Piedmont Historic Homes

104 E. Wilson Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $362,500 on August 19, 2026 (originally $485,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,306 square feet (per county), 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sale: $275,000, July 2017
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: Lots of unpainted woodwork — a rare find. On the other hand, some of the windows are cheap replacements.
• District NR nomination: “This is a 2-story Craftsman-derived residence of wood, finished primarily in shiplap siding, with a front-gable roof with a 2- story side-gabled wing on the east elevation. The house has a gable-front porch, supported by battered wood posts resting on brick piers and enclosed within a plain wood balustrade with square balusters.
  • “The main entry door is enframed within sidelights and the gable ends and fascia boards are finished in square-butt wood shingles. Windows are flat-topped 1/1, with original historic sash and a three-part window. Cornice returns are present on the façade gable.”

1205huntsdale

• Sold for $540,000 on august 3, 2026 (originally $634,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,870 square feet, 0.81 acre
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1942
• Listed June 12, 2026
• Last sales: $449,900, September 2022; $300,000, October 2018
• Note: French Country-style home, relatively uncommon around here
  • The original owners of the house were Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner Sr. (1907-1984) and Anne Hill Sharp Klenner (1914-2003). They married in 1937 and bought the property for $2,200 in 1941. There’s so much to say about Fred and Annie and, especially, their son, Frederick Jr., nicknamed Fritz. Fred, though, deserves attention in his own right. This is condensed from their pages on findagrave.com, for which someone has provided quite a bit of information:
  • Fred was a physician and a pioneering researcher on vitamin C. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; in 1936 he graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine. Annie was a nurse at Duke Hospital. They settled in her hometown of Reidsville, where Fred began practicing medicine. Annie worked in the practice. She was an active garden club member and flower show judge as well.
  • One of Annie’s sisters was Susie Sharp, the first woman to serve as chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court. If this is starting to sound familiar, you may be getting a bit queasy, but Dr. Klenner’s career is worth knowing about and tends to get lost in the gory details involving their horrible son.
  • “Beginning in the 1940s, Dr. Klenner began experimenting with megadoses of vitamins, mostly vitamin C, to treat a variety of medical disorders. From infants to the elderly, Klenner used large doses of vitamins to treat a wide range of medical disorders including polio and multiple sclerosis. His research of those treatments inspired others, including Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. “In the 1988 Clinical Guide, Pauling is quoted as saying, ‘The early papers by Dr. Fred R. Klenner provide much information about the use of large doses of Vitamin C in preventing and treating many diseases. These papers are still important.’ “
  • While practicing medicine, he published 27 papers about the benefits of vitamin C therapy for over 30 diseases. “Then on May 23, 1946, Dr. Klenner made national headlines when he delivered the world’s first set of surviving identical black quadruplets, the Fultz Sisters, at the Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville. In his opinion, Klenner attributed their survival to massive doses of vitamins that he administered to the babies while under his medical care.”
  • Unsurprisingly, many local doctors thought Fred was nuts. He claimed, though, that he treated over 10,000 patients with massive doses of vitamins over 30 years without any ill effects.
  • For better or worse, Fred died in 1984, missing the horror that was to come. Annie lived through it, dying at age 89 in 2003.
  • At some point in the early 1980s, their only child, Fritz (1952-1985), took up with his divorced first cousin, Susie Newsome (she was a niece of Fritz’s mom, Annie Sharp Klenner, and Susie Sharp). Susie Newsome was involved in an unpleasant custody dispute with her ex-husband, who also was from Reidsville but by then was living in New Mexico. Police believe it was Fritz who murdered Annie’s former mother-in-law and sister-in-law in 1984 and then her parents and grandmother in May 1985 in Winston-Salem. On June 3, 1985, the pair killed her two young sons and, while being chased by police, died by blowing up their car with dynamite on N.C. 150 in Guilford County.
  • Jerry Bledsoe wrote a famous book about it, Bitter Blood.
  • It really is a nice house, though.

1102johnson

1102 Johnson Street, High Point
The Cicero and Mabel Swain House

• Sold for $510,000 on July 30, 2026 (originally $550,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,597 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1914 (per county, but probably at least a year earlier; see note)
• Listed March 10, 2026
• Last sale: $253,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Johnson Street Historic District (local), Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: Sold by an LLC in Gastonia
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story house features elements of both the Shingle and Craftsman styles. It has a two-story, front-gabled, roof with steeply-pitched, shed-roofed sections on each side, similar to a gambrel roof, but with the rooflines not continuous.
  • “The house is three bays wide and double-pile with weatherboards on the first story, wood shingles on the second story, and one-over-one, wood-sash windows.
  • “There is a replacement door in the center bay with a one-story, projecting canted bay in the left (north) bay.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed porch extends the full-width of the facade and wraps around the right (south) elevation, terminating at a two-story, gabled wing projecting from the right elevation.
  • “The porch is supported by full-height, shingled wood piers with a low, shingled knee wall.
  • “There are four windows in the front gable and a pair of three-over-one, Craftsman-style windows in a gabled dormer on the left elevation.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Cicero C. Swain (wholesale dry goods) in 1913.”
  • Cicero Columbus Swain (1876-1952) was a founder of the Peerless Grocery Company and later the Swain-Johnson Wholesale Grocery Company. He and his wife, Mabel A. Spencer Swain (1897-1977) were listed at the address until 1924.
  • By 1928, Cornelius Horney Willard (1887-1979) and Kate Boaz Williard (1896-1988) were listed at the address. Cornelius was sales manager with High Point Dairy. Living with them were Elder Philip Wesley Williard (1847-1933) and Lovenia Horney Williard (1853-1934), most likely his parents. Elder Williard was the minister at the High Point Primitive Baptist Church. Cornelius and Kate sold the house in 1954.
  • The buyers in 1954 were Rudgely Millwee Calhoun (1920-2009) and Margaret Condon Calhoun (1923-2003). Rudge was a pharmacy graduate of the Medical College of South Carolina. He served in the Navy during World War II. Rudge and Margaret operated the Calhoun Drug Store in High Point. They sold the house in 1977.

707summit

707 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The Apple-Fulp House

• Sold for $470,000 on July 15, 2026 (listed at $490,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,112 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 29, 2026
• Last sale: $60,000, August 1975
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing says the home “requires a complete renovation.”
  • The property is on the highest point in the West End, according to the listing.
• District NR nomination: “The Apple-Fulp House is a Colonial Revival-Craftsman style house with a pebbledash first story, a weatherboarded second story, a low hipped roof with widely overhanging eaves, and a wrap-around porch and side porch with paired square posts, granite plinths, and Craftsman trim. The recent aluminum (or vinyl) siding which covers the second story has had little adverse effect on the overall integrity of the house.
  • “Partially hidden by its surrounding trees, the house is situated on a terraced lot.”
  • Dr. Troy Arthur Apple (1883-1920) and Grace Ethel Pratt Apple (1886-1975) bought the property in 1911 and were listed there in the 1912 city directory. Grace had been a music teacher in their home town of Madison. Troy was a dentist. He died in the flu epidemic in 1920. Grace married Walton Lindsey Fulp (1883-1942) in 1935. He had been a plant manager with Carnation Products Company in Washington state and Kentucky. Grace sold the house in 1955.

246church

246 Church Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Simmons-Whitaker House

• Sold for $275,000 on July 13, 2026 (originally $299,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,940 square feet, 0.46 acre (per county)
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1914
• Listed May 1, 2026
• Last sale: $58,000, July 2000
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings show 3,802 square feet, about twice the size shown in county records.
  • “The finished basement offers a basement apartment with private access, kitchen, den and full bath.”
  • Elkin Elementary School is across the street.
• District NR nomination: “”Local tradition and physical evidence suggest that the house was built, in part, from materials reused from the 1870 Methodist church (later the Elkin School), that stood across the street until it was torn down for the construction of a new school in 1914-1915. …
  • “The two-story frame house is one of the few in Elkin to exhibit the influence of the Neo-Classical Revival style. The exterior is dominated by a two-story central portico that projects slightly in front of a one-story porch that extends across the full width of the facade and a balustraded second-story porch above the center entrance bay. …
  • The entrance of the house features a large, vertical panel of glass set in a wood surround and flanked by beveled and leaded-glass sidelights. North and south of the entrance are two bay windows.
  • “The house also features a steep hipped roof with multiple intersecting pedimented gables, interior chimneys, one-over-one sash windows, and a two-tier rear service porch. In recent years, the house has been vinyl-sided.”
  • “According to former owner Walter Minish, Martin Simmons was the first owner of the house. He was associated with the Farmers and Merchants Bank. …
  • “However, today the house is most widely known by elderly Elkin residents as the home of William W. Whitaker (1879-1949). He moved to Elkin from Pilot Mountain in 1898. Whitaker operated a grocery store on Main Street and was the local agent for Hupmobile and Ford automobiles. During the 1930s he was Elkin’s fire chief. During World War II Whitaker served on Elkin’s tire rationing board.
  • “Mrs. Whitaker [Lottie Harrell Whitaker, 1880-1974] was the first president of the Yadkin Valley Garden Club when it was formed in 1933. The Whitaker’s daughter was Nina Hayes, who with her husband, Errol, lived at 331 Church Street. After selling their home up the street in 1953, the Hayes’s moved back to her family home at 246 Church Street.”

3110hall

3110 Hall Road, Randolph County

• Sold for $280,000 on July 10, 2026 (originally $310,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,928 square feet (per county), 7.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 13, 2026
• Last sale: $80,000, September 2009
• Neighborhood: Located about 6 1/2 miles north of Franklinville and 7 1/2 miles east of Randleman. It has a Franklinville mail address.
• Note: The property has a pond and a creek. The house is set far back from the road.
  • The house is a Southern vernacular farmhouse with its standing-seam metal roof; deep, full-width attached front porch; and utilitarian exterior chimneys. It also has deep overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails, evoking a bit of a Prairie or Craftsman look.
  • Online listings show only 1,151 square feet.
  • The original owners may have been Thomas H. Williams (1872-1943) and Mary Magalene Gwyn Williams (1867-1955). The property was part of a 116-acre tract deeded in 1956 by their children to son Robert Williams (1913-1973), who had been living in the house with Mary. He worked for Klopman Mills at the Central Falls plant in Randolph County.
  • Robert sold the property in 1971 to Worth Brower Pugh (1931-2014) and Goulda Strider Pugh (1934-2008). Worth was an Air Force veteran. He worked for Union Carbide. He sold the house in 2009.

804wdavis

804 W. Davis Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $425,000 on July 8, 2026 (originally $435,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,072 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 6, 2026
• Last sale: $395,000, February 24, 2025
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Typical of the Foursquare type of residential construction with Colonial Revival accents, this two-story brick veneer structure was built in 1923 for D. Ernest Sellers.” He founded the Sellers Hosiery Mill in 1907 with his brother, Charles V. Sellers. Ernest also served for many years as president of the Morris Plan Industrial Bank.
  • “This house, at the prominent intersection of West Davis Street and Fountain Place, features the hallmarks of the style — the symmetrical two-story configuration with flanking end chimneys, the medium-pitch hip roof, and the entrance with sidelights and simple surround. The structure also features a one-story porch across the three-bay facade supported by solid brick piers with a simple wooden balustrade and heavy wooden eave brackets, which gave it a bungalow accent.”
• Note: The house has had only four owners. The original owners were David Ernest Sellars (1863-1944) and Eleanor Juanita “Nita” Hall Sellars (1874-1963). Although they spelled their last name with an “a” (as seen on their gravestone), one of their sons apparently changed it to “Sellers,” and later records have both spellings. The National Register, for example, has it as Sellers, as quoted above. Ernest’s published obituaries have it both ways, varying from one newspaper to another.
  • After Nita’s death, the house was sold to John W Finger Jr. and Mary P. Finger (dates unknown for both). John was an engineer with Western Electric.
  • They sold the house in to John David Thompson (1942-2023) and Mary E. Thompson. John earned a degree in math and physics from Catawba College and taught those subjects at Western Alamance High School. He left to take up surveying for the rest of his career. They sold the house last year.

820 spainhour

820 Spainhour Road, King, Stokes County
The Kreeger Cabin

• Sold for $120,000 on July 8, 2026 (listed at $140,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 884 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1850 (per county)
• Last sales: March 2017 and May 2007, prices not listed on deeds; $800,000, June 2006 (as part of a 42-acre tract).
• Neighborhood: just across the Stokes County line from Forsyth County in the town of King.
• Note: “In livable condition, the cabin would benefit from updates and repair to some lower logs, as well as landscaping efforts to soften the impact from the nearby neighborhood.”
  • Preservation North Carolina: The house “was built by Isaac and Louisa Krieger on land purchased by his parents in 1814 and has remained in the family since then. The Kriegers were among German immigrants who traveled down the Great Wagon Road in the 18th century from Pennsylvania and settled in nearby Bethania. …
  • “The cabin is built of hand-hewn logs with half-dovetailed notching set on a stone foundation. The first and second floor is arranged in a hall-and-parlor plan. Entering the cabin through split-leaf paneled doors, a small entry features the paneled staircase with turned balustrade and newel post. The living room or ‘hall’ features wood beamed ceiling and large Federal/Greek Revival-style mantel.
  • “Throughout the cabin are hand-planed wood walls and ceilings, pine floors, simple door and window surrounds, and stylish Greek Revival two-panel doors. The roof is covered by a standing seam metal roof and the roof eaves display delightful decorative brackets.”
  • Their son James Kreeger expanded the house around 1900 (by then the spelling of their name had changed).
  • “In the late 1990s, the Gentry family, descendants of the Kreegers, planned to develop the land into a new neighborhood. Their plan was to donate the old farmhouse to the fire department as a practice burn until they discovered through their tenant the original log structure within the larger house. They decided to undertake the restoration of the log portion in 1999-2000 that included repairing all but two original logs, replacing the chinking, rebuilding the fireplace, refinishing the original floors, and constructing the rear kitchen and bathroom addition. Original ax and pencil marks were carefully preserved and two mantels from the demolished sections were re-used as a display shelf in the living room and in a second-floor bedroom.”

• Sold for $675,000 on July 2, 2026 (originally $900,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,963 square feet (per county), 2.72 acres
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 19, 2024
• Last sale: $415,000, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: Beautiful Colonial Revival, but with vinyl siding and inexplicable popcorn ceilings
  • “The second floor primary bedroom — complete with an adjoining dressing area and three sets of double closets — is currently being used as an office/billiard room”
  • The listing shows 4,245 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “The architecture of the Old South Mebane Historic District represents a diversity of the styles popular throughout the Period of Significance. … Colonial Revival-style houses in the district range from simply-detailed houses with only hints of Colonial-era features to substantial formally designed Georgian Revival-style homes such as those at 607 and 618 S. Fifth Street. …
  • “This 2-story Colonial Revival-style house is of wood construction, finished in vinyl siding, with a 5-bay symmetrical façade and a centered paneled entry door with sidelights, shielded by a one-bay portico with semi-elliptical intrados and supported by simple columns. It likely has a central-passage interior plan.
  • “There are 1-story gabled wings on the side elevations, the southernmost of which appears to be an enclosed porch. The windows are 6/6, with replacement sash and exterior fixed shutters. A 2-story hip-roofed ell is on the rear. There are two interior gable-end brick chimneys and one interior brick chimney on the rear ell.”

315ehendrix

315 E. Hendrix Street, Greensboro
The Fletcher and Derona Southard House

• Sold for $422,000 on July 2, 2026 (listed at $434,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,880 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 13, 2026
• Last sale: $405,000, September 2023
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Gable-end bungalow with square columns at front porch, shed roof dormer across front.”
  • The original owners were Fletcher Neal Southard (1892-1935) and Derona Thomas Southard (1897-1978). They bought the house in 1921 from builder Kyle C. Benbow. Fletcher was a salesman for Gate City Motor Company, the local dealer for Studebaker and Cole automobiles and Firestone tires. Derona rented the house out after Fletcher’s early death at age 43 but continued to own it until 1960.

408piedmont

408 Piedmont Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Goode-Craddock House

• Sold for $279,000 on July 2, 2026 (listed at $299,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,626 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 28, 2026
• Last sale: October 1972, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: Several houses in the district feature classical elements, “whether through the use of classical porch columns, transoms and sidelights around entrances, the application of classical ornament to traditional houses, or a predominant symmetry.” In contrast to others, “the house at 408 Piedmont Avenue, displays greater classical detail, including a stepped entablature above the full-facade porch which is supported by battered posts and an entrance with transoms and sidelights.”
  • The document identifies the Rev. W.E. Goode with the house. He was the minister of First Baptist Church from around 1921 to 1928. He also served as the first president of the Piedmont Baptist Ministers Association when it was organized in 1923.
  • “This attractive two-story, double-pile square frame Colonial Revival house retains a number of striking original features, including black-painted tile high hipped roof on both the main body of the house and on the full facade porch which is supported by large battered posts under a broad, stepped entablature.
  • “The transomed and sidelighted entrance is framed by the porch’s projecting central bay and flanked by paired eight over one windows.
  • “A porte cochere with battered posts on brick piers has been converted to a screened porch. Brick chimneys pierce the east and west slopes of the roof, and a one-story ell stretches to the rear.”
  • The house was bought in 1972 by Dean Price Craddock (1938-2016) and Norma Moorefield Craddock. Norma is now selling the house.
  • Dean was a professional photographer. He served on the Reidsville Historic Preservation Commission and on the board of the Children’s Home in Winston-Salem. Dean also served as president of the Reidsville Rotary Club and was selected as a Paul Harris Fellow. He taught the Dean Craddock Sunday School Class at Main Street United Methodist Church for 25 years.