Piedmont Historic Homes

A guide to the most historic, notable and distinctive 18th-, 19th- and early- to mid-20th-century homes now for sale in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region.

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February 28, 2025

A 1932 Farmhouse on 10 Acres in Southern Guilford County, $748,000

7055 Old 421 Road, Guilford County

• $748,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,172 square feet (per county), 10.0 acres
• Price/square foot: $344
• Built in 1932 (per county)
• Listed February 28, 2025
• Last sales: $237,500, September 2017; $227,000, March 2016
• Neighborhood: Located in Guilford County on the Guilford-Randolph county line. The property has a Liberty mailing address.

This has to be one of the most inflated prices in recent memory — the initial price is more than three times the 2017 price. Listing: “Workshop with huge new patio, large tractor shed, stately center aisle barn and grand chicken coop with water and electricity. Fenced yard, extensive irrigated landscaping”

February 28, 2025

A 1926 House in Leaksville with a Very Old Log Cabin, $253,000

457 Ashley Loop, Eden, Rockingham County (7 acres)
457 Ashley Loop, Eden, Rockingham County (2 acres)
Relisted February 28, 2025

• $253,000 (7 acres) (originally $264,000) or …
• … $177,000 (2 acres)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,584 square feet
• Price/square foot: $160 (7 acres)
• Price/square foot: $112 (2 acres)
• 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).

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.

February 28, 2025

A 1922 ‘Craftsman-Influenced’ House in Winston-Salem’s West End, $485,000

122 Crafton Street, Winston-Salem
The Neely-Reavis House

• $485,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,039 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $238
• Built in 1922
• Listed February 27, 2-025
• Last sales: $350,000, March 2022; $44,500, November 1981
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)

District NR nomination: “The Neely-Reavis House is characteristic of many of the simple Craftsman-influenced houses built in the 1910s and 1920s. The two-story frame dwelling has a low hip roof with widely overhanging enclosed eaves, a hipped dormer with battered sides, grouped six-over-one and ten-over-one sash windows, a south side one-story wing, and an entrance with a pedimented, braced hood.”

February 27, 2025

An exemplary 1978 Mid-Century Modern in high Point, $649,900

1804 Dantzler Drive, High Point
The Ralph and Ann Holland House

• $649,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,790 square feet (per county), 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1978
• Listed February 27, 2025
• Last sales: $420,000, January 2023; $270,000, February 2016
• Note: Located on Oak Hollow Lake

The original owners were Ralph Taylor Holland Jr. (1938-1990) and Ann Crockett Holland (1937-2025), who bought the house in 1978. Ralph was proprietor of Ralph Holland Photography in Greensboro. Ann was a school teacher and later an interior designer with Reynolds House Interiors of Greensboro.

February 27, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1932 Brick Cottage in Greensboro, $275,000

707 Englewood Street, Greensboro

• $275,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,206 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1932
• Listed February 27, 2025
• Last sales: $204,900, August 2021; $155,000, March 2014
• Neighborhood: Brice Street

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.

February 27, 2025

A 1925 Cottage in High Point’s Emerywood, $345,000

231 Edgedale Drive, High Point

• $345,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,181 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• 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 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.

February 25, 2025

An 1870 Farmhouse on 7 acres in Randolph County, $275,000

2930 Wayne White Road, Randolph County
The S.W. White Homeplace

• $275,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,524 square feet, 7.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1870
• Listed February 25, 2025
• Last sales: $173,000, November 2003; $4,400, May 1946 (99.43 acres)
• Neighborhood: Located about 2 miles south of Climax and 7 miles east of Level Cross. The property has a Climax mailing address but is across the county line in northeastern Randolph County.

Deeds refer to the property as the “S.W. White Homeplace.” Simon Wilson White (1845-1929) was a native of Randolph County and lived his entire life in this part of the county. The property remained in the White family until 2003. “His acts of kindness and his service to the people around him made him generally beloved,” the Greensboro Daily News said.

February 25, 2025

A 1904 Queen Anne in High Point, $249,000

304 Oakwood Street, High Point

• $249,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,582 square feet (per county, 0.24 acre)
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1904
• Listed February 25, 2025
• Last sales: $215,000, April 2022; $99,000, August 2020; $115,000, July 2007
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house was divided into three apartments, possibly as far back as 1938. It has been returned to single-family. It appears to have been a rental property for most of its existence.

District NR nomination: “Queen Anne style house; L-shaped frame with wooden shingle accent in gables; three-sided end bay on main facade capped with attic pediment; full-facade front porch”

February 24, 2025

A 1948 Methodist Church in eden, $399,900

130 Main Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn August 2, 2023
Relisted February 24, 2025

• $399,000 (originally $540,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 6,552 square feet, 1.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $61
• Built in 1948
• Listed January 30, 2023
• Last sale: April 2022, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Way over there in Draper
• Note: Originally Draper Methodist Church, later First Methodist Church of Draper, First United Methodist Church of Draper and finally First United Methodist Church of Eden

“In 1948 the present building was erected, a handsome, large brick building in the Gothic style, seating some 500 worshippers in the sanctuary. …

“The red brick walls of this gable-front church are laid in a running bond. A trio of main entrances features double raised panel doors on each, set in rounded arches with keystones. Stained glass fills the long and narrow Roman arched windows, with larger stained glass windows on the aide elevations. … A circular stained glass window is centered in the main elevation.” (A Tale of Three Cities: Eden’s Heritage, p. 192)

February 24, 2025

A Homebuilder’s 1936 House in Burlington, $525,000

1106 Aycock Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• $525,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 2,946 square feet (per county), 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1936
• Listed February 24, 2025
• Last sales: $227,000, June 2016; $257,000, February 2002
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: For sale by owner

The original owners appear to have been Harold Calloway Pollard (1881-1949) and Blondie Kernodle Pollard (1892-1976). They were listed on Aycock Avenue in the 1937 city directory, before house numbers were given for the street. Blondie was still listed at 1106 Aycock as late as 1969. Harold was a pioneering local homebuilder, president of Burlington Real Estate Company and secretary-treasurer of Burlington Homes Inc. and of the Central Home Building Association. Blondie was vice president of Burlington Real Estate and succeeded her husband as president.

February 22, 2025

A 1925 Mansion in Greensboro’s Irving Park, Designed by Charles C. Hartmann, $1.675 million

815 Woodland Drive, Greensboro
The Glenn-Duke House
Listing removed and relisted six times since May 2011
Listing withdrawn August 1, 2022; relisted October 29, 2022
Listing removed November 1, 2023
Relisted February 22, 2025

• $1.675 million (originally $1.89 million, later $1.59 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 5,458 square feet (per county), 0.70 acre
• Price/square foot: $307
• Built in 1925
• Listed January 8, 2011
• Last sales: $1.7 million, June 2004; $106,000, June 1973
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)

One of the great mysteries of Greensboro real estate: How can this house be listed for sale over and over, now for 14 years, and not sell? District NR nomination: “a large two-story brick Colonial Revival dwelling with a slate-covered hipped roof and hipped dormers. A handsome Georgian Revival entrance is centered on the seven-bay facade. Two bay windows project from the south side of the house. A large one-story addition with Palladian windows and metal roof has been added recently [1990] to the north side. A brick wall encloses the back yard.”

February 22, 2025

A Spacious 1932 Tudor Cottage in Thomasville, $354,321

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

• $354,321
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,592 square feet (per county), 0.84 acre (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1932
• Listed March 1, 2025
• Last sale: $232,500, June 2024
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: One of the odder prices I’ve seen on a house

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. They both worked at Thomasville Chair Company.

February 21, 2025

A 1966 Mansion in Burlington Designed by William Roy Wallace, $1.4 Million

2511 Pineway Drive, Burlington, Alamance County
The Edgar and Margaret Dameron House

• $1.485 million
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 3 half-bathrooms, 5,290 square feet, 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $281
• Built in 1966
• Listed February 21, 2025
• Last sale: $412,000, May 2020
• Neighborhood: Alamance Country Club
• Listing: “The partially finished basement features a wood burning fireplace, charcoal grill, a half bath, and a safe room.”

Margaret designed the home’s basic floor plan; architect William Roy Wallace drew the working plans. “The architectural style is basically Georgian, having a central main portion with symmetrical wings. The facade is classical revival with Doric fluted columns and an entrance framed by Doric pilasters supported by a broken ogee pediment with a pineapple finial.” (The Daily Times-News, 1975)

February 20, 2025

A 1972 Mid-Century Modern Home in Greensboro’s Hamilton Lakes, $809,000

3313 Kettering Place, Greensboro

• $809,900 (originally $945,000, later $950,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,260 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1972
• Listed December 7, 2023
• Last sale: $249,000, February 1996
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: Views of the third and fifth holes of the Starmount Forest Country Club golf course.

The NC Modernist database shows Mid-Century Modern houses at 3303 Kettering and 3311 Kettering, but doesn’t mention this one. Albert A. Rose and Leah M. Rose (dates unknown for both) bought the property in 1969; the address appeared in the city directory for the first time in 1973. Albert served in the Navy during World War II with the rank of lieutenant commander. He was an accountant and a partner in Rose & Breslow. Leah was born in Guatemala. They sold the house in 1979.

February 19, 2025

A Textile Executive’s 1942 Mansion in Greensboro, $1.3 Million

204 Elmwood Drive, Greensboro
The Bailey and Elizabeth Sellars House

• $1.299 million
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,244 square feet (per county), 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $306
• Built in 1942
• Listed December 5, 2024
• Last sales: $970,000, August 2017; $665,000, March 2015; $605,000, August 2005
• Neighborhood: Irving Park

The original owners were Walter Bailey Sellars (1905-1979) and Elizabeth Sellars (1908-2005). They bought the property in 1938 and were listed at the address in 1942, the first year it was listed in the city directory. Elizabeth sold the house in 1996. Bailey was an executive with Burlington Industries, eventually serving as vice president of research and development.

February 19, 2025

A 1932 Period Cottage in Mebane’s Historic District, $625,000

701 S. 5th Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• $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 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.”

February 18, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1935 Bungalow in Asheboro, $298,000

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

• $298,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,220 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1935
• Listed February 17, 2025
• Last sale: $126,000, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Park Street Terrace

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.

February 18, 2025

A 1924 House in Greensboro’s Westerwood, Flipped with a Huge Markup, $699,900

511 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

• $699,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,042 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $343
• Built in 1924
• Listed February 18, 2025
• Last sale: $250,000, April 2024
• Neighborhood: Westerwood

Flipped house with an huge markup relative to the neighborhood. The house was a rental property until 1953 and then again from 1959 to 1974. The seller in 2024 had owned the house by far the longest of any owners, 41 years.

February 17, 2025

A Historically Intriguing 1858 Mansion in Caswell County, $850,000

11741 N.C. Highway 150, Caswell County
The Ansel Ware House

• $850,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 4,274 square feet, 6.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1858
• Listed February 17, 2025
• Last sale: $283,500, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Stony Creek Township, near the Ashland community. The property has a Reidsville mailing address.

Oddly, the house isn’t documented in records of the State Historic Preservation Office or in An Inventory of Historic Architecture, Caswell County, North Carolina. A trove of historical documents are reported to have been auctioned off in 2020 to a buyer from New York. There’s plenty of lore surrounding the house. The property’s log cabin is said to have sheltered Continental soldiers after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Interior woodwork — much of it unpainted — is attributed to master craftsman Thomas Day of Milton. Jesse James is said to have lived in the house for a time (and, yes, there actually does appear to be evidence that James visited North Carolina). There’s a lot more digging to be done on this one.

The original owner appears to have been farmer Ansel Ware (1802-1872). The property remained in the Ware-Matlock-Griffin family until 2019.

February 15, 2025

A classically Impressive House in Winston-Salem’s West End, $799,900

407 Summit Street, Winston-Salem

• $799,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom and two half-bathrooms, 3,234 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $247
• Built in 1918
• Listed February 20, 2025
• Last sale: $214,000, April 2001
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Law office since 2001
  • Listing: “Currently set up with office space on the main floor and living quarters upstairs with a separate entrance”

District NR nomination: “The Dixon House is a well-preserved, two-story frame, Craftsman-Colonial Revival style dwelling with strong Classical detailing. The dominant feature of the house is the Classical front porch with Roman Doric columns and pilasters, a projecting entrance bay, and a dentiled cornice.”

February 15, 2025

A 1940 Log Cabin Hidden Away on 2 Wooded Acres near Bethabara, $620,000

2106 Bethabara Road, Winston-Salem

• $620,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,048 square feet, 2.44 acres
• Price/square foot: $303
• Built in 1940
• Listed February 7, 2025
• Last sale: $192,000, July 2003
• Neighborhood: Adjacent to the Bethabara Historic District

Something you don’t see every day: The property has “a 40 ton bridge making the site accessible for emergency vehicles.” The property has no road frontage. An easement connects it through an adjoining property.

February 15, 2025

A Backward-Facing 1903 House in Wilkesboro, $549,000 After a Quickie Flip Job

406 Highland Street, Wilkesboro, Wilkes County
The Hemphill-Lowe House

• $549,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 2,584 square feet, 1.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $212
• Built in 1903
• Listed February 14, 2025
• Last sales: $125,000, August 2024; $149,000, April 2008

Oddly, the back of the house faces the street. Caveat emptor — quickie flip job, priced more than four times higher than its August 2024 sale price. For that kind of mark-up, they really should have restored the porch. The house looks so odd without it. Not to be confused with the nearby Lowe-Hemphill House, which is on the National Register.

February 14, 2025

A 1970 MCM House in Roxboro, $320,000

518 Edwin Court, Roxboro, Person County
The Benjamin and Janie Thaxton House

• $320,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,540 square feet, 1.71 acres
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1970
• Listed February 13, 2025
• Last sale: $157,000, April 2020
• Neighborhood: Reade Park

The original owners were Benjamin Adams Thaxton Jr. (1921-1998) and Janie Gilbert Paschal Thaxton (1920-2012). Benjamin was an insurance agent. They bought the property in 1969 and lived there until Benjamin’s death 29 years later. Janie sold the house in 1999.

February 13, 2025

93 Broad Street, Milton, Caswell County
The Wilson-Winstead House

• $450,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,472 square feet, 0.87 acre
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1835
• Listed February 13, 2025
• Last sale: $100,000, April 2020
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• Note: The original, detached brick kitchen still stands behind the house, now converted into a short-term rental with a kitchen and two second-floor bedrooms and a frame smokehouse at the rear.
  • The restoration of the house by its current owners was recognized with an award from Preservation North Carolina in 2024. The restoration included the removal of a 20th-century double front porch. The project also returned the house to single-family occupancy; it had been divided into apartments.

“2-story Flemish bond brick house of retrained transitional Federal-Greek style Revival design on the exterior, and delicate, slightly eccentric Classical Revival interior trim, including an open-string ramped stair and columned mantels which have the stamp of local cabinetmaker Thomas Day.” (An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, by Ruth Little-Stokes and Tony P. Wrenn, 1979, p. 222)

The original owner, John Wilson Sr. (1796-1875), was a merchant and planter. He had three wives and 13 children and outlived all three wives and at least eight of his children. One son who outlived him was Dr. John Wilson Jr. (1828-1892), a physician and educator. His very prominent home next door at 77 Broad Street is also for sale.

February 12, 2025

A 1911 Bungalow in Lexington, After an Over-the-Top Makeover, $390,000

501 W. 2nd Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County

• $390,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,191 square feet (per county), 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1911
• Listed February 12, 2025
• Last sales: $269,000 on January 2022; $157,000, August 2004
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)

The current owners have executed a remarkably gaudy makeover, with multiple non-historic additions to the exterior, including a new marble walk from the street. It’s amazing that a local preservation commission would allow such a falsification of the house’s appearance (unless the owners had evidence that the home originally looked like this). Photos from the 2022 for-sale listing are here and here.

February 12, 2025

A 1910 House in a Burlington Historic District, $380,000

610 Peele Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• $380,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,101 square feet (per listing), 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 1910
• Listed February 12, 2025
• Last sales: $158,000, May 2024; $25,000, September 2012
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Flipped house. Caveat emptor, although this owner appears to have had better taste than most (except for the egregious cheap vinyl floors upstairs).

The early history of the house is obscure. It was built at an unknown address on West Front Street. By 1930 it had been moved to its present location, the address of which was then 508 Peele. That year, the city sold the property and the seven-room house to Cleo Wade Johnson Fonville (1891-1977). The house remained in the Fonville family for 82 years.

District NR nomination: “At the center bay, classical features distinguish the house. Attenuated columns support the entrance porch, an elliptical fanlight appears above the front door, and there is a Palladian window in the second story.”

February 9, 2025

2383 Cedar Falls Road, Cedar Falls, Randolph County
The Austin Lawrence House (also known as the Wrenn House)

• $400,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,668 square feet, 5.57 acres
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1848
• Listed February 11, 2025
• Last sales: $220,000, February 2019; $39,000, August 2002; $34,000, December 2000
• Neighborhood: Located about 6.25 miles northeast of Asheboro and 2.5 miles west of Franklinville. The property has a Franklinville mailing address.
• Note: The property has been designated a Randolph County Historic Landmark.

Local Landmark Designation Report: The house is “built on a rock outcropping on a steep hillside overlooking the Deep River. Its first owner was Austin Lawrence [dates unknown], a mill manager from New England who came to Randolph County with his family to work in the burgeoning textile industry. … After the Lawrence family moved away around 1855, the Cedar Falls Mill Company owned the house and it was rented to various tenants for over 100 years.” In 1999, the Randolph Heritage Conservancy acquired the house from Sapona Manufacturing Company. It sold the house in 2000. A book on the county’s historic architecture calls it “one of the landmarks of the Greek Revival style in Randolph County.”

February 8, 2025

523 E Main Street, Haw River, Alamance County
The Haywood Simpson House

• $200,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,944 square feet (per county), 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1894 (see note)
• Listed January 10, 2025
• Last sale: $162,500, April 2004

Alamance County Architectural Inventory: “This house was built for Mr. Haywood Simpson, one of the first merchants in Haw River who ran the mill commissary with William Anderson. He contributed part of the land for the First Christian Church. Originally a two-story, three-bay wide, single-pile house with a side gable and a ‘Triple-A’ roof form. The house has a hipped roof wraparound front porch supported by piers with slanted sides on brick stacks.” The house remained in the Simpson family for 94 years.

February 7, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1915 House in a Mount Airy Historic District, $215,000

140 W. Poplar Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• $215,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,868 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1915
• Listed February 4, 2025
• Last sale: $69,000, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: “The upstairs is not currently heated; the owners used window units for cooling, and it’s unclear if the central air is operational downstairs.” The upstairs rooms and hallway need some work.

District NR nomination: “The irregular massing and compound roofline are typical of the late Queen Anne style.” Online records give only a few clues about the early history of the house, but by 1928, it was occupied by J. Thomas Smith (1875-1955) and Alice Brann Smith (1873-1971). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Tom was a Post Office clerk and later a mail carrier. Their eighth and last surviving child, Mary Lucile Smith (1917-2000), left the house to the Enon Baptist Church in East Bend, which sold it in 2001.

February 6, 2025

A 1901 House in Greensboro’s Dunleath Historic District, $425,000

711 5th Avenue, Greensboro

• $425,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,470 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1903 (per county, but probably a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed February 4, 2025
• Last sale: $215,000, November 2015
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: A lot of unpainted woodwork distinguishes the interior.
• District NR nomination: “[W]eatherboards sheathe the first story of this dwelling, it is clad in shingles above; dentils adorn its wide friezeboard.”

Cesar Cone and Jeanette Cone bought the property in 1895. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1901. The Cones rented the house out until selling it in 1905. For 14 years, two different landlords rented it to a variety of tenants. In 1919 William Henry Hall (1872-1945) and Caroline Bonner Hall (1879-1963) bought the house to live in, and it remained in their family for 87 years. William was a grocery clerk.

February 4, 2025

A 1934 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, $310,000

3250 S. Stratford Road, Winston-Salem

• $310,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,695 square feet, 0.83 acre
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1934
• Listed August 22, 2024
• Last sales: $175,000, May 2018; $159,950, August 2015

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.

February 4, 2025

A 1922 Bungalow in Greensboro’s College Hill Historic District, $525,000

609 Joyner Street, Greensboro
The Paul M. Johnson House

• $525,000
• 4 bedrooms (per county), 2 bathrooms (per county), 2,040 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $257
• Built in 1922
• Listed February 2, 2025
• Last sale: $46,000, December 1982
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: For sale by owner

District NR nomination: “Sweeping gable roofs punctuated with large triangular knee-braces top this dwelling and its full-facade front porch, which is supported by tapered brick posts.” The house has had only three owners. The original owners were Paul Marcus Johnson (1891-1975) and Ora Jane Knight Johnson (1896-1964). Paul was an engineer on the Atlantic & Yadkin Railway. They bought the property in 1924 and lived there the rest of their lives.

February 2, 2025

290 E. Maple Avenue, Mocksville, Davie County
The Jesse A. Clement House

• $695,000
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,640 square feet, 12.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $263
• Built in 1828 (per county)
• To be listed February 22, 2025
• Last sale: $323,500, June 2006
• Note: The first photo above is the only one included in the initial “coming soon” for-sale listing. Second photo above by Kirk Franklin Mahoney from Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society, via Davie County Public Library and DigitalNC.org.

The Federal-style house was built by prominent plantation owner and businessman Jesse Adam Clement (1808-1876). It remained in the Clement family for 150 years. It was bought in 1978 and restored by Rev. Dr. William Fife Long (1926-2020) and Dr. Ann Phifer Hammond Long (1931-2023). They lived in the house until selling it in 2006 to the current owners, who operated a B&B in the house, the Clement House Bed and Breakfast, with two guest rooms.