Piedmont Historic Homes

The most remarkable houses taken off the market without sales in recent months

Withdrawn Listings 2018-2025

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303 Burke Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County (click here for PDF if link is broken)
The Burke Manor Inn & Pavilion
Listing withdrawn January 2021; relisted March 2021
Listing withdrawn November 2021; relisted January 2023
Listing withdrawn August 2025

• $2.3 million (originally $2.2 million)
• Listing: 9 guest rooms
  • Guilford County records: 6 bedrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms, 5,166 square feet
  • 3.3 acres, split by the Guilford-Alamance county line (2.64 acres in Guilford County and 0.67 acres in Alamance)
• Price/square foot: $445
• Built in 1906
• Original listing date not known
• Last sale: $1.1 million, January 2011
• From the website of this “North Carolina inn and restaurant for sale”: “Caesar Cone, a textile magnate and co-founder of Cone Mills Corporation, built the house on 303 Burke Street in 1906. In 1911, Caesar Cone sold the home to J.W. Burke, where 4 generations of the Burke family resided in the estate. The Brady Family bought Burke Manor in 1999 and restored the home to its original grandeur, as designed by the Cone family. The Brady’s converted the grounds into an inn with the idea of transforming the house into a bed & breakfast. The owners today, Lori and Lil Lacassagne, purchased Burke Manor in 2011.”
  • Broker listing: “a Select Registry® Inn with a AAA 4-Diamond Restaurant and purpose-built wedding and event pavilion”
  • “The manicured grounds and gardens at this North Carolina Inn and restaurant for sale also feature a fenced-in pool area and a Pool Cottage that is currently in use as owner’s quarters, but could be converted to a 10th guest room.”
  • Search-engine optimization note: Four of the first five paragraphs of the listing contain the words “North Carolina Inn and restaurant for sale” or “North Carolina inn for sale”.
  • For some reason, the State Historic Preservation Office lists it as the “Clarence Cone, Sr. House.”

2511 Pineway Drive, Burlington, Alamance County
The Edgar and Margaret Dameron House
Listing withdrawn May 17, 2025

• $1.325 million (originally $1.485 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 3 half-bathrooms, 5,290 square feet, 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $250
• 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.”
• Note: The house was built by Edgar Samuel Williamson Dameron Jr. (1920-2009) and Margaret Abbott Dameron (1927-2019), who bought the property in 1962. Edgar served as a combat engineer in North Africa, Italy and Sicily during World War II. He practiced law with his father before serving as district attorney in Alamance County. He also served as a member and as chairman of the Burlington city school board. He taught Sunday school for 63 years at Front Street United Methodist Church and was an accomplished woodworker and kite-maker.
  • 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 house is built around a central stair hall with a stair arch at the rear and major first floor rooms to the left and right.
  • “The stairway, featuring fluted ballisters and brackets with acanthus scrolls, is similar to that of Gunston Hall, Fairfax, County, Va.” (The Daily Times-News, December 7, 1975, by the longtime “Women’s Editor,” the wonderful Essie Norwood).

709 Forrest Street, High Point
The Thomas and Viola Moran House
Sale pending March 20, 2024, to March 13, 2025
Listing withdrawn March 13, 2025

• $320,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,543 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1945 (per county; see note)
• Listed February 16, 2024
• Last sale: $210,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Park Place
• Note: The original owners appear to have been Thomas J. Moran (possibly J. Thomas Moran) and Viola Moran (dates unknown for both). They were listed at the address in 1940. Both worked in textile mills. Thomas later sold real estate. They sold the house in 1962.

15366 Old Highway 16, Grassy Creek, Ashe County
The Walter Greer House
Listing withdrawn February 16, 2025

• $449,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,532 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1893
• Listed August 15, 2024
• Last sale: 320,000, July 2022
• Neighborhood: Grassy Creek Historic District (NR)
• Note: A house is in a relatively rare rural historic district.
  • The Ashe County GIS website indicates Grassy Creek didn’t suffer damage from Hurricane Helene.
  • County records give a date of 1850.
• District NR nomination: “[T]he Walter Greer House has extensive scroll-sawn and turned ornament on the porches, gables and eaves. The two-story frame house is set on a brick foundation and faces northwest. It is essentially a square plan with projections at the east, west and south corners.
  • “The front porch carries from the west corner projection across the northwest front, wraps the north corner and continues down the northeast side. The porch is supported by pairs of turned posts which are connected by spindle friezes above the brackets. Additional brackets, set between the posts and perpendicular to the spindle friezes support the eaves of the roof, beneath which is a frieze with applied diamond-shaped sawn woodwork. No balustrade remains.
  • “Brackets also positioned above the windows and at the corners of the house are continued under the eaves and carried, with the diamond motif frieze, around the irregular outline. The gable ends are decorated with rows of shaped shingles, rake boards repeating the diamond motif from the frieze, and ornamental spandrels. The rear porch has been enclosed. The window surrounds are of plain unmolded boards with molded cornices projecting above. The entrance bay surround encloses the door with its sidelights and transom which have lost their scroll-sawn ornament. The Eastlake-style front door has a geometric arrangement of applied molding connected by bosses around the stained and etched glass panels …
  • “In the course of the nineteenth century a number of farm communities developed along the north and south forks of the New River, but the most prominent was along Grassy Creek, a tributary of the New River. … The most prominent among the farming families of the valley, the Greer family, came in the second decade of the nineteenth century. During four generations of ownership over the next hundred years, the Greers, who raised pure-bred Shorthorn cattle, became the largest landholders in the area and established six individual farms there. Sharing common boundaries and fences, the families also probably pooled resources and machinery.
  • “The farms have large two-story dwellings with decorated gables, eaves, and porches, each surrounded by a full complement of outbuildings. The Greers introduced dairying on a commercial basis in the early twentieth century and, with others, established a cheese factory in 1915. This operation folded by 1920 and the Greers left soon after removing their dairying operations to Maryland.”

5710 Suttonwood Drive, Sedgefield, Guilford County
The Claude and Nelly Sutton House
Listing withdrawn February 6, 2025

• $2.25 million
• 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 6,017 square feet, 3.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $374
• Built in 1939
• Listed August 1, 2024
• Last sale: $600,000, April 2001
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield
• Is this a thing now: “Brazilian marble counters”
• Note: The property includes a saltwater pool, outdoor kitchen, pool house, a whisky/wine room and a five-car garage.
  • Suttonwood Drive is a two-block-long street running into Sedgefield from West Gate City Boulevard to Rockingham Road. This is the first house on the north side of the street after turning off Gate City. At the corner of Gate City and Suttonwood, a McDonald’s backs up to this property (see GIS map above).
  • The original owners were Claude Stanford Sutton (1901-1999) and Nelly Mabel Griffin Sutton (1906-1999). They bought the property in 1939; the street name then was Davidson Road. The property was sold by their estate in 2001. Claude and Nelly died 12 days apart in January and February 1999.
  • Claude founded Sutton Woodworking Machinery. He was a horseman and was active in the Sedgefield Hunt.
  • Nelly was a skilled gardener and carpenter. She bred roses, naming new varieties after her grandchildren. According to her obituary, she said if she had been born 50 years later, she would have chosen to be a carpenter.

110 Hawkins Road, Orange County
Sale pending October 22 to November 2, 2024
Sale pending December 12, 2024, to January 24, 2025
Listing withdrawn January 24, 2025

• $225,000 (originally $250,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,774 square feet, 10.94 acres
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1871
• Listed October 18, 2024
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2001
• Neighborhood: Just off N.C. Highway 86, 4.3 miles south of Prospect Hill and 3.6 miles northeast of Cedar Grove. The property has a Cedar Grove mailing address.
• Listing: “Very rustic”
  • Originally a two-room log cabin, the house received multiple additions of rooms and porches, “likely” in the 1920s.
  • The property includes a pond.

5530 Linch Road, Whisett, Guilford County
Listing withdrawn January 12, 2025

• $2.826 million (originally $2.975 million)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,538 square feet, 89.65 acres
• Price/square foot: $799
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 13, 2024
• Last sale: $350,000, February 2005
• Neighborhood: Although it has a Whitsett mailing address, it’s well to the southeast, about midway between Forest Oaks and Piedmont Dragway, “the DoorSlammer Capitol of the World.”
• Note: Previously listed without a sale at far lower prices in 2012 ($1.4 million) and 2013 ($1 million).
  • Oddly for such an expensive property with a large, well cared-for house, there are no interior pictures of the house.
  • The property was sold in 1958 by the estate of Emma Phipps Lynch (1879-1955). Emma and her husband, George Haywood Lynch (1879-1952) bought dozens of properties and hundreds of acres of land in eastern Guilford County beginning in 1922. Only Emma’s name was on the vast majority of deeds. It’s unknown whether they lived on the property (digital records show their address as Route 1, Whitsett) and when they bought it.
  • Emma was a school teacher. George was a farmer. They were members of the Asheboro Street Friends Meeting.

308 S. Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County
Listing withdrawn January 12, 2025

• $289,900 (originally $344,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,030 square feet, 1.24 acres
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1895
• Listed July 23, 2024
• Last sales: $42,000, May 1993; February 1904, price not recorded on deed
• Note: The earliest documented owners were Robert Byron Horn (1870-1918) and Pearl Barbour Horn (1871-1934). They sold the house in 1904 to banker Foard Woodruff Day (1868-1939) and Elizabeth Crouch Day (1868-1927). Foard was a graduate of Wake Forest College and taught at Stokes Academy before moving to Boonville. He was president of Boonville Bank and served on the school board. In 1993, a granddaughter sold the house to the current owners.

1347 U.S. 64 East, Mocksville, Davie County
The George and Brook Martin House
Koren Farms
Listing withdrawn November 5, 2024

• $2.2 million
• 7 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 4,816 square feet, 17.36 acres
• Price/square foot: $457
• Built in 1957
• Listed July 19, 2024
• Last sales: $765,000, June 2021; $475,000, August 2006
• Neighborhood: About 2 1/2 miles east of Mocksville
• Note: Koren Farms is an alpaca, pumpkin and Christmas tree farm with a 4,200 square-foot event barn. The barn “is currently leased most weekends into 2025.”
  • The property includes a salt-water pool, fenced pastures, a 3/4-acre pond, a 60×20 animal barn and “numerous” outbuildings.
  • The listing, incredibly, includes no pictures of the alpacas (I had to go onto their Facebook page to get one).
  • Designed by architect William Van Eaton Sprinkle (1906-1965). Eaton was born in Mocksville and graduated from Duke University and the architectural program at Yale. He practiced in Durham and designed a number of buildings for Duke. In the Army during World War II, he designed prefabricated harbors for invasions of Europe.
  • The original owners of the house were George Wilson Martin (1927-2018) and Brook White Martin (1930-2021). They bought the property in 1957 and owned it for 49 years. George was born in Mocksville, graduated from Oak Ridge Military Academy and received his undergraduate and law degrees from Duke University. He opened a law office in Mocksville in 1952 and practiced for more than 50 years. He was an original board member of the Yadkin Valley Economic Development District in 1965. He was posthumously named the 2018 Citizen of the Year by the Mocksville Women’s Club.

146 Cherokee Lane, Purlear, Wilkes County
Listing withdrawn June 27, 2024; relisted July 4, 2024
Listing withdrawn November 1, 2024

• $498,900 (originally $549,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,875 square feet, 2.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $266
• Built in 2002
• Listed April 29, 2024
• Last sale: $35,000, October 2001
• Neighborhood: Bobcat Mountain
• Note: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
  • The lower level contains a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.
  • Located in the county’s “ONLY gated community!”

225 Cotton Mill Road, Roaring River, Wilkes County
The J.E. and Matilda Greenwood House
Listing withdrawn October 2024

• $629,000 (originally $679,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,048 square feet, 5.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $307
• Built in 1885
• Listed May 4, 2024
• Last sale: $60,000, January 2008
• Neighborhood: Reves-Greenwood Mill Complex, about 10 miles east of North Wilkesboro and 11 miles west of Elkin.
• Note: The Roaring River is across the street from the house.
  • The house was built by James Eugene Greenwood (1879-1922) and Clementine Matilda Sebastian Greenwood (1878-1949). James was a brother of Charles Harris Greenwood (1876-1960), one of the founders of the Reves-Greenwood mill nearby. James was a farmer. In 1913, he went to Winston-Salem and bought a car, a newsworthy event in greater North Wilkesboro:

• $339,000 (originally $379,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,198 square feet, 1.07 acres
• Price/square foot: $154
• Built in 1888
• Listed November 27, 2023
• Last sale: $180,000, August 29, 2023
• Listing: “The larger white house has received a fresh coat of exterior paint and is ready for your imagination inside.”
  • The listing calls the cabin “completely renovated” (three-month turn-around time on the renovation).
• The original owners were George Henry Clay Shutt Sr. (1862-1935) and Mary Alice Byerly Shutt (1861-1937). The house may have remained in the family until 1984. George was a lifelong resident of Advance and brother of John Edward Belle Shutt, whose National-Register house is just down the road at 2177 S. N.C. Highway 801.
• The Historic Architecture of Davie County, North Carolina: “Well served by the railroad after 1891, Advance flourished. Several small factories producing wood products, including coffins, furniture, grain cradles, and building materials, were operated by the Shutt families for several decades.” George made grain cradles and other wooden products in a shop near his house that may still be standing (it was in 1986, when the book was written). His brothers Jacob and John were prominent local woodworkers as well.
• County records give little information on the log cabin, only that it is 36 feet by 16 feet (576 square feet).

308ecenter

• $825,000 (originally $900,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,963 square feet (per county), 2.72 acres
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 19, 2024
• Last sale: $415,000, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: Beautiful Colonial Revival, with incongruous vinyl siding and inexplicable popcorn ceilings
  • “Currently, the second floor primary bedroom, which has an adjoining dressing area with 3 sets of double closets, is being used as an office/billiard room.”
  • The listing shows 4,245 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “The architecture of the Old South Mebane Historic District represents a diversity of the styles popular throughout the Period of Significance. … Colonial Revival-style houses in the district range from simply-detailed houses with only hints of Colonial-era features to substantial formally-designed Georgian Revival-style homes such as those at 607 and 618 S. Fifth Street. …
  • “This 2-story Colonial Revival-style house is of wood construction, finished in vinyl siding, with a 5-bay symmetrical façade and a centered paneled entry door with sidelights, shielded by a one-bay portico with semi-elliptical intrados and supported by simple columns. It likely has a central-passage interior plan.
  • “There are 1-story gabled wings on the side elevations, the southernmost of which appears to be an enclosed porch. The windows are 6/6, with replacement sash and exterior fixed shutters. A 2-story hip-roofed ell is on the rear. There are two interior gable-end brick chimneys and one interior brick chimney on the rear ell.”

900 Green Street, Danville, Virginia
The Fox-Hawkins House
Listing withdrawn May 31, 2024

• $325,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,000 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1879
• Listed December 6, 2023
• Last sale: $35,000, November 1995
• Neighborhood: Old West End Historic District (local), Danville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Restored Italianate Victorian house — hidden gutters have been replaced, corbels rebuilt or restored, rebuilt windows.
  • The Old West End website has an extensive history of the house. TL;DR:

1000 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
The Taylor-Northup House
Listing withdrawn May 26, 2024

• $995,000 (originally $1.09 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,200 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $311
• Built in 1920
• Listed December 1, 2023
• Last sale: $425,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Four houses built by members of the Taylor family share this block with Grace Park. The houses came under common ownership between 1976 and 1982. This is the only one currently being sold.
  • Mysterious deed reference: The four properties are identified in deeds, all the way up to the most recent, as having been “property of Elizabeth McCaw Taylor.” The four houses were built between 1905 and 1920 by Elizabeth’s father, William B. Taylor, and her three brothers — Archibald, Henry and William Jr. How Elizabeth’s name became attached to the properties is puzzling. She died at age three in 1889.
• District NR nomination: “The Taylor-Northup House is one of three Tudor Revival-influenced houses in a row built in 1916 by the sons of William B. Taylor on property directly behind the elder Taylor’s house at 915 W. Fourth St.
  • “The house is a two-story stuccoed structure with a gable roof, grouped windows, a Craftsman front door, and a projecting center bay whose second story is ‘half-timbered.’
  • “On the southwest side of the house is a small porch with fat stuccoed columns.
  • “Archibald B. Taylor built the house, but unlike his brothers with their houses, he does not appear to have lived in it. In 1945 the property was sold to Anne N. Northup, the widow of prominent local architect Willard C. Northup. She and her family occupied the house and retained ownership until 1973.”
  • Archibald Boggs Taylor (1892-1962) was president of Taylor Brothers Tobacco Company, “one of the last independent tobacco firms to yield in the post-war merger trend,” The Charlotte Observer said in its obituary (“Arch B. Taylor, ‘Mr. Tobacco,’ Dies in Winston”). The company was started by his father, who remained president until he died in 1933 at age 82 (“City Loses Pioneer Citizen,” Twin City Sentinel) and Archibald succeeded him. It was ultimately sold to the American Snuff Company of Memphis. Archibald had served with an Army hospital unit in Europe during World War I, rising to the rank of sergeant.
  • Anne Noble Northup (1884-1981) was born in Anniston, Alabama. She attended the Ringling School of Arts in Sarasota, Florida, and was a painter active in the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem and the N.C. State Arts Society.
  • Also on the property, behind the house, is a small office, built in 1950. District NR nomination: “This small modern studio is a one-story rectangular building with vertical wood siding, a horizontal band of windows, and a flat roof. While it is an interesting modern structure, it does not relate to the architecture of its surroundings. It was designed by Lamar Northup, son of Williard C. Northup, while he was in architecture school at Illinois Institute of Technology, and was originally used as the art studio of his mother, Anne, who lived in the adjacent associated house, 1000 W. Fifth St. The building is now used as an office.”

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623 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Sharpe-Somers House
Listing withdrawn May 25, 2024

• $1 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,913 square feet (per county), 1.18 acres
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1902
• Listed April 4, 2024
• Last sale: $37,000, November 1985
• Neighborhood: West Davis-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing shows 6,145 square feet, a significant discrepancy from county records.
• District NR nomination: “Standing on a large elevated lot at an important corner in the West Davis Street neighborhood, this frame Tudor Revival house is associated with two locally prominent businessmen significant for their roles in Burlington’s late nineteenth and twentieth century development.
  • “Its first owner was Walter E. Sharpe, who, around 1910, transformed the structure from a typical one-and-one-half-story Victorian cottage to a much larger Tudor Revival residence. Sharpe, the developer of the Fountain Place sub-division, was associated with a variety of local business ventures beginning in the early 1890s.
  • “Claude G. Somers, who acquired the house in the early 1930s, was also active in real estate sales and development locally, being one of the principal backers of the Westerwood section in the late 1920s. He also was an organizer of Community Federal Savings and Loan Association.
  • “The house as it stands today is a rambling two-and-one-half-story frame structure clad in weatherboard on the first floor and applied half timbering with stucco on the second.
  • “A gable and clipped-gable roof of slate covers the structure, which features one-over-one double-hung sash windows on the first floor and multi-pane casements, typical of the Tudor Revival, on the second. Brick posts rising from a lozenge-patterned brick balustrade support the one-story wraparound porch, the entrance bay of which is the only section fully roofed.”

206 Sunset Drive, Greensboro
The Jarboe-Orr House
Listing withdrawn April 2024

• $1,828,300
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (per listing; see note), 6,144 square feet (per county), 0.6 acre
• Price/square foot: $298
• Built in 1915
• Listed March 24, 2024
• Last sale: $1,550,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner — I think this is the most expensive for-sale-by-owner house I’ve seen.
  • The listing says the house is only 4,739 square feet.
  • The 2021 listing said the property includes a stone koi pond, gazebo and outdoor fireplace.
  • The 2021 listing also said there were 4 1/2 bathrooms. What happened to the others?
  • The listing includes only four small photos (amateur mistake).
  • This would be the home’s fifth sale in 17 years. The previous sale prices were $1.525 million in 2007, as the housing bubble was building; $945,000 in 2012, after the bubble burst; $1.05 million in 2015; and $1.55 million in 2021.
  • It’s on the 14th green of Greensboro Country Club.
  • Greensboro: An Architectural Record — “The cleanly articulated Mediterranean Revival-style villa, designed by Raleigh James Hughes, was erected for Dr. [Parren] Jarboe in the mid-teens. Its elegant entry is marked by a round-arched door and transom and an Ionic portico topped by a Chinese Chippendale balustrade. Round arches and Ionic columns are repeated at its flanking first-story bays and latticed end pavilions. Its second story features shutters with fleur-de-lis cutouts, its roof curvilinear exposed brackets.”
  • Dr. Jarboe (1882-1935) and his wife, Lucille Payton Jarboe (1886-1934), owned the house until 1934. She died after a short illness not long after they moved to Fisher Park Circle. Dr. Jarboe was senior surgeon at St. Leo’s Hospital. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a major in the National Guard. He died in a car wreck the next year.
  • The house was owned for 53 years by two generations of the Orr family, major figures in the textile industry. In 1953, Burlington Mills executive Douglas M. Orr bought the house. He owned it for 29 years, selling it to his son (I think) Donald in 1982. Donald, also a textile executive, owned the house for 24 years.
  • The seller is the CEO of Tanger Outlet Centers.

602 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Junius W. Woollen House
Listing withdrawn April 26, 2024

• $799,999 (originally $829,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,287 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1928
• Listed October 27, 2023
• Last sale: $418,000, October 2018
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: The property includes a three-car garage with an in-law suite, connected to the house by a breezeway.
  • The property consists of two lots with two addresses, 600 and 602 Hillcrest. The house is on 602 Hillcrest.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, hip-roofed, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, interior, corbelled brick chimney, and modillion cornice.
  • “The house has six-over-six, wood-sash windows flanked by four-over-four windows on the first-floor facade and a combination of eight-over-eight and six-over-six, wood-sash windows on the second story. The six-panel door has a classical surround with fluted pilasters and a broken swan’s neck pediment.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed wing on the left (west) elevation has grouped six-over-six windows, a modillion cornice, and a Chinese Chippendale-style railing at the roofline. A one-story, flat-roofed porch on the right (east) elevation is supported by square columns, has a Chinese Chippendale-style railing at the roofline, and has been enclosed with glass.
  • “There are hip-roofed dormers on the right and left elevations, each with a single nine-light casement windows. A two-story, hip-roofed ell extends from the rear (north).
  • “A one-story, shed-roofed porch at the right rear (northeast) has a metal roof and is supported by square posts; it extends as a covered walkway to the garage.
  • The original owners were Junius W. Woollen (1892-1855) and Ruth Millikan Woollen (1897-1978). They owned the house for 43 years.
  • Junius was production manager and later superintendent for Adams-Millis Corporation. His obituary said he worked for the company for 50 years; he died at age 63.

313 W. Main Street, Pilot Mountain, Surry County
Listing withdrawn February 28, 2024; relisted March 1, 2024
Listing withdrawn April 10, 2024

• $475,000 (originally $550,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,021 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1918
• Listed October 18, 2023
• Last sale: $326,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: West Main Street Historic District (local)
• Note: The house was bought in 1968 by Pearl Belle Forkner Beasley (1890-1979). She was the widow of John William Beasley (1889-1959), who owned Pilot Mountain and turned it into a tourist attraction. He bought it in 1944 for $14,500. After his death, Pearl took charge of the mountain. In 1968, she sold it to the Pilot Mountain Preservation and Park Committee for $682,500 so it could become the centerpiece of a new state park.
  • Pearl taught school and was secretary-treasurer of her husband’s car dealership. She apparently used the house as a rental property; she lived across the street for 52 years. Pearl’s estate sold the house in 1981.

4672 Forest Lake Drive, Mebane, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn February 15, 2024

• $3.1 million
• 5 bedrooms, 5 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 7,998 square feet (per county), 10.90 acres
• Price/square foot: $388
• Built in 1952
• Listed October 18, 2023
• Last sale: $1.89 million, October 10, 2023; $400,000, September 1998
• Note: The property was listed for sale at $3.1 million eight days after the previous sale closed for $1.89 million.
  • An LLC associated with the owner of this property is one of the listed owners of the adjoining 18-acre lake. The Sotheby’s listing included the lake for a total of 28.9 acres at $3.1 million. The MLS listing didn’t include the lake but also was priced at $3.1 million.
• Listing: “Inside, a grand marble-floored entrance and intricate wall molding set the stage for opulence. A succession of formal rooms ensures a seamless flow throughout the home.”
  • The house apparently was built by Lucius Pender Best Jr. (1910-1998) and Evelyn Cooper Best (1910-1997). They bought the property in 1949 or 1950; it was sold by Lucius’s estate in 1998. He was born in Duplin County, the son of a prominent lawyer. After graduating from Woodberry Forest prep school and UNC-Chapel Hill, he became vice president of the Mebane-Royall Company, which later became Kingsdown, and served in the Army in World War II. Lucius was active in business and politics, serving as chairman of Kingsdown, mayor of Mebane, chairman of the Alamance Board of Commissioners and chairman of the county Democratic Party.

184 E. Maple Avenue, Mocksville, Davie County
The Allison Family House
Listing withdrawn January 8, 2024

• $399,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,480 square feet, 1.09 acres
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1911
• Listed July 10, 2023
• Last sale: $229,000, March 2018
• Neighborhood: Maple Grove
• Note: The property includes an in-ground swimming pool.
• Description in The Historic Architecture of Davie County, North Carolina (published in 1986, some details may have changed): “The large and very impressive Neo-Classical Revival style dwelling is notable for its many classical details and the expansive wrap-around porch which carries across three elevations. Completed in 1911, the house was built for Gustave Alphonso Allison (1861-1934), an agent for the Southern Railroad. Allison’s wife Henrie E. (Morris) Allison (1865-1906) had died before the house was built. Mr. Allison lived here until his death. The property passed to his daughter Ossie Claire Allison (1898-1982), who also died here. The house was subsequently sold out of the family.
  • “The symmetrical appearance of the house is focused on the central entrance. Trios of Tuscan porch columns mark the center bay. Behind, the entrance projects from the wall surface. On the second story pent-gabled bay windows form the end bays and frame a center bay Palladian window. Smaller Palladian windows occupy the pent gables. The symmetry is preserved by the porch which stretches from the two-story pent-gabled bay on the east elevation to its counterpart on the west. The house’s wide eaves are detailed with modillion blocks. Pilasters with Scamozzi capitals are located at the corners of the front elevation. A hip-roofed kitchen ell and an enclosed porch span the rear elevation.
  • “The house’s interior is as richly finished as the exterior. Its broad center hall meets a free-standing open-sting stair located just behind a brick fireplace with a corbeled cornice. Sheathed, darkly stained wainscot is located in the hall and dining room; it has been painted in the parlor. A number of Neo-Classical Revival style mantels survive. Behind the house is a small frame servants’ quarters with a connected garage, and to the south, a two-story board-and-batten building of unknown use.”

160 Johnson Dairy Road, Rockwell, Rowan County
Listing withdrawn January 2, 2024

• $675,100
• 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and “several” half bathrooms, 3,687 square feet, 18.07 acres
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1987
• Listed August 13, 2022
• Last sale: $230,000, February 2006 (part of a multi-property sale)
• Note: Yeah, they’re pyramids. And there are two of them.
  • The blue one “features an open floor plan with kitchen, dining and living room with a wood burning fireplace and oven. Two master suites, one downstairs and one upstairs with a balcony overlooking the 6 fenced in pastures. Tons of storage, laundry room, built-ins, skylights, 5 full baths and several half bathrooms throughout both homes.”
  • The red one is unfinished and described as “a huge garage space with multiple rooms for second living quarters.”
  • The property includes a creek; an outbuilding with electricity and water; and banana, apple and fig trees.
  • Click here for more about the pyramids and James Kluttz, their designer and original owner.

931 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
Formerly First Church of Christ, Scientist
Listing withdrawn July 29, 2023; relisted September 5, 2023
Listing withdrawn December 15, 2023

• $649,000 (originally $689,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,024 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $321
• Built in 1924
• Listed July 22, 2023
• Last sale: $380,000, January 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Facing the corner of Brookstown Ave. and W. Fifth St., the Christian Science church is a small building of strong Federal Revival classicism. The well-developed design features a one-story rectangular structure lined with fifteen-over-fifteen sash windows accented by tall, keystoned round arches.
  • “The corners of the stuccoed building are accented by tall Tuscan pilasters. The facade features a central entrance porch with Tuscan posts and a full pedimented entablature which echoes the larger pedimented entablature of the gable roof.
  • “In 1915 a Christian Science Society was organized in Winston-Salem, and in 1916 the Society rented space in an office building at 418 N. Liberty St. In May, 1924, a lot was purchased at Brookstown and Fifth for the erection of a church, and by October of that year work on this handsome building was completed. In May, 1925, the Society formally became the First Church of Christ, Scientist.”
  • The church sold the building in 2005.

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

• $1.79 million (originally $1.89 million, later $1.59 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 5,215 square feet
• Price/square foot: $343
• Built in 1925
• Listed January 8, 2011
• Last sale: $1.7 million, June 2004
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Joseph Haywood Duke (1904-1962) was general manager of the King Cotton Hotel. The grand 13-story hotel stood downtown on Market Street at Davie, where the former News & Record building now is, from 1927 to 1971. Duke was a native of Dunn and grew up in Elizabeth City. Before coming to Greensboro in 1937 to run the King Cotton, he managed his mother’s Duke Inn in Elizabeth City and the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, among others around the state. He later bought an interest in the King Cotton and owned the Sedgefield Inn.
  • Duke bought the house in 1948. It was sold by his widow, Elizabeth Savage Etheridge Duke (1904-1983), in 1970.
  • The original owners were Robert W. Glenn (1884-1935) and Katherine Hardie Glenn (1887-1982), who were first listed in the city directory on Woodland Drive in 1926. Robert was the branch manager of Ciba Company, which produced dyes. Kate sold the house to the Dukes in 1948.
  • Ciba was part of of the Swiss firm Ciba-Geigy Ltd., one of the largest chemical companies in the world. In 1996, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz spun off and merged their drug and agriculture businesses to form Novartis. In 2000, Novartis and AstraZeneca spun off their agrochemical businesses and merged them to form Syngenta, whose U.S. business unit is based in Greensboro.
  • “The 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index named Syngenta one of the best performing chemical companies worldwide. However, the company has been controversial, mainly due to its main business – selling toxic chemicals and the environmental impact of those chemicals – but also due to its investment in lobbying. In 2012, the company was nominated for the Public Eye Award, which denounces companies with questionable human rights practices.” (Wikipedia)
• 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 to the north side. A brick wall encloses the back yard.”

849 Arbor Road, Winston-Salem
The Mary Lybrook Lasater and John Thomas Barnes Jr. House
Listing withdrawn July 31, 2023

• $1.475 million (originally $1.575 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 5,600 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $263
• Built in 1926 (per county)
• Listed February 9, 2023
• Last sale: $1.012 million, June 2014
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: “Over 1000 square feet on lower level which has some heat provided by radiators, but not incl in total sq ft.”
  • Designed by Harold Macklin, “an English-born architect who became one of the leading members of the profession in Winston-Salem during the 1920s.” (North Carolina Architects & Builders) In addition to his residential work, he often collaborated as the supervising architect for out-of-town firms on such prominent projects as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Bowman Gray Stadium and the Spruce Street YMCA, which is now on the National Register.
  • The original house on the property was a cottage, built in 1925 or ’26 (accounts differ) for newlyweds who ended up moving in with the bride’s recently widowed mother rather than the cottage.
  • Dramatically expanded for Mary Lybrook Lasater (1902-1967) and John Thomas Barnes Jr. (1902-1976), by her parents, on the occasion of their marriage. The parents also built a mansion next door for one of Mary’s sisters, Virginia Reynolds Lasater, and her husband, George Lee Irvin, Jr. Mary and Virginia were great-nieces of R.J. Reynolds.
  • “The cottage was expanded in 1931 by the addition of a five-bay block, designed so that its asymmetrical front entry porch visually connected the two houses. The new addition had a hipped roof lit by three dormers, double-hung windows, and an elegant side porch.” (Great Houses and Their Stories: Winston-Salem’s “Era of Success,” 1912-1940)
  • Mary and John were still living in the house when Mary died in 1967. John had moved by the time he died nine years later.
  • He still owned the house in 1970 when it hosted the Junior League’s Decorators’ Show House, billed as the first such event in the South. “Yet for all of its spaciousness, the house is notably appealing in its traces of intimacy, such as the bedroom fireplaces, the porches, its treasure of window ‘spots,’ and an upstairs hallway leading to a secluded room,” the event’s brochure said.
  • “A prominent designer recently commented, ‘This is such a fantastic house. This kind of house is just no longer being done.’ The house is truly a decorator’s dream with its labyrinth of rooms and its intriguing nooks and crannies.”

854 Wellington Road, Winston-Salem
The Benjamin Eloth Pulliam House
Listing withdrawn June 14, 2023

• $875,000 (originally $899,900)
  • The for-sale listing was withdrawn on June 2023 and replaced with a for-rent listing at $3,950/month
• 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 4,575 square feet, 0.7 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1937
• Listed March 27, 2023
• Last sale: $642,000, June 2019
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Listing: “The original owner was a prominent doctor who had his office in the home. The office space has been converted to an in-law suite w/kitchenette on the main level.”
  • The property was purchased in 1936 by Dr. Benjamin Eloth Pulliam (1903-1990) and Mattie Belle Moser Pulliam (1902-1954). He was a physician. The property was sold in 1997 by his widow, Gladys Davis Pulliam (1911-2003).

706 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro
The Nettie Coad House
Listing withdrawn May 30, 2023

• $275,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,034 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 9, 2023
• Last sale: $100,000, July 2022
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: Caveat emptor — fix-and-flip job
  • “Fully updated” with disrespect for the historic character of the house — vinyl siding, vinyl floors, replacement windows.
  • The early history of the house is unclear. The 600 block of Asheboro Street, its original name, must have been renumbered at some point; 605 Asheboro Street doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1959, when it was identified as a grocery store. None of the owners in county records appear to have lived in the 600 block of the street, so it was likely a rental property for decades.
  • The house was owned by the Asheboro Street Baptist Church, a block away, from 1955-1965.
  • It was condemned and in 1984 was sold by the Redevelopment Commission to Nettie Mae Lewis Coad (1936-2012) in 1984. Her heirs sold it in 2015.

• “Mama Nettie” was born in Anderson, South Carolina. She graduated from Dudley High School and Guilford Technical Community College. She worked for Sears for 23 years, starting out as a packer in the catalog distribution center and retiring as an assistant manager. She and her husband, Willie Rufus Coad Jr. (1934-2003), were married for 49 years and had three children, all sons.
  • Nettie found her calling as an inspirational and influential social activist and anti-racist community organizer. She is listed along with Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Rosa Parks among 12 “Pearls of Inspiration” by the Black Pearls Society, a national political organization of Black women.
  • In more than 30 years as a community activist, her accomplishments included serving as a founding member and executive director of The Partnership Project, an anti-racism educational, organizing and support group; co-founding the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative, Ole Asheboro Street Neighborhood Association and St. Paul Baptist Church; bringing The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond to Greensboro; and co-chairing the Guilford County Democratic Party and serving as a delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
  • Nettie was particularly active in the field of health disparities. She was a longtime community partner with the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and co-author of several academic papers. She gave presentations to numerous professional conferences, speaking before the American Public Health Association several times, the National Institutes of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Lecture Series, and the N.C. Society for Public Health Education, among others.
  • Her many awards and honors included the Sojourner Truth Award from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, the Outstanding Service Award from the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation and the Levi Coffin Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Field of Human Relations and Human Rights from the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. The city converted a former school into apartments at 503 Martin Luther King and renamed it the Nettie Coad Apartments (more here).
  • “I have seen both good transformation and destruction in my neighborhood. I think we must understand what is dividing us and the underlining causes of neighborhood destruction before we can redirect and rebuild. My passion for preserving Ole Asheboro comes from a drive to have those in power understand these dynamics and apply equity in decisions making. I feel rich, and to me, rich is to be understood and feel safe in a city where everyone is cared for and respected. I care so much about Ole Asheboro because it is a historical neighborhood that should be preserved and because I care about all of our city.”
  • How the house looked in January 2023:

817 West End Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Ida Galloway House
Listing withdrawn May 30, 2023

• $985,000
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,641 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $212
• Built in 1918
• Listed March 8, 2023
• Last sale: $670,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house was designed by Willard Northup.
  • The house has had just three owners in 105 years.
  • The roof is Ludowici green tile.
• Something you don’t see every day: “Mrs. Galloway’s baby grand piano has been tuned and can convey with the house.”
• District NR nomination: “One of the most handsome of the many examples of the [Colonial Revival] style is the Robert S. Galloway House, designed in 1918 by prominent local architect Willard C. Northup.
  • “With its white stuccoed walls and green tile roof, the two-story house suggests the influence of Charles Barton Keen’s design for Reynolda House.
  • “The Galloway House is detailed with blind arches over the first story windows, a modillioned cornice, and matching front, side, and rear porches with Tuscan columns, a full entablature with triglyph- and metope frieze, and a balustraded upper deck.
  • “The interior is designed with a variety of Federal Revival details.”
  • Ida Miller Galloway (1881-1972) bought the property in 1912. She and Robert Scales Galloway (1866-1964) built the house in 1918. He was as an accountant at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and later president of Smith-Phillips Lumber Co. Ida and Robert lived here until they died. It was sold in 1972 to the owners who sold it in 2019.
• Included in Art Works of Piedmont Section of North Carolina (1924):

802 & 800 Sunset Drive, Greensboro
The G. Allen Mebane House
Listing withdrawn April 2023 (exact date unknown)

• $2 million
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 5,001 square feet, 0.85 acre
• Price/square foot: $400
• Built in 1929
• Listed October 12, 2022
• Last sale: $325,000, May 1983
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The property includes a guest house (228 square feet, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom) attached to the garage. The house is 802 Sunset; 800 Sunset has no structures on it.
  • Greensboro: An Architectural Record: “Mebane, a cotton broker, moved from West Washington Street in downtown Greensboro to his new home in Irving Park in the late 1920s. Worked in brick, his house features the distinctive asymmetrical and steeply pitched front gable, round-arched recessed entry and false half-timbering common to the Tudor Revival style.”
  • Oddly, the gravestone for George Allen Mebane (1893-1948) reads, “George Allen Mebane III”. From findagrave.com: “Son of Mary Holt and George Allen Mebane. Although his marker reflects a third generation namesake, old newspaper articles and other records only refer to him as junior. It is quite clear in research that his grandfather was Benjamin Franklin Mebane.
  • “While attending Bingham School in Asheville, George won a scholarship to UNC. He became a successful businessman in the Greensboro community.”
  • The house has had only three owners. Allen and his wife, Elizabeth Armstrong Mebane (1901-1971), sold it in 1946 to James Saunders Williamson (1900-1965) and his wife, Elizabeth Wilkinson Williamson (1908-1983). Saunders was an executive with Burlington Mills. After he died, Elizabeth continued to own the house until her death. It was then bought by the current owners.

2929 Seaforth Road, Chatham County
The James A. Thomas Farm
listing withdrawn February 1, 2023

• $1.2 million (originally $1.3 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,528 square feet, 10.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $785
• Built in 1880
• Listed August 14, 2022
• Last sale: Unknown
• Note: The property has a Pittsboro mailing address but is 8 miles east of the town.
  • No central air conditioning
• NRHP nomination: To come

• $3 million (originally $2.5 million, later as low as $2.25 million and as high as $3.5 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 7,685 square feet, 21 acres
• Price/square foot: $390
• Built in 1951
• Listed September 4, 2019
• Last sale: $880,000, June 2004
• Note: Ragsdale was a mayor of Jamestown (1951-53) and one of seven children of Lucy Coffin Ragsdale, a well-known advocate for public education and namesake of Ragsdale High School in Jamestown.
  • The property includes a swimming pool, pond, guest house, four-car garage, a five-stall horse barn and horse pasture.

3561 Clemmons Road, Clemmons, Forsyth County
listing withdrawn July 10, 2022

• $549,000
• 8 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,780 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1902
• Listed March 31, 2022
• Last sale: October 1999, price not recorded on deed
• Note: Originally built as a girls dormitory for a Moravian school. The school was established through the will of Edwin Theodore Clemmons (1826-1896), a grandson of town founder Peter Clemons. It opened in 1901.
  • The house is next door to the Clemmons Moravian Church, the establishment of which was also called for in Clemmons’s will.
  • The Moravian church owned the house until 1999.
  • Although the listing extols the historic quality of the house, it has vinyl siding and replacement windows.
  • The immediate area is a mix of residential and commercial properties; the listing promotes the property for residential or commercial use.

1907 Madison Avenue, Greensboro
The Esther and William Truitt House
listing withdrawn July 8, 2022 (same day it was listed)

• $789,750
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,833 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 8, 2022
• Last sale: $430,000, August 2017
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, three-bay, front-gabled, brick Colonial Revival-influenced house displays a flat-roofed portico graced with a dentil cornice.
  • “Tuscan columns and pilasters support the portico that is topped by a picket balustrade with crowning finials on its corner posts. A multi-light transom and multi-light sidelights frame the paneled wood door.
  • “Windows are replacement nine-over-nine and are topped by brick relieving semi-elliptical arches with cast masonry keystones and abutments.
  • “A large brick intersecting gable is located on the east elevation; a synthetic-sided, front-gabled dormer is just forward of it. The west elevation displays another front-gable sheathed in brick.
  • “At least two corbelled brick chimneys rise from the interior.”
  • William Brooks Truitt (1886-1962) earned a mechanical-engineering degree from N.C. State University. He was a co-founder of Carolina Steel in 1919 and served as vice president until leaving to found Truitt Manufacturing Co. in 1941. He was its president until 1957. In 1960, at the age of 74, he founded Truitt Metal Fabricators.
  • William taught the Truitt Bible Class at First Christian Church (now Congregational UCC) for more than 50 years. He was a trustee of Elon College and Elon Children’s Home. 
  • Esther Pearl Lowe Truitt (1892-1973) married William in 1912. William Brooks Truitt on September 10, 1912. She served as organist at First Christian Church for more than 50 years.
  • In 1935, the Truitts lost the house to foreclosure.

327 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Alanson Welfare House, Lot 43
listing withdrawn October 22, 2021; relisted November 16, 2021
sale pending November 16, 2021 to January 11, 2022
listing withdrawn March 8, 2022

• $550,000 (originally $545,000)
• House is divided into three apartments, 2,160 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $255
• Built in 1840 (per county or ca. 1860 per NRHP)
• Listed October 12, 2021
• Last sale: $191,000, July 1998
• Note: The apartments all have 1 bathroom. One is a 1-bedroom, one is a 2-bedroom, two-level unit, and one is a 1-bedroom studio. The house was divided around 1950.
  • Lot 43 also was the site of the 1839 Theophilus Vierling Shop, which no longer exists. This site remains undeveloped at the north end of Lot 43 where Vierling built a shoe shop in 1839.
  • District NRHP nomination: “In 1855, Lot 43 was divided and the upper half was sold to Alanson Welfare. Welfare (b.1824) was a gunsmith, watchmaker and locksmith. In 1860, the lane on the north property line was reduced in size by fifteen feet, with 7 ½ feet added to Lot 83 and Lot 43. It is probable that Welfare built his brick house at this time. The ell was added sometime later. …
  • “The Welfare House sits back from the sidewalk several feet and has a picket fence at the sidewalk. It is a two-story, common bond (4:1) brick house with a low-pitch side gable roof (standing seam metal) on a full story brick foundation. There are exterior end brick chimneys with corbelled caps.
  • “The one-room deep center hall plan house is built into the slope of the lot and has a one-story brick ell at the rear. The symmetrical three bay façade has a centered entry bay portico supported by four tall brick piers with a cellar door below at street grade.
  • “The portico is accessed on its north end by two granite steps to a landing and then a turn to a flight of wooden steps. The portico has square paneled posts with turned balustrade and shelters a six panel door with three-light transom.
  • “The low hip porch roof (standing seam metal) supports a projecting frame gabled bay with paired one-over-one sash windows with lunette in gable.
  • “First and second floor window sash has been altered to two-over-two while the cellar retains earlier six-over-six window sash. Windows are hung with single panel shutters. There are no windows on the south elevation and one is on the north first floor.
  • “The common bond (5:1) brick ell is an L-shape with gable roof and open eaves and a central brick chimney. The windows are two-over-two sash.
  • “A late nineteenth-century photograph of the house and shop (as sewing machine and music store) recorded the front porch of the house with turned posts and sawn bracket and balustrade.
  • “Sanborn Maps from the late nineteenth century indicate several outbuildings on the lot: wood house, shed, servants’ room, and the Vierling shop. The Vierling shop had several uses: shoe shop, post office, photo, pressing. The building labeled ‘servants’ adjoined the wood house and sat to the east of and behind the ell and suggests the presence of African American residents.”

• $375,000 (originally $425,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,158 square feet
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1923
• Listed March 27, 2021
• Last sale: $185,000, April 2015
• Note: Condo in Renfro Lofts, a former hosiery plant

1244 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
The George F. Jenkins House
listing withdrawn November 29, 2021

• $850,000
• 5 bedrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms, 5,370 square feet
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1917
• Listed October 22, 2021
• Last sale: $186, May 2007
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: Owned by an out-of-state LLC
  • The write-up in the listing mistakenly refers to the house as being 6,300 square feet.
  • The house has a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, apartment with a separate entrance.
  • It also has a three-car garage, 700-bottle wine cellar and an oak bar.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This house may be either a ca. 1920s rebuilding or an enlargement of the half-story dwelling shown on the 1917 Sanborn Map. The property was owned by George F. Jenkins [1869-1959], a traveling salesman, and his family from 1916 to 1977. Eva Jenkins [1879-1964], George’s widow, continued to live in the house until at least 1960.
  • “It is a large two-story frame structure with a gable roof, overhanging eaves with nice Craftsman braces, nine-over-one sash windows, and a double tier front porch where the first story has paneled Classical posts and a plain balustrade and the second story has shingled posts and balustrade.
  • “Of particular interest is the lower level rear porch which has paneled posts and plain balustrade like the main porch.
  • “The house was sheathed with asbestos shingles during mid-century, but it still retains many interesting features which contribute to the architectural character of the West End.”

328 Indera Mills Court, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn October 11, 2021

• $899,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,846 square feet
• Price/square foot: $234
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 20, 2021
• Last sale: $725,000, December 2016
• HOA: $507/month
• Note: The Mill at Tar Branch is a 30-unit condo complex in an old mill building. Some of its condos — and this one, specifically — are among the largest and most expensive you’ll find in a historic structure in the region.

216 W. Hunter Street, Madison, Rockingham County
The Hunter House Bed & Breakfast
listing expired September 7, 2019; relisted March 5, 2021
listing withdrawn September 3, 2021

• $450,000 (previously listed as high as $595,000 and as low as $368,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,790 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1903
• Listed July 23, 2018
• Last sale: $365,000, August 2016
• Note: The property includes seven fireplaces; main-level master with en-suite, 12’x11′ walk-in closet and private side yard; wrap-around front porch; large back yard with in-ground pool, hot tub, two pergolas and privacy fencing.

5400 Williams Road, Lewisville
listing expired December 5, 2020; relisted December 12, 2020
listing expired April 6, 2021; relisted April 16, 2021
listing withdrawn July 31, 2021; relisted August 2, 2021
listing withdrawn August 5, 2021 (what is going on with these people?)

• $2.2 million (originally $2.21 million)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 26 acres
• Price/square foot: $1,540
• Built in 1850
• Listed December 5, 2019
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Note: County tax records don’t show 5400 Williams Road as an address. The county GIS system shows a 40-acre tract at 5394 Williams Road, with the road running through it. A previous commercial for-sale listing for the entire West Bend Winery indicated this property is the 26 acres of that tract west of the road (although it gave a price of just $1.195 million). That’s where Google Maps shows 5400 Williams Road.
  • Listing: The property includes a horse barn, another house (2,400 square feet) and a potential site for an additional home.
  • “Owners have made a residence of what use to be an events center and restaurant, much more space to add additional bedrooms and baths, should one choose to expand this space. This property is also listed as commercial.”

• “Bidding starts at $335,000.” (see note below; originally listed at $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,075 square feet, 0,41 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1953
• Listed July 27, 2015
• Last sale: $230,000, July 2014
• Neighborhood: Kirkwood
• Note: This was the home of Robert A. Atkinson Jr. (1923-1976), partner of Edward Lowenstein in the Lowenstein-Atkinson firm. He and his wife, Violet Gertrude Hedrick Atkinson (1926-1993), owned the property and lived there from 1953 to 1985.
  • Listing: “Place offers between May 14-23 at 5 p.m. Seller using transparent offer platform for all offers. Bidding starts at $335,000. Buyers must register and be pre-qualified.”
  • Even in this sellers’ market, this was an audacious move with a house that’s been listed twice in recent years, at considerably lower prices, and withdrawn without a sale each time. The house was priced originally at $250,000 and the second time at $309,000.
  • The house was sold in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2014.
  • “Furniture in the home is for sale as well!”
  • Previous listing: “Original quarry tile flooring was discovered during remodel and restored to 1950’s condition.”
  • Now a rental property

132 Becktown Road, Mocksville, Davie County
Boxwood Lodge
Boxwood Lodge NRHP
Blog post — Boxwood Lodge: An Elegant National Register Mansion-Wedding Venue-B&B near Mocksville, $3.45 million
listing withdrawn March 8, 2021

• $3.45 million
• 10 bedrooms, 8 full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, 9,304 square feet, 48.23 acres
• Price/square foot: $372
• Built in 1934
• Listed January 17, 2019
• Last sale: $782,500, March 2002
• Note: The house was designed by Delano & Aldrich of New York.
  • The property is what remains of a 1,500-acre hunting retreat developed from 1911 to 1931 by William Rabb Craig, a New York cotton and sugar broker who died in 1931. Craig’s widow built the house on the site of a hunting lodge built in the 1910’s.
  • The listing says a $5 million restoration of the house was completed in 2007.
  • The property includes a guest cabin built in 1933, a barn built in the 1910’s and a pond.
  • It is now a bed and breakfast and a wedding/event venue.

3935 Yadkinville Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn February 11, 2021

• $1.1 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, 5,206 square feet, 4.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 28, 2020
• Last sale: $500,000, August 1998
• Note: Designed by Northup & O’Brien
  • The property includes a detached three-car garage with guest quarters.

2750 Thornfield Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn February 1, 2021

• $795,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,141 square feet, 1.39 acres
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1968
• Listed December 7, 2020
• Last sale: $654,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: Reynolda Estates
• Note: Designed by Ray Troxell
  • The house includes separate guest quarters and a main-level two-car garage.
  • Japanese themed landscape

1219 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
The Hurdle-Williamson-Hairston House
listing withdrawn January 9, 2021

• $515,000 (originally $575,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, either 2,311 or 4,100 square feet (see note below)
• Price/square foot: $223 or $126 (see note below)
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 16, 2020
• Last sale: $200,000, October 2018
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: County property tax records show the house with 2,311 square feet. The listing shows 4,100. Space estimates often vary, but rarely by this much.
  • The West End NRHP district nomination dates the house to around 1917, but county records show 1930.
  • County records show the house as a duplex; the listing says, “Separate living space in the basement for rental income if desired.”
  • The house is being sold furnished except for the basement.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story brick veneer house of simple Craftsman style influence was originally a handsome dwelling with front and side gables with widely overhanging braced eaves, grouped windows, and a heavy front porch with brick posts and granite and wood trim. Although much of the original form and detail of the house remains visible, so many significant changes have been wrought in recent years that it is difficult to still label it a ‘contributing’ building. Among the changes are a brick-infilled front entrance, stained wood shingle one and two-story additions, a shingled ‘roof’ around the front porch and side shingled room with an iron-balustraded deck, ironwork exterior stairs on the north side, a bay window, and an attached basement level garage. The house was depicted on the 1917 Sanborn Map …”

3650 Southeast School Road, Eastern Guilford County
listing withdrawn January 8, 2020

• $814,500 (originally $835,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms,  3,234 square feet (per county records), 8.48 acres
• Price/square foot: $252
• Built in 1869
• Listed March 3, 2020
• Last sale: $180,000, February 2003
• Note: The house includes the original log cabin and a modern addition.
  • The property includes a guest house, 1-acre pond, grass tennis court with irrigation and a barn with a two-car garage/workshop and office.

2020

533 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
listing expired January 1, 2020
relisted March 27, 2020
listing withdrawn November 16, 2020

• $829,000 (originally listed at $1.199 million)
• 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 7,345 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1904
• Listed April 2, 2019
• Last sale: $365,000, December 2012
• Neighborhood: West End
• Listing: Truncated hip slate roof, wraparound porch, leaded and jeweled glass window details, vestibule and entrance with large glass panel double-leaf doors with beveled and glass sidelights and transoms, 10 fireplaces, paneled wainscot, sliding pocket doors.

510 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The Britt and Jane Armfield House
listing withdrawn September 21, 2020

• $1.7 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,640 square feet (per county property records)
• Price/square foot: $366
• Built in 1938
• Listed September 18, 2019
• Last sale: $800,000, July 2002
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: Britt and Jane Armfield owned the house from 1938 until her death in 2002. It has remained in the family since then.

1857 Virginia Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn March 30, 2020

• $799,900
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,725 square feet, 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1940
• Listed March 26, 2020
• Last sale: $535,000, October 2011
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: Designed by William Roy Wallace
  • George Black handmade brick, slate roof, copper gutters
  • The house has an elevator.

The Van Hook-Worsham-Stamps House
No address
listing withdrawn (spring 2020, date not recorded)

• $35,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1,425 square feet
• Price/square foot: $24
• Built in 1852; portions of a 1780 structure remain
• Listing: “The Vanhook-Worsham-Stamps house has been completely dismantled, cataloged and stored by a renowned builder in Caswell County, NC.”
  • “… house is a two-pin log home that features a number of Greek Revival characteristics, including street-facing façade and gable, a hip roof with widely overhanging eaves and clapboard siding, while the upper casement windows give rise to a shallow second story.”

8207 Colonial Trading Path, Julian, Randolph County
listing withdrawn March 4, 2020

• $339,000 (originally listed at $614,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,868 square feet, 33.64 acres
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1880 (per county records; see note below)
• Listed October 28, 2019
• Last sale: $100,000, January 2005
• Listing: “Tax maps say this farm house was built in 1880 but experts say it was constructed in the 1860s.” “Priced with rental home next door and two other vacant land parcels. Seller is willing to divide off parcels and houses. All offers will be considered.”
  • The lot containing the house is 13.21 acres.
  • Rental house, 8225 Colonial Trading Path, is 1,712 square feet, built in 1948. Lot is 6.4 acres.
  • Not owner-occupied
  • Located just south of the Randolph-Guilford County line along U.S. 421

2019

3905 Henderson Road, Greensboro
The Will and Diane Howard House
Blog post — A 1955 Mid-Century Masterpiece in Greensboro, $1.099 Million
listing withdrawn December 5, 2019

• $1.099 million (originally listed at $1,195,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,864 square feet, 0.4 acre
• Price/square foot: $384
• Built in 1955
• Listed July 25, 2019
• Last sale: $225,000, September 2013
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Listing: Designed by Thomas Hayes for his college roommate, Will Howard
  • Listing: The house “has been completely restored to its former glory w/open floor plan, sleek lines, walls of glass, original terrazzo floors, 6 outdoor terraces & 2-story Casita. Completely rebuilt by Gary Jobe, preserving almost everything in the original 1955 plan.”
  • The reconstruction addressed “long-term challenges related to materials, drainage, and sustainability. It retains its original H-shaped plan and honors the scope, scale and materials of the initial design.” (Preservation Greensboro)
  • Architects for the restoration were Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn of UrbanLab of Chicago; Brent Skelton did the landscape design. (N.C. Modernist)
  • Before being bought and restored by the current owners, the house was included on the N.C. Modernist 2013 Endangered List.

102 N. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
listing withdrawn July 10, 2019
house demolished August 2019
Blog post — 102 N. Main Street: Time Runs Out for a Decaying Mansion in Downtown Reidsville

• $27,997
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,992 square feet
• Price/square foot: $7
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 19, 2019
• Last sale: $46,000, September 1991
• Note: The house was demolished in August 2019, per a demolition order, issued by the City of Reidsville in August 2018.
  • Listing: “Great fixer upper. Make an offer. All systems to be verified by buyer.”
  • One of the interior photos appears to show pews and a pulpit.

723 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Joshua Boner House
listing expired May 2, 2019

• $599,900
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 3 half-bathrooms, 4,705 square feet
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in about 1844
• Listed August 2, 2018
• Last sale: 1971, price not available in online records
• Note: The home is now the Salem College President’s House.

2018

900 Rockford Road, High Point
Hillbrook
listing withdrawn December 28, 2018

• $3.75 million
• 6 bedrooms, 7 full and 3 half bathrooms, 9,888 square feet, 5.26 acres
• Price/square foot: $379
• Built in 1930
• Listed Febraury 1, 2018
• Last sale: Online records are unclear.
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: Designed by Luther Lashmit, architect of Graylyn in Winston-Salem and Adamsleigh in Sedgefield.
  • Listing: “1930’s Norman Tudor built w/quality materials & workmanship found in few homes, Original architectural detailing. Four levels of total renovation — lower level bar, walk in safe, half bath, recreational room w/ firepl & kitchen, top flr. sauna, spa, exercise room & full bath. Supreme location, gated security & auto court. Flagstone terraces overlook magnificent grounds.”
  • The house has been for sale off and on since 2010 at prices as high as $3.95 million.

236 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Jacquelin Taylor House, 1885
listing expired November 30, 2018

• $375,000
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,969 square feet
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 15, 2018
• Last sale: $212,000, November 2015
• Neighborhood: West End
• Note: Not owner-occupied The house is divided into three apartments.
  • Listing: “… easily converted back to single-family. Recent $100k + of structural and interior renovations & updates. Huge main level apartment, move-in ready.”

4564 S. N.C. Highway 150, Tyro, Davidson County
Tyro Tavern, 1840
Tyro Tavern NRHP
listing expired November 18, 2018

• $250,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,470 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $72
• Built in 1840
• Listed May 20, 2018
• Last sale: $65,000, November 2001
• From the NRHP nomination, 1983: “This Greek Revival style structure has survived with almost no alterations except the removal of the two-story front porch in the mid-twentieth century.”
  • “… the finest example of Greek Revival domestic architecture in Davidson County. It was apparently built as the residence and tavern of Joseph H. Thompson, son of early nineteenth century innkeeper Frederick Thompson. J. H. amassed a fortune from his Tyro Iron Works, the largest agricultural foundry in the county throughout most of the second half of the nineteenth century. The imposing brick dwelling, which still dominates the crossroads village of Tyro, is the only structure remaining of Thompson’s mercantile and industrial empire.”

1915 Granville Road, Greensboro
listing withdrawn August 9, 2018
house demolished, 2021
Blog post — Classic House of the Week: A 1936 Mini-Mansion in Irving Park

4840 Solomon Lea Road, Leasburg, Caswell County
listing withdrawn May 2018
The Garland-Buford House

• $412,000
• 3,744 square feet, 2.37 acres
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built around 1832
• Note: Interior and exterior woodwork attributed to the renowned Thomas Day.
• The home was used as a hospital during the Civil War.
  • Kitchen has granite counter tops, stainless appliances, custom cabinetry and stone flooring.
  • The property includes a swimming pool, hot tub, porches, decks, a detached pool house/office and wired workshop.
  • The house has been featured in Country Living, Money, and Smithsonian magazines.

2017

104 Meadowbrook Terrace, Greensboro
listing withdrawn June 3, 2017

• $1,765,000
• 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 8,525 square feet
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1940
• Listed October 2015
• Last sale: $792,500, March 2007
• Neighborhood: Irving Park