Piedmont Historic Homes

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July 31, 2025

A 1979 MCM Gem in Asheboro, $399,900

741 Kildare Road, Asheboro, Randolph County

• $399,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,232 square feet, 0.68 acre (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $325
• Built in 1979
• Listed July 30, 2025
• Last sale: $170,000, June 2024

The house was built by Burit Doyle Craven (1932-2010) and Virginia Ann Davis Craven (1938-2024). Doyle was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. He was banker; she was a special-education teacher. The house was sold by Virginia’s estate in 2024.

July 30, 2025

Auction: An 1875 Italianate House in Greensboro’s Southside

351 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro

• Auction scheduled for Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 10 a.m., Guilford County Courthouse
• 4,005 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Built in 1875 (per county)
• Last sale: $360,000, September 2005
• Neighborhood: Southside, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: County property records show the house as office space.

District NR nomination: “The late nineteenth-century house of Southern Railroad trainmaster T. Bernard at 351 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive [#238] is one of the best examples of the Italianate style in the city.” The house appears to have been a rental initially. The first owner-occupant was Mary Frances Hunter Hodgin (1845-1920), who lived in the house briefly around 1912. She had inherited the house from her husband, James Addison Hodgin (1846-1909), the first identifiable owner of the property. J. Addison was manager of the savings department of Greensboro Loan & Trust Company and an active buyer and seller of real estate.

July 29, 2025

A 1920 House with a Tragic Past in Greensboro, $554,000

417 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
The Bessie Blacknall House

• $554,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,372 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $234
• 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

The address was first listed in the city directory in 1924, with Charles N. Blacknall (1879-1926) and Bessie Ballard Blacknall (1877-1968) listed as residents. 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 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.

July 28, 2025

Another Million-Dollar House Sold without Being Listed Publicly

3216 Forsyth Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $1.3 million on July 9, 2025
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 4,160 square feet, 1.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $312
• Built circa 1925
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $500,000, August 2010
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield

Sold without being listed on MLS. Tully Daniel Blair (1896-1980) and Jessie Wicker Blair (1888-1968) bought the house in 1926. Tully was the agency manager of Pilot Life. The Blairs lost the house to foreclosure in 1933. In 1978, Carl E. Smith (1938-2024) and Shirley M. Smith (deceased, dates unknown) bought the house. Carl owned C.E. Smith Company, which did metal stamping and fabricating, welding and related work. His heirs sold the house in July 2025.

July 27, 2025

More Relatively Affordable Bungalows from Caswell to Yadkin

A 1928 Cottage on an Acre in Caswell County, $197,500

13469 N.C. Highway 86 S., Prospect Hill, Caswell County

• $197,500
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,340 square feet, 1.01 acres
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 12, 2025
• Last sale: $190,000, December 2023
• Neighborhood: Located 2 miles northwest of Prospect Hill and about 13 miles southeast of Yanceyville.

The property was owned by the Warren-Nelson family from before 1927 until 2006. William Thomas Jefferson Warren (1852-1941) sold this property in 1927 as part of a 105-acre tract to his daughter Mary Alice Warren Nelson (1883-1971) and her husband David Sam Nelson (1890-1972). Their descendants sold the property in 2006.

1820 South Park Drive, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Paul and Myrtle Trent Turner House

• $264,000 (originally $285,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,464 square feet, 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1939 (or possibly a few years later; see note)
• Listed May 26 2025
• Last sale: $123,500, July 2017
• Neighborhood: Various records show it as Pine Hill or Trentwood.
• Note: The property includes a two-car garage and a detached building that has been used as a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom residence.

The earliest known owners of the property were William Ernest “Willie” Trent (1865-1954) and Lula Virginia Smith Trent (1870-1942). Willie and his sons founded Pine Hill Dairy nearby in 1922. Willie and Lula’s daughter Myrtle C. Trent Turner (1894-1996) and son-in-law Paul A. Turner (1891-1972) owned it from 1943 until her estate sold it 1997.

524 Julian Street, Greensboro

• $159,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,453 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1920 (per county, but maybe a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed July 9, 2025
• Last sale: $8,250, March 1953
• Neighborhood: Ole Asheboro

The house has had only three owners in 105 years. In 1953, Ethbert Spelman Carr (d. 1982, age 67) and Virginia Henderson Carr (1910-1995) bought the house. They lived in it the rest of their lives, and it has been in their family ever since.

Ethbert was an associate professor of agricultural engineering at N.C. A&T State University. He attended Hampton Institute and was the first black graduate in agricultural engineering at Ohio State University. He taught at Prairie View State University before coming to A&T. He was also Prairie View’s basketball coach and an assistant football coach.

312 Hillside Drive, Greensboro
The Thomas and Jennie Sumner House

• $269,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,298 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built in 1920 (per county, or a bit later; see note)
• Listed July 5, 2025
• Last sale: $113,500, May 2005
• Neighborhood: Westerwood

The backyard slopes down to the final leg of the Downtown Greenway, which runs along the rear property line. The original owners were Thomas B. Sumner (1861-1935) and Jennie Turner Sumner (1867-1959). They bought the property in 1922 and lived there for the rest of their lives. Thomas worked for Southern Railway.

1023 Montgomery Street, Winston-Salem
The George and Alice Oakley House

• $310,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,192 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $260
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $142,500, March 2025; $173,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: How it looked when it was sold in March 2025.

District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One story; side gable; front-gable porch; metal posts on brick piers; vinyl siding; knee braces; one-over-one replacement windows.”

The house appears to have been a rental until police officer George Leslie Oakley (1897-1962) and Laura Alice McNeely Oakley (1897-1990) bought it in 1928. They lived there the rest of their lives. Their daughter sold the house in 2003.

104 N. Madison Street, Yadkinville, Yadkin County

• $299,900 (originally $318,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,693 square feet, 0.77 acre (per county; see note)
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1941
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sale: Not available in online records

The property consists of two lots across the street from each other that have been combined, totaling 0.77 acres. The listing refers to the property for sale as “almost a half acre,” suggesting that only the part on the east side of Madison is being sold. That’s the Yadkinville Methodist Church right behind the house on West Main Street.

A 1948 Brick Bungalow in Mocksville, $279,000

166 Bowles Road, Mocksville, Davie County
The McClamrock House

• $279,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,038 square feet, 3.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1948
• Listed July 24, 2025
• Last sale: The property hasn’t been sold since the house was built.

In 1947 Calvin Luther McClamrock (1873-1960) gave or sold the property to his grandson Calvin Lucious “Bud” McClamrock (1925-1991). The estate of Bud’s ex-wife is now selling the house.

July 26, 2025

A 1928 Mansion in Greensboro’s Hamilton Lakes, $1.75 Million

102 Kemp Road West, Greensboro
The Cyrus and Daisy McMichael House

• $1.75 million
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,594 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $381
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 26, 2025
• Last sale: $1.23 million, May 2012
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: The house is located on Lake Euphemia.

“This cleanly articulated stuccoed Mediterranean Revival-style house was built about 1927, one of a handful of dwellings erected when the community of Hamilton Lakes was first established. McMichael, a building contractor, may have constructed as well as first occupied it.” (Greensboro: An Architectural Record) Apparently a victim of the Depression, Charles was identified as a carpenter in 1934. They sold the house in 1935.

July 26, 2025

A 1910 House in Haw River, Quickly Flipped, $415,000

523 E. Main Street, Haw River, Alamance County
The Haywood Simpson House

• $415,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,944 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 26, 2025
• Last sales: $160,000, April 2025; $162,500, April 2004

Quickie fix-and-flip job. Caveat emptor. This house needed quite a bit of work, as these photos from the last for-sale listing show. Alamance County Architectural Inventory: “This house was built for Mr. Haywood Simpson, one of the first merchants in Haw River who ran the mill commissary with William Anderson. He contributed part of the land for the First Christian Church.” The last surviving child of Henry and Katherine Simpson, Ada Grace Simpson (1892-1989), was a retired school teacher when she sold the house in 1988.

July 25, 2025

Two Very high-End Condos in Buildings on the National Register in Winston-Salem

323 Indera Mills Court, $779,000

323 Indera Mills Court, Winston-Salem

• $779,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,316 square feet
• Price/square foot: $336
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 25, 2025
• Last sale: $540,000, March 2018
• HOA: $492/month
• Note: Out-of-state owner

Some of the condos in this complex are among the largest and most expensive you’ll find in a historic structure in the region, ranging up to 3,800 square feet and more than $750,000. Construction began in 1904. lndera Mills occupied the complex until 1998. “This long-term use was an important factor in maintaining the high level of historic integrity that is visible throughout the complex today.” (NR nomination)

401 E. 4th Street, Winston-Salem, $499,000

401 E. 4th Street, Sute 206, Winston-Salem

• $499,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,727 square feet
• Price/square foot: $289
• Built in 1899
• Listed July 24, 2025
• Last sale: $285,288, June 2006
• HOA: $463/month
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: The property includes a storage unit across the hall and primary and secondary parking spaces.

Forsyth County Local Historic Landmark Program: “The Brown Brothers Tobacco Prizery is one of the few remaining buildings from Winston’s late 19th century tobacco industry. … a six-story, brick, Second Empire-style building, complete with mansard roof. The building features multiple window styles, including double-hung sash topped by brick segmental arches. The mansard roof is sheathed in alternating fish scale and straightedge slate shingles.”

“The building is Winston-Salem’s only remaining industrial example of the Second Empire style and one of only three examples of the style remaining in the city.”

July 24, 2025

So Many Bungalows and Cottages, All Over the Triad, Some Relatively affordable

342 Cliff Road, Asheboro, Randolph County
The Guy and Mary Williams House

• $299,900 (originally $308,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,045 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1939
• Listed July 3, 2025
• Last sale: $99,000, February 2012
• Neighborhood: Greystone Terrace

The original owners were Guy T. Williams (1902-1985) and Mary Ethel Cagle Williams (1908-2001), who bought the property in 1938 and soon built the house. Guy was an engineer with the Norfolk & Southern Railway. The property remained in their family for 74 years.

800 Brent Street, Winston-Salem
The Carl and Pauline Charles House

• $454,900
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,097 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $217
• Built circa 1938
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $380,806, July 2023; $90,000, April 1990
• Neighborhood: Ardmore historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show the date as 1942, but the city directory lists the address beginning in 1938.

District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable projection; brick; front-gable entry pavilion; six-over-six, double-hung sash; stuccoed gable ends; recessed entry with arched opening; arcaded, engaged side porch; facade chimney with decorative brickwork.”

505 W. Decatur Street, Madison, Rockingham County

• $189,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,127 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1930 (possibly 1885; see note)
• Listed July 20, 2025
• Last sales: $170,000, Jun 2024; $99,000, February 2018
• Neighborhood: Decatur-Hunter Historic District (local)

A hand-painted plaque on the house reads, “Byerly 1885,” but no definitive documentation is available online to support an 1885 date for the house. It’s not mentioned in the 2003 architectural survey of Rockingham County. County records give a 1930 date.

July 23, 2025

A Police Chief’s 1910 Home in Elkin, $399,000

639 Elk Spur Street, Elkin, Surry County
The W.G. Church House

• $399,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,900 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 22, 2025
• Last sales: $143,500, July 2007; $195,000, June 2007, $156,500, March 2003

The State Historic Preservation Office identifies the house with William Granville Church (1872-1935), Elkin’s police chief for 14 years until his death. Deeds refer to it as the Mary A. Church homeplace, for William’s wife, Mary Ann “Annie” Sale Church (1873-1963).

July 23, 2025

A 1925 Bungalow in a Lexington Historic District, $415,000

403 W. Center Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• $415,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,177 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $270,000, July 2023; $245,000, August 2022; $224,500, January 2022; $120,000, June 2015
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story Craftsman bungalow with a clipped-side-gable roof and a clipped-gable dormer; wraparound porch engaged on the front and supported by square posts on brick piers spanned by a wood railing, 4/1 sash, brick interior chimneys, triangular eave brackets, asbestos siding, brick retaining wall at sidewalk.”

July 22, 2025

A Round 1973 House in Denton, $284,900

191 Howell Drive, Denton, Davidson County

• $284,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,360 round feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/round foot: $209
• Built in 1973
• Listed July 22, 2025
• Last sales: $200,000, September 2022; $136,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Nicoma Park
• Listing: The property includes a detached garage with attic storage and an insulated bonus room.

The house was most likely built by Richard William Smith. He worked as a brick mason, carpenter and building contractor. With two partners, he developed the Nicoma Park neighborhood through South Davidson Developers, beginning in 1971. Richard was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He and his wife, Peggy Fritts Smith, sold the property in 1974.

July 21, 2025

Very Discreet and Very Expensive: A 1939 Tudor Mansion in High Point, Sold for $2.2 million

1111 Ferndale Drive, High Point
The Albert and Nancy Henley House

• Sold for $2.2 million on June 24, 2025
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,940 square feet, 1.87 acres
• Price/square foot: $445
• Built in 1939
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $1.85 million, July 2010
• Neighborhood: Emerywood West

The $445/square foot price is the second-highest price per square foot among historic homes sold in the Triad this year.* It was an exceedingly private sale: The house wasn’t listed on MLS, and the buyer’s name appears to be semi-hidden behind an LLC (Ferndale-Haire LLC). Arthur Boyden Henley (1906-1979) and Nancy Carr Terry Henley (1911-1971) bought the property in 1939 and were listed at the address in the 1941-42 city directory. Arthur was president of Parker Paper Company; Nancy was vice president. The house remained in their family, through a son and then a trust, for 59 years.

* Trailing only this one in Greensboro at a stupifying $633/square foot.

July 20, 2025

A 1965 MCM By Lamar Northup in Winston-Salem, $650,000

3256 Robinhood Road, Winston-Salem
The William and Jane Burton House

• $650,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,400 square feet (see note), 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1965
• Listed July 16, 2025
• Last sales: $300,500, July 2019; $265,000, August 2011

Designed by Lamar Noble Northup, son of renowned architect Willard Close Northup, for his sister Jane Northup Butler and her husband, William Butler (dates unknown for both).

The house was featured in an article on Northup in the Winston-Salem Journal in 1999 (PDFs here and here): “Burton’s house on Robinhood Road is three stories high in the back, with a lot of glass in the back and the balcony off the living room high off the ground. ‘It’s like living in a tree house,’ Burton said. Upkeep of the 3,400-square foot house has been minimal because of the building materials — wood, iron, tile and brick — and the materials, insulation and shade trees keep the house cool.”

July 20, 2025

A 1900 Farmhouse in Sophia on 8 Acres with a Pool and Barn, $599,000

4298 Stewart Street, Sophia, Randolph County

• $599,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,806 square feet, 8.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1920
• Listed July 16, 2025
• Last sale: $82,000, April 2004

The house has been significantly modernized, but some historical character still exists. It also has the most remarkable bathroom. The property includes a swimming pool, a barn with four stalls, a feed room and hay lofts.

July 19, 2025

A Beautifully Expanded 1890 Glencoe Mill House, $399,900

2411 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• $399,900
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,730 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $231
• 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. … 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.”

July 19, 2025

A 1975 MCM on a Lake in Sanford, $525,000

1116 Falling Stream, Sanford, Lee County

• $525,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,311 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $227
• Built in 1975
• Listed July 10, 2025
• Last sale: $455,000, September 2011
• Neighborhood: Carolina Trace

Designed by Arthur Cogswell, located on Lake Trace. Listing: “It needs some work and is priced accordingly.”

July 19, 2025

A 1900 House in Pilot Mountain, Formerly a Fine Restaurant, $315,000

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

• $315,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,234 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 15, 2025
• Last sale: $30,000, June 2010
• Neighborhood: Downtown

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.

July 8, 2025

An 1840 House on 11 Acres in Caswell County, $475,000

2079 Shady Grove Road, Providence, Caswell County
The Hodges-Carter House

• $475,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,472 square feet (per county), 11.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1840
• Listed July 7, 2025
• Last sale: $85,500 (bought in three transactions between 1989 and 1994)
• Neighborhood: Located about halfway between Providence and Pelham, about 11 1/2 miles northwest of Yanceyville. The property has a Providence mailing address.

The current two-story frame house was built over a 1 1/2-story Federal-style house in the late 19th century. Some of the log walls of the original house can be seen on the interior, but the exterior of the house is entirely the later structure. “Later house has decorative cross gables. A log kitchen or quarters and a smokehouse, perhaps contemporary with early house, remain [as of 1979].” (An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, p. 175)

July 8, 2025

An Architect’s 1954 MCM Home in Greensboro, $780,000

1905 Huntington Road, Greensboro

• $780,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,766 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $282
• Built in 1954
• Listed July 1, 2025
• Last sale: $182,000, August 1990
• Neighborhood: Irving Park

Architect Robert Norfleet (1907-2007) bought the lot in 1953. He designed and built the house soon after. He and his wife, Martha Polly Thomas Norfleet (d. 2003, age 89), and lived in it for 36 years. They sold the house to the current owner in 1990.

Robert graduated from University of North Carolina and Yale University. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. He later served as a partner in the Greensboro architectural firm McMinn, Norfleet and Wicker. Polly was a bookkeeper and a longtime volunteer with Meals on Wheels.

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