Piedmont Historic Homes

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June 29, 2025

Today’s Special: bungalows, Scattered Across the Piedmont Triad

812 Gales Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Bessie and Phillip Kolodny House

• $435,000 (originally $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,382 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $315
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 6, 2025
• Last sales: $415,000, September 2023; $317,500, April 2021; $261,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.

Since 2011, the house has been sold five times and foreclosed upon once. It was built as a rental property. The first owners to occupy the house were Bessie Winakur Kolodny (1891-1961) and Philip Kolodny (1884-1970), who bought it in 1939 (with only Bessie’s name on the deed). They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Bessie and Phillip were born in Russia. Philip was a salesman and later owned Star Jobbing Company.

2284 Leonard Road, Davidson County
The Olin and Bessie Berrier House

• $405,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,081 square feet, 7.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1921
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $63,000, January 2002
• Neighborhood: Located just south of the Welcome community, about 5 miles north of Lexington. The property has a Lexington mailing address.

Olin Gilmer Berrier (1899-1990) and Bessie Leonard Berrier (1902-1987) bought the property as two lots in 1921 and 1930. Olin and Bessie lived in the house for the rest of their lives.

Olin was an auto mechanic who spent most of his career self-employed. He also formed a dance band that played at square dances around the state. One of their daughters sold the house in 1990.

232 S. Marshall Street, Graham, Alamance County

• $395,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,508 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1934
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sales: $170,000, July 2024; $14,500, October 1975
• Note: Flipped house — caveat emptor.

The earliest known owners were Jerome H. Thomson (1858-1930) and Nancy Payne Thompson (1858-1940). Mary sold the property in 1934 to their daughter Mary Ethel Thompson Jones (1890-1982) and Thomas Atlas Jones (1887-1969). Mary Jones sold the house in 1975. Thomas worked for Travora Textiles. William R. Cooke Jr. bought the house in 1975. Ownership remained in the Cooke family until 2024.

209 Orchard Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Haymore House

• $399,000 (originally $420,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,898 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 26, 2024
• Last sale: $135,000, April 2017
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hills Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half Craftsman bungalow of aluminum-sided frame construction with a composite-shingled side-gable roof. The roof has a shed dormer on the front and engages a front porch with tapered wood posts on brick pedestals.”

June 28, 2025

An 1890 House in West Salem, $399,900

627 Mulberry Street, Winston-Salem
The Barton House

• $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

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.”

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.

June 27, 2025

A Craftsman Cottage in Gibsonville, $325,000

330 Alamance Street, Gibsonville, Alamance County

• $325,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,448 square feet (per county), 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 23, 2025
• Last sale: $148,000, October 2015

The Guilford-Alamance county line runs diagonally across the back yard. The house and most of the lot are in Alamance (GIS photo above).

June 27, 2025

A Striking 1888 Victorian in Rockingham, $374,000

804 Fayetteville Road, Rockingham, Richmond County
The Ledbetter-Leath House

• $394,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 5,377 square feet (per county), 1.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1888
• Listed May 18, 2025
• Last sale: $200,000, March 2005
• Neighborhood: Rockingham Historic District (NR)

“… in 1888, John Ledbetter had this picturesque two story Victorian residence built. In 1923 the elegantly detailed house was purchased by M.B. Leath, secretary of Hannah Pickett Mill No. 1, from 1920 to 1946.” The Leath family owned it until 1989.

“Exterior decorative features include splayed window and door surrounds, bracketed shelf entablatures, and leaded transoms and sidelights Porch and roof cornices are bracketed with paneled friezes. In the early 1960s the interior of the house was extensively remodeled to the Georgian Revival Style with the assistance of Otto Zenke of Greensboro.” John Steele Ledbetter (1848-1922), was co-founder and later president of the Ledbetter Mill.

June 26, 2025

An ‘imaginative and idiosyncratic’ 1855 Greek Revival on the National Register in Sanford, $875,000

• $875,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,588 square feet, 6.31 acres
• Price/square foot: $244
• Built circa 1855
• Listed April 8, 2025
• Last sale: $25,500, April 1985
• Neighborhood: Westlake Valley
• Note: Structures original to the farm include a well, storage building, barn and detached kitchen. The property also includes a swimming pool and pool house.

National Register nomination: “The house belongs to a group of mid-nineteenth-century Lee County dwellings that share vernacular Greek Revival detailing. The vernacular aspects of the McIver farmhouse are the richly molded door and window surrounds in the downstairs east room, and the stylized, almost abstract composition of the surviving mantels. … The stylistic similarities among these houses and the familial ties among their original owners suggest that the houses are the product of a single vernacular builder, one with an imaginative and idiosyncratic approach to Greek Revival styling.”

John Dalrymple McIver (1826-1911) was a farmer, businessman and prominent local figure in Lee County. By 1877 he had opened McIver’s General Store in Sanford with his relative Matthew Henry McIver (father of Charles Duncan McIver, founder of the Women’s College, now UNC Greensboro). John operated a cotton gin on his farm and owned considerable property in town. He also served as a magistrate and county commissioner.

June 23, 2025

The Oldest House in Liberty’s Historic District, $479,900

212 S. Fayetteville Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Vance York House

• $479,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,452 square feet, 2.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 23, 2025
• Last sale: $142,500, September 2012
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached three-car garage.

District NR nomination: “ca. 1880. The Vance-York house is the only property in the district to predate the introduction of the rail road. It is as two-story, frame, I-house clad in dropped or novelty siding. It also has a lateral gable roof and centered, front-facing gable with partial returns and boxed eaves.

The house may have been built by Dennis Thomas Vance York (1862-1949). His father, Dennis Culberson York (1835-1912) owned about 300 acres of property, and it may have been on his father’s land that Vance built his house. Vance was a watchmaker.

June 22, 2025

A 1940 Tudor in Elkin with a Striking Front Gable, $489,000

708 Main Street W., Elkin, Surry County
The Van and Eva Dillon House

• $489,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,735 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1940 (per county)
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $266,000, September 2019
• Note: The listing says the house is within walking distance of the Reeves Theater.

The property includes a swimming pool. The basement has an in-law suite, and an unfinished section can serve as a shop or studio. The property was bought in 1941 by Van W. Dillon Sr. (1888-1960) and Eva Seawright Dillon (1898-1981). Van worked for Elkin Furniture Company for 29 years. He was secretary-treasurer at the time of his death at age 72. Van was twice-widowed when he married Eva. His children sold the house in 1984.

June 22, 2025

An Impeccable 1923 Craftsman Bungalow in Winston-Salem’s West End, $799,000

831 Carolina Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $799,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 2,448 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $326
• Built in 1923
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $570,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Online listings show 3,005 square feet.

District NR nomination: “The Sharp-Connell House is a classic bungalow typical of many of those built in the 1910s and 1920s. The one-and-a-half story frame dwelling has a weatherboarded first story and a wood shingled second story, a broad gable roof with overhanging braced eaves and a matching front dormer, and a broad gabled front porch with tapered wood posts on brick plinths with a plain balustrade.”

June 21, 2025

An Expanded and Renovated 1917 Bungalow on 2 Acres in Vass, $980,000

200 Cameron Avenue, Vass, Moore County

• $980,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,650 square feet, 2.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $370
• Built in 1917
• Listed June 20, 2025
• Last sale: $805,000, July 2023

The property includes an in-ground pool, guest house and detached garage. A rail line runs along the back of the property (originally the Seaboard Air Line railroad).

June 19, 2025

A Furniture Family’s Grand 1880s Mansion in Mebane, $2.2 Million

7920 E. Washington Street, Mebane, Orange County
The White Family House

• $2.2 million
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,951 square feet, 5.64 acres
• Price/square foot: $444
• Built circa 1885 (see note)
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $200,000, January 2018
• Neighborhood: Just east of the Alamance-Orange County line.
• Note: Current online sales listings say the house was built “in the 1880s,” which is credible; county records say 1940, which doesn’t seem likely.

The property includes a pond and a huge pavilion with three chandeliers and propane heaters. Listing: “Some White Furniture pieces (from the original White Furniture Factory) are included in the sale.”

For-sale listings say the house was built by “the storied White Furniture family.” That could mean Stephen Alexander White (1826-1908), patriarch, railroad agent and Mebane postmaster; eldest surviving son David Alexander White (1859-1916), co-founder of White Furniture in 1881; or David’s brother William Edgar “Will” White (1861-1935), company co-founder and president from 1896 until his death.

June 19, 2025

An Intriguing 1875 Restoration Project in Bynum, $350,000

94 Bynum Church Road, Bynum, Chatham County
Odell Mills Superintendent’s House

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,835 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built ca. 1875
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $3,500, Febraury 1978
• Neighborhood: Bynum Historic District (NR)
• Note: Bynum is a happening place. Check out the Bynum Front Porch.

The house was built as the superintendent’s house by the J.M. Odell Manufacturing Company, a textile mill located next door to the house and overlooking the Haw River. J.M. Odell owned a variety of mills and other businesses in Concord, Durham and Greensboro. He was a founder of the general store in Greensboro that became Odell Hardware, one of the largest in the South. The Bynum mill was built in 1872 and closed in 1983.

June 17, 2025

A 1951 House Designed by Edward Lowenstein, For Sale for the First Time, $995,000

1503 Allendale Road, Greensboro
The Seymour and Dorothy Rogers House

• $995,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,946 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $338
• 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 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 served on the clinical teaching staff of St. Leo’s Hospital. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

June 17, 2025

A 1924 Bungalow in Winston-Salem’s West End, $319,900

103 S. Sunset Drive, Winston-Salem

• $319,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,286 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $249
• Built circa 1924
• Listed June 11, 2025
• Last sale: $142,000, May 2015
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house has been sold five times in this century.

District NR nomination: “This neat one-story bungalow has a pyramidal roof with right front and left side intersecting gables, grouped windows, a front entrance with sidelights, and a corner porch with Tuscan posts on stuccoed plinths.”

June 16, 2025

A Noted Architect’s Tudor Mansion in Winston-Salem, $1.695 million

2840 Reynolds Drive, Winston-Salem
The Leet and Nancy O’Brien House

• $1.695 million
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 4,838 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $350
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 16, 2025
• Last sale: $939,000, March 2011
• Neighborhood: Westview/Buena Vista
• Note: Designed by Northup and O’Brien, “one of the most prolific and distinguished architectural firms in North Carolina during the first half of the 20^th century,” according to N.C. State’s Architects & Builders: A Biographical Dictionary. Most likely by partner Leet O’Brien.
  • Red Ludowici tile roof

The original owners were Leet Alexander O’Brien (1891-1963) and Nancy Lee Simmons O’Brien (1890-1953). O’Brien went to work for Willard Northup as a draftsman in 1907. They established their architectural partnership in 1916. O’Brien’s most notable works include the library at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, the state government office building in Raleigh and the medical school and Hospital at UNC-CH.

June 15, 2025

A 1900 Farmhouse Near Francisco in Stokes County, $199,000

7223 N.C. Highway 89, Stokes County
The R.E. Lee Francis House
Listing withdrawn November 27, 2023
Relisted June 12, 2025

• $199,000 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,636 square feet, 2.45 acres
• Price/square foot: $122
• 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.

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 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.

June 15, 2025

A 1924 Farmhouse Near Mocksville, $350,000

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

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,767 square feet, 1.47 acres
• Price/square foot: $198
• 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

The property’s status is pre-foreclosure, according to homes.com.

June 14, 2025

A Mid-Century Modern House in Winston-Salem, $785,500

1950 Sussex Lane, Winston-Salem
The James Deadrick House

• $785,500
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,820 square feet (per county), 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $432
• Built circa 1971 (see note)
• Listed June 7, 2025
• Last sale: $351,500, December 2014
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: For sale by owner
  • Landscape design by John Newman
  • Zillow has the square footage as 3,200, which would make the price a more realistic $245 per square foot.

A 1971 deed showed a price of $5,500, which suggests there was no house on the site. The house most likely was built by James Robert Deadrick (1925-1989), who bought the property in 1971. He was a designer for Stewart-Warner Corporation, which produced hardware for furniture. He lived in the house for the rest of his life.

June 14, 2025

A 1928 Bungalow in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore, $450,000

2415 Maplewood Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $450,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,679 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $268
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 13, 2025
• Last sale: $290,000 on June 29, 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing shows four bedrooms; county records and the 2021 for-sale listing say three.

District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. Side gable; one story; brick; engaged, comer porch with gable and brick piers; front gable entry pavilion; front gable projection; gable ends have stucco and half timbering; six-over-six, double-hung sash; battered facade chimney; false beams; stone retaining wall; decorative brickwork includes Flemish bond and basketweave course near cornice.”

June 14, 2025

A 1918 Cottage in Leaksville, $324,900

336 S. Hamilton Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• $324,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,632 square feet, 0.6 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1918
• Listed June 13, 2025
• Last sales: $250,000, April 2022; $125,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

False advertising: The listing says the house is “located in the heart of Eden’s Historic District!” It’s not in the historic district at all (so it’s not eligible for historic-preservation tax credits).

June 13, 2025

A 1921 National Register Mansion in Thomasville, Now a Wedding Venue, $2.5 Million

• $2.5 million
• 11 bedrooms, 8 full bathrooms, 6 half-bathrooms, 6,593 square feet (per county), 1.7 acres (total of both lots, per county)
• Price/square foot: $236 (including the guest house and carriage house)
• Built in 1921
• Listed June 13, 2025
• Last sale: $195,000, October 2017; $212,000, March 1994; $148,000, January 1994
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Greensboro
  • The property is now a wedding and event venue. It “accommodates up to 185 guests and sleeps 25 overnight.”
  • “This turnkey business is fully equipped and transfers with bookings into 2026.”
  • The listing shows 7,000 square feet for the house, 2,700 for the guest house and 1,300 for the carriage house. The guest house is a 1936 home of 2,197 square feet (per county).

NR nomination: “The Finch House conveys a refined, subtle sense of permanence and wealth. The expansiveness of the austere yet sophisticated edifice is unequaled in Thomasville’s 1920s and 1930s residential architecture. The green Ludowici-Celadon tile hip roof, deep eaves, and shaped rafter ends, and large multipane windows and French doors exhibit the influence of the Renaissance Revival style, a departure from the more popular period revival styles common in Thomasville during that period. The spacious two-story residence was erected in two phases: the original dwelling completed in 1921, and a 1938 west addition that doubled its size.”

June 11, 2025

A 1928 Foursquare in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore, $525,000

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

• $525,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,920 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $273
• 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). John was a deputy collector with the Internal Revenue Service. Later, he operated a gas station and a grocery store. They moved around 1936.

June 10, 2025

A remarkaby Well Restored 1900 Queen Anne in the Liberty Historic District, $650,000

605 N. Asheboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Smith-Wylie House

• $650,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,694 square feet (per county), 2.7 acres
• Price/square foot: $241
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 10, 2025
• Last sales: $321,000, August 2021; $50,500, November 2007
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• Note: An extraordinarily fine Queen Anne. 2021 listing: The house “was restored in 2007, following local historical society guidelines and keeping several original features, including 7 fireplaces, beautiful stained glass windows, and the original ‘pie safe’. Renovated and used as a law office, this home still has much of its original residential integrity.”

District NR nomination: “It features the irregular massed plan typical of this style. Particularly notable features are a flared, shingle-clad skirting-course separating the first and second stories; an elaborate sawn and pierced bargeboard with drop pendants; cresting and acreterion along the ridge line; and a slate roof. The one-story porch is highlighted with a polygonal, turreted pavilion at its south comer.”

June 9, 2025

A 1930 Georgian Mansion on 2 Acres in High Point, Sold Privately, $1.4 Million

1025 Rockford Road, High Point
The Edgar and Eula Freeze House

• Sold for $1.4 million on May 15, 2025
  • The buyer is an LLC in the Columbus, Ohio, area.
• 7 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 6,664 square feet, 1.98 acres
• Price/square foot: $210
• Built in 1930
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $450,000, July 1986
• Neighborhood: Emerywood

The original owners were Edgar Wilson Freeze (1878-1943) and Eula Ruth Parks Freeze (1884-1971). Edgar was president of Commonwealth Hosiery Mills. They were listed at the address in the 1933 city directory along with their son Edgar Jr., who was secretary-treasurer of the mill. Their children sold the house in 1972. Later owners were Robert Thomas Amos Jr. (1922-2006), president of Amos Hosiery Mills, and Robert Lee “Buck” Kester, president of Rose Furniture.

June 6, 2025

A Former Church near Mount Gilead, $231,800

396 Pee Dee Church Road, Richmond County
Pee Dee Presbyterian Church

• $231,800
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 2.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1901 (per county)
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sale: $165,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: The property has a Mount Gilead mailing address but is located across the county line in Richmond County, about 6 1/2 miles southeast of Mount Gilead and 20 miles northwest of Rockingham. Online listings mistakenly show it as being in Montgomery County.

An incomplete effort to convert the church into a residence has a long way to go. An online source dated 2020 says a sign at the church gives 1858 as the date of the church’s organization. The congregation was merged into First Presbyterian Church of Mount Gilead in 2018.

June 5, 2025

One of Reidsville’s Finest Mansions, the 1868 William Lindsey House, $649,000

308 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The William Lindsey House
Blog post (2021) — The William Lindsey House: A Grand 1870 Mansion Built by One of Reidsville’s Early Business Leaders

• $649,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 5,205 square feet, 0.91 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1868
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sales: $445,000, May 2021; $322,000, August 2002
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The current owners operated a bed-and-breakfast in the house for four years.
  • The listing says Elizabeth Taylor once stayed there when she was married to Sen. John Warner. Warner is said to have been a friend of William’s Lindsey’s grandson-in-law.
  • The property includes a pool house “with a premium Michael Phelps swim spa.”

District NRHP nomination: “Because of both its historical associations and its architectural distinction, the William Lindsey House is a pivotal building in the Reidsville Historic District.”

June 5, 2025

A quickie Flip Job Highlighting an Awful Trend — Painted Brick

2240 Queen Street, Winston-Salem
The James and Ruth Snyder House

• $489,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,557 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $314
• Built in 1938
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sales: $251,000, January 2025; $25,000, March 1977
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

Quickie flip job with a hugely inflated price, highlighted by one of the worst current trends in real estate. Painting brick walls invites a variety of problems.

June 2, 2025

A 1920 Craftsman Bungalow in Mount Airy, $450,000

229 Orchard Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Fred and Lottie Quesinberry House

• $450,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,854 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sales: $419,000, July 2023; $255,000, August 2019
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half house that appears to be a Craftsman bungalow with an extensive late 2010s Craftsman-inspired remodeling. The frame house has modern board-and-batten siding and a composite-shingled side-gable roof with a shed dormer. The engaged front porch has modern paneled square wood columns and the original weatherboarded railing has been removed.”

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