A guide to the most historic, notable and distinctive 18th-, 19th- and early- to mid-20th-century homes now for sale in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region.
July 30, 2024
A Possibly Endangered 1909 Mansion in Oak Ridge, $459,00
2524 Oak Ridge Road, Guilford County
The Honeycutt House
- 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,863 square feet, 3.16 acres
- Price/square foot: $119
- Built in 1909
- Last sale: $79,500, March 1983
For sale by owner. This appears to be an endangered property. Although a 1995 News & Record article goes on and on about how much the current owners love the house, the listing promotes the idea of tearing it down: “INVESTORS MUST SEE! … Opportunity to sub divide and build multiple homes or renovate current property …”
July 30, 2024
A 1975 Mid-Century Modern in Winston-Salem’s Buena Vista, $775,000
3541 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem
- 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,860 square feet, 0.54 acre
- Price/square foot: $271
- Built in 1975
- Last sale: $462,000, August 2015
The original owner was Kay Frances Beeker Messick (1937-2021), who bought the property in 1973. Kay had become a real-estate agent after her husband died in a plane crash in 1968.
July 25, 2024
An Extravagant 1939 Mansion in Sedgefield, $2.25 Million
5710 Suttonwood Drive, Sedgefield, Guilford County
- 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 6,017 square feet, 3.84 acres
- Price/square foot: $374
- Last sale: $600,000, April 2001
- Is this a thing now: “Brazilian marble counters”
I’d love to know what the original footprint of this house was. There isn’t much, if anything, left that says 1939, but it’s an extraordinary house. The property includes a saltwater pool, outdoor kitchen, pool house, a whisky/wine room and a five-car garage.
July 25, 2024
An Impressively Restored 1920’s Bungalow in High Point’s Emerywood, $594,900
209 Edgedale Drive, High Point
- 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,450 square feet, 0.23 acre
- Price/square foot: $243
- Built in 1926 (per county, but probably a couple years later; see note)
- Last sales: $210,000, January 2023; $180,000, January 2023; $42,000, April 1980
- Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
The house has an attached two-car garage. The lot extends all the way through the block to the next street, Ardmore Circle.
July 24, 2024
An 1894 House in Boonville in Yadkin County, $344,900
308 S. Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,030 square feet, 1.24 acres
- Price/square foot: $114
- Last sales: $42,000, May 1993; February 1904, price not recorded on deed
Oddly, the only photo included in the listing is a Google Street View shot that barely shows the house (it’s the second photo above).
July 23, 2024
An 1816 House in Old Salem, $729,000
916 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Johannes Voltz House, Lot 96
- 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,262 square feet, 0.14 acre
- Price/square foot: $322
- Last sales: $410,000, January 2021; $225,000, December 1990
Designated a Forsyth County Historic Landmark. District NR nomination: “The Volz House introduced to Salem the full front porch on a private residence and was the first house to sit back from the sidewalk.”
July 23, 2024
A 1905 House in Greensboro’s College Hill Historic District, $339,000
- 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,562 square feet, 0.22 acre
- Price/square foot: $217
- Last sale: $182,000, August 2015
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 with the Railway Mail Service, where he worked for 41 years and had the distinction of being the last clerk to retire who had handled the mail on “Old 97”.
July 23, 2024
A Condemned 1917 Bungalow in a Greensboro Historic district, $147,500
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,339 square feet, 0.15 acre
- Price/square foot: $110
- Last sale: $30,500, April 2013
- Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
This house is condemned (20-page documentation), with many longstanding repair issues. Edward Bruce Mastin (1890-1971) and Gertrude Lillian Smith Mastin (1885-1961) bought the house in 1917; their son sold it 1976. listed as residents. Edward was a telegraph operator for Southern Railway.
July 22, 2024
A 1931 National Register Mansion in Winston-Salem, $2 Million
1015 W. Kent Road, Winston-Salem
The James and Diana Dyer House
- 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 8,168 square feet, 2.37 acres
- Price/square foot: $245
- Last sale: $1.05 million, March 2015
- Neighborhood: Reynolda Place
- Listing: The property includes three garages.
“Although homes influenced by the grand country estates of England were the norm in Reynolda Park, the Tudor Revival-style Dyer House manifests an austere architectural sophistication that is quite different from the few other Tudor style houses, as well as the dominant Neoclassical and Georgian Revival style neighboring houses. The rough-cut-stone, manorial Dyer House evokes a feeling of permanence intended to make a statement of social and cultural status.”
July 13, 2024
A 1921 Farmhouse in Yanceyville, $584,900
283 S. N.C. Highway 62, Yanceyville, Caswell County
Listing withdrawn Fall 2022 (exact date uncertain)
- $584,900 (originally $629,900, later $580,900)
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,025 square feet, 2.22 acres
- Price/square foot: $193
- Built in 1921 (per county; see note)
- Listed April 14, 2021; relisted July 11, 2024
- Last sale: $133,000, May 2003
The house is immediately south of Bartlett Yancey High School. The property includes a guest house, 688 square feet. The listing says the house was built in 1889.
June 12, 2024
A circa 1789 House in Bethania, $429,000
5605 Main Street, Bethania, Forsyth County
The Michael Hauser House
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,690 square feet, 0.42 acre
- Price/square foot: $254
- Listed July 12, 2024
- Last sale: $80,000, November 2007
- Neighborhood: Bethania Historic District (NR)
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.”
June 12, 2024
An Insurance Executive’s 1920 Home in Greensboro’s fisher Park, $750,000
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,412 square feet, 0.21 acre
- Price/square foot: $311
- Built in 1920
- Last sale: $370,000, September 2005
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. That same year, Lorie 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.
June 12, 2024
An Impeccable 1927 Colonial Revival in Winston-Salem’s West End, $675,000
510 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The J.W. Hill House
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,272 square feet, 0.13 acre
- Price/square foot: $297
- Built in 1927
- Last sale: $384,000, September 2012
- Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
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.”
July 12, 2024
A Lovely 1922 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, For Sale Again After 17 Days, $365,000
328 Vintage Avenue, Winston-Salem
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,290 square feet, 0.19 acre
- Price/square foot: $283
- Built in 1922
- Listed July 11, 2024
- Last sales: $347,000, June 2024; $310,000, October 2022; $276,000, September 2021
- Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
- Listing: “Recent buyer’s circumstances changed.”
July 12, 2024
A Modest 1960 MCM in Eden, $369,000
631 Highland Drive, Eden, Rockingham County
The Raney and Sallie Lee House
- $369,000
- 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,318 square feet, 1.14 acres
- Price/square foot: $159
- Built in 1960 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
- Last sale: $340,000, July 2023
- Neighborhood: Leaksville
July 11, 2024
A New Condo in a 1916 Building in Downtown Thomasville, $155,000
34 W. Main Street, Unit A, Thomasville, Davidson County
- 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 989 square feet
- Price/square foot: 157
- Built in 1916
- Neighborhood: Downtown Thomasville Historic District (NR)
One of four new residential condos created in the upper floor of a downtown commercial building. The first floor contains two commercial condos.
District NR nomination: “The second-story detailing of the two-story brick building is enhanced by the use of contrasting red and yellow brick. The cornice is corbeled and has recessed blocks of yellow brick as well as three yellow-brick corbeled pendants.
“The second story has four oversized arched windows with yellow-brick arches, projecting red brick hood molds with yellow-brick keystones, yellow-brick corbeled sills, and brick pilasters between the windows that have red- and yellow-brick caps integrated into a belt course that crosses the entire facade.”
July 11, 2024
2 Notable Surry County Bungalows, Both Relisted after Failing to Sell in 2022
227 W. Spring Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Ted and Avis Brown House
- $465,500 (originally $449,900)
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2,447 square feet, 0.56 acre
- Price/square foot: $190
- Built in 1939
- Last sale: $119,000, May 2007
- Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District
District NRHP nomination: “Until Avis Brown’s death in 2005, she and Ted were the sole occupants of the house since its construction. To mark the date of construction, they placed a stone date block on the side of the central chimney that says, ‘Avis & Ted Oct 1939.’
“Ted Brown was a volunteer fireman in 1936 who later became Elkin’s long-time fire chief. He also owned Brown Machine Company across the river in Jonesville. In 1930, Ted and his brother, Jake Brown, constructed Elkin’s first airplane, a one-passenger Heath-Parasol. In this, they followed in the footsteps of their father, who nearly thirty years earlier had built Elkin’s first automobile.”
1023 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The William and Ella Monday House
- $274,000 (originally $274,900, later $244,000)
- 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,295 square feet, 0.52 acre
- Price/square foot: $120
- Built in 1900
- Last sale: $114,000, August 1997
- Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NRHP)
District NRHP nomination: “Pebbledash stucco ornaments the gables and a front shed dormer of this story-and-a-half Craftsman bungalow, built in the 1910s or early 1920s. The house has brick veneer at the first story and interior brick chimneys.
“The composite-shingled side-gable roof engages a front porch with square wood columns and an original or early railing with square balusters. The railing continues all the way across the front with a gate in line with the front entry, perhaps a feature to keep playing toddlers from wandering off the porch. The porch has a granite foundation (as does the rest of the house) and early or original lattice underpinning.”
July 6, 2024
4 Newly Listed Bungalows: 2 Relatively Affordable, 2 Not so Much
1404 Waughtown Road, Winston-Salem
- $235,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,094 square feet, 0.37 acre
- Price/square foot: $112
- Built in 1948
- Last sale: $140,000, June 2021
- Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belville Historic District (NR)
Some very nice Craftsman touches, a bit surprising in a late ’40s house. It has an in-law suite/apartment with a bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen and separate entrance.
387 Austin Traphill Road, Pleasant Hill, Wilkes County
- $189,900
- 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,475 square feet, 0.78 acre
- Price/square foot: $129
- Built in 1940
- Last sale: $85,000, February 2007
The owner got sold on vinyl siding and replacement windows, but otherwise the house retains some historic character. Located just across the county line west of Elkin, it has an Elkin mailing address.
114 Circle Court, Elkin, Surry County
- $469,900
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,317 square feet, 0.17 acre
- Price/square foot: $203
- Built in 1925
- Last sale: $157,000, February 2003
- Neighborhood: Downtown Elkin Historic District (NR)
An all but perfect Craftsman bungalow (and the price reflects it). Circle Court is a one-block street running between Main Street and Market Street. It’s closed at Market Street, making it basically a cul-de-sac. There are four houses and a wooded, undeveloped lot on the block, with 114 in the middle of the east side.
2415 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
- $479,000
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,209 square feet, 0.18 acre
- Price/square foot: $217
- Built in 1937 (per county, but probably a year earlier)
- Last sale: $290,000, June 2016
- Neighborhood: Lindley Park
Real-estate agents love the phrase “hard to find.” This house actually is. It’s in the single block of Wright Avenue that’s disconnected from the rest of the street in Sunset Hills. It’s off Northridge Street between Walker Avenue and Camden Road.
July 1, 2024
A Tiny, Steeply Gabled Cottage in Winton-Salem’s Ardmore, $232,000
346 Crafton Street, Winston-Salem
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 858 square feet, 0.08 acre
- Price/square foot: $270
- Built in 1928
- Last sales: $105,900, February 2020; $69,900, May 2019
District NR nomination: “Craftsman. One and a half-story; unusually steep pitched front gable; shed-roof side dormers; German siding; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; pilasters at entry.
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