Farms and Homes with Acreage: 2026 Sales

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6578 U.S. Highway 15-510, Chatham County
The Dr. Hackney House

  • Sold for $720,000 on February 23, 2026 (listed at $749,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,160 square feet, 7.0 acres
    • House: 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms; apartment: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
  • Price/square foot: $333
  • Built in 1870 (per county; see note)
  • Listed July 27, 2025
  • Last sales: $540,000, April 2021; $275,000, October 2015
  • Neighborhood: Located about 6 1/2 miles northeast of Pittsboro, just north of Bynum and almost to Fearrington. The property has a Pittsboro mailing address.
  • From the 2016 for-sale listing: “[T]his home was moved by the current family in the 60’s to take advantage of the pond view and modernized at that time.”
    • From current listing: “In the 1960s the Jones family brought the home to Chatham County to start a new life.”
  • DigitalNC.org: “a two-story three-bay triple-A house with a centrally placed entrance framed by sidelights and flanked by slender turned porch posts, six-over-six sash windows, two brick chimneys, and a single-pile central-hallway interior.”
  • Note: The listing calls the house “rich in history,” but much of the historic character has been lost. “Modernizing” has included sliding-glass doors and cheap compromises including vinyl siding and replacement windows.
    • The property includes “a remodeled barn which houses a temperature-controlled workout/project area, a workshop and a fully furnished one bedroom apartment.”
    • “Although the triple-A, I-house was a common house type built in Chatham County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many have been destroyed by fire, neglect, or demolition. … [T]he majority of the houses have undergone extensive remodeling. …
    • “The ca. 1890 Dr. Hackney House located in the Bynum vicinity on the east side of US 15/501 (0.8 miles north of the junction with SR 1525) is a two-story, triple-A, I-house with a rear one-story ell that has undergone considerable modernization. The house has vinyl siding, two modern, exterior rear chimneys, new six-over-six, double-hung, sash windows, skylights, a new rear one-story addition, and a new metal roof. There is nothing to suggest the age of this house other than its style.” (NR nomination for the Burdett Woody House, 2008)
    • It’s unknown where the house was moved from or who the original “Dr. Hackney” was. Clarence Eugene Hackney (1883-1957) and Nannie Lee Garner Hackney (1883-1967) were the last members of the family to own the house, selling it in 1963. The only known doctor in the family was their son Dr. James F. Hackney (1906-1987), who spent his career in Atlanta.
    • The buyers in 1963 were Lyle Vincent Jones (1924-2016) and Patricia E. Jones (dates unknown). Lyle was a psychologist and statistician. After serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he received his bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics and psychology at the University of Washington and a doctorate in psychology and statistics from Stanford. In 1957 he came to the University of North Carolina, where he later served as director of the Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory and as dean of the graduate school.
    • The Jones’s son sold the house in 2015.