Mansions: 2026 Sales

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110 W. Church Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Hawkins-Thompson House

  • Sold for $430,000 on March 26, 2026 (listed at $469,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,988 square feet (per county), 0.43 acre
  • Price/square foot: $108
  • Built in 1888
  • Listed September 30, 2025
  • Last sale: $24,500, April 1987
  • Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
  • Note: The neighborhood’s historic-district nomination dates the house to 1895.
  • District NR nomination: “substantial frame transitional Italianate/Queen Anne style house with complex plan; main two-bay hipped front pavilion intersected by side hipped pavilion; narrow octagonal tower at northeast corner with faceted conical roof; hipped porch across front curves around side, has tapered, chamfered posts with brackets, stick frieze; sheathed in German siding with quoins; small brackets in eaves; interior chimneys with decorative caps; two-over-two and one-over-one sash; front door with stained glass, panelled reveal; rear shed wings; one-story, jerkin-headed wing on west elevation; stuccoed concrete block addition; local tradition says was residence of a Captain Hawkins, one of the first railroad conductors in Mocksville; purchased by Charles L. Thompson (1875-1953) in 1913.”
    • Few details about Captain Hawkins are available; his full name is among the missing information. Newspaper reports say he lived in Mocksville until October 1899, when he moved to Winston.
    • Hawkins sold his house to the Rev. James Monroe Downum (1853-1940). In 1909 Downum became registrar at Appalachian State Teachers College, a position he held for 30 years, retiring at age 86.

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1020 W. Kent Road, Winston-Salem
The Richard and Hortense Stockton House

  • Sold for $1.4 million on March 10, 2026 (listed at $1.8 million)
    • The buyer is listed as Reynolda Development Group, an LLC associated with a personal-injury lawyer.
  • 6 bedrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms, 6,653 square feet, 2.33 acres
  • Price/square foot: $210
  • Built in 1927 (per county; see note)
  • Listed November 19, 2025
  • Last sale: $590,000, February 2012
  • Neighborhood: Reynolda Park
  • Note: Designed by Charles Barton Keen (1968-1931), the architect of Reynolda House, R.J. Reynolds High School and many other prominent homes and buildings in Winston-Salem and the Piedmont.
    • The house was built by Fogle Brothers and completed in October 1926, according to Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage.
    • The house essentially has two front sides. The original address was 1001 Reynolda Road; the side toward Reynolda is Tudor Revival. The side facing West Kent Road is Georgian.
    • The property includes a swimming pool.
    • The original owners were Richard Gordon Stockton (1892-1960) and Hortense Haughton Jones Stockton (1893-1969). Richard was the second of seven children in his family; his older brother was Norman Stockton, whose menswear store is still in business in Winston-Salem.
    • Richard originally was a lawyer, joining the bar in 1912. He served with the Army’s advocate general’s office during World War I. He joined Wachovia in 1922 as secretary and trust officer and rose to become chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee (online listings mistakenly identify him as an R.J. Reynolds executive). He also served as president of the Methodist Children’s Home and the N.C. Foundation for Church-Related Colleges.
    • Hortense was a graduate of St. Mary’s College in Raleigh. She was initially a school teacher and later served as president of the Community Council, commissioner of the Girl Scouts, president of the Juvenile Relief Association and chair of the Community Nursing Service. She sold the house in 1961.

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1609 St. Andrews Road, Greensboro
The Rossell-Watson House

  • Sold for $1.55 million on February 2, 2026
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,156 square feet, 0.34 acre
  • Price/square foot: $373
  • Built in 1929 (per county, but probably several years earlier; see note)
  • Not listed publicly for sale
  • Last sale: $865,000, November 2016
  • Neighborhood: Irving Park
  • Note: The pictures above appear to be from the 2016 listing.
  • District NR nomination: “J.E. Rossell was the first known owner of this two-story frame gambrel-roofed house which is very similar to his earlier house at 1607 Carlisle Rd. Though it has been sheathed with aluminum siding, it retains is essential stylistic features. In addition to its gambrel roof, the house features a gambrel end chimney, a shed dormer across the front, and a three-bay facade with a classical central entrance. The one-story porch on the north side is an addition.”
    • John Ellis Rossell Sr. (1894-1939) and Cora Galloway Mebane Rossell (1893-1976) bought the property in 1927, although they had been listed on St. Andrews Road since 1923 and in Irving Park (with no specific address) since 1920. John was vice president and treasurer of Mebane-Rossell-Cress, the local dealer for Dodge cars and Graham trucks.
    • He graduated from West Point and served as a major with the expeditionary force that searched for Pancho Villa in Mexico. After leaving Greensboro, John Sr. died of a heart attack at age 45 at their home in New Brighton, N.Y. He’s buried at West Point.
    • John was a son of a brigadier general. Their son, John Jr. (1918-1984), also graduated from West Point. He served in the field artillery in World War II and retired after a career in the Army as a lieutenant colonel.
    • The Rossells sold the house in 1930. It changed hands four times before it was bought in 1944 by Dr. Hugh Alfred Watson (1904-1974) and Almeria Russ Watson (1914-1993). They owned the house for 34 years. Hugh was a surgeon who practiced in Greensboro from 1941 until he died. Almeria was a pianist and organist who taught music as a volunteer in the Greensboro public schools.