Piedmont Historic Homes

2114wright

2114 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Hobbs-Linville House

• Sold for $359,000 on December 16, 2025 (originally $419,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,706 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $210
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 21, 2025
• Last sale: $49,500, January 1985
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The second floor is “730 sq ft that is partially finished with ceiling two inches too low to be counted.”
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, three-bay, side-gabled, brick Period Cottage exhibits two front-facing gables with returns and wheel windows in their upper gables. An inset southeast corner entry porch displays an arched bay in its façade and contains a divided-light door. A three-part window dominates the façade; it includes a fifteen-over-one window at the center of flanking nine-over-one lights. An interior chimney rises from the front roof slope. A hip-roofed ell extends from the rear.”
• Clarence A. “Benny” Hobbs (1904-1991) and Margaret Hobbs (1910-1994) bought the property in February 1929 and were listed at the address in the city directory that year. Clarence was a shipping clerk for Wysong and Miles Company, which manufactures woodworking machinery. He also worked as a design engineer in the textile industry. By 1933, they had moved. They sold the house in 1936. They lived for 40 years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where they owned a pet store.
• Robert L. Bentley and Julia F. Bentley (dates unknown for both) had been renting the house before they bought it in 1936. Robert was an insurance claims adjuster. They sold the house in 1937.
• Canton Curtis “C.C.” Linville (1903-1980) and Pearl Knight Linville (1898-1983) bought the house in 1937 and lived there the rest of their lives. C.C. owned a filling station downtown. Pearl was a secretary with the Farm Administration Bureau. Their heirs sold the house to the current owners in 1985.

310 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Nichols-Hall House

• Sold for $300,000 on December 1, 2025 (originally $309,000, later $409,900 and then down to $289,000)
  • Between December 2021 and October 2025, the seller accepted six offers. The first five fell through.
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,221 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built around 1930
• Listed September 25, 2021
• Last sale: $66,500, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The National Register nomination gives circa 1930 as the date of the house and Henry Grady Nichols (1895-19) as the earliest known owner. Deeds show Nichols bought the property in 1923 from his brother, Walter Ernest Nichols (1887-1966), and sister-in-law Metta Llewellyn Nichols (1886-1964).
  • Owned by an LLC in Virginia.
• District NRHP nomination: ““A long flight of steps leads up the steep hill from the street to the front entrance. The square house has weatherboard siding with beveled corners and a hipped roof with intersecting, wood-shingled, gabled dormers. The center-bay front entrance with sidelights is sheltered by a gable-roofed porch with grouped wood posts with lattice between the posts.
  • “The porch on the south side of the house repeats the use of grouped posts with lattice, but also has wood-shingled plinths and skirt. The gabled roofs of the dormers and porches all have overhanging, flared eaves with plain bargeboards that have circular notches at the ends. Windows have grouped nine-over-one or six-over-one sash.”
  • “The earliest known occupant of this one-and-a-half-story frame house was H. Grady Nichols, manager of the Elk Printing Company, which published The Elkin Tribune. Grady Nichols served as manager of the paper, while his brother, Walter E. Nichols (who owned a house—no longer standing—on Gwyn Avenue directly behind Grady Nichols’s house), was editor.
  • “In 1936 the Clyde A. and Mano B. Hall family took occupancy of the house. Clyde Hall worked at the power plant at Chatham Mill; at the time of his death in 1989, he had attained the position of chief engineer at the mill.”
  • Clyde and Mano sold the house in 1972 to the Elkin Presbyterian Church. It was owned by churches for the next 48 years, including the Assemblies of God district office and local nondenominational Trinity Christian Center. It was sold to a real estate investor in Virginia in 2020. She tried but failed to sell it for 11 months in 2021-22 at the height of the COVID home-buying frenzy.

313woodrow

313 Woodrow Avenue, High Point
The Luther and Kathleen Parker House

• Sold for $170,000 on November 19, 2025 (listed at $235,000)
  • A remarkable sale: This was the second accepted offer (the first fell through in four days), and it still took only 18 days from listing to closing. And it went for $65,000 less than the asking price (27 percent). It was being sold by an estate, which may explain why the seller accepted a low offer so quickly.
  • The buyer is RA Smith Interiors of High Point.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,017 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1928
• Listed November 1, 2025
• Last sale: $80,000, October 1989
• Neighborhood: Sherrod Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has had only three owners in 97 years.
  • The low price reflects the need for some interior work, particularly in the kitchen.
  • This house has quite a remarkable bathroom.
• District NR nomination: “1 1/2 story brick Tudor cottage, with stuccoed and ·half-timbered gable ends and a front shed dormer, casement windows (some with transoms) and a half-timbered gable-front entrance stoop.
  • “Luther and Kathleen Parker bought the lot in 1927 and had the house built soon afterward. Parker was a vice-president of Guilford Hosiery Mills and later worked with the Adams-Millis Corporation. The Parkers lived here until 1956. ….
  • “Matching 1 1/2 story brick Tudor garage, with half-timbered and stuccoed front gable.”
  • Robert Lee Boyles (1915-2003) and Annie Garner Boyles (1912-2003) bought the house in 1956. Robert worked for Adams-Millis for 50 years, retiring as vice president of manufacturing. They owned the house for 33 years.
  • The house was bought in 1989 by Marcus Newsome Tuttle (1946-2025). The house is being sold by his estate. He worked for the Alderman Company as a set designer, for Thomasville Furniture as a supervisor in showroom design and for Pearson Furniture as a designer. He was a member of the American Society of Interior Designers and a supporter of the Animal Rescue and Foster Program in Greensboro.

2284 Leonard Road, Davidson County
The Olin and Bessie Berrier House

• Sold for $370,000 on November 17, 2025 (originally $405,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,081 square feet, 7.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1921
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $63,000, January 2002
• Neighborhood: Located just south of the Welcome community, about 5 miles north of Lexington. The property has a Lexington mailing address.
• Note: Olin Gilmer Berrier (1899-1990) and Bessie Leonard Berrier (1902-1987) bought the property as two lots in 1921 and 1930 from his father, Jacob Gordon “Jake” Berrier (1867-1946), and his uncle Samuel Tilden Berrier (1877-1954). Olin and Bessie lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • Olin was an auto mechanic who spent most of his career self-employed. He also formed a dance band that played at square dances around the state. Bessie was a member of Beulah United Church of Christ with 25 years perfect attendance.
  • Olin gave the house to one of their daughters in 1987. She sold it 1990.

206louise

206 Louise Avenue, High Point

• Sold for $430,000 on November 12, 2025 (listed at $425,000)
  • The house went from listing to closing in less than three weeks for $5,000 more than the asking price.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,855 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1909
• Listed October 23, 2025
• Last sales: $275,000, February 2023; $105,000, July 2003
• Note: The house was listed as 2,575 square feet when it was listed for sale in 2023.
  • A relatively uncommon local example of Prairie style, with some Craftsman elements, such as the enclosed eaves. Its Prairie style is seen in the low-pitched, hipped roof; broad overhanging eaves; bands of windows in the dormer; muted earth-tone colors; and strongly horizontal elements such as the wide porch, grouped windows and the long, low proportions. The central entry is framed by massive porch supports and wide openings.
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1927, when it was the home of Edgar N. Allen (1880-1943) and Annie Grady Hastings Allen (1883-1981). Edgar was a traveling salesman. They were listed at the address until 1932.

749morgan

749 Morgan Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Watt and Louella Dunn House

• Sold for $220,000 on October 27, 2025 (originally $200,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,416 square feet, 1.03 acres
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $75,000, June 2007
• Neighborhood: Carolina Heights, Spray
• Note: The house is a Folk Victorian, characterized by its symmetry, wraparound porch, simple trim and siding, and central front gable that breaks up the roofline.
  • Watt Alvis Dunn (1874-1929) and Louella Boaz Dunn (1875-1960) bought the property in 1904. Watt operated the Dunn Livery Stable on the property in a building that stood until the around 1990. After Watt’s death from a brain tumor, Louella operated a grocery store in the building. Ownership of the house passed to their children and then grandchildren, who sold it in 1990.

105fairground

105 Fairground Road, East Bend, Yadkin County

• Sold for $222,000 on October 20, 2025 (originally $249,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,154 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1890
• Listed June 6, 2025
• Last sales: $200,000, April 2024; $48,500, November 2022; $52,000, April 2020
• Note: Little historic character remains inside after a flip job by a previous owner, but at least they left the wood siding intact.
  • How it looked when it was sold in 2022:

15wdevonshire

15 W. Devonshire Street, Winston-Salem
The Henry and Mary Lindley House

• Sold for $305,000 on October 9, 2025 (listed at $299,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,496 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1917
• Listed September 4, 2025
• Last sale: $75,000, November 2004
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings say the house is in the Washington Park neighborhood, but it’s just inside the Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story bungalow has a recessed porch with paired square posts on brick piers; nine-over-one windows; Craftsman-style door; knee braces; asbestos shingle siding.”
  • West Devonshire Street doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1923, but as early as 1919, Henry Columbus Lindley (1894-1979) and Mary A. Lindley (1896-1957) were listed at the corner of Lexington Road and Devonshire. They owned the house for the rest of their lives. Henry left it to their son, Henry Jr., who passed it on to Henry III in 1981. Henry II sold it in 1995.
  • Mary lived in the Central Terrace neighborhood her entire life. She was a graduate of Salem College and served on the board of trustees of City Hospital. She was active in a number of organizations, serving as president of the Lynga Longa Club, the Southside Embroidery Club and the Woman’s Missionary Union of Southside. Her obituary recognized her as “a well-known accordion player.”
  • Henry Sr. was a clerk for R.J. Reynolds before going to work for Barber Photo Supply in 1929. He later bought the business. He retired 20 years later, turning the shop over to Henry Jr., who renamed it Lindley Photo Company.

• Sold for $410,000 on October 1, 2025 (originally $489,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,557 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $263
• Built in 1938
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sales: $251,000, January 2025; $25,000, March 1977
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Quickie flip job with a hugely inflated price, highlighted by one of the worst current trends in real estate. Painting brick walls invites a variety of problems. And it can’t be undone.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half-story; side gable; brick; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; front-gable porch with catslide roof line and arched openings; brick piers; round-head door; facade chimney; round-head attic window.”
  • The original owners were James Louis Snyder (1884-1958) and Ruth Olivia Hauser Snyder (1896-1963), shown at the address in the 1939 city directory, the first year it was listed. James was a captain in the fire department, Truck Company No. 1. After James’s death, Ruth continued to live in the house until she died in 1963.
  • In 1977, Rebecca Jane Brown Day (1926-2012) bought the house. It’s now being sold by her daughter. Rebecca was a native of Pinnacle and a graduate of Salem College in home economics and music. She worked as a tailoring instructor, special education teacher, retail manager and government researcher. She was married to William H. Day (1925-2005). William was an Air Force veteran of World War II and Korea. He worked for the federal Defense Logistics Agency for 35 years and later for Time-Warner Cable.

107wdevonshire

107 W. Devonshire Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $375,000 on September 29, 2025 (listed at $365,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,667 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $225
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 28, 2025
• Last sales: $227,000, April 2020; $200,000, February 2018
• Neighborhood: Washington Park
• The house is between the Washington Park and Sunnyside/Central Terrace historic districts.

312 Hillside Drive, Greensboro
The Thomas and Jennie Sumner House

• Sold for $263,000 on September 5, 2025 (listed at $269,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,298 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1920 (per county, or a bit later; see note)
• Listed July 5, 2025
• Last sale: $113,500, May 2005
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The backyard slopes down to the final leg of the Downtown Greenway, which runs along the rear property line. It’s being finished with a scheduled completion date of Spring 2026.
  • The original owners were Thomas B. Sumner (1861-1935) and Jennie Turner Sumner (1867-1959). They bought the property in 1922 and were listed there in 1923, the first year the address was listed in the city directory. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • Thomas worked for Southern Railway with the title of “storekeeper.” Daughter Jessye Gertrude Sumner (1887-1968) took ownership after her mother’s death. Her estate sold the house in 1969.

342 Cliff Road, Asheboro, Randolph County
The Guy and Mary Williams House

• Sold for $275,000 on September 4, 2025 (originally $308,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,045 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1939
• Listed July 3, 2025
• Last sale: $99,000, February 2012
• Neighborhood: Greystone Terrace
• Note: The original owners were Guy T. Williams (1902-1985) and Mary Ethel Cagle Williams (1908-2001), who bought the property in 1938 and soon built the house. Guy was an engineer with the Norfolk & Southern Railway. The property remained in their family for 74 years.
  • Guy and Mary sold the property in 1959 to Mary’s sister and brother-in-law Margaret Cagle Britt Hopkins Inman (1919-2011) and Hubert Grady Britt (1919-1964).
  • Hubert was the first of Margaret’s three husbands. She outlived them all. She worked as a looper in hosiery mills before attending Asheboro Beauty College and starting her own business, Margaret’s Beauty Salon. Later, she became a real-estate agent and owned Hopkins Reality until her retirement in 1992. Margaret’s estate sold the house in 2012.

1023 Montgomery Street, Winston-Salem
The George and Alice Oakley House

• Sold for $303,500 on September 3, 2025 (listed at $310,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,192 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $255
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $142,500, March 2025; $173,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: How it looked when it was sold in March 2025.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One story; side gable; front-gable porch; metal posts on brick piers; vinyl siding; knee braces; one-over-one replacement windows.”
  • The house appears to have been a rental initially, with several different residents from 1923 to 1929. The first owner-occupants were George Leslie Oakley (1897-1962) and Laura Alice McNeely Oakley (1897-1990), who bought the house in 1928 after it was foreclosed upon. George was a police officer. They were listed at the address beginning in 1930 and lived there the rest of their lives. Their daughter sold the house in 2003.

524 Julian Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $153,262 on September 2, 2025 (listed at $159,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,453 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $105
• Built in 1920 (per county, but maybe a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed July 9, 2025
• Last sale: $8,250, March 1953
• Neighborhood: Ole Asheboro
• Note: The house has had only three owners in 105 years. Pattie Cline Troxler (1882-1948) bought the property in 1919 and were listed at the address that year, the first time it was included in the city directory. She and her husband, Leslie Caldwell Troxler, (1884-1959), were named on the mortgage, but only her name was on the deed. Leslie owned Gate City Grocery on Gorrell Street.
  • The Troxlers sold the house in 1945 to Jack Garland Wyrick (1912-1996) and Edna Pearle Troxler Wyrick (1912-2008). The familial relationship of Edna and Leslie Troxler, if any, is unknown. Jack was a bus driver for Carolina Coach Company.
  • In 1953, Ethbert Spelman Carr (d. 1982, age 67) and Virginia Henderson Carr (1910-1995) bought the house. They lived in it the rest of their lives, and it has been in their family ever since.
  • Ethbert was an associate professor of agricultural engineering at N.C. A&T State University. He attended Hampton Institute and was the first black graduate in agricultural engineering at Ohio State University. He taught at Prairie View State University before coming to A&T. He was also Prairie View’s basketball coach and an assistant football coach. He gave swimming lessons at the Windsor Recreation Center and served as an official tournament timekeeper with the Central Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association. He was a member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Phi Delta Kappa Educational Honor Society and Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society.
  • Virginia was a graduate of Virginia Union University. She was a school teacher and a longtime voter registrar.
  • Their son, Ethbert Jr., is an A&T graduate, Army veteran and longtime executive with the Eastman Company, the chemical company spun off from Eastman Kodak.

529 Hillcrest Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $180,000 on August 29, 2025 (originally $344,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,192 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 30, 2023
• Last sales: $147,000, September 2016; $180,000, August 2006
• Note: The earliest known residents were Clarence E. Ferguson and Ruth M. Ferguson, listed in the city directory in 1935. Before that, houses on Hillcrest Avenue weren’t identified with numbers. Clarence was an agent for Metropolitan Life.
  • By 1937, James Wilbur Robertson (1885-1973) and Netta Beatrice Cook Robertson (1890-1984) were listed at the address. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Netta’s heirs sold the house in 1984. Wilbur was a linotype operator at the Daily Times-News.

3 Elliott Drive, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Jake and Zondal Sechrest House

• Sold for $255,000 on August 28, 2025 (originally $354,321)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,592 square feet (per county), 0.84 acre (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1932
• Listed March 1, 2025
• Last sale: $232,500, June 2024
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: The previous prices on this listing have been $354,321, $308,268 and $289,999.
  • Thomasville Historic Preservation Commission: “One-and-one half story cross-gabled Tudor Revival house with brick exterior at first story and stucco and faux half-timbering in gables. Windows are four over four and six over six. Small flat-roofed wings at North and South elevations are sheathed in German siding and shingles. This was the third home built on Elliott Drive. The same architect built this home and its Tudor neighbor at 7 Elliott.”
  • The earliest known residents were Jacob Raymond “Jake” Sechrest (1898-1981) and Zondal Ellen Myers Sechrest (1904-1997), listed in the 1933 city directory. The house was sold by Zondal’s estate some 64 years later. Jake was a foreman at Thomasville Furniture Company. He was a member of Heidelberg United Church of Christ and served on the building committee when the Gothic Revival church was built from 1946-1955. At the time of his death, he was a deacon emeritus.
  • Zondal attended Elon College, where a scholarship was established in her name. She worked for Thomasville Furniture Industries for 42 years. She was a member of the Thomasville Womans Club and the Business and Professional Women. She was a painter who won a blue ribbon at a local arts festival for a painting that she donated to the women’s club in 1981. Interestingly, she was an active member of a different church, Memorial United Methodist, where she served as president of the Ladies Bible Class and recording secretary of the church administrative board.

13469 N.C. Highway 86 S., Prospect Hill, Caswell County

• Sold for $197,500 on August 28, 2025 (listed at $197,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,340 square feet, 1.01 acres
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 12, 2025
• Last sale: $190,000, December 2023
• Neighborhood: Located 2 miles northwest of Prospect Hill and about 13 miles southeast of Yanceyville.
• Note: The property was owned by the Warren-Nelson family from before 1927 until 2006. William Thomas Jefferson Warren (1852-1941) sold this property in 1927 as part of a 105-acre tract to his daughter Mary Alice Warren Nelson (1883-1971) and her husband David Sam Nelson (1890-1972). William was the last surviving member of Hyco Primitive Baptist Church. David was a farmer. David and Mary’s descendants sold the property in 2006.

612 Rockford Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Grover and Roxie Wright House

• Sold for $343,000 on August 26, 2025 (originally $369,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,567 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1941
• Listed February 14, 2025
• Last sale: $125,000, January 2016
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “A ‘tabernacle’ of unknown denominational affiliation stood at this hilltop site in the 1920s, according to Sanborn maps. The story-and-a-half Tudor Revival house that stands there now was probably built in the 1930s. The brick-veneered house has several attributes of the style such as multiple front gables of differing sizes, a Tudor arch over the front entry, and an entry hall window with diamond-pattern muntins.
  • “The larger of the two front gables engages a porch with brick corner pillars, bracketed posts, and a turned balustrade. (Originally the porch wrapped around the north side of the house.)
  • “Over the windows (which have replacement sashes) are basketweave brick lintels. The roof has asphalt shingle roofing, novelty vinyl siding in the gables, and a gabled front dormer. An angled bay window on the north side, and interior brick chimneys are other features. The address was formerly 333 Rockford.
  • “Grover C. Wright and Albert Davis are listed at the address in 1949 in a city directory, followed by Grover’s widow Roxie Ashburn Wright in 1962. Roxie offered ‘furnished rooms’ to the public.”

• Sold for $450,000 on August 21, 2025 (listed at $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,679 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $268
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 13, 2025
• Last sale: $290,000 on June 29, 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing shows four bedrooms; county records and the 2021 for-sale listing say three.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. Side gable; one story; brick; engaged, comer porch with gable and brick piers; front gable entry pavilion; front gable projection; gable ends have stucco and half timbering; six-over-six, double-hung sash; battered facade chimney; false beams; stone retaining wall; decorative brickwork includes Flemish bond and basketweave course near cornice.”
  • The original owners were Kenny Woodruff Sink (1900-1969) and Evola Walker Sink (1900-1976), who were listed at the address in 1931, the first year it was included in the city directory. They lived in the house the rest of their lives. Woodruff was a bookkeeper for R.J. Reynolds, where he worked for 52 years. Evola was a school teacher who taught in Draper and Davie County.

206eallenton

206 E. Allenton Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County

• Sold for $190,000 on August 20, 2025 (originally $289,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,532 square feet, 0.77 acre
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 22, 2024
• Last sale: $3,000, May 1986

• Sold for $380,000 on August 15, 2025 (originally $499,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,463 square feet, 2.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $154
• Built in 1900 (per county)
• Listed July 17, 2024
• Last sale: $70,000, June 2006
• Location: Just off South Church Street near the city limits
• Note: Pervious online listings gave to date of the house as 1860.
  • The property includes a three-bay shop with a large door and air compressor.

• Sold for $330,000 on August 15, 2025 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,448 square feet (per county), 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 23, 2025
• Last sale: $148,000, October 2015
• Neighborhood: The Guilford-Alamance county line runs diagonally across the back yard. The house and most of the lot are in Alamance (GIS photo above).

166 Bowles Road, Mocksville, Davie County
The McClamrock House

• Sold for $270,000 on August 8, 2025 (listed at $279,000)
  • The house went from listing to closing in 15 days. The buyer’s address of record is in Venice, Florida.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,038 square feet, 3.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1948
• Listed July 24, 2025
• Last sale: The property hasn’t been sold since the house was built.
• Note: In 1947 Calvin Luther McClamrock (1873-1960) gave or sold the property to his grandson Calvin Lucious “Bud” McClamrock (1925-1991). The elder Calvin was a farmer; Bud was a carpenter. In 1980, Bud passed ownership to his wife or ex-wife, Louise Ward McClamrock (1928-2024). Louise’s estate is now selling the house.

1444 Buxton Road, Hamptonville, Yadkin County
The William and Mary Branon Farm

• Sold for $293,500 on August 4, 2025 (listed at $302,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,786 square feet, 2.16 acres
• Price/square foot: $164
• Built in 1907 (per county)
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $165,500, August 2020; $94,000, September 2004
• Note: William Fred Branon (1893-1965) and Mary Pearl Hinson Branon (1901-1987) bought the property in 1922. It was sold after Mary’s death.

232 S. Marshall Street, Graham, Alamance County

• Sold for $388,000 on August 1, 2025 (listed at $395,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,508 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $257
• Built in 1934
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sales: $170,000, July 2024; $14,500, October 1975
• Note: Flipped house — caveat emptor.
  • The earliest known owners were Jerome H. Thomson (1858-1930) and Nancy Payne Thompson (1858-1940). Mary sold the property in 1934 to their daughter and Mary Ethel Thompson Jones (1890-1982) and Thomas Atlas Jones (1887-1969). Mary Jones sold the house in 1975. Thomas worked for Travora Textiles.
  • William R. Cooke Jr. bought the house in 1975. Ownership remained in the Cooke family until 2024.

708 Main Street W., Elkin, Surry County
The Van and Eva Dillon House

• Sold for $510,000 on July 31, 2025 (listed at $489,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,735 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1940 (per county)
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $266,000, September 2019
• Note: The listing says the house is within walking distance of the Reeves Theater.
  • The property includes a swimming pool.
  • The basement has an in-law suite, and an unfinished section can serve as a shop or studio..
  • The listing gives a 1938 date for the house.
  • The property was bought in 1941 by Van W. Dillon Sr. (1888-1960) and Eva Seawright Dillon (1898-1981). Van worked for Elkin Furniture Company for 29 years. He was secretary-treasurer at the time of his death at age 72. Van was twice-widowed when he married Eva. His children sold the house in 1984.
  • James R. Shover and Faye Nanette Shover bought the house in 1984. They operated the Dance Upstairs dance studio. Nanette sold the house in 2017.

2216 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $312,000 on July 31, 2025 (originally $409,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,365 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $185,000, March 2020
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story Craftsman bungalow has an engaged porch supported by battered posts on brick piers; vinyl siding; one-over-one, paired replacement windows; a gabled dormer; false beams; and a multi-light door.”

229 Orchard Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Fred and Lottie Quesinberry House

• Sold for $442,500 on July 29, 2025 (listed at $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,854 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $239
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sales: $419,000, July 2023; $255,000, August 2019
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half house that appears to be a Craftsman bungalow with an extensive late 2010s Craftsman-inspired remodeling.
  • “The frame house has modern board-and-batten siding and a composite-shingled side-gable roof with a shed dormer. The engaged front porch has modern paneled square wood columns and the original weatherboarded railing has been removed.
  • “Inside the porch is an entry with a Craftsman-inspired door with an eight-pane window with a ‘corbeled’ sill above a single tall wood panel. The door may be a reproduction.
  • “In the gables are modern stick ornament and on each side elevation is a pent roof, also new. Other features include a brick foundation (probably the only original material now visible), replacement windows, and a modern rear deck.
  • “A concrete tire strip driveway leads to a carport on the east side of the lot. 1929 Sanborn map address: 198.
  • “Several individuals are listed at the address in 1913, apparently at a previous house on the site. F. [Fred] B. Quesinberry is listed at the address in 1928 and 1962. The county date for the property is 1920.”
  • Fred (1895-1980) was a construction worker. He and Lottie Bell Hall Quesinberry (1895-1980) bought three properties between 1919 and 1926; this is likely one of them (obsolete and/or illegible descriptions in deeds make it difficult to tell for sure). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives.

446 Durham Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $164,000 on July 29, 2025 (originally $170,200)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,134 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1900
• Last sale: $25,000, March 2016
• Note: Rental property
  • The house was owned from 1922 to 1938 by Joseph Wilson Fulk (1875-1938). He operated a grocery store and filling station nearby at 214 S. South Street. “He was one of the town’s most prominent citizens, a former member of the board of aldermen, and a leading merchant,” The News & Observer reported in his obituary.
  • When Joe died intestate, he was seized and possessed of several lots, parcels and tracts of land in Surry County, all in his name only. It took two years for his wife and their six children to work out who got what. His wife, Mamie Alice Lowry Fulk (1879-1969), ended up with the house.

104 Rockingham Street, Carthage, Moore County

• Sold for $330,000 on July 22, 2025 (originally $360,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,990 square feet, 0.4 acre
• Price/square foot: $166
• Built in 1914
• Listed July 14, 2023
• Last sale: $145,000, February 2012

103 S. Sunset Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $332,800 on July 20, 2025 (listed at $319,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,286 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $259
• Built circa 1924
• Listed June 11, 2025
• Last sale: $142,000, May 2015
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house has been sold five times in this century.
• District NR nomination: “This neat one-story bungalow has a pyramidal roof with right front and left side intersecting gables, grouped windows, a front entrance with sidelights, and a corner porch with Tuscan posts on stuccoed plinths.
  • “The house has been recently covered with vinyl siding, but still makes a definite contribution to the architectural character of the neighborhood.
  • “The first city directory listing for this property was in 1925 as the residence of W.B. Pollard, Jr. In 1926, however, Mrs. Emily Thompson [1874-1936] listed the property for taxes… She was a probation officer for the County Welfare Department.” Emily later was director of child welfare and mothers aid. She lived in the house for the rest of her life. Emily was a widow; her husband, Walter R. Thompson (1875-1921), had been superintendent of the Methodist Children’s Home.
  • “After mid century the house became rental property.
  • “Behind the house is a one-car garage with weatherboard siding and a hip roof which appears to pre-date 1930.”

1309 Latham Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $592,000 on July 15, 2024 (listed at $595,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,546 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1940
• Listed May 29, 2025
• Last sales: $375,000, April 2020; $337,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • The original owner was Ruth M. Barnes (1903-1998, later Ruth Bowman), who bought the property in 1940 and was listed at the address in the city directory in 1941. She had owned and operated the family business, Barnes Furriers, since the death of her husband Milton in 1932. She owned the house for the rest of her very long life. It was sold by her heirs in 1999.

705 Twyckenham Drive, Greensboro
The Kesler House

• Sold for $530,000 on July 15, 2025 (originally $575,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,349 square feet (per county), 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 8, 2025
• Last sale: $168,000, May 1995
• Neighborhood: Lake Daniel
• Note: Online listings show 2,588 square feet.
  • The house includes an in-law suite.
  • One of the oldest homes in Lake Daniel. Although development of the neighborhood began in 1926, less than 10 percent of its homes were built before 1940.
  • Neighborhood developer Garland Daniel lost the property to foreclosure in 1929. The address first appears in the city directory in 1931, suggesting Daniel may have built the house before losing the property. The lender retained ownership until 1943, when Dr. Robert Cicero Kesler (1902-1981) and Elizabeth Ann Grossman Kessler (1905-1947) bought the house. It remained in their family for 45 years. They rented the house out before moving into it around 1947, shortly before Elizabeth’s death at age 41.
  • Robert was a physician. He lived in the house for the rest of his life. His sons and widow, Ruth Lee Kesler (1918-1996), sold the house in 1988.

504 Hillcrest Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $290,000 on July 14, 2025 (originally $280,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,124 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 26, 2022
• Last sale: $155,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local)
• Note: The property is in the local historic district, but outside the boundary of the National Register district.

3250 S. Stratford Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $265,000 on July 14, 2025 (originally $310,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,695 square feet, 0.83 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1934
• Listed August 22, 2024
• Last sales: $175,000, May 2018; $159,950, August 2015
• Note: The house is next door to a building where multiple restaurants have been located, including Aqui es Mexico 2, Cimmaron Steakhouse, Hawgfish Shack and Putters.

1804 Madison Avenue, Greensboro
The Gertrude and Hamilton Van Horn House

• Sold for $525,000 on July 11, 2025 (listed at $525,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,019 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $260
• Built in 1939
• Listed June 7, 2025
• Last sale: $96,000, January 1991
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, four-bay, side-gabled, brick Period Cottage displays an off-center, front-facing, brick projection on the east end of the façade. A shed-roofed, brick entry vestibule pierced by a paneled wood and multi-light door framed by plain pilasters and a molded cornice is located just left (west) of the front-facing gable. A tall, narrow, three-light window occupies the wall just to the east of the entry. …
  • “Windows throughout are six-over-six, including those in the pair of front-gabled, asbestos-shingled dormers. A brick chimney rises from the west gable end, forward of the roof ridge. A small, hip-roofed brick wing with a larger, asbestos-sheathed, hip-roofed wing attached to its rear occupies the east gable end.
  • “A one-story, one-bay-wide, side-gabled, brick wing stands on the rear (north) end of the west gable end. An arched-bay entry porch on its façade is recessed beneath the side-gabled roof.
  • “Mr. Van Horn was a salesman, according to the city directory for 1942.”

809 Simpson Street, Greensboro
The Donnell-Rogers House

• Sold for $425,000 On July 11, 2025 (listed at $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,388 square feet (per county), 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1915
• Listed May 16, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, September 2000
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a cottage in the backyard that has been rented out.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1910-15, G.E. Donnell, Dairyman”
  • The address was first listed in the city director in the 1913-14 edition, with George Emsley Donnell (1857-1947) listed as resident. George was a dairy farmer. He and his wife, Mary Louise “Loula” Donnell (1860-1948), bought the property in 1912. They lost it to foreclosure in 1930.
  • The house was sold in 1930 to Benjamin Franklin Rogers (1895-1969) and Mary Sue Farrell Rogers (1904-1979). It remained in their family for 57 years. Benjamin was an Army veteran of World War I and manager of the Tomlinson Company, a plumbing-supplies wholesaler. He later served as president and chairman of the company. Their daughter sold the house in 1987.

219 E. Swannanoa Avenue, Liberty, Randolph County

• Sold for $455,000 on July 10, 2025 (originally $495,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,634 square feet, 1.59 acres
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1925
• Listed December 10, 2024
• Last sales: $151,000, May 2018; $150,000, April 2009
• Note: The property includes a three-car detached garage with guest quarters.
  • The house was owned from 1939 to 1950 by Chester Bourne (d. 1967, age 76) and Blanche McDowell Bourne (d. 1967, age 75). In 1950 they sold it to their daughter Judith Bourne Reitzel (1926-1993) and son-in-law George Armpstead Reitzel (1912-1993). George served in a tank division in World War II. He owned a grocery store. They died in an automobile accident. George’s estate sold the house in 1995.

446 Brent Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $294,900 on July 9, 2025 (listed at $294,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,070 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $276
• Built in 1926
• Listed April 25, 2025
• Last sale: $175,000, October 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. Side gable; asbestos siding; front gable donner; engaged porch with square posts; three (vertical light)-over-one sash; exposed rafter tails; knee braces. 1928 CD: Miss Blanche Early, clerk at Gilmer Dry Goods Company.”

1501 Wiltshire Street, High Point

• Sold for $282,000 on July 9, 2025 (listed at $275,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,853 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $152
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $140,000, September 2020; $124,900, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Forest Park
• Note: In its first 78 years, the house had four owners. This would be the fourth time the house has been sold since 2011.
  • The house was initially a rental. Walter Sohnchen (1906-1984) and Gertrude Ida Pauline “Trudy” Amstein Sohnchen (1908-1960) were the earliest known tenants, listed in the city directory from 1935. They bought the house in 1941 and owned it until 1956, when they moved to Sedgefield. Walter and Trudy were born in Germany. Walter was manager of Superior Trademark Manufacturing and later owned Crest Labor Corp.
  • In 1956 the house was bought by William Luther Davis (1912-1963) and Lavinia Ann Putnam Davis (1918-1991). William was a salesman and later sales manager for Lingle Bakery in Winston-Salem. He was a Mason and a member of the Furniture City Coin Club.
  • Ann earned degrees in social work from UNC-Chapel Hill and Northwestern University. She served as a social worker. After William’s death, she moved to Fayetteville and was an assistant professor of social work at Methodist College.
  • Ann sold the house to Ralph L. Sheppard (1921-2010) and Margaret Nannette Tucker Sheppard (1919-2010 )in 1964. It was owned by their family for 47 years. Ralph was a World War II veteran, serving with the Army in North Africa, Sicily and on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He was awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He worked for the Guilford County Department of Social Services for 30 years.
  • Nannette was a nurse. During World War II, she worked at the Naval hospital in Seattle. In High Point, she worked as a school crossing guard for Montlieu Avenue School. When she retired, she was the oldest employee and longest term employee of the City of High Point. Nannette’s heirs sold the house in 2011.
  • The current owners have greatly improved the appearance of the front door. Photo from the home’s 2020 listing:

674 Chestnut Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $300,000 on July 8, 2025 (originally $355,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,262 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $238
• Built circa 1930
• Listed November 25, 2024
• Last sales: $325,000, June 2022; $125,000, July 2007
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
• District NRHP nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1925-30, Baxter Poole, Plumber, Crutchfield Plumbing Co.”
  • Although county records give a 1938 date, the address first appears in the city directory in 1930 with Baxter Poole as the occupant.
  • The house was built by William B. Mendenhall, president of Guilford Lumber & Manufacturing Company, who bought the property in 1919. In 1934 he lost the house to foreclosure. From 1934-39, an out-of-owner continued to rent the house out.
  • Joseph Mitchell (1892-1974) and Affe Shahane Mitchell (1901-1982) bought the house in 1939, and it remained in their family for 48 years. Joseph was a salesman and later operated a general merchandise store, Mitchell’s, at 311 East Market Street. He and Affe were born in Lebanon. Their neighbors two doors away were Abdou and Edna Showfety, who also were born in Lebanon.

831 Carolina Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $875,000 on July 7, 2025 (listed at $799,000)
  • The house went from listing to closing in 18 days at $76,000 more than the asking price.
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 2,448 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $357
• Built in 1923
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $570,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Online listings show 3,005 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “The Sharp-Connell House is a classic bungalow typical of many of those built in the 1910s and 1920s. The one-and-a-half story frame dwelling has a weatherboarded first story and a wood shingled second story, a broad gable roof with overhanging braced eaves and a matching front dormer, and a broad gabled front porch with tapered wood posts on brick plinths with a plain balustrade.
  • “The first owner-occupants were Harry G. and Beulah Sharp, who owned the property from 1923 to 1945. He was secretary-treasurer of the C.C. Sharp Co., a wholesale produce business.”
  • In 1946 the house was bought by Clifford C. Connell and Callie B. Connell (dates unknown for both). Her estate sold the house in 1994. Clifford was a ticket agent for the N&W Railway. Callie was a switchboard operator supervisor at Baptist Hospital.