Piedmont Historic Homes

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

• Sold for $460,000 on June 15, 2026 (originally $649,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 5,205 square feet, 0.91 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• 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.”
  • The house is “a two-story, single-pile brick Italianate dwelling with a three-bay facade, one-story bays on the side elevations, and a one-story brick ell spanning the rear of the main section. The hip-roofed house features elaborate Italianate trim, including deep paneled and bracketed eaves, decorative hoods over slender paired windows on the second floor, segmental arched window and door openings on the first, and paneled interior chimneys.
  • “Early in the 20th century, a new porch was constructed across this facade, in the Neo-Classical Revival style. It consists of a one-story, full-facade porch supported by corinthian columns which are repeated in monumental fashion in the central projecting two-story pedimented portico. Heavy turned balusters line the porch and the central balcony, from which a double-leaf door, similar to the main entrance, opens to the second floor. The earlier porch appears to have spanned only the entrance bay, with a second porch on the south elevation.” As late as the mid-1980s, there were large magnolia trees in the front yard.
  • “William Lindsey (1829-1889) is believed to have moved to this area of Rockingham County from Virginia in 1852 and opened a tobacco factory in the late 1850s …. In the early 1880s, he built a large brick factory on the west side of N.W. Market St., where he produced the following brands: ‘Johnnie Reb,’ ‘Our Statesman,’ ‘Edna Lindsey,’ ‘Lindsey’s Leader,’ and ‘Our Level Best.’
  • “In partnership with H.K. Reid, he operated a general store, and he was a founder of many local businesses. Lindsey owned several hundred acres of land in the new town of Reidsville, and his name appears on many land transactions as the town grew.
  • “He was married to Sarah Holderby [1833-1893], daughter of Joseph Holderby [1803-1875], who was prominent in the early development of Reidsville. The Lindseys first lived in the early 19th century home of Reuben Reid (demolished) which was at this location until they built a new home and moved the earlier house to a site on nearby Lindsey Street.
  • “Occupied for many years by the Lindseys’ daughter, Edna [1868-1961], and her husband, tobacconist Eugene Watt [1868-1941], the house remains [as of August 1986] in the Lindsey family, occupied by his granddaughter, Sarah Watt [1901-1990] and her husband, William C. Stokes [1900-1986].”
  • Bonus Reidsville history: “Reuben Reid of Hogans Creek moved his family, including wife, Elizabeth Williams Settle, and son, David Settle Reid, to a 700-acre farm on the ridge between Wolf Island and Little Troublesome creeks in May, 1814. He became a successful farmer, operated a store and a public inn maintained in a private home and served the county as a constable and justice of the peace.
  • “The family secured a post office, aptly named Reidsville, in 1829. 16-year-old David Settle Reid was appointed its first postmaster. He would later become a State Senator (1835-42), a U.S. Congressman (1843-47), Governor of North Carolina (1850) and a U.S. Senator (1854).”
  • H.K. Reid, William Lindsey’s business partner, was another son of Reuben Reid.

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702 Woodland Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $1.7 million on May 20, 2026 (originally $1.975 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,778 square feet (per county), 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $356
• Built in 1934 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed January 15, 2025
• Last sale: $835,000, June 2015
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The garage includes a 300 square-foot guest room with bathroom.
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1936. The original owners appear to have been Thomas Campbell Darst Jr. (1907-1981) and Mary Berton High Darst (1912-1997). Thomas was secretary-treasurer of Oscar Burnett & Co., an investment firm. They sold the house in 1938.
  • In 1945 the house was bought by Dr. William Blount Norment (1899-1980) and Katherine Lee “Dusty” Williams Norment (1913-1999). They owned it for 53 years. William was a gynecologist, surgeon and for decades a major figure in the Greensboro medical community. He was a member of the medical board of Wesley Long Hospital from 1932 to 1976. After the death of founder John Wesley Long, William was among a group of 12 doctors who bought the hospital and expanded it. He also invented the hysteroscope, an optical device to detect uterine tumors. His pioneering medical-journal articles from the 1940s to 1970s brought the device into wide use.

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207 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Kenneth and Alva Denny House

• Sold for $990,000 on May 18, 2026 (originally $1.195 million)
• 4 bedrooms (per county), 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,355 square feet (per county), 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $227
• Built circa 1928
• Listed August 30, 2025
• Last sales: $660,000, November 2022; $265,000, November 1990
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Realtor Babble from the 2022 listing: “A once in a lifetime opportunity … !”
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, truncated-hip-roofed, Tudor Revival-style house has a steeply-pitched slate roof that extends down to the first-floor level on the facade and left (east) elevation.
  • “It has stuccoed exterior with brick veneer around the entrance and at the inset porch, and faux half-timbering in the dormers. It has a wide, partially inset gabled dormer on the left end of the facade and smaller, partially inset dormers on the right (west) end of the facade and on the left elevation.
  • “The house has metal casement windows with rough-hewn lintels. Windows in the large front-gabled dormer are paired, diamond-light casement windows.
  • “The decorative brick chimney with double flues rises to the right of the entrance, a batten door with strap hinges in a basketweave brick surround.
  • “An inset porch across the left half of the facade is supported by rough-hewn posts with slender braces. A one-story, shed-roofed porte-cochere on the right elevation has matching supports and faux half-timbering in the gables.”
  • The address first appeared in the 1928-29 city directory with Kenneth C. Denny (1887-1940) and Alva Weedon Denny (1891-1987) as residents. Kenneth founded Denny Veneer Company in High Point. He moved it to Rocky Mount in 1934.

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417 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Percy and Lillian Idol House

• Sold for $910,000 on May 12, 2026 (listed at $930,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,061 square feet (per county), 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1941 (per county, but probably about 10 years later)
• Listed March 3, 2026
• Last sales: $730,000, May 2023; $5,500, November 1949
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: The house has an elevator. It also has a two-car garage in the basement.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is five bays wide and double-pile with a painted brick veneer, interior brick chimney, and modillion cornice.
  • “It has six-over-six, wood-sash windows and the six-panel door has a paneled surround and is sheltered by a flat-roofed porch supported by grouped, fluted columns.
  • “Full returns on the end gables have a modillion cornice and a single window in the gable. The right (west) two bays have a slightly lower roofline, nine-over-nine windows on the first story, an exterior end brick chimney, and a two-story, shed-roofed, frame section at the rear.
  • “There is a basement-level garage on the left (east) elevation and a one-story, shed-roofed frame porch at the left rear (southeast).”
  • Percy C. Idol (1910-1997) and Lillian Grandy Idol (1918-1998) bought the property in 1949 and were listed at the address in 1951, the first year it appeared in the city directory. Percy was a salesman for Adams-Millis.
  • Percy joined Adams-Millis in 1934 and spent his career there, retiring in 1974. During World War II, he spent four years serving as an intelligence officer in the Coast Guard.
  • Along with hundreds of other “white citizens of High Point,” Percy signed a full-page ad in the High Point Enterprise in October 1963 calling on local business owners to end segregation and promising to continue to patronize business that did so.
  • Their son, David Harrison Idol (1946-2020) inherited the house. It was sold in 2023 by his heir.

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419 S. Main Street, Kernersville, Forsyth County
The Gibson House Inn

• Sold for $565,000 on May 11, 2026 (listed at $565,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,442 square feet (per county), 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1837
• Listed March 5, 2026
• Last sales: $497,000, May 2023; $238,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: South Main Street Historic District (NR). Incredibly, the district’s 1987 National Register nomination doesn’t even mention the house, one of the oldest in the district.
• Note: The property is next door to Korner’s Folly.
  • Online listings position the house “as a private residence, luxury rental, or event-focused property.”
  • The inn’s website says the house was built by innkeeper Doughty Stockton (1776-1855) and Elizabeth Perkins Stockton (1798-1858). If the 1837 construction date is accurate, Doughty must have been in the trade for almost 30 years by the time they built this house.
  • An obituary in The People’s Press said, “While his long useful and laborious life for the last forty-seven years was devoted to serving the public as a Landlord, with the noblest impulses and with a sensibility alive to the tenderest wishes of the weary traveller, his influence was ever exerted to render them comfortable and happy. He always discharged his duties with a dignity and propriety of conduct, which conciliated the regard and secured for him the love and esteem of all who knew him.”
  • The house apparently stayed in the Stockton family, with great-granddaughter Agnes C. Stockton Gibson (1877-1910) and her husband, Edward Hiram Gibson (1865-1926), taking ownership in the early 20th century. Their son, Edward Hiram Gibson III (1900-1973) sold the house in 1963. He was a history professor at Appalachian State University.
  • The house became an antiques store in the 1960s, then a mission church for Holy Cross Catholic Church from 1969-1982 and then an antiques store again. It became an inn once more after it was bought in 2019.

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202 Kemp Road West, Greensboro
The Andrews-Morrison House
Sale pending March 16, 2026

• Sold for $1.275 million on April 22, 2026 (listed at $1.295 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 5,201 square feet, 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1950
• Listed February 28, 2026
• Last sale: $685,000, June 2010
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: The house overlooks Lake Euphemia.
  • John William Andrews (1896-1966) and Louise Boren Andrews (1896-1989) bought the property in 1948 from the Starmount Company. They were listed on Kemp Road West in the 1953 city directory. William was a buyer for Pomona Terra Cotta. Louise sold the house in 1969.
  • William H. “Moon” Morrison (1926-2010) and Joy Culbreth Morrison (1928-2013) bought the house in 1969 and lived there for 31 years. Moon was a graduate of Georgia Tech in electrical engineering. After serving in the Navy and working for Duke Power and Southern Electric, he founded Electric Service and Sales in Greensboro. The company appears to still exist as a unit of Tencarva Machinery Company.

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2801 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem
The Dalton-Trotman House

• Sold for $1.68 million on April 6, 2026 (listed at $1.75 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,950 square feet (per county), 1.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $425
• Built in 1927 (per county, possibly a few years later; see note)
• Listed February 23, 2026
• Last sale: $500,000, December 1996
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The listing shows 4,727 square feet, an unusually large deviation of 20 percent from the square footage they’re paying taxes on.
  • The house still has its slate roof.
  • The house has had only three owners.
  • The original owners were Rufus W. Dalton (1893-1982) and Louise Vogler Dalton (1896-1966). They bought the property in 1928, but the address didn’t appear in the city directory until 1930. Rufus was a trust teller* at Wachovia, where he worked for 43 years, retiring in 1958. Louise was a graduate of Salem College. She served as president of the Thursday Morning Music Club and on the board of the Civic Music Association. She was a soloist at Home Moravian Church for many years.
  • The Daltons sold the house in 1948 to Marion Jackson “Jack” Trotman (1921-2010) and Dorothy D. Schriver Trotman (1922-1991). Jack sold the house in 1996. He, too, spent his career at Wachovia. Dorothy was a graduate of Randolph Macon Women’s College. She served as a board member and officer of the Junior League, the Philocalian Book Club and the Winston-Salem Debutante Committee.

*Or the trust teller. How many trust tellers would a bank have?

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

• Sold for $1.525 million on March 26, 2026 (originally $1.695 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 4,838 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $315
• 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.
  • Their son, Leet Alexander “Alex” O’Brien Jr., owned the house after Leet Sr. retired and moved to Florida. He was in sales in the insurance and hotel industries. Alex had sold the house by 1971.

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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 house was demolished by its new owner, 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.