Piedmont Historic Homes

708 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Samuel and Lillian Lampell House

• Sold for $452,000 on December 21, 2024 (listed at $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,000 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1928
• Listed December 6, 2024
• Last sales: $405,000, September 2021; $379,500, September 2003
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Dutch Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with full-width, shed-roofed dormers on the facade and rear (north) elevations.
  • “It has a brick veneer, exterior brick chimney in the left (west) gable, and six-over-one, wood-sash windows, paired on the first-floor facade. The six-panel door is sheltered by a small, front-gabled porch supported by slender columns.
  • “One-story, side-gabled wings project from the right (east) and left elevations, each with fiber-cement siding and vinyl casement windows.
  • “The left wing was originally an open, screened porch. A two-story, gabled ell at the left rear (northwest) also has fiber-cement siding and vinyl windows.
  • “A low stone wall extends along the driveway on the left side of the house.”
  • The original owners were Samuel Lampell (1894-1968) and Lillian Bleich Lampell (1899-1987), who were listed at the address in 1930, the first year it was included in the city directory. Samuel was the proprietor of Worth’s, a “ladies’ ready-to-wear and millinery” shop at 117 N. Main Street. They lost the house to foreclosure in December 1932. The lender owned the house until 1943.
  • Samuel was one of the organizers of Luna Park, a “high class amusement park” on the Greensboro-High Point Highway. The 14-acre park opened in May 1929. The last mention of it in local newspapers appears to have been in September 1929.

419 Piedmont Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Charles Swann House (chez Swann?)

• Sold for $240,000 on December 18, 2024 (listed at $269,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,688 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built ca. 1920
• Listed June 7, 2024
• Last sale: $20,000, April 1973
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records give the date as 1947, which appears to be clearly wrong. The NR nomination says circa 1920.
• District NR nomination: “Stock early 20th century frame two-story, double-pile house … this residence features a full-facade porch with tapered posts on brick piers and a slat balustrade sheltering the three-bay facade where paired windows are set on either side of the entrance. The high hip roof has a hip dormer, both with slightly flared eaves, and interior chimneys. A one-story frame garage stands to the southeast. The 1929 occupant of the house was C.W. Swann of the Reidsville Hardware Company.”
  • Charles Walter Swann (1875-1961) was born in Rockingham County and came to Reidsville in 1989 to work for Giles & Mims Hardware Company. Fourteen years and several job changes later, he returned to the renamed company as manger and partner. He eventually became the sole owner of the business, ultimately called Reidsville Hardware Company. He stayed with the firm for decades, becoming semi-retired in 1953 at age 78. He was a member of the Reidsville school board for 20 years, a trustee of Annie Penn Hospital for mote than 16 years and a deacon at First Baptist Church for 30 years. The house was sold by a son and daugher-in-law in 1973.

709 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The John and Adele Shipley House

• Sold for $825,000 on December 16, 2024 (listed at $799,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,581 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 6, 2023
• Last sale: $608,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “original woodwork, wood wainscoting, towering ceilings, classic built-ins, 7 fireplaces, pocket doors, grand staircases, an abundance of windows and immaculate architectural details throughout.”
• District NR nomination: “The Shipley House reflects a combination of the Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. Located at the head of Jersey Ave. on a high terraced lot, the house is the most imposing of those on the Summit St. hill.
  • “The two-story house has a brick veneer first story, a pebbledash second story, a bellcast hip roof with widely overhanging bracketed eaves, and three pedimented front dormers.
  • “Windows are paired twelve-over-one sash with keystoned lintels, and the central entrance with sidelights and transom is sheltered by a Classical porch with Tuscan columns on brick plinths, a full entablature, and a balustraded deck.
  • “On the east side of the house is an open porch, while on the west side is a sun room.”
  • The nomination says John Wesley Shipley (1857-1928) first listed the property for taxes in 1911. He operated a harness and saddlery shop at 442 Trade Street. He and his wife, Adele Louise Ferguson Shipley (1862-1928), were listed at the residence in 1913, the first time Summit Street was included in the city directory. They died two weeks apart in 1928. Their son John Robert Shipley (1889-1967) lived in the house after they died. He was a stenographer with Southern Railway. He was no longer listed at the address in 1934.

148 Park Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Edgar and Lucy Barber House

• Sold for $599,900 on December 16, 2024 (listed at $599,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,739 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1917
• Listed November 4, 2024
• Last sale: $198,000, July 2001
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house sits well above the street across from Washington Park.
  • The original owners were Edgar Fletcher Barber (1884-1956) and Lucy Raine Burton Barber (1884-1963). Edgar was the owner of the Barber Printing Company and Barber Book Store from 1906 to 1930. They lived in the house until around 1931.
  • The house is being sold by the heirs of Claudia Margaret Mikulaninec (1944-2024), who bought the house in 2001 and lived in it for the rest of her life. Claudia was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She was a nursing graduate of Emory University and received her masters from UNC Greensboro. She worked as a nurse and nurse practitioner until her death.
• District NR nomination: “Large gambrel-roofed frame house with engaged full flared-eave porch supported by paired square posts on brick piers with cast stone caps and diamond-and-square wood balustrade. Shingled front shed dormer with three bays (middle recessed) of paired windows; smaller shed dormer at back. One-story three-sided bays at side elevations.
  • House sits atop a hill; terraced lawn and stone steps lead from Park Blvd.; brick and cast stone steps lead to house from terraced front lawn. Stone walls and flower bed borders. … Extent of stone retaining wall on Park Blvd. indicates the Barbers owned large parcel of land overlooking Washington Park.”

1317 Fairmont Street, Greensboro
The Scarboro House

• Sold for $407,000 on December 12, 2024 (listed at $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,544 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $264
• Built in 1928
• Listed October 31, 2024
• Last sale: $210,000, July 2006
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace/Westerwood
• Note: Fairmont Street was originally called Overlook Terrace.
  • The house was initially a rental, first owned by William L. Fields (1883-1948) and Elizabeth Keel Fields (1893-1957). William was an accountant with the American Agricultural Company. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1932, and it was bought by Odell Hardware Company.
  • By 1941, Ernest Marshall Scarboro (1909-1982) was renting the house, along with his parents, Julian Marshall Scarboro (1878-1957) and Lovey Ellen Goley Scarboro (1872-1956). Ernest had been a school teacher. He was advertising manager for Home Building & Loan and later senior vice president of Home Federal Savings & Loan. James was a salesman for J.W. Scott & Company, a dry-goods wholesaler.
  • Ernest bought the house from Odell in 1943, and he and his parents lived there for the rest of their lives. Ernest’s estate sold the house in 1982.

1560 Gentry Farm Road, Stokes County (also here)
The Bennett-Gentry House

• Sold for $325,000 on December 11, 2024 (originally $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,822 square feet, 1.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1890
• Listed May 25, 2024
• Last sale: The property has been owned by the Bennett-Gentry family since the house was built.
• Neighborhood: The property has a King mailing address but is located about 6 miles south of town.
• Something you don’t see every day: “There is a hidden staircase behind the kitchen that leads to a bedroom on the upper level.”
• Note: “Interior needs cosmetic updates.”
  • The house has an attached carport at the rear.

924 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
The Jeffreys-Murray House

• Sold for $280,000 on December 9, 2024 (listed at $297,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,646 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1901
• Listed October 17, 2024
• Last sales: $137,000, May 2014; $140,000, March 2008
• Neighborhood: College Hill historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Longtime rental property
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne L-plan, Residence, 1895-99”
  • The original owner was Priscilla Franklin Lee Jeffreys (1841-1934). She bought the property in 1900, around the time she moved from Oak Ridge to Greensboro, and sold it in 1912. “Mrs. Jeffreys was once a guest of Grover Cleveland at the White House and was one of the women that stood in a rain to feed soldiers at Petersburg, Virginia,” her obituary said. She and her late husband had 10 children. Her husband, Newton Anderson Jeffreys (1841-1899), had been a farmer in Oak Ridge.
  • Frank Seymore Stockard (1868-1947) and Ada Estelle Bryan Stockard (1870-1949) bought the house from Priscilla in 1912. Frank was a carpenter. They sold the house in 1947.
  • John Lloyd Murray (1911-1994) and Blanche Smith Murray (1912-1973) bought the house in 1947, and it was in their family for 61 years. Lloyd worked for Lorillard. He was still living in the house when he died. Their daughter sold the house in 2008.

1122 & 1124 Cridland Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $460,000 on December 5, 2024 (originally $550,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,276 square feet (per county), 0.58 acre (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 19, 2024
• Last sale: $108,000, two transactions in 1981 and 1983
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: Latham Park is across the street.
  • Odd: The listing includes no photos of the interior. [Update from a reliable neighborhood source: The interior is in very poor condition after years as a rental.]
  • Cridland Road first appears in the city directory in 1927, the year that George Allen Bryant (1895-1983) and Mary Hall Bryant (1899-1962) bought this property that year from developer J.E. Latham. The address was listed as 20 Cridland Road. George was manager of the shoe department at Ellis Store department store. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1930.
  • The house has been owned since 1981 by Patricia “Parker” Washburn (1946-2024) and Arthur Washburn. Parker took over Leon’s Beauty School and Salons from her mother and step-father (Leon Oldham’s first salon opened on Tate Street in 1945; the school opened in 1963, also on Tate Street).
  • Parker and Arthur met while studying at Guilford College. After graduation, they worked together at Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York, where Parker was dean of students and Arthur taught history and world studies. Arthur became an anatomist and physical anthropologist. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University and has worked with the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office. 
  • Parker became a well-known business figure in Greensboro, operating the school and six salons. Beginning in the 1990s, she began offering space in her salons to local artists to display and sell their work.

224 Grace Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The John and Estelle Stokes House

• Sold for $367,500 on December 3, 2024 (listed at $395,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,102 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1936 (per county, but probably later; see note)
• Listed November 5, 2024
• Last sale: $120,000, June 1998
• Neighborhood: Taylor Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story Colonial Revival house of brick-veneered frame construction with a composition-shingled side-gable roof. The front entry has a wood panel door and is sheltered by a small gabled porch with classical columns and heavy curved brackets.
  • “A one-story frame wing with modern wood shingle siding projects on the east end. There is a brick pillar at the juncture of the wing and the main house, suggesting the wing may be an enclosed porch. The exterior brick chimneys on the two gable ends have decorative soldier panels just below their battlemented tops. Other features include replacement windows and a granite front walk. …
  • “According to the current owner, the side wing dates to the 1960s and the current front porch columns are replacements of original columns. The granite walk is a recent replacement of an earlier granite walk.”
  • County records date the house to 1936, but a 1944 deed suggests there was no house on the property then (because all of the covenants were listed on the deed). John Young Stokes (1894-1974) and Estelle McGee Stokes (1905-1978) bought the property in 1944. John owned an insurance agency and was a tobacconist and tobacco buyer. A veteran of World War I, he received the Distinguished Service Cross “for extraordinary heroism in action” with the 27th Aero Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Service in France in 1918. They sold the house in 1971.

113 Gwyn Avenue Elkin, Surry County
The Dan Chatham House

• Sold for $435,000 on November 27, 2024 (originally $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,298 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $189
• Built in 1913
• Listed September 1, 2024
• Last sale: $219,150, April 2020; $176,000, September 2003
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The district’s National Register nomination calls it “a solid example of the Colonial Revival style,” but that was before the original front porch was removed.
  • The property includes a detached two-story garage apartment “ready for renovation.”
• District NR nomination (2007): “The house stands on terraced front lawn. Brick forms the front walk, steps, and narrow front terrace. On the south side of the house are rubblestone steps and a rubblestone retaining wall along the driveway.
  • “Now sided with vinyl, the house remains a solid example of the Colonial Revival style. The first story is five bays wide, while the second story is three. Windows are six-over-six sash with shutters. At the center of the facade is the sidelighted entrance, sheltered by a classical, pedimented porch [now missing] with slender Tuscan posts and a modillioned cornice.
  • “The side-gable roof has a modillioned cornice across the front and a shed dormer centered on the rear slope. Gable-end brick chimneys are flanked by lunette windows in the gables. A small ell extends from the rear of the house.”
  • The original owners were Thomas Daniel Chatham (1889-1972) and Ruth Abernathy Chatham (1892-1969). Dan was a landscaper and civil engineer. He was the youngest of seven children of Alexander Chatham, a founder of Chatham Manufacturing.

1004 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Grover and Anna Lovill House

• Sold for $408,500 on November 26, 2024 (listed at $429,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,210 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built circa 1922
• Listed September 13, 2024
• Last sales: $375,000, April 2022; $240,000, July 2010
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: Although county records give the date of the house as 1935, it appears on a 1922 Sanborn map under its original address, 370 N. Main. The owners then were Grover Cleveland Lovill (1884-1962) and Anna Elizabeth Reece Lovill (1894-1974).
• District NR nomination: “A gambrel roof relates this story-and-a-half brick-veneered house to a subgenre of the Colonial Revival style known as Dutch Colonial Revival. Colonial treatments include a scrolled and broken pediment with a center urn over the front entry and half and quarter-circle attic windows at the top of the end elevations and the gambreled rear wing.
  • “The house has symmetrically balanced one-story projections at the ends: a porch with square wood columns and a pergola treatment around the roof at the north end and a conservatory or music room wing at the south end, also with a pergola treatment around the roof. Three shed dormers are spaced across the front roof slope.
  • “The front entry has a wood panel door flanked by sidelights. The windows are replacements. From the rear wing extends a screen porch and what may be a breakfast room and a deck.
  • “The house appears on the 1922 Sanborn map (with the address as 370 North Main) and was probably built shortly before. Grover Cleveland Lovill, born in Surry County in 1884, worked for a Mount Airy general store beginning in 1900, went into business on his own in 1905, and in 1910 enlarged the scope of his enterprise and became a wholesale grocery, feed and produce dealer.”
  • Grover, his father and siblings were prominent members of the Mount Airy community. Grover was president of the Mount Airy Produce Exchange and vice president of G.C. Lovill Company, a wholesaler of groceries, feed and notions.
  • Brother Robert Jones Lovill (1887-1964) was a physician. He practiced in Mount Airy but also had spent some time in medical research in Boston.
  • Sister Mary Elizabeth (1889-1979) was co-owner of Lovill-Hatcher Insurance Agency.
  • Their father, Walter (1853-1927) was a farmer. The Greensboro Daily News reported his death: “Mount Airy, June 18 [1927] — Walter Wiley Lovill prominent farmer of the county and father of a number of prominent business men of this city, died suddenly at his home near here this afternoon at 4 o’clock following an attack of acute indigestion, probably brought on by diabetes. …
  • “Mr. Lovill was a farmer all his life and took an active interest in the upbuilding of his section. He was a Democrat and an energetic man and at this time has holdings of around 300 acres.”
  • Walter and his wife, Martha Jones Lovill (1856-1941), had seven children, all of whom lived to adulthood.

173 High Rock Drive, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $293,000 on November 26, 2024 (listed at $305,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,300 square feet (per county), 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1905 (per listing; see note)
• Listed September 18, 2024
• Last sales: $281,000, September 2023; $100,500, January 2022; $105,000, July 1999
• Neighborhood: Located about 6.8 miles southwest of Denton, almost to Tuckertown Reservoir. The property has a Denton mailing address.
• Note: County records show a 1950 date. The design of the house suggests 1905 is more likely.
  • The listing shows 2,498 square feet. County records say 2,300 square feet of heated space and 264 square feet unheated.

1712 Madison Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $495,000 on November 25, 2024 (listed at $499,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,476 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 3, 2024
• Last sale: $80,000, April 1982
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, five-bay, hardboard-sided, Dutch Colonial Revival-style house displays a front-gabled hood with brackets and a vaulted soffit. It shelters a paneled wood door topped by a blind fanlight and framed by sidelights. Windows are six-over-one, including those in the three-bay shed dormer. A brick chimney rises from the east elevation of the main block where it intersects with a one-story, hip-roofed screened porch.”
  • The original owners were Dr. Duncan Waldo Holt (1891-1967) and Helen Knaur Holt (1896-1969). Waldo was a physician. He graduated from Duke and the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He practiced in Greensboro from 1920 to 1960. They bought the house in 1925; their son sold it in 1970.

707 Broad Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $200,000 on November 22, 2024 (listed at $195,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,884 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1918
• Listed October 19, 2024
• Last sale: $108,000, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman foursquare, residence, 1920-25.”

209 Isabel Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $810,000 on November 20, 2024 (listed at $798,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,803 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $289
• Built in 1924 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed October 21, 2024
• Last sale: $425,000, April 2024
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Flipped house with a quick turnaround — caveat emptor. The house was sold to a Chapel Hill LLC in April without being publicly listed for sale.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman foursquare. Low hipped roof, front dormer, overhanging eaves, bungalow porch.”
  • The nomination dates the house to 1915-20. John Lansdell Howerton (1887-1967) and Mary T. Howerton (1885-1959) bought the property in 1919. John was the owner of Howerton’s Drug Store. They sold the house in 1922.
  • Walter Burke Davis (1889-1974) and Harriett Jackson “Hattie” Davis (1889-1971) bought the house in 1922. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1931. Walter was the owner of Davis Drug Company and later a salesman for the American Pencil Company.

220 Carter Circle, Winston-Salem
The Robert Leinbach House

• Sold for $315,000 on November 20, 2024 (listed at $300,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,385 square feet, 1.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $227
• Built in 1850 (see note)
• Listed October 11, 2024
• Last sale: $78,750, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Mount Tabor
• Note: County records date the house to 1930. The State Historic Preservation Office describes the house as the Robert Leinbach House, “c. 1850, 1970 trad/vern Wood Shingles log.”
  • Robert Parmenio Leinbach (1831-1892) was a Moravian minister. His diary is quoted in The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, by Alice Fahs. A reviewer in The Journal of Southern History commented:
  • “One of the most interesting documents … is the private diary of Robert Parmenio Leinbach, who served several of the rural congregations outside Salem and wrote eloquently of the ‘countless terrible evils brought upon this devoted country by secession’ (p. 6549). In April 1865 Leinbach described the panic accompanying the arrival of both Union and Confederate troops in the region: ‘Everybody everywhere about half-witted-excepting, of course, myself,’ he wrote.”

607 S. 5th Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $1.15 million on November 18, 2024 (originally $1.325 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,666 square feet, 4.49 acres
• Price/square foot: $314
• Built in 1950
• Listed February 22, 2024
• Last sale: $875,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom guest house with a kitchen and living room, and a large outbuilding with a covered parking area
• District NR nomination: “This is a 2-story Colonial Revival-style residence finished in painted brick, with a main 3-bay block flanked by gable-roofed one-story side wings finished in brick and beaded weatherboard; one of these incorporates a hyphen connecting to a front-gabled brick wing with an interior chimney. An exterior gable-end brick chimney is present.
  • “The main entrance is centered on the façade with a transom and a pedimented frontispiece. Windows are 12/12 sash on the first story and 8/8 on the second story, with exterior shutters. An open gabled porch is on the north elevation.”

1506 W. Market Street, Greensboro
The Cobb-Jones House

• Sold for $360,000 on November 18, 2024 (listed at $375,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,193 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $164
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 11, 2024
• Last sales: $218,500, April 2019; $199,000, September 2017
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace
• Note: The original owner was Penelope W. Cobb (1882-1962), who bought the property in 1920. She operated a public stenography and letter-writing business and later worked as an examiner for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. One of 11 children in her family, she was a sister of Dr. Collier Cobb, a renowned geologist and professor.
  • Penelope sold the house in 1941 to Hammond Roger Jones (1889-1964) and Sarah Beatrice Wimberly Jones (1892-1986). The house remained in their family for 64 years. Roger was a tire dealer. After Beatrice died, the house passed to one of their sons, George Spencer Jones (1916-2000), before being sold in 2005.

517 W. Spring Street, Troy, Montgomery County

• Sold for $225,000 on November 15, 2024 (listed at $289,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,190 square feet, 9.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 19, 2024
• Last sale: $20,000, May 1968
• Note: The property includes a circular drive and a two-car garage, a storage building and a barn.
  • The most conspicuous feature of the property is the Town of Troy water tower on a 0.7-acre plot that had been part of this lot. The tower sits just across the driveway from the house. The water-tower lot was broken off from the rest of the property at the time of the last sale in 1968.
  • The earliest known owners were Eben Reynolds Wallace (1888-1967) and Mollie Allen Wallace (1890-1969), who sold the house in 1938. Eben was president of Wallace and Smitherman Lumber Company and president of Montgomery Savings and Loan Association. He served on the county Board of Education for 30 years and was a charter member of the Troy Rotary Club.
  • In 1938, Worth Lackey Franklin (1907-1987) and Mary Bruton Allen Franklin (1910-1998) bought the house. Worth was an accountant. In 1968 the Franklins sold a corner of the property to the city for the water tower and the rest of it to the current owners.
  • The current owners’ last names are Allen. It’s unknown what relation, if any, there is or was among the various owners with that name.

205 S. 4th Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $774,000 on November 14, 2024 (listed at $775,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,957 square feet (per county), 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1955
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $455,000, April 2024; $3,300, December 1951.
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: Formerly the parsonage of the Mebane United Methodist Church, which is across the street.
  • Quickie flip job that lost some of the historic character — caveat emptor.
  • The listing shows 3,584 square feet, 21 percent more than county records show. Measurements sometimes vary, but not often by this much.
• District NR nomination: Colonial Revival. “Finished in red brick [now painted], the house has a side-gable roof, a 3-bay symmetrically-massed façade, and includes an exterior brick chimney on the south elevation and on the northeast corner.
  • “A 1-story gabled wing is on the north elevation. The house has a centered entry with sidelights [now removed] shielded by a front-gabled portico with segmental-arched intrados, supported by plain wood posts. Windows are flat-topped with replacement 8/8 and 6/6 sash, set on brick sills and capped with soldier-course brick lintels.
  • “A front-gable red brick garage is attached by a hyphen on the north elevation and a flat-roofed screened-in side porch is on the south elevation.”

404 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
The James and Sara Baxter House

• Sold for $489,000 on November 14, 2024 (listed at $489,000)
  • Sold to buyers with a hoe address in Columbia, South Carolina
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,160 square feet, 0.17 acre (per county)
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 23, 2024
• Last sale: $199,000, August 2007
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The basement contains a bedroom with ensuite bath and a den, but the ceiling is less than 7 feet, so the space can’t be counted in the square footage.
  • The original owners were James Crosby Baxter and Sara D. Baxter (dates unknown for both). They bought the property in 1923. James was a traveling salesman. Sara, by then a widow, sold it in 1950.

711 Park Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $275,000 on November 13, 2024 (originally $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,761 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built around 1923
• Listed June 23, 2024
• Last sales: $260,000, March 2021; $273,622, October 2014 (foreclosure); $30,000, August 2006
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District
• Note: County records give the date as of the house as 1931, but the address appears in the city directory beginning in 1923. James A. Bangle (1875-1961) bought the property in 1922 from the Summit Avenue Building Company; the deed indicates there was no house on the lot. James was a superintendent at Proximity Mill and a prolific buyer and seller of real estate. He and his wife Mary Emma Myers Bangle (1876-1954) lived in the house until they sold it in 1925.
  • The buyers were John C. Strickland (1897-1962) and Elizabeth Gertrude Shaw Strickland (1900-1961). John was a cashier at the North Carolina Industrial Bank and later served as a justice of the peace. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1932. The lender made it a rental property for nine years before selling it. It remained a rental under multiple owners until the city redevelopment commission bought it in 1994.
  • The house is across the street from a parking lot for city-government vehicles adjacent to War Memorial Stadium.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman gable-front, Residence, 1920-25”

205 E. Hendrix Street, Greensboro
The Arthur and Clara Ellington House

• Sold for $635,000 on November 12, 2024 (listed at $650,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,008 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1923
• Listed October 3, 2024
• Last sale: $365,000, July 2015
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Mediterranean Rev, Residence, 1920-25. Large, rectangular, brick-veneered dwelling with shaped exposed rafter ends.”
  • The original owners were Arthur Gilbert Ellington (1882-1946) and Clara Elizabeth Elam Ellington (1888-1976). Arthur was a partner in W.I. Anderson & Company, produce wholesalers. Clara sold the house in 1951.
  • In 1956 Frank C. Haralson (1904-1979) and Louise Hasetine Stallworth Haralson (1910-1993) bought the house. Frank was vice president of G.D. Reddick Inc., which sold plumbing supplies, and Greensboro Surplus Incorporated. Louise sold the house in 1991.

4265 N.C. Highway 87, Chatham County
The Jerry Alston House

• Sold for $520,000 on November 4, 2024 (listed at $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,282 square feet, 1.82 acres
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 12, 2024
• Last sale: $329,000, December 2019
• Neighborhood: Located 5 miles northwest of Pittsboro.
• Note: The property includes a 420-square-foot wired barn, “fenced and gated raised garden beds, fenced and gated patios, chicken coops, a chicken run, a dog run, and mostly fenced land.”
  • The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina: “The residence is a plain two-story three-bay triple-A house constructed around the turn of the century. It has a one-story ell, an interior corbeled-cap brick chimney, cornice returns and decorative shingles on the house’s three gables.”

525 Circle Drive, Burlington, Alamance County
The Samuel and Lucy Ross House

• Sold for $650,500 on September 17, 2024 (see note; listed at $624,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,738 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $238
• Built in 1935
• Listed September 4, 2024
• Last sale: $375,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: The deed is dated September 17, 2024, but it wasn’t filed until November 1.
  • The property includes a two-car detached garage.
  • The original owners were Samuel Tilden Ross Sr. (1886-1976) and Lucy Pennette Corbett Ross (1893-1979), who bought the property in 1934. Lucy sold the house in 1977. Samuel was a foreman at May Hosiery Mills.

7473 Old U.S. Highway 52, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $345,000 on October 15, 2024 (listed at $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,468 square feet, 1.36 acres
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 6, 2024
• Last sale: $241,200, August 2020
• Neighborhood: Located north of Welcome, about 7 1/2 miles north of Lexington. North Davidson High School is one house away. The property has a Lexington mailing address.

1801 Sunnyside Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Clyde and Mamie Martin House

• Sold for $520,000 on October 12, 2024 (originally $599,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,631 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $198
• Built in 1917
• Listed June 3, 2024
• Last sale: $140,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Caveat emptor — flipped house. The owner is an LLC in Vista, California. To their credit, it looks like they had some respect for the historic character of the house, except for the cheap replacement windows.
• District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame house with shed dormer, partially exposed brick end chimneys; one-story shed-roofed porch supported by full-height square wood posts; paired 6/1 windows. One end of front porch bas been enclosed as sunroom.
  • “Weatherboarded first story, shingled above. Dentil molding at front cornice line. House is intact except for porch enclosure.
  • “Martin [1876-1936] was the city ticket agent for Southern Railway. He and his wife Mamie R. [1879-1956] bought the property in 1915.” Mamie lived in the house until she died.

403 McReynolds Street, Carthage, Moore County
The Charles T. Sinclair House

• Sold for $319,000 on October 11, 2024 (originally $325,000)
• Bedrooms not specified, no full bathrooms (see note), 5,437 square feet, 2.54 acres
• Price/square foot: $59
• Built in 1914
• Last sale: The property was given to the Carthage United Methodist Church in 2003.
• Neighborhood: Carthage Historic District (NR)
• Note: The Sinclair House hasn’t been sold since it was built. The property was given to the church by Louise Sarah Thompson Sinclair (1912-2007), daughter-in-law of the original owners, Charles T. Sinclair (1873-1957) and Mary Bertha Petty Sinclair (1881-1960). Charles was the owner of Carthage Furniture Company and a partner in the Sinclair Brothers department store.
  • Their son, Charles Jr. (1915-1989), succeeded Charles as owner and president of the company.
  • Louise was a graduate of Greensboro College. She taught home economics at Carthage High School.
  • McReynolds Street was originally named Elm Street. Before it was a city street, it was part of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, running from Fayetteville northwest to Salem. The section in Carthage was built in 1851.
• District NR nomination: “The Charles Sinclair House (403 McReynolds Street) is a splendid example of the Neo-Classical Revival style, a fashion picked up by many prominent North Carolinians as a symbol of their affluence and important roles in community life. …
• “Perhaps the most academically accurate building in the Carthage Historic District … [t]he expansive Neo-Classical Revival style residence, the only brick-clad building from the period of significance, features the characteristic monumental classical portico. It is also adorned with handsome elliptical stained-glass windows above the entrance and flanking windows.”
• Preservation North Carolina: “This stylishly detailed Neoclassical Revival house was built for local merchant Charles T. Sinclair and his wife Mamie in 1914 from plans by noted Raleigh architect Frank B. Simpson.
  • “Simpson, whose work included commercial, institutional and residential projects across the state, designed this exquisite large house in the latest fashion during a time when well-heeled northeasterners were moving to resort communities such as Pinehurst and Southern Pines. Sited on a prominent location along McReynolds Street in the Carthage Historic District, the Charles T. Sinclair House offers 12 beautifully appointed rooms for use as a residence or B&B inn.
  • “The once monumental semicircular front portico with Corinthian columns was removed several years ago and will need to be restored. … A sizable catering kitchen would benefit from updates. While the house is habitable with functioning HVAC and a few half baths, no full bathroom exists.
  • “Areas of deferred maintenance including some water infiltration, soffit repair, reconstruction of the front portico, repainting, and other upgrades as necessary await the new owner.”

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510 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The J.W. Hill House

• Sold for $649,000 on October 8, 2024 (originally $675,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,272 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $286
• Built in 1927
• Listed July 10, 2024
• Last sale: $384,000, September 2012
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: “Surprisingly large closets.”
• District NR nomination: “The Hill House is a two-story brick veneer dwelling which is a simple and straightforward representation of the Colonial Revival style. It has a low hip roof with overhanging eaves and shallow brackets, paired nine-over-one sash windows, a front porch with Tuscan columns, and a north side porte-cochere with Tuscan columns set on brick plinths. A granite retaining wall outlines the front yard and borders the curved steps leading to the porch.
  • “The Burge-Loyd building company constructed the house for John William Hill [1872-1966], an independent tobacco buyer, and his wife, Betty [1881-1953]. …
  • “Behind the porte-cochere is a two-car brick garage with a pyramidal roof which appears to have been built at the same time as the house or shortly thereafter.”
  • The Hill family retained ownership of the house until 1988.

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118 Union Church Road, Vass, Moore County
The John Cameron House

• Sold for $499,000 on October 7, 2024 (listed at $499,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,440 square feet, 1.10 acres
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1904 (per county, possibly a bit later; see note)
• Listed August 16, 2024
• Last sale: $78,000, February 2000
• Note: Online listings show the address as being in Carthage. It’s actually in Vass.
  • The property includes an above-ground pool.
  • The State Historic Preservation Office: “c. 1912-1914 2-story hip roof vernacular Colonial Revival house w/ wraparound porch, pedimented entry & pedimented gable bays.”
  • The SHPO lists this property as the John Cameron House without any further information about its namesake. There were at least three John Camerons in Moore County around the time the house was built. Also living in Vass then was William John Cameron (1859-1933), brother of Angus Cameron. Angus was mayor and a major local business owner, and William himself was a prominent business owner in Vass at the time.

170 Broad Street, Milton, Caswell County
The Friou-Hunt-Hurdle House

• Sold for $425,000 on September 30, 2024 (originally $475,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,280 square feet, 3.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1840 (per county but possibly later; see note)
• Listed May 11, 2024
• Last sale: December 2000, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• From the Vernalcular Architecture Forum: “Believed to have been built in the late 1850s or early 1860s and updated several years later, the 2-story frame house follows a typical 1-room-deep center-passage plan plus a rear ell built in phases. Here the popular antebellum Greek Revival style is overlaid with more ornate features of the later 19th century including the present ornate porch, front entrance with arched panels, bosses, moldings, and red ‘Venetian’ glass transom. 
  • “The interior displays elements of the late antebellum style associated with cabinetmaker Thomas Day, such as the pair of niches in the east parlor and the mantel in the west dining room, as well as simpler mantels and door and window frames. The later 19th-century update included the ornate soapstone mantel between the east parlor niches. The evolution of the stair is unclear: its form and curvilinear stair brackets resemble other local antebellum houses, but the hefty turned newel and turned balusters are more like stairs in later 19th century-buildings. The rear ell (see plan drawing) developed in stages, all finished in simple Greek Revival style. 
  • “Especially intriguing is the frame Outbuilding behind the main house, which appears to date from shortly before the Civil War and is believed to have served as a kitchen and quarters for enslaved and later free servants. It measures 16 by 36 feet with a center chimney and corner staircases. The framing of the 1st story combines old-fashioned hewn heavy timbers and corner posts hewn to an L shape (“guttered”), with circular-sawn lighter framing elements. The whitewashing of the frame shows that it has always been left exposed. The two upper chambers have hearths that appear to be original.”
  • The original owners were Jarvis Friou (1806-1896) and Sallie or Sarah Stimson Friou (b. circa 1811). Jarvis was born in New Bern to a French Huguenot family. He came to Milton in the 1830s or 1840s as a boot and shoemaker. Later, he ran the Milton Hotel.
  • By the late 1870s the house was owned by Eustace Hunt (1835-1902) and Anna Stamps Watkins Hunt (1845-1900). Eustace was a much respected tobacco farmer and buyer. “In the death of Mr. Hunt, the town and community loses a valuable and highly esteemed citizen,” The News & Observer said. The Hunts may have expanded and updated the house for their large household.
  • Dr. James Augustus Hurdle (1849-1925) owned the property from 1904 until his death. He was “for 35 years a resident of Milton and widely known Caswell dentist,” The N&O said in his obituary. He also had served in the state Senate. His dentistry office is said to have been on the second floor. 

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101 N. Franklin Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $111,000 on October 1. 2024 (originally $215,000, then $230,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,288 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1908
• Listed November 29, 2023
• Last sales: $149,500, May 2023; $129,000, September 2022
• Note: Located at the corner of Franklin and Morehead.
  • Originally for sale by owner, an LLC in Lexington

907 Trogdon Street, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County
The Taylor-Williams House

• Sold for $368,000 on September 25, 2024 (originally $449,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,075 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1908
• Listed May 14, 2024
• Last sale: $380,000, October 2022
• Note: The listing shows only 2,538 square feet.
  • The earliest known owners were Dr. William Andrew Taylor (1873-1951) and Carrie Lee Jones Taylor (1877-1940). The house remained in their family until 2009. Dr. Taylor was a dentist who opened an office in North Wilkesboro in 1903. He left the house to daughter Dr. Carolyn Edna Taylor Williams (1913-1994). She also was a dentist. She left it to her only child, John B. Williams. He sold the house in 2009. It has been sold three times since then.

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118 Taylor Street, Winston-Salem
The Wommack-Land House

• Sold for $390,000 on September 20, 2024 (originally $435,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,198 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1921
• Listed May 16, 2024
• Last sale: $145,000, August 2006
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing says the house has new replacement windows, not often allowed in local historic districts. It also has vinyl siding, which may pre-date the establishment of the historic district.
• District NR nomination: “The Wommack-Land House is a strongly simple two-story frame dwelling which hints of the Craftsman style that influenced so much of the domestic architecture of the 1910s and 1920s.
  • “The house has a broad gable roof with widely overhanging eaves, six-over-one sash windows, a glass and wood paneled entrance with a transom and louvered blinds instead of sidelights, and a front porch with a broad gable roof, grouped Tuscan posts on corner brick plinths, and a plain balustrade. The recently added aluminum (or vinyl) siding has had little effect on the overall character of the house.
  • “The house was first listed in the city directory as the residence of Sydney L. and Ada Wommack. He was an engineer with Crystal Ice Co. The following year Sydney Wommack moved down the street to 138 Taylor St. and this house became the residence of James C. Hammack and Miss Lucy Hammack. Lucy Hammack sold the house in 1946 to J.R. Land, and the house remained in Land family ownership and occupancy until at least 1970.”

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705 Morehead Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $395,000 on September 17, 2024 (originally $405,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,781 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $222
• Built circa 1906
• Listed May 9, 2024
• Last sale: $195,000, January 2023
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records give the date as 1925, but the address appears in the city directory from 1907.
  • The original owners were Walter S. Jones (1876-1951) and Mary Emma Dwiggins Jones (1880-1966), who bought the property in 1906 and were listed at the address in the city directory in 1907. He was a clerk with the Cone Export & Commission Company and later went into the insurance business. They sold the house around 1920.
  • The house was bought in 1967 by Louis Jefferson Towne III (1929-2022). He owned it for 55 years. Jeff was a landlord/property hoarder most noted for his disinterest in maintaining his many properties and his tireless efforts to resist the city’s orders to bring them up to code.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne, residence, c. 1906”

321 Virginia Drive, Yadkinville, Yadkin County
The Shore-Brumfield House

• Sold for $375,000 on September 17, 2024 (originally $425,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,852 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1907
• Listed May 2, 2024
• Last sale: $45,000, June 2023
• Note: The original owners appear to have been Benjamin F. James Shore (1852-1913) and Mary Louise “Mollie” Steelman Shore (1866-1946). The house remained in their family until 2019. Benjamin was a businessman of varied interests. He built a roller mill on North Deep Creek in 1896 and operated a distillery around the same time. He served on the board of directors of Yadkinville Normal School in the 1890s and was president of a Yadkinville bank in 1909. His passing was noted in three local newspapers, which all said he was “one of Yadkin County’s most prominent citizens.”
  • Ownership passed to their daughter Ethel Mae Shore Brumfield and ultimately to her son, Lewis Shore Brumfield (1933-2019).
  • The house was sold in 2019 and again in 2023 to a restoration company. The company has more pictures of the house on its Facebook page (which is the source of the colorized photo above, said to be Benjamin and Mollie with their two children, Ethel Mae and son Rossie; the other older picture is from Google Street View in 2016).

116 W. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $360,000 (originally $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,948 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 19, 2024
• Last sale: $179,000, January 2016
• Neighborhood: A block south of the Washington Park Historic District, a block west of the Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District.

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810 Rankin Place, Greensboro

• Sold for $337,000 on September 17, 2024 (listed at $339,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,562 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1905
• Listed July 23, 2024
• Last sale: $182,000, August 2015
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Q Anne/Colonial Rev Residence c. 1904”
  • The original owners were Philip Arthur Myers (1882-1966) and Fleta Lee Everhart Myers (1886-1969), who bought the property in 1904 and listed in the 1905 city directory. Arthur was a clerk with the Railway Mail Service, where he worked for 41 years. His obituary includes a wonderful distinction: “He was the last clerk to retire who handled the mail on ‘Old 97’.” After selling the house in 1911, they moved to Lexington, where he joined his sons in real-estate development in his retirement.
  • The Rev. Charles Harris Nash, D.D. (1854-1937), and Bettie L. Chambliss Nash (1855-1944) bought the house in 1911. The reverend had been a Baptist preacher for some 30 years in Virginia, Kentucky, Texas and Georgia. In failing health, he retired in 1911 and moved to Greensboro, where he lived for 26 more years. The pastor of Greensboro’s First Baptist Church called him “a Christian gentleman, an expository preacher and a thorough student of the Bible.” Bettie sold the house after his death.

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201 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The Roy and Rosamund Morgan House
Blog post (October 2021) — The Roy and Rosamund Morgan House in Greensboro: 1940’s Home of a Distinguished Lawyer-FBI Agent-Diplomat, $863,000

• Sold for $858,000 on September 12, 2024 (originally $863,000, later $825,000; $899,000 when sold)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,058 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $281
• Built in 1939 (per county, see note)
• Listed October 11, 2021
• Last sale: $427,500, April 1999
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1942, suggesting a date of 1941 or 1942 for the house.
  • The property was bought in 1940 by Roy Leonard Morgan (1908-1985) and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan (1901-1995); they owned it until 1965. Roy was a special agent with the FBI and a lawyer practicing with Brooks, McLendon and Holderness. He had a remarkable career.
  • “While he was a special agent for the FBI, he represented the U.S. government during the 1942 detention of 1200 Japanese, German and Italian diplomats from North and South America at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia and The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
  • “In 1946 he went to Tokyo for the War Department to serve as Associate Counsel and Chief of the Investigative Division of the International Prosecution Section (IPS) of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.” (University of Virginia: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Digital Collection)
  • Roy came back to Greensboro, continued practicing law and served on the City Council. In 1950 he went back to Japan to work for Ford Motor Company. Four years later, he went to Germany as a military intelligence analyst for a year.
  • “For the next fifteen years Morgan served in various capacities for the U.S. and Japanese governments. In 1955-1956 he was one of the American advisors to the Prime Minister of Japan, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Civil Administration, Appellate Court for the Far East until 1960.
  • “From 1960 to 1967 he was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce, and consultant of the U.S. government, advisor on international trade with Japan, and in 1962 and 1968, he served as Head of the U.S. Trade Missions to Japan.”
  • He retired to Florida and eventually moved to Mount Airy, where he died in 1985. He and Rosemund are buried in Low Gap.

1601 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem
The Gluck House

• Sold for $280,000 on September 6, 2024 (originally $324,900)
  • The buyer is an LLC in Lexington.
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,792 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 18, 2024
• Last sale: $190,000, August 2008
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; side gable; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; arched hood at entry on brackets; side porch.”
  • The original owners were William Jackson Gluck (1875-1945) and Blanche Clara Foreman Gluck (1874-1958). William was a salesman for Gray & Dudley Stove Company of Nashville, Tennessee. Their daughter E. Blanche Gluck (dates unknown) lived in the house after Blanche died. She was a technical illustrator for Western Electric. She sold the house in 1980.

1010 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Graham and Katherine Harrison House

• Sold for $420,000 on September 4, 2024 (originally $449,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,302 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 2, 2024
• Last sale: $50,000, April 1980
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: Replacement windows — a shame for such an otherwise fine house. For this much money, buyers should expect better.
• District NR nomination: “Oversized cornice brackets in exceptionally deep eaves, classical porch columns, and a pergola treatment of the one-story side wings are some of the refinements of this two-story frame house, which was probably built about 1920 (the county record for the house dates it to 1922 and it appears on the 1922 Sanborn map).
  • “Wood-shingle siding covers the two-story core and flanking wings; the right wing encloses living space, perhaps originally a music room or conservatory; the left wing is a porch with classical columns in antis between wood-shingled piers.
  • “The pergola treatment is in the form of decorative rafter ends that project from the cornices of the two wings and the one-story entry porch. The entry porch has trebled columns at each corner; the columns are replacements—1980s survey photos show a single column at the corners.
  • “The front entry has a transom, sidelights with decorative muntins, and a wood panel door. The north side porch columns may also be replacements, although the engaged columns that flank the windows of the right side wing may be the originals. The south wing has a roof deck behind a shingled parapet, accessed from a second-story French door.
  • “The brick exterior chimney that rises past the French door on the south side is battered (slightly tapered), as is an interior brick chimney. The foundation is brick. The brackets that support the hipped roof are curved.
  • “A partially enclosed one-story back porch shown in 1920s maps has been fully enclosed and perhaps enlarged and a basement-level garage has been added to the rear.
  • “James Graham Harrison, who lived here in 1928, and his wife, Katherine K. Harrison, were early and possibly original owners of the house.”

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

• Sold for $125,000 on August 29, 2024 (listed at $127,010)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 2,584 square feet, 1.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $48
• Built in 1903
• Listed July 31, 2024
• Last sale: $149,000, April 2008
• Listing: “Owner makes no representation and buyer to confirm all systems. … Owner is in the process of removing personal items from the home but buyers will responsible for items left inside the home at closing.”
• Note: Not to be confused with the nearby Lowe-Hemphill House, which is on the National Register.
  • It appears that the back of the house faces the street.

517 Jersey Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Lorraine-Dunstan House

• Sold for $690,000 on August 22, 2024 (listed at $625,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,558 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $270
• Built in 1912
• Listed May 8, 2024
• Last sale: $22,000, February 1974
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “The elegant wood paneling in living room was saved from the Reynolds’ Ship House, torn down in 1977.”
• Something curious: “Seller to remain in home possibly thru mid October.”
• District NR nomination: “Sanborn Maps suggest that the main body of this house had been built by 1912 but that it was remodeled between 1917 and 1924. It is a two-story frame dwelling of simple detail with a low hip roof, a right front projecting bay, four-over-one-sash windows, and a broad wrap-around porch with heavy Tuscan posts on brick plinths and a plain balustrade.
  • “The porch extends beyond the north side of the house to form a porte-cochere. A sun room is on the south side of the house. The house has been sheathed with aluminum siding (post 1950) and a wood deck has been recently added to the rear, but these alterations have not significantly changed the character of the house.
  • “According to the owner survey, H.L. Lorraine, an employee of RJR Tobacco Co., built this house ca. 1913 (the house is shown on the 1912 Sanborn Map), but the first tax listing was by RJR Tobacco Co. in 1923. In 1925 R.L. Dunstan, another employee of RJR Tobacco, was living in the house, but he did not purchase it until 1932. A 1963 newspaper article relates that R.L. Dunstan was brought to Winston in 1913 to serve as superintendent of cigarette manufacturing. (The article also states that Lorraine was brought to Winston by Reynolds.) The Dunstan family owned and occupied the house until 1949, after which it changed hands several times until it was purchased by the present owner-occupants in 1974.” The house is now being sold for the first time since then.

8827 N.C. Highway 109 N., Wallburg, Davidson County
The Wall-Bagnal House

• Sold for $380,000 on August 22, 2024 (listed at $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,442 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1890 (per county records)
• Listed June 15, 2024
• Last sales: $350,000, August 2023; $300,000, November 2020
• Neighborhood: The property has a Winston-Salem mailing address but is located in Wallburg at the corner of N.C. 109 and Motsinger Road.
• Note: The property includes an attached carport, a detached garage with a loft and raised planters.
  • The house is across the street from the George W. Wall House, which is listed on the National Register. The Wall family was the namesake of Wallburg.
  • This house was built by George Washington Wall II (1864-1943) and his wife Julia Hazletine “Hattie” Wall (1865-1943) on the site where the National Register house now stands. “By 1896, both the family finances and family size had increased to the point that a new residence was constructed. The first house was moved to an adjacent site, and between July and December of that year the present Wall residence was built. The two houses now occupy adjacent corners of the intersection of N.C. 109 and the Mottsinger Road.”
  • George was a son of Samuel Wilson Wall (1834-1925) and Christena Carolina Wall (1837-1913). Samuel had a successful coach-making business. George and his brother Charles started a lumber company that provided wood to the area’s early furniture-making industry. Samuel operated the company after his brother moved to Lexington and started his own company. Samuel continued to run the business until selling it in 1940.
  • Ownership of the house passed to George and Hattie’s daughter Mary Christine Wall Bagnal (1903-1988). Mary graduated from Liberty Piedmont Institute and attended Meredith College. Her widower, William Brown “Brownie” Bagnal, sold the house in 1993.

1803 Rolling Road, Greensboro
The Alda and C.C. Wimbush House

• Sold for $490,000 on August 20, 2024 (listed at $535,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,912 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $256
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 17, 2024
• Last sales: $369,900, September 2020; $299,000, May 2017
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Dsitrict NR nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, hip-roofed, vinyl-sided, Foursquare displays a one-story, full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by paired square posts that shelters a multi-light front door. Windows are replacement six-over-one. A half-circle, louvered wood vent rests on the front roof slope. A corbelled brick chimney rises from the rear roof slope. A hip-roofed porch supported by wood posts like those on the front porch is located on the rear (south) end of the east elevation. A front-gabled garage is located in the rear yard. …
  • The original owners were Charles C. Wimbish (1884-1945) and Alda Alexander Wimbish (1887-1974). C.C. was president-manager of the Home Detective Company. They lived in the house for three years.
  • In 1969, the house was bought by Charles Oliver Jeffus (1927-1983) and Margaret Moore “Maggie” Jeffus (b. 1934). Charles was a consulting engineer. He served as president of the Greensboro Civic Ballet and as technical director of the Greensboro Little Theatre. Maggie is a graduate of Guilford College. She was an English teacher in the Guilford County school system and was a distinguished member of the N.C. House of Representatives for 20 years. She sold the house in 1996.

5605 Main Street, Bethania, Forsyth County
The Michael Hauser House

• Sold for $422,500 on August 20, 2024 (listed at $429,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,690 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $250
• Built circa 1789
• Listed July 12, 2024
• Last sale: $80,000, November 2007
• Neighborhood: Bethania Historic District (NR)
• Note: For an account of the home’s 2008-09 restoration, click here (if the link breaks, click here).
  • The restoration also was the subject of a 57-minute documentary, “Saving the Hansen House.” A promo and other material are on YouTube.
  • The sale includes the smaller 5611 Main Street, a circa 1950, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom guest house. “Both properties are under [Preservation North Carolina] protective covenants and cannot be separated. The work shop [circa 1970] has electric and a wood stove. The block exterior was sheathed to match the house.”
  • The covenants, which include both the exterior and interior of the house, are included in the 2007 deed.
• District NR nomination: “The exterior fabric of the Michael Hauser House is Greek Revival in style, with flush-sheathed pedimented gable ends and ovalo-molded trim. The interior openings have surrounds with corner blocks. …
  • [T]he interior end chimneys, with corner fireplaces … are perhaps original, for no central chimney indications exist. Other original fabric … includes the fieldstone foundation and rear cellar, log walls, and probably the four-room floor plan and enclosed rear stair to the second floor, with cellar stair beneath this stair.”
  • “The six two-story log houses [including the Michael Hauser House] — probably built from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, represent the earliest constructional type. … An extant 1820 watercolor of Bethania shows each of the houses covered with siding, and it may be that these log houses were sided at the time of construction. …
  • “Mid-19th-c. remodeling in the Greek Revival style includes flush-sheathed pedimented gable ends and ovolomolded trim, as well as surrounds with corner blocks on the interior. 
  • “This lot is shown on the 1765 Bethania Lot Distribution Map as a special lot split from original Orchard Lot #13b, the only agricultural lot so divided in this manner. This lot was first held by Michael Hauser (1731-1789) by 1765. … Although the intended use of this unique lot in the Orchard Lot section is unknown, Michael Hauser probably built the present house.”
  • Michael Josephus Hauser’s father emigrated to Pennsylvania from the Alsatian village of Riquewihr (or Reichenweier) in 1727. The family came to North Carolina in 1753.
  • Michael and Anna Kunigunda Fiscus Hauser (1734-1804) had 10 children. Their eldest, Johannes Hauser (1754-1784), died fighting for the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.

3239 Valley Road, Winston-Salem
Blog post: Four Houses with Infamous Pasts, Including a Triple Murder

• Sold for $600,000 on august 19, 2024 (originally $689,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,168 square feet, 4.05 acres
• Price/square foot: $189
• Built in 1880
• Listed April 5, 2024
• Last sale: $242,000 December 1986
• Neighborhood: Old Town
• Note: Something the listing doesn’t mention, understandably: The house was the scene of an infamous 1985 triple murder. In 1936 the house was bought by Robert Wesley Newsom Sr. (1898-1980) and Hattie Carter Newsom (1899-1985). Robert was a warehouse owner. Some five years after he died, Hattie, their son Robert Jr. and his wife Florence Abigail Sharp Newsom were murdered in the house by Fritz Klenner. Jerry Bledsoe wrote a best-selling book, Bitter Blood, about the killings and the relationship between psychopath Klenner and Susie Newsom Lynch, the daughter of Robert Jr. and Florence and a cousin of Klenner. Robert was supporting his ex-son-in-law in a court case concerning visitation rights for Susie’s two children. On May 18, 1985, Klenner shot and killed Hattie, Robert Jr. and Florence. Fifteen days later, Klenner, Susie and her two young sons were on the run from police. They killed her two children, and Klenner killed himself and Susie by setting off a bomb in the vehicle they were in as police followed them.
• Hattie’s estate sold the house to the current owner in 1986.
• The earliest known owners were David Settle Reid (1847-1943) and Allie Gooch Reid (1874-1963). They sold the house in 1936. David was the oldest Confederate veteran in Forsyth County when he died at age 96. He enlisted at age 17 and by the time the war ended a year later he was a lieutenant colonel. He had operated a store before retiring. They sold the house to the Newsoms in 1936.
• The house been expanded significantly, probably in mid-20th century. All traces of its historic character have been eliminated; the interior looks like any up-scale, suburban home from the last last 50 years.

• Sold for $725,000 on August 9, 2024 (listed at $750,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,412 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $301
• Built in 1920
• Listed July 12, 2024
• Last sale: $370,000, September 2005
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Plain finish, wide overhanging eaves, and paired windows recall Prairie style; sun room to one side; square columned front portico”
  • The address first appears in the 1923 city directory with Lorie C. McCabe and Elnora McCabe (dates unknown for both) as residents. Lorie had been listed previously as president of the Business Men’s Insurance Company (Julian Price, vice president), but in 1923 he was listed simply as an insurance agent. Later in 1923 he organized the Greensboro Mutual Life Insurance Company. The company was merged into Home Security Life of Durham in 1932, and the McCabes moved to Durham.

517 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Butner House

• Sold for $740,000 on August 8, 2024 (listed at $795,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1,856 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $399
• Built in 1829
• Listed June 14, 2024
• Last sale: $360,000, September 2016
• Neighborhood: Old Salem Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: It’s one of only two homes in Old Salem with a second-story porch over the sidewalk.
  • “Roof is cedarshake on both front and back porches, beaver tail tile on main house.”
• District NR nomination: “Lot 32 was used as pasture early and then later for firewood storage by the bakery on Lot 31 next door. In 1825 the Single Brother Adam Butner was granted permission to construct a shop on vacant Lot 32 and to establish himself as a hat maker in Salem. The Single Brothers Diacony had disbanded in 1823, and the Single Brothers House no longer functioned. From that time, the establishment of single brethren in Salem often followed this procedure: establish oneself on a lot by building a shop which also served as a dwelling until one’s circumstances permitted the construction of a residence on the lot.
  • “In 1828 Butner proposed the plans for his house, which followed his adjacent neighbor Herbst’s prototype in the design of the house against the sidewalk and the porch over the sidewalk, a plan which well accommodated their steeply sloping lots. A picket fence surrounds the lot and is a board fence at the rear.
  • “The houses are similar in form, with the Butner House featuring decorative elements of the Federal style. The two-story, frame (weatherboard) house has a side gable roof (wood shingle) with central brick chimney with corbelled cap and is on a full story stuccoed stone foundation against the sidewalk. The gable ends are pedimented and have flush sheathing and the box cornice has scrolled modillions and bed molding.
  • “The four room plan house had four rooms clustered around the central chimney. The first floor is a story above the sidewalk level and the full-façade porch is accessed by a wooden staircase rising from the sidewalk. The six-panel front door is in the second bay from the left. The shed roof porch covers the entire width of the sidewalk in front of the house. It continues the bed molding at the cornice and has four Tuscan columns with simple balustrade at the first floor, supported by plain posts at the cellar level.
  • “The façade has four bays and window sash is evenly spaced six-over-nine on first and second floors, with six-over-six sash at the cellar. Windows are hung with louver shutters. In each pedimented gable end are two six-over-six sash windows at the third floor/attic level. Windows and doors have molded casings.
  • “Built into the slope of this east side of Main Street, the full story cellar facade has a six-panel entry door and two windows. Two granite steps up to this door were needed following the lowering of the street grade in 1890 with the coming of the street car. A shed roof porch is across the rear elevation, which is at grade.
  • “By 1829 Butner had built a bake oven and a cowshed in his yard. He sold his improvements in 1847, and in 1857 the house was leased as a town hall and watch house for the new municipality of Salem. The house passed through other owners and by the late nineteenth century, there were several outbuildings in the yard.
  • “By 1917, the Sanborn Insurance Maps show that all outbuildings and the shop had been removed and Lot 32 split in half with a new large two-story frame Colonial Revival house built on the rear (east) half fronting Church Street. Old Salem acquired the front half of Lot 32 and the house was restored in 1961. By that time, the front porch had been lost, the door replaced by a window, and a side entry porch added to the north elevation.”

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1345 Old Liberty Road, Asheboro, Randolph County

• Sold for $400,000 on August 5, 2024 (listed at $425,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,140 square feet, 5.66 acres
• Price/square foot: $187
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $84,500, November 1995
• Neighborhood: Just northeast of Asheboro before you get to the Deep River, across the street from Central Falls Baptist Church. For some reason, the online listings describe it as being in Randleman.
• Note: The property has a three-car garage with storage space.
  • Something you don’t see everyday: “imported wood flooring”

309 N. Maple Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Holt-Clapp House

• Sold for $470,000 on August 3, 2024 (originally $496,500, later $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,334 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $201
• Built circa 1860
• Listed August 28, 2023
• Last sale: $115,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records date the house only to 1900, but other records are in agreement on a mid-1800s date. County records, and not just in Alamance, often fail to accurately report the dates of houses, especially those built more than 100 years ago.
• District NR nomination: “The historic district features large dwellings erected for the leading businessmen, doctors, and industrialists in Graham, as well as smaller houses for tradesmen. Many of the residences are sited on spacious lots with mature shade trees and boxwoods, and epitomize nationally popular architectural styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • “Two houses in the district, the Holt-Clapp House and the Kernodle House, date from Graham’s formative era of the mid-nineteenth century. …
  • “This vernacular Italianate house, apparently built about 1860, is one of the oldest houses in Graham. Its deep front yard sets it apart from adjacent dwellings.
  • “The two-story, three-bay house has such Italianate features as a hip roof with overhanging eaves, tall slender sash windows of nine-over-nine and nine-over-six on the facade and six-over-six and six-over-four flanking the gable end chimney, as well as a front door with arched lights and a hipped front porch with chamfered posts, sawnwork brackets and a sawnwork balustrade.
  • “The design may have been influenced by the books of Romantic architect A.J. Downing. His associate A.J. Davis designed a dwelling for the Holt family, local industrialists, in the nearby countryside, which may have influenced the stylistic features of this house. At the rear is a one story ell. The house is covered with aluminum siding [now removed].
  • “According to Durward Stokes, either Joseph J. Holt or his son Rev. John H. Holt built this house in the mid-1800s. They owned a large tract of land in this area.
  • “Later owners were Peter and J.W. Harden and the Reitzel famiy. In 1905 William and Ella Clapp purchased the house. They were living here with their daughters Blanche, Ida, Lee and Nettie on ‘Maple nr. Main’ in 1910. William was a foreman at Scott-Mebane Manufacturing Company.”
  • The family of William Franklin Rhinehart Clapp (1860-1944) and Ella Foust Clapp (1957-1949) owned the house for 113 years, selling it in 2018. The 1905 deed was written in Ella’s name alone; it identified her by name and as “wife of W.F.R. Clapp.”

618 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The Thomas-Welch House

• Sold for $775,000 on August 1, 2024 (listed at $825,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,199 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $242
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 14, 2023
• Last sale: $522,500, July 2012
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property has a basement garage.
  • The property was listed with only seven photos, none of the interior.
• District NR nomination: “The well-designed Colonial Revival Thomas-Welch House was chosen for inclusion in the 1924 publication Art Work of Piedmont Section of North Carolina, a collection of photographs of buildings and parks in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point, and Charlotte.
  • “The house is a two-story Flemish bond brick dwelling with a pedimented gable roof with modillioned cornice, pedimented dormers, a Roman Doric entrance porch with a full entablature and ironwork balustraded deck, and a one-story sun room with matching details on the south side.
  • “John R. Thomas, a coal and ice dealer, purchased the property in 1922, and by 1924 the house had been completed. Thomas and his heirs owned the property until 1934.”
  • In 1940 it was bought by Gray Gurney Welch (1895-1992) and Vera Amelia Poe Watkins (1902-1993). They owned it for 52 years. Gray was a World War I veteran and founder of the Royal Cake Company, a wholesale baker. Their son Edgar Bernard Welch was one of the founders of Virginia International Raceway. Vera sold the house in 1992. (Note: The historic district nomination has Gray’s name wrong and misidentifies who sold the house.)

135 W. Church Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Hatcher Apartments

• Sold for $450,000 on July 29, 2024 (listed at $500,000)
• 8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 5,298 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 6, 2024
• Last sales: $125,000, February 2022; $155,000, September 2002
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Z. (Zebulon) V. Hatcher is listed as one of the occupants of the eponymous Hatcher Apartments in 1928. The two-story brick-veneered building was built between 1922 and 1928.
  • “The façade expresses the building’s four-apartment form, with double two-tier Craftsman front porches. The porches have tapered wood posts on brick pedestals on the first tiers, treble square wood columns at the corners of the second tiers, and heavy square wood balusters on both tiers.
  • “The two downstairs apartments are entered from the porches, and the two upstairs apartments are entered from stair entries between the porches on the first story. The various entries have wood and glass panel doors or replacement front doors. The porches have heavy tapered wood columns on brick pedestals on the lower tiers and trebled, slightly tapered wood columns on the upper tiers.
  • “Other features include four-over-one and six-over-one wood sash windows, exterior brick chimneys on the east and west side elevations, asphalt shingle roofing, and a poured concrete basement are other features.
  • “The address was formerly 144 W. Church (according to Sanborn maps) or 142 W. Church (according to a 1928 city directory). In 1949 Zebulon Hatcher’s widow, Eva P. Hatcher, lived at the address. The 1948 Sanborn map shows a four-vehicle garage behind the apartments which is now gone.”

520 Country Club Road, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $289,900 on July 25, 2024 (listed at $289,900)
  • The buyers’ address is listed in Sebring, Florida. The sale closed nine days after the offer was accepted.
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,556 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1920 (per county, but maybe as much as 20 years later, see note)
• Listed June 12, 2024
• Last sales: $229,000, March 2022; $4,950, October 1945
• Neighborhood: Country Club Estates Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is across the street from the Mount Airy Country Club golf course.
  • The property includes an attached 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment built in 1986.
  • The property also includes a detached two-car garage.
• District NRHP nomination: “Story-and-a-half Period Cottage of weatherboard-sided frame construction with a steep composite-shingled side-gable roof. The roof is broken up by a steep-pitched front gable and a shed dormer. The front entry, under the front gable, has a heavy classical surround and a wood panel door. The front south corner of the house is a glassed-in porch.
  • “To the south side, a one-story, two-bay, side-gabled addition is connected by a small, recessed, glassed-in hyphen so that the wing almost appears to be a separate building. It has a parged foundation and may date to around 1980.
  • “Other features include four-over-four wood sash windows, an exterior brick chimney on the north side with paved shoulders and parging above the roof line, and aluminum awnings at most of the windows of the original house.
  • “G. Barney Cashwell lived in the vicinity in 1949 and at this address in 1957. The identity of earlier occupants remains uncertain.
  • “The county date for the house is 1920 although that date is too early. The form and detailing of the house suggest it was built in the 1930s or as late as ca. 1940.”

621 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $370,000 on July 22, 2024 (listed at $365,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,768 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built in 1914
• Listed July 1, 2024
• Last sales: $226,000, May 2020; $115,000, September 1999
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: The 2020 listing said the property had a garden cottage converted to recording studio. This time, a “detached studio offers the perfect space for a home office, gym, art studio, playroom.”
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival, Residence, 1910-1915 … Like its almost identical neighbor at 623 S. Mendenhall, Rev. Robinson’s house features a shingled front gambrel roof and a full-facade porch of attenuated columns.”
  • The original owners were Samuel B. Matlock (1866-1954) and Mary Elizabeth Parker Matlock (1878-1956). Samuel was president of the nearby West End Hose Company. He worked as a plaster contractor and later ran a grocery store. They lived across the street at 620 S. Mendenhall.
  • Lucas Clyde Jenkins (1887-1940) and Maude May Squires Jenkins (1891-1973) bought the house in 1919 and owned it for 54 years. He was a brakeman and conductor for Southern Railway for 34 years. He died in a railroad accident, buried alive by a load of dirt that was being dug out of a ditch along a track. “Mr. Jenkins apparently walked under a heavy mass of dirt just as it was being released into a fill from one of the work cars,” the Greensboro Record reported. “The train crew had been working along the Southern line in that section all night, digging out dirt which had washed down around the tracks from surrounding banks and hills.”

112 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $369,900 on July 22, 2024 (originally $419,900)
  • The sale closed six days after the offer was accepted.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,371 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $270
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 16, 2024
• Last sale: $126,452, March 2023
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: Caveat emptor — flipped house with a huge price mark-up. The historic character has been mostly been renovated away on the interior.
• District NRHP nomination: “A near twin to 110 S. Poplar Street, this two-story, cross gable house has paired and single two-over-two windows, and a hip roof porch with square posts. It has an irregular diamond shaped attic vent and asbestos siding.”

2456 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $245,000 on July 22, 2024 (listed at $240,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,248 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $159,000, May 2021; $95,000, July 2011
• HOA: $55/month
• Note: Note: The restored Glencoe mill village is just north of Burlington off N.C. 62. It’s a historic district administered by the City of Burlington (Glencoe is outside the city limits but within Burlington’s zoning jurisdiction).

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

• Sold for $355,000 on July 19, 2024 (originally $359,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,596 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built circa 1930
• Listed April 25, 2024
• Last sale: $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.”

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511 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $284,900 on July 18, 2024 (listed at $284,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,254 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 20, 2024
• Last sales: $208,500, April 2021; $122,500, July 2000
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District
• Note: Vinyl siding
  • District NRHP nomination: “A good example of the Foursquare style, this frame house exhibits the typical characteristics of a two-story, box-like shape, topped with a low hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves. A hip-roof dormer projects from the roof as does a tall partially rebuilt interior chimney. A hip-roof nearly full facade porch is carried by plain square posts.”

925 Walker Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $355,000 on July 17, 2024 (originally $365,000, later $400,000)
  • The buyer is an LLC in Clover, South Carolina.
• Originally a single-family home, now divided into three apartments: two 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom units; one 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom unit.
• 2,228 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $159
• Built in 1910
• Listed November 10, 2023
• Last sale: $260,.000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Something to ask about: The property has an outstanding order from the city to replace the front porch floor to meet historic-district design standards; the seller replaced the floor without a certificate of appropriateness and used deck boards rather than tongue-and-groove flooring. The order goes with property. The seller didn’t fix it, so the new owner will be required to do so.
• Note: Previously for sale by owner
  • Listed as an active foreclosure case by Guilford County as of July 16, 2024.
  • Renovation being abandoned part-way through.
  • Converted to a duplex around 1953. A third unit was added at the back by 1980.
• District NR nomination: “Gable front, Residence, 1900-05”
  • Greensboro Land & Improvement Company sold the property in 1900 to Charlie Croson Davis (1882-1926) and Sophia J. Davis (1886-1968). Charlie was an upholsterer and later a shipping clerk.
  • They sold the house in 1916 to John Townsend Hunt (1862-1933) and Maggie D. Stockton Hunt (1868-1953). John owned John T. Hunt & Co., a building contractor. They rented the house out.
  • Maggie sold it in 1939 to Willis Emory Dark (1891-1972) and Lillie Justice Dark (1893-1991). Willis was a real-estate agent. They initially lived in the house, but by the early 1950s they were renting it out. Lillie sold the house in 1979.

2550 Staley Store Road, Alamance County
The McPherson-Cook House

• Sold for $320,000 on July 17, 2024 (originally $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,560 square feet (per county), 1.78 acres
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1890
• Listed May 3, 2024
• Last sale: $158,550, May 2017
• Neighborhood: The property has a Liberty mailing address but is across the county line In southwestern Alamance County.
• Note: The property was part of a larger tract owned by Samuel McPherson (1843-1924). His heirs sold it to Wayland Clarence McPherson Sr. (1879-1930). Their relationship is unknown. In 1948, Wayland’s wife, Swannie Lee Smith McPherson (1889-1992), passed the property on to two of their children, Wayland Jr. (1927-2004) and Katie Lee McPherson Cook (1924-1996). Waylon Jr. and Katie and her husband, Jack Cook, operated a dairy farm on the property. Katie also raised cattle. She lived in the house her entire life. Her son sold the piece of the property containing the house in 2005.

1218 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
The Sullivan House

• Sold for $650,000 on July 16, 2024 (listed at $598,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,663 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $244
• Built in 1918 (see note)
• Listed April 16, 2024
• Last sales: $450,000, April 2019; $288,000, December 2009; $151,000, February 2009.
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property still has its original two-car garage.
  • The house has an impressive amount of unpainted woodwork.
  • What do you think of that green paint? Here’s what it looked like the last time it was sold.
  • County property records say the house was built in 1935; the listing says 1918. The district’s National Register nomination and city directories support a circa 1918 date.
• District NR nomination: “The Sullivan House is one of the most handsome of the ‘Dutch’ Colonial Revival houses in the West End. It is a two-story frame structure with narrow weatherboard siding and a red tile gambrel roof with a pent eave at each end.
  • Other features include shed dormers, grouped windows, a central entrance with sidelights and transom, and a south side sun room.
  • “Beverly N. Sullivan purchased the property in 1917 but was not listed in the city directories at this location until 1920. …
  • “Behind the house is an impressive two-car brick garage with a tin shingle gable roof and a long shed dormer. It appears to predate 1930.”
  • The house remained in the Sullivan family until 2009.
  • Beverly Nathaniel Sullivan Sr. (1881-1966) was born in Bethania. He graduated from N.C. State in 1901 and worked as a manager for Winston Gas Company before starting a real-estate firm. He was still living in the home when he died.

220 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Robert J. McCollum House

• Sold for $460,000 on July 15, 2024 (listed at $435,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,232 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 30, 2024
• Last sale: $270,000, November 2013
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Frame Colonial Revival style bouse, hipped-roof with front hipped dormer, one-story hipped-roof wrap porch supported by slender classical columns; vinyl siding under porch. McCollum (wife Adelaide) was a foreman at RJ.R.”

• Sold for $450,000 on July 12, 2024 (originally $599,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,184 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1918
• Listed May 6, 2024
• Last sale: $155,000, June 1985
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: “At the rear end of the driveway stands a stuccoed garage with an apartment on the upper floor. It matches the house stylistically and is probably contemporary with it.” (District NR nomination)
• District NR nomination: “Stark simplicity is the distinguishing feature of this Colonial Revival dwelling. It is a two-story stuccoed house with a steep gable roof whose eaves project across front and rear only, an interior end chimney, a narrow three-bay facade, and a front porch — which extends on the west side to form a porte cochere — with Classical posts on a solid balustrade.
  • “In the late 1970s the front porch was glass enclosed with lattice-like muntins, but this alteration has not significantly diminished the architectural integrity of the house.
  • “Charles S. Lawrence, a general surgeon and president of the Lawrence Clinic, purchased the property in 1917, but he and his wife, Alice, were not listed at this location in the city directories until 1921. They occupied the house until ca. 1930. From 1943 to 1977 the house was owned and occupied by the Elmer D. and Maude Snavely family.”

2440 Hodges Road, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $278,000 on July 12, 2024 (listed at $275,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,356 square feet, 0.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $205
• Built in 1900 (according to county property records)
• Listed June 20, 2024
• Last sales: $210,000, November 2020; $45,500, June 2002
• HOA: $55/month
• Note: Restoration was completed in 2008.
• The restored Glencoe mill village is just north of Burlington off N.C. 62. It is a historic district administered by the City of Burlington (Glencoe is outside the city limits but within Burlington’s zoning jurisdiction).

118 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $382,500 on July 11, 2024 (listed at $399,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,098 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 17, 2024
• Last sale: $335, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Duplex, originally a single-family home
• District NR nomination: “Frame vernacular house with Queen Anne massing and transitional Colonial Revival details; corbelled interior chimneys; hipped roof with cross gables, decorative wood shingles at gable ends; one-story hipped-roof wrap porch supported by classical columns; octagonal bay on east side elevation with jerkin-head roof.”

3125 Arnold Road, Hamptonville, Yadkin County
The Haynes-White-Wood House

• Sold for $212,500 on July 11, 2024 (originally $269,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, two tracts — 1.65 acres (3125 Arnold Road) and 1.43 acres (3131 Arnold, see note below)
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1813
• Listed March 7, 2023
• Last sale: January 1922 (55 acres), price not recorded on deed
• Something to ask about: The listing says the property includes two tracts totaling 3 acres. County records show the two tracts have different owners, both apparently including descendants of Arthur Wood, who bought the property in 1922.
• Note: The listing claims the house was “originally built” in 1764 and “contains mantles and custom moldings with the single most important piece of Georgian woodwork surviving in Yadkin County.” It also has a mix of vinyl flooring and wall-to-wall carpeting, and much of the historic character has been renovated out of the interior.
  • From Historical Architecture of Yadkin County: “Midway up the shaft of the north chimney is the date 1813, presumably the house’s date of construction. If so, it is one of the oldest buildings in Yadkin County.”
  • “With its vertical proportions emphasized by the tall Flemish-bond chimneys, the Haynes-White-Wood House clearly demonstrates its Federal period of construction. …
  • “Despite the addition of wide aluminum siding, alterations to the porch and the addition at the rear, the house retains its overall Federal style characteristics. … Substantial remodeling of the first-floor rooms has removed or covered much of the original fabric. However, a handsome mantel in the north room frames an arched fireplace opening. It has a two-panel frieze and thin pilasters with fluted upper shafts. …
  • “The three-room upper floor is virtually unchanged [as of 1987, the publication date of the book]. The stair opens into the larger of the three rooms. Still visible are the Federal style molded window surrounds, chair rail, and six-panel raised-panel doors. An enclosed stair in one corner of the room leads to the attic. However, the most notable feature in this room, and in the house itself, is the mantel. A rather typical molded surround frames the arched fireplace opening, but it is surmounted by an impressive Georgian style cushioned frieze and deep moldings supporting a prominent matelshelf. It is the single most important piece of Georgian woodwork surviving in Yadkin County.”
  • The original owners are believed to have been the Rev. William Haynes (1764-1836) and Philadelphia Haynes (1768-1829). Records from 1812 show William owning 1,000 acres in Yadkin County. He and Philadelphia are buried in a family cemetery behind the house.
  • The next owners were their daughter Malinda (1807-1837) and husband William White (1803-1867). After Malinda’s death, her sister Mahala moved in and helped raise the three children of Malinda and William. He was a carpenter and builder, credited with building the county’s first courthouse in 1852-53 (demolished in the 1950s). Like his father-in-law, he was a sizable land owner with 600 acres by 1851. Malinda and William are buried in the family cemetery behind the house.
  • The next two owners, Elizabeth I. Haynes and then Alfred Haynes, are of unknown relationship to the earlier Haynes family and to each other.
  • In 1922, the house and 55 acres were bought by Henry Arthur Wood (1881-1970). Descendants of Arthur and Bessie Adams Wood (1911-1994) own the two properties for sale.

307 S. Fisher Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $132,000 on July 16, 2024 (originally $230,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,770 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1920
• Listed November 11, 2023
• Last sale: $60,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “The most ubiquitous house type in the West Davis Street-Fountain Place District is the bungalow. Altogether, approximately thirty bungalows were constructed here from the 1910s through the 1930s in a variety of sizes and exterior materials. …
  • “The most popular bungalow variety is one-and-one-half-stories with a gabled roof and engaged full-facade front porch, supported by brick piers or tapered box posts on brick piers. A row of three bungalows in this basic design at 303, 305 and 307 South Fisher Street (100-102) delineate the east edge of the district. …
  • “Although all three ca. 1925 of these one-and-one-half-story bungalows feature gable roofs and engaged full-facade porches, each exhibits different materials and decorative elements. 307 South Fisher Street is the most intact with split shake shingles covering all elevations and tapered box posts on brick piers supporting the porch.”

2457 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $268,000 on July 9, 2024 (listed at $275,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,654 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sales: $247,000, November 2020; $35,000, February 2002
• HOA: $55/month
• Note: Glencoe is a National Register historic district and one of Burlington’s local historic districts. Although it’s outside the city limits, Glencoe is within the city’s zoning jurisdiction.
  • The listing appeared with only one photo.

1756 Lassiter Mill Road, Cedar Grove, Randolph County

• Sold for $214,000 on July 9, 2024 (listed at $255,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,504 square feet, 2.28 acres
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1895
• Listed June 1, 2024
• Last sale: $1,100, November 1951
• Neighborhood: Near the Cedar Grove community, about 7 1/2 miles west of Asheboro. It has an Asheboro mailing address.
• Note: The house features an incongruous two-story portico on the front of the house that appears to have been added long after the house was built.
  • Needs work — “Home is sold ‘As Is’ and does offer some future projects to bring it to its best potential.”
  • James V. Marsh (dates unknown) and Ruby Elouise Kenan Marsh (1911-2012) bought the property in 1951. It is being sold by the estate of their son Jack Kenan Marsh (1938-2024).

2473 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $377,000 on July 5, 2024 (originally $370,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,856 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $260,013, May 2021
• HOA: $55/month
• Note: The restored Glencoe mill village is just north of Burlington off N.C. 62. It’s a historic district administered by the City of Burlington (Glencoe is outside the city limits but within Burlington’s zoning jurisdiction).