Piedmont Historic Homes

631 Summit Street, Winton-Salem
The Adams-Hines House

• Sold for $475,000 on December 29, 2025 (originally $515,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,997 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $238
• Built in 1911
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sales: $335,000, May 2024; $148,000, June 1996
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Listed for sale exactly one year after the last sale closed.
• District NR nomination: “The Adams-Hines House is a simple, two-story frame, Colonial Revival dwelling with a hip roof, left front projecting bay with pedimented gable, and a hip-roofed front porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade. The house is nearly identical to 623 Summit St.. During mid-century it was covered with asbestos shingles, but its form and simple detailing still make a positive contribution to the architecture of the street and neighborhood.
  • “A variety of occupants were listed in the city directories at this location between 1912 and 1918, but in 1918 Jesse J. and Fannie Adams and Harvey H. and Julia Adams Hines were residing here. The Adams-Hines family owned the house until 1959.”

2105 Rolling Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $987,500 on December 18, 2025 (originally $1.175 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,867 square feet (per listing; see note), 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $255
• Built in 1925 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed August 13, 2025
• Last sale: $352,500, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show 2,830 square feet. The listing says the house has been significantly expended.
  • Until 1926 the property was held as collateral for a loan to A.K. Moore Realty, making it unlikely to have had a house on it. The neighborhood’s National Register nomination shows 1928 as the date of the house. The address first appears in the city directory in 1929 with Francis M. O’Brien and Myrtle O’Brien as the residents. They bought the house in January 1929. Francis was manager of Clauss Shear Company, a cutlery manufacturer and dealer. They sold the house in 1930.
  • After a foreclosure and another sale, the house was bought in 1938 by Aaron Leon Hyman (1892-1964) and Gertrude Vogel Hyman (1896-1979). Aaron was manager of Hyman’s Furniture Company. He was a merchant in Greensboro for more than 50 years. Gertrude sold the house in 1969.
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, side-gabled, wire-cut-brick Colonial Revival-style house displays molded brackets at its cornice. A flat-roofed portico topped by a metal balustrade and supported by fluted posts shelters the paneled wood door with multi-light sidelights with a wood panel below.
  • “Windows are eight-over-eight and six-over six and topped by soldier-course lintels. First floor façade windows, which are paired, are also crowned by a cast concrete keystone.
  • “An exterior brick chimney rises from the east gable end and through the roof of the one-story, side-gabled, brick sunporch.”

1102hawthorne

1102 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $542,000 on December 18, 2025 (listed at $569,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,654 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 13, 2025
• Last sale: $352,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; eyebrow dormers with fanlights; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; segmental arch at porch entry; brick piers; porte-cochere; sidelights; paired brackets; one-story wing/sunporch.”

1709 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Lula Holcomb House

• Sold for $360,000 on December 15, 2025 (originally $425,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,800 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 14, 2025
• Last sale: $185,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached studio-style guest house.
• District NR nomination: “Foursquare. Two story; hip roof; hip-roof dormer; vinyl siding; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch (enclosed).”
  • The enclosed porch mentioned in the nomination was reopened between 2014 and 2016 (per Google Street View photos).
  • The earliest known residents were Robert Bruce Holcombe (1889-1938) and Lula Moody Holcomb (1888-1960), listed in the 1925 city directory (the street was called Bank Street then). Robert worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Lula’s estate sold the house.

703 Woodland Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $775,000 on December 11, 2025 (originally $825,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,342 square feet (per county), 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $331
• Built in 1935 (per county, but probably a year or two later; see note)
• Listed August 5, 2025
• Last sale: $95,000, February 1979
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The listing shows 2,957 square feet ($279/square foot).
  • House has had only two owners.
  • The property was bought in 1936 by Claud Carroll Inman (1907-1978) and Evelyn Murray Shieder Inman (1905-1976). The address first appeared in the city directory in 1937. Carroll and his brother Aubrey operated a cotton brokerage from 1927 to 1970. After closing the business, he became public relations manager for Black Cadillac Oldsmobile. He served as president of the Greensboro Cotton Association and on the boards of the Atlantic Cotton Association and the American Cotton Association. He organized Greensboro’s first March of Dimes Ball.
  • In 1979, the house was sold by Carroll’s heirs to Roy M. Phipps Jr. (1944-2025) and Elizabeth K. “Betty” Hooker Phipps. Roy was a 1966 graduate of Duke University and received an MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill. He was an executive with Burlington Industries.

6842welborn

6842 Welborn Road, Trinity, Randolph County
The James and Maggie Elliott House

• Sold for $234,000 on December 11, 2025 (originally $254,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,780 square feet, 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 6, 2025
• Last sales: $105,000, October 2016; $192,500, December 2006
• Note: James Doctor Franklin Elliott (1871-1948) bought 140 acres, including this property, in 1913. He and his wife, Margaret C. Collins “Maggie” Hearn Elliott (1879-1968) owned it for the rest of their lives. In 1972, the land was divided among their surviving children, with daughter Addie Gray Elliott Young (1911-1996) and husband Charles Humphries Young (1900-1978) receiving the house. Addie sold it in 1996.

119 Cotton Grove Road, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $170,000 on December 10, 2025 (originally $249,900)
  • Sold to an LLC in Colorado
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,772 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1902
• Listed December 17, 2024
• Last sales: $18,000, August 2020; $7,000, November 2016
• This is a weird one: “The house was totally updated by a flipper but was never listed or sold, so was taken back by the investor. The current owner has never lived in the house and makes no representation on the quality or condition of the improvements.”
  • The house had been gutted by a previous owner when the flipper bought it, so the historic character of the interior has been lost.

220gloria

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

• Sold for $430,000 on December 5, 2025 (originally $499,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,232 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $193
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 24, 2025
• Last sale: $460,000, July 2024
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Frame Colonial Revival style house, 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 RJR.”

305 Spring Street, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Sold for $255,000 on December 1, 2025 (originally $319,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,440 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1921
• Listed May 31, 2025
• Last sale: $52,900, November 2005
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)

• Sold for $405,000 on November 21, 2025 (originally $550,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,110 square feet (per county), 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1928
• Listed August 25, 2025
• Last sale: $315,000, April 2012
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing shows 4,198 square feet.
  • The property includes the original detached two-car garage with brick and roof matching the house and a brick fence around the backyard.
• District NR nomination: “Spanish and Colonial Revival style elements ornament the Tyner House at 543 Patrick Street. This handsome brick Foursquare house was constructed in the mid-1920s and features green tile covering the hip roof (and originally a curved parapet above the entrance porch, now removed) and a fanlight and sidelights at the main entrance. …
  • “As originally constructed, the house consisted of the larger two-story block and a one-story wing containing a sun room on the south elevation; a second story was added to the wing in the 1930s.”
  • The original owners were Carl Vann Tyner (1890-1969) and Nina Pearl Dickie Tyner (1891-1990). Born in Robeson County, Carl was a graduate of Wake Forest College, where he played on the basketball, football and track teams. He was a surgeon and a founder of two hospitals, Johnston County Hospital in Smithfield and Leaksville Hospital. He was president of the N.C. Medical Examining Board and a fellow of the American Society of Abdominal Surgery and of the Southeastern Surgical Congress. Carl served as a trustee of Wake Forest and of the N.C. School for the Deaf. He also was elected to the Leaksville township school board. The house was sold by the estate of Carl’s second wife, Charlotte Leonora Brown Tyner (1897-1980).

615shamilton

615 S. Hamilton Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Dillard-Stone-Stocks House

• Sold for $201,000 on November 21, 2025 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,698 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1890
• Listed October 24, 2025
• Last sales: $96,500, December 2019; $11,000, February 1965
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This two-story one-room-deep house with a triple-A roof and rear one-story ell originally stood approximately five blocks southeast on the present site of the Wearwell Bedspread Mill in the New Leaksville area where it was built in the early 1910s for James Rawley Dillard.”
  • From findagrave.com: Rawley (1855-1934) worked in a factory and in 1887 bought a building on Washington Street, where he opened a barber shop. Two of his sons worked with him. He and Annie Hunt “Nannie” Harris Dillard (1959-1928) raised their six children in the house.
  • “When Marshall Field and Company bought the original house lot for the mill around 1916, Dillard sold the house to hardware store owner F.M. Flynn, who moved it to its present site and then sold it to Glen Dallas. Later, the Buford Stone family lived here; Stone had a men’s clothing store on the first floor of 628 Washington Street, and his wife ran a gift shop on the second floor.” Buford Reid Stone (1884-1953) and Nell Fagg Stone (1887-1982) owned the house until 1942.
  • “Subsequent owners were insurance agent Robert Stocks [1894-1964] and his wife [Annie Ivey Stocks, 1894-1964].” The Stocks bought the house in 1942; their sons sold it in 1965 to Robert Douglas Gentry (1926-1988) and June Cruise Gentry (1932-2018). Doug had spent his career in the Navy; June worked for DuPont. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. It was sold in 2019.
  • “Except for aluminum siding, the exterior of the house remains intact, and retains its pressed tin roof, box posts at the hip-roofed porch, and sidelighted front door.”

1218shawthorne

1218 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $400,000 on November 19, 2025 (originally $439,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,861 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1928
• Listed August 18, 2025
• Last sale: $289,000, May 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; asymmetrical, front-gable projection; asbestos shingle siding; six-over-one, double-hung sash; brick entry porch with jerkinhead roof and arched opening; facade chimney. 1930 CD: William Miller”

3775 Friendship Ledford Road, Davidson County
The Motsinger-Jackson House

• Sold for $400,000 on November 18, 2025 (originally $700,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,656 square feet, 2.9 acres
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1900 (per county)
• Listed September 21, 2024
• Last sale: $90,000, August 1987
• Neighborhood: Located about 2.7 miles southwest of Wallburg in Davidson County, 11 miles southeast of Winston-Salem. It has a Winston-Salem mailing address.
• Note: The listing says the house is “believed to be built in the early post-Civil War period.”
  • The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the Motsinger-Jackson House but provides no further information.
  • The property includes a two-car garage with a second floor with a full bathroom, built in 2004.

915olive

915 Olive Street, Greensboro
The John and Emma Shuford House

• Sold for $507,000 on November 14, 2025 (listed at $519,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,093 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $242
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 25, 2025
• Last sale: $365,000, August 2020; $82,000, September 1988
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Renovated before its last sale, the house was previously used as an office.
  • An odd feature is the way the house is sited at the corner of Olive Street and Bessemer Avenue. The narrow, nominally front side of the lot faces Bessemer, but the house faces the long side of the lot facing Olive. As a result, it’s a much wider house than it otherwise could have been. It faces a street with less traffic and has almost no backyard.

• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival, Residence, 1920-25, J.H. Shuford, Mngr, Natl Analine & Chemical Co.”
  • John Houston Shuford (1876-1951) and Helen Emma Alcott Shuford (1880-1971) bought the property when they moved to Greensboro in 1923 and were listed at the address in 1924. They sold the house in 1944. John was a chemist and graduate of N.C. State College, where he was editor of the newspaper and winner of the annual oratory trophy.

• In 1944 the house was bought by Howard R. Barnard (1908-1961) and Gretta M. Barnard (d. 1997). Gretta sold the house in 1988. Howard had a varied career. For 25 years he was was the manager of the Union Bus Station. He was also co-owner of a dry-cleaning business and was in the grocery business with a brother.

215wbanner

215 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The William and Gertrude Matsen House

• Sold for $545,000 on November 4, 2025 (listed at $565,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,867 square feet (per county), 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $292
• Built in 1922
• Listed September 18, 2025
• Last sales: $375,000, August 2020; $290,000, June 2016
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• Note: The 2020 listing showed 2 bathrooms.
• District NR nomination: “Front-gabled frame Craftsman house with attached gable-front porch supported by triple-grouped square posts on brick piers; plain picket balustrade; false knee bracing at gable ends; paired windows. Asbestos siding. Matsen (wife Gertrude) was a traveling salesman.”

512maple

• Sold for $245,000 on October 31, 2025 (originally $288,000, later $199,900)
• Originally a single family residence, now a boarding house with eight bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,504 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1919
• Listed August 18, 2022
• Last sale: $195,000, December 2020
• Note: “Rooming house for sale with 8 rooms. 6 of 8 rooms are presently rented”
  • No central air conditioning

289nbridge

289 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County

• Sold for $170,000 on October 20, 2025 (originally $249,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,847 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built in 1905
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sales: $45,000, August 2013; $10,500, July 2012
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-North Bridge Street Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story frame house is notable for its metal-shingle-covered steep hipped roof with multiple smaller gables intersecting the main roof on the front and sides of the house. A tall gabled dormer rises between the two front gables. The dormer and all the gables are lit by one-over-one sash round-arched windows.
  • “Tall brick chimneys pierce the two side slopes of the primary roof. The right front bay projects slightly from the rest of the three-bay facade. A hip-roofed porch carries across the facade. Its tapered wood posts set on brick plinths and with a connecting solid brick skirt are replacements of the original porch posts.
  • “One-story shed rooms project from the rear of the house. The house is now sheathed with vinyl siding.”
  • The earliest known resident was A.L. Reves in 1914. He was the secretary-treasurer and general manager of Somers and Company, a five-and-dime store. The district’s National Register nomination says he bought the property in 1914, which appears unlikely. The Elkin Tribune ran a picture of the house on January 1, 1914, identifying it as Reves’s home (see photo above), but online records show no deed ever having been recorded in his name. A 1944 obituary for Alonzo Lafayette Reves says he left North Carolina in 1914 for Armona, California, where he operated a store and lived for the rest of his life.
  • “Apparently the house was sold soon thereafter to a Mr. Cundiff, who held it for only a short time before selling it to W. Avery Neaves for $2,500 and a saddle horse. Neaves had moved to Elkin from across the mountains at Grassy Creek, Virginia, and was a superintendent at Chatham Mill. He sold the house to Dave Brendle. Around 1945 Brendle sold the house to the Elkin Presbyterian Church, who used it as their parsonage until 1956, when they sold the house to the present owner [as of 2007], A.L. Brown.”

311 Cherry Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
Campbell A. Baird House

• Sold for $470,000 on October 16, 2025 (originally $559,000)
  • Bought by an LLC in King
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,316 square feet, 1.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1913
• Listed May 21, 2025
• Last sales: $320,000, May 2020; $55,000, January 2012
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house includes a salt-water hot tub.
• District NR nomination: “Grand two-story frame Neo-Classical Revival style house constructed in 1917 for physician, Dr. Campbell A. Baird [1871-1949]. The large, hip-roofed house is dominated by a colossal pedimented portico supported by paired Doric columns. A one-story full-facade hip-roofed attached porch is surmounted by a one-bay second story balustraded porch accessible from an exterior staircase or a second story door identical to the main entrance with sidelights and transom. The house is set in a large lot marked by a granite retaining wall.
  • “Update: Contractor John Kidwell renovated the house in 2013. The columns, which Kidwell notes were made at the Mount Airy Furniture Company, were reglued and the rotted bases replaced. The front rooms of the house were used as waiting and examining rooms by Dr. Baird. Kidwell’s renovation included a new back porch with granite intended to match existing granite in or around the house, new flooring, a reworked staircase, and gas-burning fireplace inserts.
  • “Comparison to 1980s photos shows the removal of the room at the right front corner of the porch, which returned the porch to its original wraparound form, and the removal of a stair that rose from the first story of the porch to the balcony under the portico. A screened porch has been added to the one-story rear wing and a flue removed from same. An interior chimney no longer appears above the roofline.”

201 Leftwich Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $500,000 on October 10, 2025 (originally $550,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,807 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $277
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 6, 2025
• Last sales: $348,500, December 2020; $295,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Foursquare, Residence, 1920-25 2 [stories], A.G. Koenig, traveling salesman”
  • The house appears initially to be have been a rental for several years. Koenig lived in the house through 1930, but no deed bearing his name can be found. The first owner to occupy the house was Mary S. Phillips (dates unknown), who bought it in 1938. A widow, she took in boarders while she lived in the house. She sold it in 1947.

417 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
The Bessie Blacknall House

• Sold for $533,500 on October 9, 20245 (originally $554,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,372 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $225
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a couple years later; see note)
• Listed July 29, 2025
• Last sales: $350,000, March 2020; $39,000, November 1983
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The house was built by Alice Eudora Clark Nicholson (1857-1933), who bought the undeveloped lot from A.K. Moore Realty in 1922. She was a sister Chief Justice Walter McKenzie Clark of the N.C. Supreme Court. Her husband, prominent businessman Joseph W. Nicholson (1853-1915) had died seven years earlier. There’s no record of Alice ever living in the house.
  • The address was first listed in the city directory in 1924, after she sold the house to Charles N. Blacknall (1879-1926) and Bessie Ballard Blacknall (1877-1968). Interestingly, only Bessie’s name was on the deed. Charles was a traveling salesman for Progressive Farmer magazine. Tragically, he shot himself to death in a Charlotte hotel room in 1926. Bessie’s brother, R.W. Ballard, said Charles was despondent over financial difficulties and had never gotten over the 1918 suicide of his father, who had shot Charles’s mother and sister to death before killing himself.
  • By 1927, Bessie had moved out of the house. She sold it in 1931 but bought it back again in 1933 along with her brother Victor Hugo Ballard. City directories show her at the address from 1935 to 1953. She sold the house in 1961.

• Sold for $150,000 on October 6, 2025 (originally $149,500, later $249,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,948 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $77
• Built around 1870: Historic records say circa 1870, county records show 1882.
• Listed March 29, 2018
• Last sale: $35,000, July 1994
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show 1,948 heated square feet and 3,814 total square feet. A previous for-sale listing showed 3,238 total.
• From the invaluable Caswell County North Carolina website: “Built around 1870, this elegant Victorian house was known for many years as the Dr. Wilson House. The 1880s expansion of the front of the house incorporated a variety of Victorian features including shingled gables above fanciful wood brackets along the eaves, a balcony and side stoop adorned with decorative woodwork and brackets, and a generous two-story, wrap-around porch supported by Doric columns with dentil moldings along the cornice.
  • “The entrance is graced by a double-leafed door surrounded by a transom with sidelights which leads into a side hall featuring a partition of Ionic columns with scroll and garland motifs. Many original features remain [as of August 2012] including woodwork, plaster, wainscoting, paneled doors and hardware. Decorative tile surrounds the elegant mantels in the parlor, dining room and bedrooms. The mahogany parlor mantel has a beveled mirror with ornate columns. The beautiful full length windows leading from the parlor to the front porch and side balcony instill daylight into the rooms. The handsome staircase features decorative stair brackets and newel post.”
  • In earlier days, the property was known as the Walton place; Walton Alley runs alongside the property. On the website, from a 1797 deed: “Commissioners of Town of Milton, Thomas Jeffreys, Archibald Murphey, William Rainey, Archibald Samuel, James Sanders to Lofton Walton of Person County, for 3 pounds, 10 shillings, lot #15 of 1/2 acre in town of Milton adjacent to a stake on Broad Street. 2 September 1797. Witnessed: Alexander Murphey.” If the lot numbers haven’t changed, Lot 15 is this house.
  • Lofton had a nephew, also named Lofton (or “Loftin”) Walton (1808-1883), who moved to Clarksville, Arkansas. That town is 100 miles from Bentonville. The Walmart Waltons came from Maine to Missouri and then to Arkansas. Lofton’s descendants appeared to stay close to Clarksville, so it appears unlikely that they have a connection to the Maine/Missouri/Walmart Waltons.
  • The original owners were Dr. John Wilson Jr. (1828-1892) and Cornelia Washington Stevenson Wilson (1830-1901). Dr. Wilson was a physician and educator who had served as a surgeon in the Confederate army. He was known statewide as a teacher and school administrator. He served as principal of the Milton Female Academy and headed schools in Melville in Alamance County, Charlotte and in Romney, West Virginia. In 1869 he was offered a professorship in Latin at Davidson College. In the late 1870s, he was reported to be practicing medicine and conducting surgery in Milton. He was active in Democratic Party politics, was a prohibitionist and a Presbyterian.

1503 Allendale Road, Greensboro
The Seymour and Dorothy Rogers House

• Sold for $535,000 on October 4, 2025 (originally $995,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,946 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $182
• Built in 1951
• Listed May 11, 2025
• Last sale: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: A relatively rare house designed by Edward Lowenstein that isn’t Mid-Century Modern.
  • The listing includes no interior photos, which is rare for a house that went on the market at nearly $1 million.
  • The house is a non-contributing structure in the historic district (the district’s period of significance is 1911-1941).
  • The property was bought in 1950 by Dr. Seymour Shulman Jacobson Rogers (1911-1989) and Dorothy Stewart Rogers (1923-2012). They engaged Edward Lowenstein to design the house and moved in in 1951. A family trust is now selling it for the first time.
  • Seymour was a surgeon. He graduated from Dartmouth and New York University School of Medicine. He performed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II, he was a major in the U.S. Army Medical Medical Corps. In Greensboro, he served on the clinical teaching staff of St. Leo’s Hospital. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
• District NR nomination: “The Rogers House is a two-story brick dwelling with weatherboarded gables, a front bay window, and a glass-enclosed sun room on the south side.”

2065 Craig Street, Winston-Salem
The John and Lula Kimbrough House

• Sold for $465,000 on October 3, 2025 (originally $525,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,920 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $242
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 11, 2025
• Last sale: $140,000, August 2010
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: Not mentioned
  • The original owners were John Armitte Kimbrough (1878-1945) and Lula Adelia Smith Kimbrough (1883-1953). They were shown at the address, along with their son James Armitte Kimbrough (1907-1961), in the 1930 city directory, the first year it was listed. John was a deputy collector with the Internal Revenue Service. Later, he operated a gas station and a grocery store. They moved around 1936.

2106 Bethabara Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $470,000 on October 1, 2025 (originally $620,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,048 square feet, 2.44 acres
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1940
• Listed February 7, 2025
• Last sale: $192,000, July 2003
• Neighborhood: Adjacent to the Bethabara Historic District
• Something you don’t see every day: The property has “a 40 ton bridge making the site accessible for emergency vehicles.”
• Note: The property has no road frontage. An easement connects it through an adjoining property.
  • Do you think that red came out exactly the way they wanted it to?
  • Deeds identify the property as part of the estate of Luther Calvin Hine (1855-1924), a prominent farmer who lived in the area his entire life.
  • The cabin was built by Harry Dunn Sasher (1887-1971) and Margaret Rendleman Sasher (1908-1999). They bought the property in 1939 and sold it in 1956. Harry was born in Glade Spring, Virginia. He was the first manager of the laundry at the Hotel Robert E. Lee. Margaret was born in Salisbury and graduated from the Women’s College. She worked for 44 years at Security Life & Trust (later Integon) and was a member of the Pilot Club.

605 W. Holt Street, Mebane, Alamance County
The Andrew and Badie Whitted House

• Sold for $430,000 on October 1, 2025 (originally $445,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,730 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $249
• Built in 1912
• Listed June 25, 2025
• Last sales: $415,000, August 2023; $40,000, November 2020
• Note: The listing cites “thoughtful, high-end upgrades,” but the house has vinyl siding and cheap replacement windows.
  • The house was owned from 1912 to 1975 by Andrew H. Whitted (ca. 1874-1965) and Arah Badie Moore Whitted (1889-1964) and their heirs. Andrew was a store owner for 40 years. Badie was born in Columbus County and taught school in Durham before marrying Andrew.

84 Hillcrest Drive, High Point

• Sold for $349,000 on September 30, 2025 (originally $429,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,758 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1928
• Listed May 20, 2024
• Last sale: $308,500, August 2022
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, house has Colonial Revival- and Craftsman-style details. The house is two bays wide and double-pile with a one-story, side-gabled wing on the right (south) elevation and a two-story, gabled rear ell.
  • “The house has vinyl siding and six-over-one, wood-sash windows with shutters. The replacement door is sheltered by a front-gabled porch on square columns. A side-gabled screened porch and porte-cochere on the left (north) elevation are supported by square columns and may be a later addition.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Clyde F. Farley (Farley’s Garage) in 1927.”

2514 N. Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $169,000 on September 30, 2025 (originally $258,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,004 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built circa 1928
• Listed January 22, 2025
• Last sale: $92,000, January 2023
• Note: Previously a rental.
  • County records give the date of the house as 1930, but the address appears in the city directory from 1928.
  • The original owners were William Frank Byrd (1884-1930) and Louanna Byrd (1886-1961), who bought the property in 1926. William was a justice of the peace and a notary. He had previously been a police officer and deputy clerk of Superior Court.
  • From 1943 to 1965, Ezra W. Hoots (1898-1987) and Elma Shermer Hoots (1900-1993) owned the house. Ezra and his brother Herman Hoots owned the Hoots Motor Company, the local dealership for Kaiser-Frazer cars and Diamond T trucks.
  • In 1965 Thurnell Nathaniel Dargan (1925-2007) and Nancy Bernice Dargan (1931-2004) bought the house, and it remained in their family for 58 years. Thurnell retired from the Army in 1965 and became a contractor, specializing in apartments and housing projects. Their children sold the house in 2023.

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124 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Junius Ayers Matheson House
Blog post: An Elegant 1915 Home Gets A Quick Makeover While For Sale

• Sold for $585,000 on September 18, 2025 (originally $850,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,115 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1915 (per county)
• Listed September 12, 2024
• Last sales: $380,000, June 2008; $324,000, November 2003
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a two-car carport with EV charging stations, a built-in Wolf grill, a patio with a natural gas fire pit and a small, air-conditioned guesthouse.
• District NR nomination: “Its walls and oversized gambrel roof clad in shingles, this house is a rare Greensboro example of the shingle style. Built about 1910 for Matheson, a professor at the nearby state women’s college, it is quite similar in style to its neighbor at 126 S. Mendenhall.”
  • Among its other distinctive features, the house has a remarkably wide front porch that wraps around on the right with French doors opening onto the foyer along the wall and another door at the end of the porch. Interior features include unpainted pocket doors in the living room, a long window seat along a triple window in the dining room and a kitchen island with a counter that seats five.
  • Junius Ayers Matheson (1869-1929) was born in Taylorsville in Alexander County, where his father founded the Bank of Alexander. Junius graduated from Davidson College, class of 1890. He was a school teacher and became the superintendent of schools in Durham before coming to the North Carolina College for Women as a professor of education around 1909. He left the college in 1917 to form Matheson-Willis Real Estate, of which he was president. He worked in real estate, apparently with great success, judging from his front-page obituary, until he died at age 59 of a heart attack.
  • His father’s name was William Bogle “Boomer” Matheson.
  • Since the house was initially listed, the a few rooms have undergone some serious work to tone down the colors. Here are some of the pictures from the initial listing in September 2024:

2244 U.S. 64 East, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $325,000 on September 17, 2025 (originally $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,767 square feet, 1.47 acres
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 14, 2025
• Last sales: $100,000, June 2021; $75,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Located about 4 1/2 miles east of Mocksville
• Note: The property’s status was initially listed as pre-foreclosure, according to homes.com.

4298 Stewart Street, Sophia, Randolph County

• Sold for $575,000 on September 12, 2025 (listed at $599,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,806 square feet, 8.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $205
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 7, 2023
• Last sale: $82,000, April 2004
• Note: The property includes a swimming pool, a barn with four stalls, a feed room and hay lofts.
  • It also has the most remarkable bathroom.

308 Highland Drive, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $270,000 on September 12, 2025 (originally $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,808 square feet (per county), 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1942
• Listed March 11, 2025
• Last sale: $187,000, February 2020
• Neighborhood: Highland Park
• Note: One of the very few pieces of furniture left in the house is an arcade-style video-game machine. Maybe they didn’t want to unplug it and lose their record-high Frogger score.

803 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $565,000 on September 10, 2025 (listed at $575,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,348 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $241
• Built in 1923
• Listed August 20, 2025
• Last sale: $325,000, September 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof entry porch; large, Tuscan columns; side porch enclosed or sunroom; sidelights; multi-light door. 1926 CD: John Fuqua, a clerk at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”
  • John Edgar Fuqua (1890-1962) and Mary Bascomb Kearns Fuqua were the original residents. John retired as manager of Reynolds’s bill of lading department in 1956 after 46 years with the company. They lived in the house until around 1937.

216 E. Main Street, Pilot Mountain, Surry County
The Dr. Jim Smith House
The Colmant House

• Sold for $295,000 on September 10, 2025 (listed at $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,234 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 15, 2025
• Last sale: $30,000, June 2010
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: Formerly the Colmant House restaurant, a renowned fine-dining establishment featuring Cajun cuisine. It was praised as “exceptionally fine” by John Batchelor in 1991.
  • Two doors away is the Pilot Hosiery Mill, which must be one of the most nondescript buildings on the National Register.
  • The house was bought in 1985 by Sue Ray Smith Colmant (1944-2025) and John M. Colmant Jr. (1944-2001). John was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and graduated from Florida State University. He was a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. Sue was born in Winston-Salem and graduated from Western Carolina University. She was a social worker who practiced in South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina before moving to Pensacola, Florida, where she met and married John, who was by then a chef. They opened the Colmant House with John as chef and Sue as hostess. Sue sold the house in 2010.
  • The house is apparently named for Dr. James Buchanon Smith (1860-1928). He was born in Stokes County and graduated from Virginia Tech and the College of Physicians and surgeons in Baltimore. He began practicing as a physician in 1885 and spent most of his career in Pilot Mountain.

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10 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Joseph and Minnie Vance House

• Sold for $650,000 on August 28, 2025 (originally $725,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,005 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1923
• Listed May 20, 2025
• Last sale: $560,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house’s original address was 2000 S. Main Street, but it faces Banner Avenue on a corner of Banner and the 2000 block of South Main (the district’s National Register nomination refers to the house as 2000 S. Main).
  • County records give the date of the house as 1926, but the address appeared in the city directory from 1923.
• District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame house with shorter two-story side wing (probably an addition) and attached hipped-roof porch supported by replacement wrought iron posts. At southern elevation is hipped-roof porte-cochere also supported by replacement iron posts.
  • “Partially exposed brick end chimney. Central entrance with sidelights; triple-grouped windows. Vinyl siding on first floor, wood shingles on second.
  • “Vance (wife Minnie) bought the property and built his house in 1923; Vance was owner of the J.A. Vance Manufacturing Company, which made sawmill and woodworking equipment on Chestnut Street.”
  • The wrought iron in both places has been replaced by more historically appropriate wooden columns. Online listings indicate the vinyl siding has been replaced by wood siding.
  • Joseph Addison Vance (1851-1927) and Minnie Kennedy Cole Vance (1872-1950) were listed at the address as early as 1923, which is the date of the house given in the National Register nomination.
  • Joseph was a major figure in the Salem community. He was born in Kernersville. He worked for the Fogle Brothers lumber company before founding J.A. Vance Iron Works in 1884. He was elected mayor of Salem twice and served on the city’s board of aldermen and as chair of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.
  • Joseph and Minnie married in 1921. She was his third wife, and he was her second husband. Joseph’s first wife died in 1894 and second in 1918. Minnie’s first husband died in 1903. After Joseph’s death, Minnie moved back to her hometown of Danville and lived with her two sisters.

524 W. Main Street, Pilot Mountain, Surry County

• Sold for $410,000 on August 27, 2025 (originally $560,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,228 square feet, 0.90 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1895
• Listed October 25, 2024
• Last sales: $260,000, May 2024; $225,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: West Main Street Historic District (National Register study list)
• Note: Quick flip; caveat emptor.
  • The renovation included painting the red-brick exterior white, giving the columns and front gable (which had been white) a contrasting beige and removing a large Chippendale supraporte over the door. The last photo above was included in the 2023 listing.
  • The property includes a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment over the two-car garage.
  • The early history of the house is difficult to trace through a series of mostly illegible, badly scanned handwritten deeds. In 1898 William Washington Davis (1851-1934) bought 25 acres from the administrator of an owner who died intestate. The deed isn’t clear about the location, but this property was referred to on a later deed as the “W.W. and L.E. Davis house and lot” (his wife was Lydia Ellen Hunter Davis, 1861-1944). William was a charter member of the Pilot Mountain Friends Church and at age 82 was “one of the oldest citizens of this place,” his obituary said.
  • Slightly later owners appear to have been Thomas Gideon Marion (1864-1955) and either his first wife, Mary Perlina Wilmoth Marion (1862-1902), or second wife, Isabel Wall Marion (1873-1926, married 1904). Thomas was a Baptist minister. He and his wife sold the house in 1918 to daughter Ada Lavoria Marion Williamson (1886-1942).
  • In 1943, Martha Louise “Mattie” Fulk Trotter (1890-1983) bought the house. She was a widow; her husband had been a longtime pharmacist in Pilot Mountain before committing suicide in 1937.
  • Mattie sold the house in 1955 to Charles Edward Matthews (1927-2008) and Dr. Marjorie E. Fisher Matthews (b. 1935), who owned the house for 62 years. Marjorie is a physician. She sold the house in 2017.
  • Charles was born in Surry County and graduated from Riverside Military Academy and Guilford College, where he majored in economics. He served in the Army in Germany from 1945 to 1947 before joining his father in the Pilot Guano Company and other businesses. Charles served for more than 40 years as a director of the Farmer’s Bank and then First Citizens Bank. He was president of the Pilot Mountain Parent-Teacher Organization and a former chairman of the United Fund. He served on the Northwest Economic Development Committee and the Pilot Mountain Planning and Zoning Board.

2411 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $402,000 on August 22, 2025 (listed at $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,730 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $232
• Built in 1890
• Listed July 16, 2025
• Last sale: $130,000, July 2022
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Historic District (local NR)
• Note: One of the last Glencoe houses to be renovated.
  • The property is under preservation covenants held by Preservation North Carolina.
• District NRHP nomination: “The Glencoe Historic District is located on the east bank of Haw River about three miles north of Burlington in Alamance County.
  • “It is a typical but remarkably well-preserved example of nineteenth century industrial villages that once flourished in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. The district covers a little more than 100 acres and consists of three parts: 1) a manufacturing and commercial complex; 2) a power and water system; and 3) a residential and social unit. …
  • “Of the 48 original wood frame dwellings, 41 remain. (Several houses are known to have burned down.) … The mill village includes three basic house configurations, all with brick nogging, hand sawed timbers, tin roofs, brick pier foundations and simple, functional design. Houses vary in size from three to six rooms, with 16′ by 16′ the average room size.
  • “The front porches are two bays wide and supported by four unornamented posts. A central hallway open onto rooms to the east and west. The western rooms of houses on these two streets do not have windows on the river (west) side. Chimneys are set on the east.”

1008 N. Eugene Street, Greensboro
The Annie Wrenn House

• Sold for $685,000 on August 19, 2025 (originally $849,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,196 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $214
• Built in 1942
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $260,000, March 2000; $133,000, February 1994
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Col Rev (brk vnr), Residence, c. 1945”
  • Annie Bray Wrenn (1879-1973) bought the long-vacant lot in 1941 and was listed in the city directory in 1943, making this one of the last homes built in Greensboro before homebuilding stopped for World War II. Annie was a widow and lived in the house until she died at age 93. Two of her daughters owned the house until 1994.

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131 E. Lexington Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Gaston E. Horn House

• Sold for $355,000 on August 15, 2015 (originally $375,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,192 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $111
• Built in 1898
• Listed May 24, 2025
• Last sales: $75,000, July 2020; $87,000, April 2001
• Note: The current owner used part of the house as an office for her interior-design business and part as a two-bedroom short-term rental (“Priscilla’s Victorian Getaway”).
  • Previously divided into two units and used as office/commercial space.
  • Gaston E. Horn (1859-1929) was quite a prominent local businessman. He founded the Mocksville Chair Factory in 1901 and was involved with the Horn Brothers and Johnson flour mill and the Horn Telephone Company. After the 1904 fire that destroyed the Davie Hotel, he bought the property and in 1909 sold it to the county to be the site of the new courthouse and jail. He took the old jail, just around the corner from this house, as partial payment and converted it into a residence. It’s now on the National Register. His wife, Mary Jane “Mollie” Foster Horn (1867-1940), and the eldest of their six daughters, Mamie Horn Kimbrough (1888-1978), operated a boarding house in the home.

7223 N.C. Highway 89, Stokes County
The R.E. Lee Francis House

• Sold for $160,000 on August 15, 2025 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,636 square feet, 2.45 acres
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1900 (see note)
• Listed June 29, 2023
• Last sale: $83,000, January 2022
• Note: The property is near the Francisco community. It has a Westfield mailing address but is about 14 miles east, just north of Hanging Rock State Park.
  • The State Historic Preservation Office gives 1900 as the date of the house. County records show 1945, which appears unlikely.
  • Listing: “While some updates are still needed,” some work has been done recently, including installation of a water stove and, sadly, replacement windows.
  • There’s no functioning heat on the second floor.
  • The house appears to have been built by Gallian Moore Francis Jr. (1850-1923) and Martha R. Ward Francis (1853-1934). A picture of the house is on the findagrave.com page for Gallian: “Family home of Gallian Francis, Jr. in Francisco in Stokes County, N.C. It was built in the late 1800s. The home was remodeled later, by his son, Edward ‘Lee’ Francis. Luther and Lucy Francis also lived in this house.”
  • The SHPO associates the house with Robert Edward Lee Francis (1882-1935) and Dovie Lee Lawrence Francis (1889-1972). Both were born in Stokes County. They had eight children; five died in childhood. Only two outlived Dovie.
  • Their eldest child, Luther Edgar “Luke” Francis (1908-1970), was a farmer. He died of burns suffered when a tractor he was driving caught fire. Lucy Hanks Francis (1907-2006), like her mother-in-law, outlived her husband by more than 30 years and never remarried. Lucy passed the house to one of her sons, who sold it in 1982.
  • The North Carolina Gazetteer and Carolina Crossroads don’t provide any information on the source of the community’s name, so it’s unknown whether it was related to the Francis family.

2202 W. Market Street, Greensboro
The Marguerite and Mayes Behrman House

• Sold for $1.03 million on August 14, 2025 (originally $1.268 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,446 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $299
• Built in 1935
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sale: $355,000, March 2010
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: Slate roof
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, five-bay, side-gabled, brick, Colonial Revival-style dwelling displays a Greek key motif on its cornice. A one-story, front-gabled portico with a dentiled cornice and supported by paired, slender columns has a vaulted soffit and gable returns.
  • “Pilasters frame the entry composed of sidelights with paneling below flanking a paneled wood and multi-light door. Windows are replacements with first floor sash topped by cast concrete keystones and flat brick arches. Brick, exterior chimneys rise from the gable ends. The east chimney rises forward of the roof ridge and through the roof of the one-story, side-gabled sunporch with six-over-six windows and a multi-light door. Dentils grace the cornice.
  • “On the west, a side-gabled, brick garage features two auto bays and a flight of concrete steps with metal railing leading to a multi-light and paneled wood door. A shed dormer sheathed in synthetic siding and containing eight-over-eight windows rests on the front roof slope.
  • “The Behrmans bought the property in April 1935 and first appear at this address in the 1936 city directory. He was a salesman. They sold the house in 1941. The next owners, Betty and Carlton Jester Jr., who was a salesman, owned the house from 1941 to 1990.”

2416 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $435,000 on August 14, 2025 (originally $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,943 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1880
• Listed October 22, 2024
• Last sale: $217,900, July 2015
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Mill Village Historic District (local and NR). Located north of Burlington, just off N.C. Highway 62 at the Haw River. Glencoe has Burlington mail addresses.
• Note: The property includes a 400 square-foot workshop, a smaller storage building and a well house.
• District NR nomination: Glencoe “is a typical but remarkably well-preserved example of nineteenth century industrial villages that once flourished in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. The district covers a little more than 100 acres and consists of three parts: 1) a manufacturing and commercial complex; 2) a power and water system; and 3) a residential and social unit. …”
  • “The predominant house type was originally a four-room, two-story structure typical of North Carolina rural housing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The front porches are two bays wide and supported by four unornamented posts. A central hallway open onto rooms to the east and west. …
  • “Chimneys are set on the east. Upstairs there are usually two rooms, with the railing from the narrow staircase extending into the west room. Detached kitchens of brick and batten construction are set behind the houses; a typical kitchen was about 20′ by 12′. Open wells serve[d] four houses each.
  • “A later modification of the mill housing is the kitchen, attached at the back of the east wing of most houses, forming an L. These rooms had, by 1910, largely replaced the detached kitchens, of which only a handful remain. The connected kitchens have chimneys and customarily have side porches facing the river and the mill (west).”

3690 Day Road, Walkertown, Forsyth County
The Tucker Day House

• Sold for $419,900 on August 14, 2025 (listed at $419,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,631 square feet, 6.11 acres
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1925 (per county)
• Listed July 7, 2025
• Last sales: $350,000, October 2022; $340,000, October 2021
• Note: The property includes a barn.
  • John Tucker Day (1888-1952) was a tobacco farmer and attorney. He served in the Army during World War I. He also served as district commander of the American Legion in the 1940s. Tucker was active in Republican Party politics and ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Congress in 1948 and for state insurance commissioner in 1952. He was a member of the Farm Bureau, the Grange, the Kernersville Masonic lodge, the Walkertown American Legion post and the Winston-Salem chapter of La Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux, aka the Forty and Eight, originally a WWI veterans organization.

414 S. State Street, Lexington, Davidson County
Former First Baptist Church Parsonage

• Sold for $465,000 on August 12, 2025 (originally $525,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,424 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1930 (per county, but probably several years later; see note)
• Listed May 4, 2025
• Last sale: $253,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story brick Colonial Revival with a side-gable roof and a gabled entry porch with a vaulted ceiling and columns; 6/6 sash, entry with fanlight, brick interior chimneys; one-story gabled wing on the southwest elevation.
  • First Baptist Church of Lexington bought the property in 1919 and owned it until 1970.
  • “This house replaced an earlier dwelling and was built after 1929 when the older house is illustrated on the Sanborn map and before 1948 when the current dwelling appears on the Sanborn map.”
  • According to the relatively few Lexington city directories available online, First Baptist’s minister lived in the original house in 1925. The address did not appear in the 1937 edition but was listed again by 1941 with the Rev. Louis Shoup Gaines, the church’s minister, as the resident (the National Register gives his name as “Lewis Gains”).
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422 Worth Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

• Sold for $376,000 on August 13, 2025 (originally $439,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,204 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1945 (per county, more likely a couple years later; see note)
• Listed April 30, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Greystone Terrace
• Note: The house doesn’t match any specific style, though its minimalist look, asymmetrical front, flat roof with a with small ledge and glass-block window suggest a stripped-down Modernistic style.
  • The address didn’t appear in the city directory until 1947. The original owners appear to have been Bob Sidney Morris (1905-1992) and Margaret Cheek Morris (1911-2004), who were listed at the address in 1947. Bob was a real-estate agent. He served as president of the Asheboro-Randolph Board of Realtors.

627 Mulberry Street, Winston-Salem
The Barton House

• Sold for $399,900 on August 7, 2025 (listed at $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,936 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1890
• Listed June 27, 2025
• Last sales: $256,000, September 2020; $150,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• Note: Really strange living room.
  • Equally strange: There are no pictures of the kitchen included in the listing (initially at least).
• District NR nomination: “Gable Ell House. Two story; asbestos shingle siding; two-over-two, double-hung sash; exposed purlins; hip-roof porch; turned posts; sawn brackets; diamond attic vent.
  • The earliest known residents were Edwin R. Clayton and Cora F. Clayton (dates unknown for both), listed at the address in the 1902-03 city directory. Edwin was a carpenter. By 1904 they had moved to Winston.
  • By 1908, Pleasant Franklin Barton (1867-1942) and Mary Etta Moore Barton (1866-1943) were listed at the address. It was the family’s home for 71 years. Pleasant was “a well-known plasterer,” the Winston-Salem Journal said in his obituary.
  • By the time of their deaths, their son Thomas Calvin Barton (1906-1979) and daughter-in-law Hazel Louise Barton (1905-1968) were living with them. Thomas was a mechanic with R.J. Reynolds, where he worked for 47 years. They lived in the house the rest of their lives.

1811 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem
The Harvey A. Giersch House

• Sold for $350,000 on July 28, 2025 (originally $378,000)
  • Three offers fell through before this one closed.
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,587 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 19, 2025
• Last sale: 1999, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Former rental, “this property is just waiting to be brought back to life.”
  • Known as the Hillcrest Tourist Home, 1952 to at least 1963. Irma Roberts Fisher (1892-1976) opened the business after the death of her husband, William Sloan Fisher (1890-1951). She also continued to operate the business he started, Fisher’s Laundry and Dry Cleaners. Irma attended the Women’s College. She was a charter member of the local Soroptimist Club.
• District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame Colonial Revival style house. three bays wide, two rooms deep with central entrance. Three hipped-roof dormers on front. Central one-bay hipped-roof entrance porch supported by classical columns and flat pilasters beneath a wide frieze. Triple-grouped windows on first floor (16/11 24!1, 16/1); 18/1 on second floor. To the south is a later one-story side wing with large glazed round arch.
  • “Giersch (wife Fannie) was a traveling salesman with Maline Mills who moved here by 1910 from Salem. He was followed by George Hardiston (wife Elizabeth) in 1920, an employee with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and by William E. Froelich (wife Helen) who moved here in 1921 from Waughtown Street and was service manager of Carolina Cadillac Company.”

140 W. Poplar Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $175,000 on July 28, 2025 (originally $215,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,868 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1915
• Listed February 4, 2025
• Last sale: $69,000, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: “The upstairs is not currently heated; the owners used window units for cooling, and it’s unclear if the central air is operational downstairs.” The upstairs rooms and hallway need some work.
  • County property record: “Settlement on right side. Plumbing and electrical bad. No ducts upstairs.”
  • The interior colors are bold.
  • The property includes a detached garage-workshop.
• District NR nomination: “Two-story house of vinyl-sided frame construction with a composite-shingled hip and gable roof. The irregular massing and compound roofline are typical of the late Queen Anne style. The front elevation has a two-story west side projection with a pedimented gable. The one-story front porch has square posts and balusters.
  • “To the right of the front entry, which has a decorative wood and glass door, is a window with four-over-one wood sashes, an early occurrence of this Craftsman sash type. Other features include two-over-two wood sash windows, a rear screen porch, an interior brick flue, and an exterior brick flue on the west side to the rear.
  • Online records give only a few clues about the early history of the house. The property was bought in 1915 by Roy Buchanan, about whom nothing else can be found online. By 1928, the house was occupied by J. Thomas Smith (1875-1955) and Alice Brann Smith (1873-1971). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Tom was a Post Office clerk and later a mail carrier. Their eighth and last surviving child, Mary Lucile Smith (1917-2000), left the house to the Enon Baptist Church in East Bend, which sold it in 2001.
  • The 2002, the house was bought by Hugh Allen Harris (1965-2021) and Sherry Grove Harris (1963-2024). Hugh was a neon glass bender.

2409 Hodges Road, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $389,000 on July 23, 2025 (originally $400,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1880
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $43,000, April 2003
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Mill Village Historic District (local and NR). Located north of Burlington, just off N.C. Highway 62 at the Haw River. Glencoe has Burlington mail addresses.

1106 Aycock Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $435,000 on July 18, 2025 (originally $525,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 2,946 square feet (per county), 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built in 1936
• Listed February 24, 2025
• Last sales: $227,000, June 2016; $257,000, February 2002
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: The original owners appear to have been Harold Calloway Pollard (1881-1949) and Blondie Kernodle Pollard (1892-1976). They were listed on Aycock Avenue in the 1937 city directory, before house numbers were given for the street. Blondie was still listed at 1106 Aycock as late as 1969.
  • Harold was a pioneering local homebuilder, president of Burlington Real Estate Company and secretary-treasurer of Burlington Homes Inc. and of the Central Home Building Association. Blondie was vice president of Burlington Real Estate and succeeded her husband as president.

1801 W. Market Street, Greensboro
The Nancy and Edgar Sutton House

• Sold for $742,500 on July 17, 2025 (originally $895,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,509 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $212
• Built in 1928
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sale: $370,000, January 2003
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The basement includes a separate guest quarters or apartment.
• District NR nomination: “Only a few Foursquare houses—often associated with the Craftsman style, but often carrying Colonial Revival-style elements—stand in Sunset Hills and are typically brick or weatherboard and display hipped or pyramidal roofs. … Built in 1928, the Nancy and Edgar C. Sutton House at 1801 West Market is a two-story, three-bay, hip-roofed, off-white-colored brick Foursquare with a tile roof and deep overhanging eaves graced with curved brackets. A pent-roof porch with brick supports extends along the façade and wraps around to the west elevation. …
  • “The porch shelters the multi-light front door. Windows are six-over-six throughout. A narrow brick chimney rises from the interior, while a larger brick chimney occupies the east elevation of the two-story block and extends through the roof of a one-story, brick wing with a tile pent roof and six-over-six windows flanked by four-over-four windows. An additional chimney rises from the exterior of a hipped-roof projection on the rear elevation.”
  • Nancy L. Blanchard Sutton (1887-1948) bought the property in 1927, and she and her husband, Edgar Charles Sutton (1887-1952), were listed at the address in 1928, the first year it appeared in the city directory. Only her name was on the deed, an unusual but not unheard-of situation at the time. Edgar was president of Sutton’s Florist and Floral Design. In 1930, Nancy sold the house to Gillie Ann Pruitt Talley (1877-1959) and Edgar Talley (1877-1959). He was a traveling salesman. In 1936, they lost the house to a foreclosure by the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.

631 Scott Avenue, Greensboro
The Lydia and Joseph Cartland House, “Beechwood”
Blog post (2019) — 631 Scott Avenue: A 1905 Lindley Park House

• Sold for $550,000 on July 11, 2025 (listed at $550,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,142 square feet
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1905
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sales: $400,000, July 2021; $347,500, September 2019
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house was built across the street and moved to its present location in the early 1920s.
  • “The two-story frame house is typical of Greensboro residences of the first decade of the twentieth century. Simply detailed, the Late Victorian form is characterized by a hipped roofline and a projecting hipped wing. This wing, with exterior access, might have served as an office. Decorative features are staid, including a deep cornice with boxed eaves, nine over nine windows, and a half-width front porch. Interior details curiously hint at an early construction date, such as capped door and window trim, a square stair newel post, and six-panel doors. The house is a special footnote for the neighborhood and represents the earliest history of Lindley Park.” — Preservation Greensboro
  • The earliest known residents were Joseph Leslie Cartland (1879-1950) and Lydia Nicholson “Lillie” White Cartland (1881-1953), listed at 16 Scott Avenue in the 1912-13 city directory, the first to include Scott Avenue. Joseph was a tailor who worked with his father, James Edwin Cartland. He later became a heating contractor. By 1921, they had sold the house.