade. The front yard includes a rusticated block retaining wall.
  • “Blum was a tinsmith who continued his trade at Old Salem, Inc. when it opened as a museum in the 1950s.”

813 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $421,000 on April 23, 2025 (listed at $399,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,629 square feet (per county), 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $258
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 12, 2020
• Last sales: $271,000, June 2020; $179,000, May 2010
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable projection; cedar shingles; brick facade chimney; brick, jerkinhead-roof entry porch with battered sides; six-over-one, double-hung sash; segmental arch door head.”
  • Garage: “Circa 1926, Unusual, double-bay, flat-roof, brick garage.”
  • The address was first listed in the 1926 city directory with Walter Connor Feimster Jr. (1898-1968) and Mary Katherine Swink Feimster (1903-1992) as residents. Walter’s father was a judge in Newton, and he was a lawyer with Swink, Clement and Hutchins, a firm headed by his father-in-law. By 1928 they were no longer in Winston-Salem.

122 Kensington Road, Greensboro
The Pattie and James Price House

• Sold for $600,000 on April 22, 2025 (originally $774,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,787 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1929
• Listed October 16, 2024
• Last sale: $20,900, October 1967
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• 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 Pattie and James Price House from ca. 1928 is a one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, brick period cottage with two-front-facing gables. Located at 122 Kensington Road, the house features a Tuscan-columned porch with carved purlins. …
  • “Brick steps flanked by metal balustrades lead to the brick porch floor forward of two front doors. Soldier-course bricks top the doors and windows, most of which are six-over-six, except for the casement windows fronting the smaller front gable and those contained in a one-story, flat- roofed brick wing on the south elevation.
  • “A rectangular louvered wood vent pierces the smaller gable. A brick chimney occupies the south gable end of the main block.
  • “Pattie and James Price bought the property in June 1928, but he apparently passed away soon after the house was built; she first appears at this address in the 1929 city directory and is listed as widow of James V. Price. She sold the house in 1935.”

2641 Belews Creek Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $235,900 on April 21, 2025 (listed at $235,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,994 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1942
• Listed March 5, 2025
• Last sale: $86,000, November 13, 2024; $57,000, November 13, 2024
• Note: Caveat emptor — flipped house. Owned by an LLC based in Miami.
  • The property is adjacent to Salem Parkway.
  • Originally outside the city limits, the address wasn’t listed in the city director until 1951, when Mitchell Byrd (1903-1982) and Minnie Bell Jones Byrd (1915-2002) were shown as residents. Mitchell was a salesman for N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company. Minnie worked for R.J. Reynolds. They had been listed at an unnumbered address on Greensboro Road since 1947, which could have been the same house.
  • The Rev. Russell Isaac Young (1894-1969) and Matilda A. Young (dates unknown) lived at the address by 1954. Russell was a veteran of World War I and served as associate minister of White Rock Baptist Church. Matilda sold the house in 1978.
  • The house was bought in 1978 by Marvin Compton (1945-2013) and Annie Compton. Marvin was born in Alamance County and graduated from Central High School (now Graham High). He worked for Norfolk Southern for more than 40 years. His estate sold the house in 2013.

2109 Queen Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $270,000 on April 18, 2025 (listed at $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,637 square feet (per county), 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built in 1936
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sale: $140,000, February 2000
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Ready for renovation.” Previously a rental.
  • The second floor is cooled with window units.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half-story; side gable; brick; front-gable projection; front-gable entry pavilion; round-head door; six-over-six, double-hung sash; basket weave cornice.”
  • The property was bought in 1936 by James Franklin Bland (1897-1954) and Beulah May Bland (1902-1964). It first appeared in the city directory in 1938, listed under its original address, 2109 Queen Street. Frank was an agent for Pilot Life. Beulah was a saleswoman at Ideal Dry Goods. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • Ownership passed to their son, Delmar Earl Bland (d. 1979), and daughter-in-law, Maxine Hudson Bland (1924-2017). Delmar graduated from Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest and practiced in Winston-Salem until his death. He was a clinical instructor at Bowman Gray and an attending physician at Forsyth Memorial Hospital.
  • Maxine also was a Wake Forest graduate. She taught at Draughon’s Business College and then managed Del’s medical practice. She sold the house in 2000.

1312 Winstead Place, Greensboro

• Sold for $315,000 on April 15, 2025 (originally $369,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,260 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $250
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 22, 2024
• Last sale: $139,000, November 2004
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: Deeds and city directories suggest that the street was part of Battleground Avenue when the house was built. It was later called Second Street and was changed to Wendover Avenue around 1925. It became Winstead Street around 1968 and Winstead Place in 1970.
  • Almost all of the 30 or so residences on Winstead Place were built from the mid-30s to early 50s. Only two others date from before 1920.
  • The original owners of the house appear to have been Alexander Conley Melvin (1875-1969) and Ardena C. “Dena” Armfield Melvin (1884-1960). Alexander was a driver for Dick’s Laundry. He was one of 11 children, all but one of whom survived childhood. He and Dena had five children; only two reached adulthood.
  • The Melvins sold the property in 1919 to James W.H. Smith, a farmer (dates unknown). James sold the house in 1937 to Robert A. Anderson (1882-1972) and Kate O. Anderson (1886-1972). They owned the house until they died 35 years later. Robert was a plant chief for Southern Bell. He and Katie died two weeks apart in July 1972. Their heirs sold the house in 1975.

310 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Edith Noble House

• Sld for $390,000 on April 14, 2025 (listed at $390,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,305 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $299
• Built in 1915 (or a few years later; see note)
• Listed March 8, 2025
• Last sales: $335,500, July 2023; $205,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The address, originally 505 Gloria, doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1921.
• District NR nomination: “Frame front-gabled bungalow; inset full-facade porch with large shingled posts and weatherboarded balustrade. Asbestos siding. Noble (wife Edith) was president of Cobb-Noble Co. and secretary-treasurer of Realty Exchange; they moved here from Cascade Avenue.”
  • Edith Avery Appleby Noble (1894-1928) was born in Morganton; Charles Stott Noble (1892-1979) was originally from Alabama. They lived in the house from 1921 to 1923. By 1937, Charles had remarried and left Winston-Salem.

4110 Oak Ridge Road, Summerfield, Guilford County
The Cyrus Scarlette House

• Sold for $258,500 on April 11, 2025 (originally $249,000, later $239,000 and then $297,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,097 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 27, 2023
• Last sale: $124,000, April 2016
• Neighborhood: Summerfield Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “In the 1920s and ’30s, Cyrus Scarlette worked at the Summerfield Motor Company, as did his sons, Lee, ‘Boots,’ Bill, and Herbert. He moved into his modern bungalow home at 4110 Oak Ridge Road in 1928.”
  • Cyrus Lee “Syke” Scarlette (1893-1974) and Mary Bailey Scarlette (1898-1961) and their heirs owned the house until 1986.
  • Boots’s first name was actually Claxton.

421 Chapel Hill Road, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $252,000 on April 11, 2025 (originally $264,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,079 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $234
• Built in 1935
• Listed February 7, 2025
• Last sale: $160,000, September 2024
• Note: Caveat emptor — quickly flipped house.
  • Something to ask about — The listing says the property includes a two-car “shed.” The online Alamance County GIS map appears to show the property line running right through that building (click the image to enlarge):

2411 Rosewood Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $445,500 on April 10, 2025 (listed at $448,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,666 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $267
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sale: $268,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage/studio.
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival Bungalow. One story; side-facing jerkinhead roof; three-over-one windows; front-gable porch with arched opening; false keystone; paired, Tuscan columns; side, hip-roof wing.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1925 with Alfred Edgar Shelburn (1888-1936) and Mary Cooper Shelburn (1892-1967) listed as residents. The city directory refers to the neighborhood as Melrose.
  • Alfred was a bookkeeper at Clinard Electric. He lived in Durham almost his entire life. He served in the Army in World War I and spent three years in Winston-Salem, 1924-1927. When he died at the age of 47, Alfred was president of Jourdan Transfer Company. Mary also was a native of Durham. She also worked for Jourdan Transfer, continuing after Alfred’s death until she retired in 1955.

2213 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Mabel and Samuel Strickland House

• Sold for $360,000 on April 10, 2025 (listed at $359,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,455 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $247
• Built in 1928
• Listed February 13, 2025
• Last sale: $271,500, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• NRHP district nomination: “The one-story, three-bay, side-gabled, aluminum-sided dwelling displays an altered, nearly full-width porch with square posts and a wood balustrade topped by an eyebrow pediment with a stucco tympanum and returns; vinyl siding sheathes the porch fascia. The replacement wood door includes a fanlight at the top. Windows are six-over-one. A brick chimney with a concrete set off occupies the west elevation. A hip-roofed ell extends from the rear elevation.”
• Samuel Lawrence Strickland (1894-1936) and Mabel Long Strickland (1885-1988) were listed at the address in 1929. Samuel Strickland had operated a grocery store and by 1929 was a traveling salesman for W. I. Anderson & Company, a produce company. After Samuel died at age 42, Mabel continued to live in the house until 1940. She sold it in 1945. She outlived three husbands before her death at 103.

419 Hillside Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $250,000 on April 9, 2025 (originally $275,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 961 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $260
• Built in 1918 (per county, but probably a few years alter)
• Listed September 6, 2024
• Last sales: $214,000, February 2022; $33,500, September 1983
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The address first appears in the city directory in 1923. The empty lot was bought in 1922 by Henry Webster Clendenin (1866-1926), a builder and real-estate agent. In 1923 it was listed in the city directory as the residence of his son and business partner, Kemp C. Clendenin (1896-1968). The house was sold seven times between 1925 and 1947.

2201 Westfield Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $550,000 on April 2, 2025 (listed at $499,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,118 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $260
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 14, 2025
• Last sale: $295,000, June 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • This is the seventh time the house has been sold in this century.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; steeply-pitched, front-gable projection; shed-roof dormer; brick; six-over-six, double-hung sash; side porch; small sidelights; blind fanlight on consoles; recessed entry.”

828 S. Park Street, Asheboro, Randolph County
The Eli and Ella Kemp House

• Sold for $313,000 on April 2, 2025 (listed at $298,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,220 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1935
• Listed February 17, 2025
• Last sale: $126,000, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Park Street Terrace
• Note: The earliest known owners were Eli Joab Kemp (1874-1955) and Ella Rose Humble Kemp (1880-1964), who were listed at the address in 1937. Eli was a farmer and lumberman. They lived in the house the rest of their lives. Their heirs sold it in 1968.

111 N. Marshall Street, Graham, Alamance County

• Sold for $249,000 on March 27, 2025 (listed at $253,500)
• 1 bedroom (see note), 1 bathroom, 1,428 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 12, 2025
• Last sale: $42,500, October 2001
• Note: Rental property
  • The listing says there are two additional rooms upstairs that were being used as bedrooms but can’t be listed as such because the ceilings are too low (below 8 feet, according to the national building code).

626 Jersey Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $298,000 on March 25, 2025 (listed at $299,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,058 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $282
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 28, 2025
• Last sales: $194,000, April 2020; $192,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house was sold in 2006, 2007, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022.
• District NR nomination: “This well-preserved bungalow is typical of many built in the 1910s and 1920s. The one-story weatherboarded structure has a broad gable roof with shingled gable end facing the street and widely overhanging braced eaves. The off-center front porch repeats, in smaller scale, the gable treatment of the main roof and has grouped posts set on brick plinths.”
  • Contrary to what the National Register listing says, the original owner-occupant appears to have been Joseph E. Ellerbe, who bought the property in 1921. He was a civil engineer and a lieutenant in the Army reserves engineers unit. He was listed at the address in 1922 and 1923.
  • The house was sold at least a couple times and listed as vacant from 1924-1929. The house was bought in 1929 by Irvin Oscar Speas (1872-1954), a lumberman and building contractor. One of his sons, Irvin Conrad Speas (1898-1982), and daughter-in-law Ethel Lucille Long Speas (1892-1990) were listed at the address in 1930. Conrad worked in the shipping department at R.J. Reynolds for 45 years.
  • By 1933, Charles Wilson (1885-1942) and Lily Lee Grogan Wilson (1891-1940) were renting the house. Charles had served as a sergeant major during World War I. He was a supervisor at the Red Star Filling Station and later served as district supervisor for the surplus commodities administration. They bought the house in 1936 and lived in it until 1940.
  • The National Register listing says, “Behind the house is a weatherboarded frame servant’s house with a pyramidal roof which appears to be contemporary with the house.” If it still exists, the for-sale listing doesn’t mention it.

1691 Carriage House Place, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $300,000 on March 21, 2025 (originally $319,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,953 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $154
• Built in 1935
• Listed January 31, 2025
• Neighborhood: Mount Tabor
• Last sales: $229,900, May 2020; $243,000, March 2009

707 Englewood Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $281,000 on March 20, 2025 (listed at $275,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,206 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1932
• Listed February 27, 2025
• Last sales: $204,900, August 2021; $155,000, March 2014
• Neighborhood: Brice Street
• Note: The original owners were Thomas Guild “Shorty” Day (1907-1973) and Clara Gladys Vickory Day (1905-1977). They bought the property in 1930 and were listed at the address in 1931, the first time it was included in the city directory. Thomas was a clark with the Davis Drug Company and later a longtime employee of Banner-Trulove wholesale grocers. Living with them were Thomas’s parents, Thomas Fletcher Day (1874-1941) and Mabel G. Day (dates unknown). Thomas F. was a traveling salesman. Thomas G. and Gladys lost the house to foreclosure in 1932.
• By 1933, Lyle Berry Wade (1902-1996) and Blanche Mann Wade (1903-1998) were living in the house, and in 1934, they bought it. Lyle was a printer with the Cone Export & Commission Company. They lived in the house until selling it in 1949.

457 Ashley Loop, Eden, Rockingham County (2 acres)

• Sold for $177,000 on March 20, 2025 (listed at $177,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,584 square feet, 2 acres
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1926
• Listed September 18, 2024
• Last sale: Before 1933, the property was owned by Frank Marion Roberts (1859-1943) and Loula Stone Roberts (1867-1953). They sold or gave it to one of their sons, William Garner Roberts (1896-1982), and daughter-in-law, Annie Price Roberts (1903-1997), in 1933. It was part of a 98-acre tract owned by Frank and Loula Roberts. The property is being sold by the heirs of William Garner Roberts Jr. (1936-2021).
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: The property originally was listed as 7 acres for $263,000. It was relisted as a 2-acre property for $177,000.
  • The property includes what looks to be some very old outbuildings, including a very old log cabin that isn’t mentioned in the listing or county property records.
  • Some online sites show both listings for the address; others show one or the other. Both appear to be current.
  • The property consists of two lots, one of 2 acres (457, below) and one of 5.05 acres (outlined with a broken line below). The house is on the 2-acre lot.

1019 S. Main Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $120,000 on March 20, 2025 (listed at $125,000)
  • The buyer is a Burlington LLC called AP and VA Cash Solutions.
  • The deed was signed on March 20, but it wasn’t filed until April 23.
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,607 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1910
• Listed February 3, 2025
• Last sale: $58,000, July 2016
• Note: The listing includes no interior photos. “The seller is working on cleaning the inside of the home out as it’s pretty messy inside currently.”

100 W. Cardwell Street, Madison, Rockingham County

• Sold for $150,000 on March 17, 2025 (originally $189,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,774 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1907
• Listed September 5, 2024
• Last sale: $11,000, November 1985
• Note: The listing says the house has been owned by the same family since it was built.
  • The property includes a two-car carport and a metal storage building.
  • Ceilings in a hallway and bathroom are too low (less than seven feet) for them to be included in the square footage.

701 S. 5th Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $625,000 on March 13, 2025 (listed at $625,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,996 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built in 1932
• Listed February 18, 2025
• Last sale: $235,000, September 2003
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This house is a one-and-a-half-story, four-bay-wide, brick Period Cottage with a side-gable roof. A projecting front gable on the north end of the façade contains a second, smaller projecting gable at the south end of its facade holding the entry. A small side-gable wing is located on both the south and north elevations of the main block. The gabled wing on the west end of the south elevation is a screened porch supported by square brick posts. All of the gables have cornice returns and a small window is located at the top of the front gable.
  • “A short flight of brick steps leads up to a brick patio in front of the entry that extends south along the façade. A tall, wide chimney is also located on the façade, to the south of the main entry, and an exterior chimney is located at the south end of the east elevation. Between the main entry and the chimney there is a small, diamond shaped window. Windows are grouped casements windows with brick soldier-course lintels.
  • “A large hip-roofed addition is located at the north end of the east elevation and a gabled ell extends from the south end of the east elevation to connect to a side-gabled wing.”

209 Edgedale Drive, High Point

• Sold for $470,000 on March 11, 2025 (originally $594,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,450 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1926 (per county, but probably a couple years later; see note)
• Listed July 20, 2024
• Last sales: $210,000, January 2023; $180,000, January 2023; $42,000, April 1980
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has an attached two-car garage. The lot extends all the way through the block to the next street, Ardmore Circle.
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and double-pile with a large, front-gabled dormer centered on the facade and rear elevation.
  • “The house has stuccoed, nine-over-one, wood-sash windows, exposed rafter tails, and decorative exposed purlins in the gables. The replacement door and transom are flanked by eight-over-one, Craftsman-style, wood-sash windows on the facade and a full-width, engaged porch is supported by tapered, paneled wood posts on stuccoed piers with a stuccoed knee wall.
  • “There is a replacement window and an original louvered vent in the gabled dormer. A one-story, side-gabled wing on the left (east) elevation has grouped, multi-light casement windows.”
• The earliest known owners were Walter Raleigh Kester (1885-1948) and Sara Carolina Yost Kester (1904-1989), who were listed at the address in 1928, the first year it appeared in the city directory. Walter was manager of the Kester Machinery Company, which sold power-plant equipment and mill and factory supplies. They sold the house around 1944.

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211 Mimosa Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $423,000 on March 7, 2025 (originally $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,569 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $270
• Built in 1928
• Listed December 2, 2024
• Last sales: $232,385, September 2017; $195,500, May 2015
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace/Westerwood
• Note: The house is across the street from Lake Daniel Park.
  • The street was originally called West Lakeside Drive. By 1930 it was North Lindell Road. It was renamed Mimosa Drive around 1951.
  • The original owners were Florence Gregory Melts (1902-1975) and Lawrence Melts (1890-1964). They owned Melts’ Sanitary Bakery. Florence was born in Turkey; Lawrence, in Greece. They sold the house in 1940.
  • In 1942 the house was sold to John Nicholas Prentzas (1891-1952) and Helen J. Simmons Prentzas (1903-2003). The family later changed its name to Patterson, though Helen’s gravestone says Prentzas. John and Helen were born in Greece; they came to Greensboro in 1922. John was the proprietor of the Colonial Diner. Helen sold the house in 2000.

949 Hutton Street, Winston-Salem
The Thompson and Myrtle Shouse House

• Sold for $262,000 on March 7, 2025 (originally $275,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,576 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $166
• Built in 1926
• Listed January 23, 2025
• Last sale: $104,500, December 2013
• Neighborhood: Washington Park
• Note: The property includes a detached one-car garage.
  • Craftsman bungalow with its features fairly intact.
  • The original owners were James Thompson Shouse (1894-1983) and Myrtle C. Peddycord Shouse (1897-1975), who bought the property in 1926. Thompson sold the house in 1975. For 38 years, he was a salesman for Standard Brands, which owned Chase & Sanborn coffee and Fleischmann’s yeast, among other brands. By 1940, it was the second-largest producer of packaged goods, behind General Foods. In 1981, it merged with Nabisco.

424 Spring Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $310,000 on March 6, 2025 (originally $349,990)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,987 square feet (per county), 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1938 (per county, or 10 years earlier; see note)
• Listed November 16, 2024
• Last sales: $160,335, July 2024 (auction); $179,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Flipped house
  • The house was sold in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2024.
• District NR nomination: “This story-and-a-half Craftsman bungalow appears to have been built in 1928 or 1929. Its granite exterior is load-bearing according to the 1929 Sanborn map, not a veneer.
  • “The house and its front porch are front-gabled with textured stucco and Y-shaped battens reminiscent of Tudor Revival half-timbering in the gables. The rear gable and the walls of a gabled dormer on the left side of the roof, facing Broad Street (the house stands on the corner of Spring and Broad), have plain stucco.
  • “The main, porch, and dormer roofs are ornamented with triangular brackets and decorative rafter ends. To the rear is a ca. 1950 one-story wing of textured gray brick meant to harmonize with the granite.
  • “Other features of the house include Craftsman porch supports with tapered posts on granite pedestals, asphalt shingle roofing, a granite exterior chimney on the south side, a granite interior flue, and replacement windows. A low poured concrete retaining wall borders the lot.
  • The address was originally 193 Spring.

359 Trollingwood Road, Haw River, Alamance County

• Sold for $215,000 on March 5, 2025 (originally $249,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,274 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1933
• Listed September 24, 2024
• Last sale: $66,000, September 2015

808 W. Willowbrook Drive, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $660,000 on February 21, 2025 (originally $675,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,053 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1937
• Listed September 12, 2024
• Last sale: $285,000, December 2022
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place (but outside historic district)
• Note: The house is across the street from the Burlington Arboretum.
  • The property includes an original brick courtyard and a two-car garage with a second floor.
  • The house first appears in the city directory in 1937 with the original owners, Wade Huffman and Alma Huffman (dates unknown for both), as residents. Wade was a tax collector.
  • In 1941, they sold the house to LeVonda Little Baylor (dates unknown). Her name alone is on the deed, which was convenient, as it turned out. She and her husband, Percival Christie Baylor (1910-1951), were listed as the residents. Percival was president of Baylor’s Insurance Service and secretary-treasurer of Peoples Insurance Agency. He later served a president of M&B Transit Lines and Carolina Casualty Insurance. He died at age 41 in Miami Beach after marrying his secretary and moving his business there in 1950. Levonda continued working for M&B Transit. She sold the house in 1955.
  • Robert N. Atwater (1914-2006) and Julia Brent Byrum Atwater (1916-2022) bought the house in 1955. They divorced around 1977. Julia kept the house, which was sold by their son in 2022 after her death at the age of 106, God bless her. She was born in Oxford, graduated from Greensboro High School and North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro.
  • “In 1938 she went to Hollywood, California, where she worked for 20th Century Fox Studios. While there she made several movies, one with Shirley Temple,” her obituary said.
  • After her marriage, she moved to Burlington and was a Charter Member of Alamance Country Club, president of the Nine O Clock Club and the Burlington Junior Women’s Club, member of the Coterie Book Club, the Down to Earth Garden Club, Burlington Service League and Dancing Masters of America. She also had been a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
  • Robert was a graduate of Davidson College and served as an Army captain in World War II. He owned Atwater Ford in Burlington.

• Sold for $225,000 on February 14, 2025 (originally $310,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,386 square feet, lot size not listed in county records
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 15, 2024
• Last sale: $135,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: the original price was pretty steep for a house whose historic character on the interior has been renovated away.
• District NR nomination: “This one-story frame house, built in the early years of the twentieth century, has novelty weatherboard siding and a high-pitched composite-shingled hip roof. A front porch with tapered square posts wraps around the right side.
  • “Other features include a granite foundation, replacement windows, and novelty weatherboard siding [apparently a feature so distinctive it was worth mentioning twice — it’s not clear whether it’s still present]. A granite retaining wall runs along the sidewalk and turns in to follow the driveway.”

1900 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $850,000 on February 6, 2025 (originally $899,900)
  • The buyer’s address of record is in Mexico Beach, Florida.
• 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2,582 square feet (per county; see note), 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $329
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 1, 2024
• Last sale: $41,500, October 1973
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • County records show 2,582 square feet, which is just a bit larger than the area of the first floor, according to the dimensions shown in the records. Online listings show 4,822 square feet, which is possible but seems high.
  • The original owners appear to have been Henry Arthur George (1872-1945) and Laura Emma Hedgecock George (1877-1968), who were listed on Buena Vista Road in the 1925 city directory. Henry was a department manager at R.J. Reynolds.
  • In 1928, the Georges sold the house to Thomas Eugene Kapp (1872-1960) and Annie Bynum Kapp (1880-1975). They owned it for 45 years. Thomas was secretary-treasurer of the Home Real Estate Loan & Insurance Company.
  • Annie sold the house in 1973 to the current owner.

101 Westover Terrace, Greensboro

• Sold for $315,000 on February 6, 2025 (originally $349,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,549 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $231,000, October 2021; $152,000, June 2008
• Neighborhood: The initial listing includes only five photos, none showing the interior.
• Note: The property includes a detached carport with a storage building.
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1927. The first owner appears to have been Cornelius M. Edwards, who bought the house in 1926. He was a bookkeeper with Patterson Brothers Inc., a grocery store. He lived in the house with his wife, Lula.
  • In 1927, Edwards sold the house to Henry Augustus Smathers, a dentist (1884-1971). Smathers lived there with his daughter, Katrina, a student. By 1929, he had married Viola Bradbury (1896-1967).
  • Henry owned the house until 1938, when he lost it to foreclosure. He was originally from Haywood County. He was one of 21 children born to Henry Austin Smathers (1848-1943), also a dentist and a minister as well. Henry the elder lived to be 94, outliving both of his wives. The younger Henry lived to be 86; he died in San Antonio, Texas. Viola had died four years earlier in Orange County, Florida. They’re buried in Seneca, South Carolina.
  • In 1947, the house was bought by Albert Grover Poindexter (1922-2007), a clerk at his father’s pharmacy, Poindexter’s Drug Store at 836 W. Lee Street. His heirs sold the house 41 years later. He was known as A. Grover Poindexter Jr., although his father, who went by A. Grover Sr., was actually named Augustus, not Albert. Junior worked for his father for several years and later became an agent for Met Life.

617 Lee Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

• Sold for $230,000 on February 4, 2025 (originally $285,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,999 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1930
• Listed September 25, 2024
• Last sale: $140,300, April 2024
• Note: Quickie flip job. Caveat emptor.
  • The original owners were Lloyd E. Brown (1909-1978) and Lillian Curtis Brown (1908-1999). Lloyd bought the property in 1931 and lived in the house the rest of his life. The house was sold by their descendants in 2024.
  • Lloyd served as sheriff of Randolph County from 1962 to 1974. He had served on the Asheboro City Council from 1951 to 1960. After serving as sheriff, he was the coordinator of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program for two years. He was president of Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association and partner in Brown & York Hosiery Mills.

226 Woodrow Avenue, High Point
The Walter Crissman House

• Sold for $317,000 on January 29, 2025 (listed at $317,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,074 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built in 1927
• Listed December 19, 2024
• Last sales: $228,000, February 2021; $155,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: Sherrod Park Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “1 1/2 story brick Craftsman style house, with overhanging, bracketted eaves, a hooded front entrance, a brick shed dormer, and a front porch with massive brick posts. Walter Crissman bought this lot in 1927 and had the house built soon afterward as a residence for his mother. Upon her death Mr. Crissman and his wife moved in and lived here until 1966. Crissman had a long and illustrious career as a lawyer and Superior Court judge in High Point.”

1208 Tucker Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $180,000 on January 26, 2025 (listed at $165,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,250 square feet, 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1938
• Listed December 13, 2024
• Last sale: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
• Note: Lattice E. Curl (1903-1988) and Lona Buckner Curl (1904-1992) purchased the property from the Burlington Coffin Company in 1935. Lattice was the proprietor of Curl Texaco & Variety. He was a deacon at Kinnett Baptist Church and taught the Lattice Curl Men’s Bible Class for 44 years.
  • Ownership passed to their son, Lattice Fremont “Bob” Curl (1929-2019), and his wife, Evelyn Brown Curl (1932-2024). Lattice was a Korean War Veteran. He worked for Western Electric for 38 years. The house is being sold by their son.

1200 Hill Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $445,000 on January 21, 2025 (listed at $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,183 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1928
• Listed November 22, 2024
• Last sale: $345,500, November 2016
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: The address was first listed in the city directory in 1929. The house was apparently a rental in its early years. By 1939, the renters were Joseph C. Tillman (d. 1971) and Marjorie S. Tillman (dates unknown). They bought the house in 1943. Joseph was the proprietor of Tillman’s Groceterias, early self-service grocery stores. Joseph sold the house in 1956.
  • Dr. Ira Polycarp Efird Jr. (1925-2016) and Stella Maris Burson Efird (1927-2029) bought the house in 1956. Ira was a dentist who practiced in Greensboro for 43 years. He was an Army sergeant in the infantry during World War II, in which he received two Bronze Star medals.
  • Ira’s first name was Ira. He and his father used “Jr.” and Sr.” with their names, but the first name of Ira’s father was Irenus.

1704 Longview Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $92,500 on January 21, 2025 (originally $140,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,232 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 11, 2024
• Last sale: $40,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belville Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “water damage on the roof in the bathroom, a structural evaluation is recommended, and LVP flooring needs to be replaced in the kitchen and bathroom.”
  • Rental, owned by an LLC in Raleigh
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; engaged porch; paired, square posts; vinyl siding; shingled gable end; six-over-one, double-hung sash; false beams with thru-tenon detail; stone retaining wall and steps.”
  • The first year the city directory showed addresses on Longview was 1929. Police detective T. Jefferson Morgan (1892-1971) and Jessie Evelyn Cowen Morgan (1873-1955) were listed as residents. They had been listed on Longview since 1925. They lived in the house until around 1933. Jeff served as an Army sergeant in World War I. “Pop” Morgan was an active Mason and an ardent advocate for the organization. He was Jessie’s second husband; her first husband died in 1910. Jeff and Jessie were married in 1919. She was a member of the Eastern Star and served as president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW.

• Sold for $255,900 on January 16, 2025 (originally $242,500, later $279,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,509 square feet, 0.71 acre
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 23, 2021
• Last sales: $245,000, November 22, 2021; $65,000, June 2021
• Note: Unusual Craftsman design with porte-cocheres on both sides of the house.
  • The house was put up for sale the day after it was sold.

626 Knollwood Street, Winston-Salem
The Long-Robbins House
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• Sold for $312,000 on January 11, 2025 (listed at $310,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,426 square feet (per county), 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1940
• Listed December 12, 2024
• Last sales: $260,000 on July 27, 2023; $5,500, September 1960
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. Cross gable (with front gable projecting above ridge of side gable); brick; one story; six-over-six, double-hung sash; gabled entry pavilion; facade chimney; engaged side porch with segmental arch openings; metal awning at entry [now removed]; lattice in front gable peak; half-height, brick walls with curved tops at entry pavilion [also removed]; buttresses at corners of side porch.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1941 with Thomas Virgil Long (1903-1975) and Julia Waye Shelton Long (1904-1980) listed as residents. Thomas was a clerk at the City Department of Public Works. He later worked in similar capacities for the city revenue, tax and water departments. They lived in the house until 1960.
  • In September 1960, the house was bought by Ernest Hoover Robbins (1929-2011) and Eulala Bradley Robbins (1916-1996). Ernest was a welder with the William J. Fishel Steel Shop. Eulala was a stenographer. The house was sold by their daughter in 2023.

129 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem
The Albert and Maxie Casey House

• Sold for $301,000 on January 9, 2024 (listed at $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,529 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $197
• Built in 1942
• Listed December 3, 2024
• Last sales: $192,000, June 2019; $132,000, April 2016
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-and-a-half-story side-gable brick Period Cottage with front gable projection; shed-roof porch enclosed with jalousie windows; eight-over-eight and six-over-six windows; gabled dormer.”
  • The address appears in the city directory for the first time in 1943 with Albert Buel Casey (1903-1960) and Maxie Mae “Muzzy” Hoots Casey (1906-1994) listed as residents. Albert worked for the Winston-Salem fire department for 37 years. He was an assistant fire chief when he died of a heart attack at age 57. In 1994 Maxie’s estate sold the house to one of Albert and Maxie’s grandchildren, Mark Casey (1955-2023), who owned the house until 2016.

2448 Patria Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $200,000 on January 9, 2025 (listed at $210,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 988 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1925 (per country, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed November 3, 2024
• Last sale: $60,000, April 2024
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Note: Quickly flipped house. Caveat emptor.
• District NR nomination: “One-story side-gable Craftsman Bungalow with wraparound porch supported by battered posts on brick piers; one-over-one replacement windows; false beams; vinyl siding.”
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1930. The residents were identified as Joseph J. Knott (1883-1934) and Nancy Kinney Knott (1884-1965). Joseph worked for the city water department. They had moved by 1932.