Piedmont Historic Homes

572 Bombay Road, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $300,000 on January 30, 2026 (originally $400,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 2,124 square feet (per county; see note), 1.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1919
• Listed January 4, 2025
• Last sale: February 1966, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: On the eastern edge of town.
• Note: Originally for sale by owner
  • The listing shows 3,850 square feet. County records show 2,124 heated square feet and 2,642 unheated for a total of 4,766.
  • The house was purchased in 1964 by Dwight Eugene “Tinker” Snider (1932-2021) and Aveline Richardson Snider (d. 2023). They moved it to its present location, which they bought in 1966. Dwight was one of 12 children. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and worked in a remarkable number of trades, including sawmill worker, welder, fabricator, steel rigger, crane operator and maintenance worker. He opened the Denton Ready Mix concrete plant and operated Snider Construction & Repair. He also worked for 30 years as an owner-operator trucker. Although he had to drop out of school after the seventh grade to help support his family, he gained his GED at age 56. The house is being sold by Aveline’s estate.

1013 Johnson Street, High Point
The Dalton-Bell-Cameron House

• Sold for $608,500 on January 23, 2026 (originally $695,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,613 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1913
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sales: $436,000, January 2020; $302,500, March 2008
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: 2019 High Point Designers’ Showhouse (more here)
  • Twice damaged by fire, the interior has been entirely rebuilt.
  • Described as the earliest documented Craftsman home in High Point.
  • Aspire magazine: “Born in Greensboro in 1884, Carter Dalton had deep roots in High Point, North Carolina. His grandfather was founder of the first Presbyterian Church in 1859, and his father was an early partner in the Snow Lumber Co., one of High Point’s first industries.
  • “Carter Dalton continued his family’s tradition of community involvement as a lawyer, starting practice around 1913. In August of that year, Dalton purchased a lot in the new Johnson Street development and soon after married Mary Drew Land.
  • “The home the Daltons decided to build was quite progressive for High Point in 1914. Other homes built in town at the time were more traditional, with Colonial or Victorian influences.
  • “The Daltons’ home, by contrast, was quite exotic with influences from Asia and Europe. The home featured a base of Mount Airy granite and was covered with naturally stained clapboards and wood shingles. The home’s exposed rather ends and structural brackets demonstrated Japanese architectural traditions. Inside, features included handcrafted tiles around the fireplace and intricate patterned wood floors.”
  • Carter and Mary sold the house in 1951 to James Wilkins Trew (1899-1972) and Ethel Irene Angevine Trew (1898-1970). Their daughter Mary Jane Trew Bell (1922-1993) and son-in-law Harris Neill Bell (1917-2010) were listed as the residents in 1951 and bought the house from them in 1953. They sold it in 1957. Harris had served as a bombardier on 60 flights over Japan in World War II. He was senior vice president of Jiffy Packaging Company was a founder of the Winter-Bell Company, a paper converting company in High Point.
  • Robert Bruce Cameron (dates unknown) and Mattie Pauline “Polly” Brown Cameron (1908-2012, died at age 103) bought the house in 1957 and owned it for 27 years. Robert was a textiles salesman. Polly attended Agnes Scott College and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
  • After the Camerons sold it, “the Carter Dalton house sat derelict and was threatened with demolition throughout the 1990’s before being purchased by ambitious preservationist Mary Powell Young in 1996. Extensive restorations were completed in 1998, and today the Carter Dalton House once again stands as a jewel of the Johnson Street Historic District.” (Aspire)

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157 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Jeff and Mattie King House

• Sold for $615,000 on January 22, 2026 (originally $665,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,272 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1921 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed October 14, 2025
• Last sales: $350,000, January 2025; $6,000, August 1976
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Flipped house, caveat emptor.
  • The house first appeared in the city directory in 1925. The West End nomination for the National Register puts the date as circa 1927.
• District NR nomination: “The King House is a straightforward, two-story frame, four-square house tied to the architectural character of the district by its scale, use of materials, and simple Craftsman detailing. The weatherboarded dwelling is characterized by a low pyramidal roof with widely overhanging bracketed eaves, paired bungalow windows, and a front porch with tapered wood posts on brick plinths and a heavy plain balustrade. First owner-occupant Jeff D. King was a tobacco buyer.”
  • Jefferson Davis King (1861-1930) and Mattie Martha Snipes King (1865-1931) were listed at the home’s original address, 143 West End, in 1925. Jeff was remembered in his obituary as “one of the best known tobacco men of the Carolinas.”
  • The house was bought in 1964 by Cleo Sexton Robertson (1909-1991). It remained in her family for 61 years. She passed ownership to her son Carlton Dennis Morgan in 1976 with a life estate allowing her to continue living there. Cleo may have had a relatively complicated married life. She had two sons who had different last names, neither of which was Robertson. She was a widow by the time she bought the house.
  • Carlton sold the house in 2025.

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615 Joyner Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $377,500 on January 21, 2026 (originally $425,000, later $450,000)
  • The buyer is a Virginia LLC.
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not specified (probably 3 and 3), 2,037 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1908
• Listed January 24, 2025
• Last sale: $305,500, September 2023
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Single-family home divided into three apartments.
  • The property is under a Notice of Violation from the city for the installation of vinyl windows without a certificate of appropriateness (vinyl windows typically are not allowed in Greensboro’s historic districts). The violation goes with the property, not the owner, so if the seller doesn’t resolve it, the next owner will be on the hook for it.
• National Register nomination: “L-plan, Residence, 1909-12”
  • The property was bought in 1905 by John Townsend Hunt (1862-1933) and Margaret S. “Minnie” Stockton Hunt (1868-1953). John was a contractor, in business with his brother William and cousin Pall Martin Hunt, who grew up in their home after his father died in the Civil War. The address first appears in the 1909 city directory. John and Margaret used it as a rental property and lived nearby at 603 Walker Avenue.
  • John had nine siblings, and College Hill was home to five of them in 1909. William lived at 610 Walker Avenue. Brother Joseph lived a couple blocks away at 408 Tate Street. Their widowed mother, Sarah Jane Baker Hunt, lived with brother Henry and sisters Jenny and Lila at 401 Tate Street.
  • John and Minnie sold the house in 1915 to Henry E. Sadler (1891-1967) and Annie Matlock Sadler (1893-1965). Harry was a steam fitter and later a salesman for The Motor Company, an appliance dealer. He also served as captain of the nearby West End Hose Company. They were the first owner-occupants of the house. In 1922 the house was sold twice and then was listed as vacant for two years. In 1924 it was bought by Wiley Arnold Sykes (1884-1967) and Gertrude Harts Sykes (1890-1978), who owned it for 43 years. Wiley was a buyer for Bray Brothers, a bond broker. Gertrude sold the house in 1967. It was divided into apartments by 1973.

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528 Country Club Road, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Prather-Childress House

• Sold for $385,000 on January 15, 2026 (listed at $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,596 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built circa 1930
• Listed November 12, 2025
• Last sales: $355,000, July 2024; $239,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Country Club Estates Historic District (NR)
• Note: The Mount Airy Country Club golf course is across the street.
• District NR nomination: “Two-story Colonial Revival of brick-veneered frame construction with a composite-shingled side-gable roof. The front entry porch has a gable roof with a barrel-vaulted ceiling finished in tongue-and-groove, standing on paneled square wood columns which may be replacements. It shelters an entry with sidelights and a replacement door, both the door and sidelights with decorative modern glass.
  • “At the two ends of the house are one-story wings veneered with modern cast stonework on the front. The south wing was originally a porch with a roof sleeping deck accessed from the second-floor bedroom on that end which extended from the front of the house to the back. It has a roof balustrade that appears to be a modern replacement. The north wing was made from a porte cochere.
  • “Other features include replacement windows and, on the north and south gable ends, shoulder-less exterior brick chimneys.
  • “According to Billee Prather Miller [1929-2021], her parents Joseph William [1891-1956] and Gertrude Prather [1894-1980] had this house built about 1930, moving into it from their first house in the subdivision at 512 Country Club. Billee Miller believes her father, who owned a mirror factory, may have designed the house, and she notes that it has, or formerly had, a large mirror over the living room fireplace [The listing’s photos show no mirror.].
  • “S. Clinton Childress lived at this address in 1957, by which date the Prathers had moved to 411 Country Club. …
  • “The county date for the house is 1925, which is too early.”

4968 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $245,000 on January 15, 2026 (originally $329,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,925 square feet, 2.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1911
• Listed October 17, 2024
• Last sales: $105,000, April 2020; $60,000, October 2017; $86,000, June 1996
• Neighborhood: Winding Ridge

7655 Salem Chapel Road, Forsyth County

• Sold for $275,000 on January 14, 2026 (originally $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,536 square feet, 0.94 acre
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 12, 2024
• Last sale: $40,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Located in northeastern Forsyth County, about 3.2 miles south of Walnut Cove off U.S. 311 (Walnut Cove Road). The property has a Walnut Cove mailing address but is just across the county line in Forsyth.
• Note: The property was bought in 1925 by William Thomas Smither (1890-1969) and Minnie Gray Marshall Smither (1893-1970). Thomas joined R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in 1906 and moved to Winston-Salem in 1907. He was the company’s advertising manager from 1937 until he retired in 1957. He was a director of the company from 1946. Minnie chaired the first Forsyth County Christmas Seals campaign for tuberculosis in 1941 and was active in the effort for the rest of her life. She also was an active Red Cross volunteer. They lived in a notable home in Winston-Salem.
  • Their daughter Lucy Gray Smither Drake took ownership after Minnie’s death. Like her parents, she lived in Winston-Salem. Her estate sold the house in 1996.

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1100 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
The Maslin-Tudor-Martin House

• Sold for $470,000 on January 13, 2026 (listed at $465,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,435 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 10, 2025
• Last sale: $121,000, August 1985
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Designed by the prominent London-born architect C. Gilbert Humphreys.
• District NR nomination: “While the Colonial Revival continued, the formality of that style began to give way to the informality of the Craftsman style–with the Colonial Revival the second of the two most frequently expressed architectural styles in the West End. Many houses reflected the influence of both styles, such as … the ca. 1917 Maslin-Tudor-Martin House …”
  • Thomas Maslin (1874-1954) and Martha Murfree Maney Maslin (1881-1958) were listed at the address in 1918 after living at 1105 W. 4th for several years. Martha was born in Nashville. She graduated from Vanderbilt University and was said to be just the second woman in the country ever invited to join Phi Beta Kappa (founded in 1776). She worked with Thomas as vice president of the Phoenix Company, an insurance agency.
  • Thomas was born in Baltimore. He worked for Wachovia bank for 15 years before joining George H. Maslin, possibly his uncle, as an organizer of Merchants Bank & Trust. Thomas succeeded George as president in 1917. Thomas was secretary-treasurer of a variety of other enterprises, including the Auditorium Theatre Company, Elks Home & Auditorium, Roland Park Company (real estate) and United Guano Company (Thomas Jr. later worked for a number of fertilizer companies). The bank failed in 1926. Nine years later, Thomas established the Phoenix Company. He was president of the firm when he died at age 79. Thomas was elected to the city Board of Aldermen and served on the city board of health and school board.
  • In 1923, the Maslins moved to Country Club Road. In 1924, George Carter Tudor (1876-1934) and Bessie Hanes Tudor (1882-1950) were listed at 1100 W. 4th. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. George was the general agent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. His agency had become one of the biggest in the state when he died of a heart attack at age 58. He also was an organizer and vice president of the First National Bank of Winston-Salem and a director of the North Carolina Railroad Company.
  • Like the Maslins, the Tudors lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Bessie’s estate sold the house to Ernest Rudolph Martin (1886-1966) and Kathryn McNulty Martin (1896-1971). Ernest was a piano tuner. Kathryn owned and operated McNulty’s Florist. Their daughter, Miriam Ernestine Martin Bradford (1917-2001), and son-in-law, Robert Philman Bradford (1915-1985), were living with Kathryn when she died. They sold the house in 1978.

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708 Manly Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $440,000 on January 12, 2026 (originally $495,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,668 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built 1925
• Listed October 9, 2025
• Last sale: $21,000, May 1969
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house is unusually secluded from the street, perched on a cliff overlooking West End Boulevard. It has views of the boulevard shops, which sit below the property.
  • Air conditioning upstairs only.
• District NR nomination: “Largely hidden from street view, this unusual Craftsman style dwelling is located back from Manly St. and on the edge of the cliff above West End Blvd. The two-story house has a granite first story, a wood shingled second story, a gable roof with widely overhanging eaves, and an off-center gable end granite chimney. The north side yard is granite terraced, and a massive granite retaining wall borders the yard along the cliff above West End Blvd.
  • “In 1983 a one-story addition was built to the northeast corner of the house, but this has not destroyed the significant overall character of the house.”
  • The nomination says that the house was the first one built on the Manly Street hill and that it was originally owned by businessman Frank S. Vernay, who owned several lots on the street. However, Vernay was never listed as living in the house; he was shown half a block away at 651 Summit Street from at least 1915 to 1922.
  • “According to local tradition, prior to the development of Manly St. for houses, the area was called the Granite Hill Quarries, and granite was blasted out of the hill (thus the cliff) for use in building roads in Forsyth County.
  • “This house was depicted on the 1917 Sanborn map. In 1918 George Stockton purchased the property, and it became the residence of George and Nettie Stockton. The house remained in Stockton family ownership until 1948. Subsequently, it changed ownership several times until it was purchased by the present owner-occupants, the Clifton Matthews family, in 1969.”
  • George Stockton (1877-1933) was a traveling salesman.
  • Roy Clifton Matthews Jr. and Anna H. Matthews bought the house in 1969. Both taught at the School of the Arts. Anna taught diction and vocal performance. Clifton was a member of the piano faculty for more than 43 years. An endowed professorship has been established in his honor. He is a pianist who has performed widely in Europe, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and received the Casella Prize from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He conducted an international masterclass for 24 years at the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion, Switzerland.

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404 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The Barnet and Esther Saslow House

• Sold for $1.55 million on January 9, 2026 (originally $2.1 million)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,487 square feet (per county), 0.84 acre
• Price/square foot: $445
• Built in 1936
• Listed September 17, 2025
• Last sale: $520,000, september 1987
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: On a square-foot basis, this is a very ambitious price, though one historic house in Irving Park has sold at that level this year.
  • Designed by Greensboro architect William C. Holleyman, Jr. (1893-1939). He came from New York as an associate of Charles C. Hartmann, one of Greensboro’s major architects of the period. Holleyman mainly designed homes, but he also designed the Science Building at the Woman’s College.
• The district’s NR nomination calls it “a two-story brick dwelling of French Eclectic design. It features a slate-covered hipped roof, half-timbered detailing [now painted over and almost invisible], segmental-arched windows, and a recessed front entrance with a French door and a segmental-arched transom.
  • “A two-story wing projects from the east side of the house and is connected to a one-story garage, while on the west side of the house is one-story shed-roofed wing. A garden stretches behind the house. Barnet Saslow, the first known owner, was president of Saslow’s Inc., dealers in credit jewelry, diamonds, and silverware.”

• Barnet George Saslow (1894-1978) came to Greensboro from Raleigh in 1922 and opened his store. He and Esther Cohen Saslow (1897-1982) bought the house in 1938 and were listed there in the city directory that year, the first time the address had been listed. They sold the house in 1970.
• Saslow’s Jewelers still exists with 14 stores in North Carolina and Virginia, all in smaller cities. By 1975 Saslow’s had added a second Greensboro store at Four Seasons mall and eventually closed the downtown location. The mall location is now closed as well, a victim of the 2008 recession.

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1117 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Bjerk-Wade House

• Sold for $595,000 on January 6, 2026 (listed at $595,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,606 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1924
• Listed November 28, 2025
• Last sale: $327,000, October 2014
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place (outside of historic district)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with 400+ square feet of partially finished space above.
  • The house may have been built by Robert H. Whitehead, who owned many properties in the area and lived at 500 W. Davis. Houses in the 1100 block weren’t numbered until years later, making early identification difficult. Whitehead was president of Standard Realty and Security Company, Central Home Builders Association and Victory Hosiery Mills; vice president of First Savings Bank; and secretary-treasurer of Whitehead Hosiery Mills.
  • Whitehead sold the house in 1930 to Edward M. Bjerk (1895-1947) and Mary Ella Boone Bjerk (1895-1984). Edward was born in Norway. He had served in the merchant marine in World War I. He was co-owner of The Home Bakery (“Our famous Quality bread is cleanest and best”). Mary was born in Alamance County. She was a charter member and president of the Burlington Senior Citizens Club.
  • The Bjerks sold the house in 1940 to Herbert Wills Wade (1897-1977) and Thelma Allene Amick Wade (1898-1994). Herbert served as an Army corporal in World War I. He was director of purchasing for Kayser-Roth Corporation. He was a member of the American Legion, the 40-and-8 and the Alamance Executive Club. Allene studied voice and piano at Elon College. She was a piano teacher and church soloist. They sold the house in 1954.

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208 S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro
The Chloe and Frederick Sarles House

• Sold for $588,000 on January 6, 2026 (listed at $609,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,698 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $346
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 8, 2025
• Last sales: $230,000, March 2014; $85,000, July 1993
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • Online listings show 2,377 square feet, an unusually wide 40 percent discrepancy from property tax records.
  • Replacement windows. For such an uncommonly high price for the neighborhood, a buyer should expect better.
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, four-bay, side-gabled with returns, brick Period Cottage displays two front-facing, slightly projecting gables with returns and fanlights. The north gable shelters a northeast corner porch with two large arched openings supported by brick posts and a solid brick balustrade.
  • “A decorative band of soldier-course brick set in a basketweave pattern extends along the frieze on the visible elevations. Stucco sheathes the side gable ends. A brick chimney rises from the interior, just behind the roof ridge. Windows are six-over-six vinyl replacements. A gabled ell extends from the rear. Aerial photo shows an outbuilding, but it is not visible from the right-of-way.
  • “The first occupant appears at this address in the 1929 city directory. It remained a rental until June 1936 when the Sarles purchased the house. According to the 1937 city directory, he was the state manager of Inter-Ocean Casualty Company. The house remained under ownership of Sarles heirs until 1993.”
  • Frederick William Sarles (1895-1965) and Chloe Belle Sarles (1907-1993) bought the house after a foreclosure. Born in Colorado, Fred was a World War I veteran. He worked for Inter-Ocean Casualty for 36 years. Chloe was born in Iowa. She was volunteer with the Red Cross and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Bookmarkers Club and served as president of the Presbyterian Women at First Presbyterian Church.