Piedmont Historic Homes

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1412 Rankin Mill Road, McLeansville, Guilford County
The Baxter and Rosa Goodwin House

• Sold for $190,000 on April 8, 2026 (listed at $205,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,876 square feet, 10.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 23, 2022
• Last sales: $108,200, March 2018; $13,000, December 2017; $145,000, May 2010; $150,000, June 2007
• Neighborhood: Located just outside the Greensboro’s eastern city limit, about 4 miles west of McLeansville. The Greensboro Urban Loop (Interstate 840) runs along the relatively short northeast boundary of the property. The house is at the opposite end in the southwest corner.
• Note: There’s probably little hope for this house, since the listing calls it “an abandoned farmhouse that is not livable.”
  • The listing just six years ago saw it much differently: “Own your own mini farm or start a vineyard on this 10 acre lot with vintage farmhouse. Large rooms, tall ceilings, classic entry hall with banister, over large covered front porch. Affordable price to make this home your own.”
  • Five years later, the 2022 listing said the house and multiple buildings had no value. The house has no heating or air conditioning systems.
  • From 1937 to 2007, the property was owned by the family of Baxter Carr Goodwin (1893-1941) and Rosa Hester Tuck Goodwin (1893-1945). Although he owned 155 acres of land, Baxter wasn’t a farmer. He was listed in census records through the years as a machinist, carpenter and foreman. Baxter and Rosa were married in 1914. They had at least 10 children between 1917 and 1931, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
  • The house was sold in 2007 by a bank handling the estate of the Goodwins’ daughter Betty Jean Goodwin (although she didn’t die until 2013, age 82). The buyer was a residential developer who apparently did nothing with the property but sell it three years later.
  • The 2017 sale was for $13,000 to a nonprofit organization; the price was a large discount to its appraised tax value of $119,700. The organization then sold it a year later for $109,000.

2079 Shady Grove Road, Providence, Caswell County
The Hodges-Carter House

• Sold for $315,000 on March 3, 2026 (originally $475,000)
  • The buyer’s address of record is in Port Richey, Florida.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,472 square feet (per county), 11.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1840
• Listed July 7, 2025
• Last sale: $85,500 (bought in three transactions between 1989 and 1994)
• Neighborhood: Located about halfway between Providence and Pelham, about 11 1/2 miles northwest of Yanceyville. The property has a Providence mailing address.
• Note: The house is given an 1840 date in An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina. County records say 1940.
  • “1 1/2 story Federal-style house overbuilt by addition of 2-story frame house in late 19th century. Almost no original exterior fabric remains on earlier section. Later house has decorative cross gables. A log kitchen or quarters and a smokehouse, perhaps contemporary with early house, remain [as of 1979].” (An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, p. 175)
  • Some of the log walls of the original house can be seen on the interior.

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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.