Piedmont Historic Homes

March 31, 2025

Built in 1926, One of the Oldest Mansions in Sedgefield, $1.875 Million

3306 Gaston Road, Sedgefield, Guilford County
Gaston Oaks

• $1.895 million
• 5 bedrooms, 5 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 7,128 square feet (per county), 1.09 acres
• Price/square foot: $266
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 31, 2025
• Last sales: $1.55 million, May 2023; $380,000, July 2013

The house is next door to Ayrshire, now for sale at $3 million. If the 1926 date is accurate, this is one of the oldest houses in Sedgefield. The community was developed beginning in 1923, when the Southern Real Estate Company bought a 3,660-acre hunting preserve between Greensboro and High Point. Development was slow; by one accounting, only 35 of the community’s 620 homes were built before 1940. About half were built between 1970 and 1999.

March 31, 2025

A Two-Story Granite House in Mount airy, $900,000

607 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Garnet and Katie Fawcett House

• $900,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,876 square feet (per county), 1.32 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $313
• Built in 1907
• Listed March 30, 2025
• Last sale: $40,000, June 1987
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District
• Note: A tax-credit restoration was completed in 2015.

District NR nomination: “Two-story, L-shaped granite house of late Victorian/Colonial Revival style.” The property consists of two lots — one on North Main, 0.27 acres, where the house is, and a gated lot around the corner on Rawley Avenue, 1.05 acres. The Rawley Avenue lot includes a greenhouse and a frog pond.

T. Garnet Fawcett was president of the First National Bank of Mount Airy, which was founded by his father.

March 31, 2025

A 1935 House in Mount Airy’s Country Club Estates Historic District, $400,000

512 Country Club Road, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Prather-Fowler House

• $400,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,986 square feet (per county), 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1935
• Listed March 31, 2025
• Last sales: $362,000, July 2023; $82,750, November 1994
• Neighborhood: Country Club Estates Historic District (NR)
• Note: Located across the street from the Mount Airy Country Club.

District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half Dutch Colonial Revival house of novelty vinyl-sided frame construction with an asphalt-shingled side-gambrel roof. … According to Billee Prather Miller, the daughter of Country Club Estates developer Joseph William Prather [1891-1956] and his wife, Gertrude Prather [1894-1980], this house was built as her parents’ first residence in the subdivision. The Prathers later moved to the house at 528 Country Club.”

March 31, 2025

A Former Parsonage in Graham, $550,000

523 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage

• $550,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,058 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $267
• Built in 1917 (or circa 1900; see note)
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $245,000, July 2024
• Neighborhood: Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house, caveat emptor. Owned by an LLC in Chapel Hill. Replacement windows.

District NR Nomination: “The one-story, three-bay pyramidal hipped-roof cottage with cross gables stands on a raised brick foundation. … The house was built circa 1900 as the Methodist Episcopal Parsonage.” The Methodist church sold the house in 1962.

March 30, 2025

An 1880 House in the Glencoe Mill Village, $400,000

2409 Hodges Road, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• $400,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1880
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $43,000, April 2003
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Mill Village Historic District (local and NR).

Located north of Burlington, just off N.C. Highway 62 at the Haw River. Glencoe has Burlington mail addresses.

March 28, 2025

A $2.5 Million Condo in Saxapahaw

1860-1880 Sissipahaw Way

1880 Sissipahaw Way, Unit C100, Saxapahaw, Alamance County

• $2.5 million
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 4,316 square feet (per county)
• Price/square foot: $579
• Built in 1955
• Listed March 20, 2025
• Last sale: $975,000, March 2020
• HOA: $290/month
• Neighborhood: On the Haw River in Saxapahaw

I know it’s close to Chapel Hill, but still … $2.5 million. The initial asking price is about 2 1/2 times the price paid five years ago. The condo includes a roof-top, cantilevered 75-foot lap pool and private deck.

March 28, 2025

An 1890 Queen Anne in Winston-Salem’s West End, $639,000

655 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem
The Webb-Reece House

• $639,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,554 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1890
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sale: $405,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)

District NR nomination: “The Webb-Reece House is one of the largest of the Queen Anne houses in this section of the the West End. The two-story frame dwelling of irregular configuration has a projecting octagonal bay on each side; a hipped, gabled, and polygonal roof (with a decoratively shingled front gable); and a large wrap-around porch with turned posts and sawnwork brackets, frieze, and balustrade.”

March 28, 2025

The 1892 Scarborough House in Mount Gilead, $370,000

502 W. Allenton Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County
The Scarborough House
Relisted March 25, 2025

• $370,000 (originally $385,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,840 square feet (per county), 3.77 acres
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1892
• Listed March 6, 2024
• Last sales: $60,000, November 2021; $45,000, November 2020

The owner is an LLC based in Charlotte, which has done a massive restoration job on it. The house, five outbuildings and the 3.77-acre lot are subject to preservation covenants held by the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina. The original owners may have been Henry Griffin Scarborough (1853-1931) and Frances Jane Scubbins Scarborough (1855-1931). Henry was a farmer and served as a county commissioner. They were listed in the 1910 census as living on West Road, which could be West Allenton Street, Mount Gilead’s main east-west street. The house was owned by the Scarborough family until 2020, when the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina bought it for $35,000.

March 28, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1918 Bungalow in Greensboro’s Dunleath Historic District, $285,000

614 5th Avenue, Greensboro

• $285,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,128 square feet (per county), 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1918 (per county)
• Listed March 28, 2025
• Last sale: $62,200, September 2004
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)

Ms. M. Clyde Peele (dates unknown) may have built the house. She bought the property in 1916; she was first listed on 5th Avenue in 1920. Also at the address were Hattie O. Peele; Judson J. Peele, a real-estate salesman; Mary M. Peele, a widow; and Minnie C. Peele (dates and relationships unknown for all). Clyde was secretary for the Home Service Section of the American Red Cross and treasurer for the organization. She sold the house in 1924.

March 28, 2025

A 1930’s Period Cottage in High Point’s Emerywood, $312,000

407 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Alf L. Schwartz House

• $312,000
• 3 bedrooms 1 bathroom, 1,436 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $217
• Built in 1940 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed March 28, 2025
• Last sales: $277,000, May 2022; $165,000, August 2020
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (local and NR)

Great door. NR district nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled Period Cottage is three bays wide and triple-pile with a full-width, gabled rear ell. The house has a brick veneer, a decorative brick chimney on the facade, and replacement windows, generally paired, except for a single six-over-six wood-sash window in the front gable.

“The arched, batten door has four small lights and strap hinges; it is recessed slightly in a front-gabled entry bay and has an arched brick surround. An uncovered brick terrace extends to the right (west) of the entrance.”

March 27, 2025

A 1913 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, Now Used as Offices, $552,900

938 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
The J. Kent Sheppard House

• $534,900 (originally $775,000)
• Converted to offices (no bedrooms), 2 half-bathrooms, 3,077 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1913 (per county)
• Listed February 18, 2022 (relisted March 27, 2025)
• Last sale: $219,000, August 2002
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)

Previous listing: “Currently is used for separate offices, but the zoning fits multiple uses including residential and residential duplex. This property will require a substantial amount of renovation for residential purposes.” The house is being marketed as a commercial property (brochure). It is listed on Circa.com as a residential property but isn’t listed with MLS (as of March 27).

March 24, 2025

Two Brick Cottages, One Relatively Affordable

411 Circle Drive, Burlington, $465,000

411 Circle Drive, Burlington Alamance County

• $465,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,427 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 24, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, August 1991
• Neighborhood: Central Heights

902 S. Main Street, Reidsville, $270,000

902 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $270,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,357 square feet, 0.6 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1941
• Listed March 25, 2021
• Last sale: $139,000, May 2021

March 21, 2025

A MCM in Mount Airy with an Exquisitely Turquoise Kitchen, $359,000

108 Jackson Road, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Joe and Eleanor Powell House
Blog post (2022) — An Affordable Mid-Century Classic in Mount Airy with a Turquoise Kitchen Unspoiled by Time, $229,900

• $329,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,086 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1954 (per county records)
• Listed March 21, 2025
• Last sales: $205,000, September 2022; $1,650, March 1955
• Note: Although county property records give the date as 1954, the price listed on the 1955 deed suggests the house had not yet been built.

Joe Pete Powell (1926-1979) and Eleanor Greenwood Powell (1930-2021) were married in 1949. Joe was in the restaurant business before joining Piedmont Aviation in Winston-Salem. He was wholesale distribution manager at the time of his death from a heart attack at age 52. The house was sold by Eleanor’s heirs in 2022.

March 20, 2025

An Impeccable 1920 Foursquare in Greensboro’s Fisher Park, $848,000

1012 N. Eugene Street, Greensboro
The Tyree and Angela Dillard House

• $848,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,005 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $282
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 20, 2025
• Last sales: $550,000, December 2019; $217,000, October 2013
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)

The original owners were Achilles Tyree Dillard (1873-1950) and Angela Tinsley Dillard (1885-1972), who lived in the house for 30 years. Tyree was a “specialty man” for Armour & Company, where he worked for 36 years. Angela sold the house after he died.

March 20, 2025

A 1920 House in Winston-Salem, Divided into Five Apartments, $809,800

1025 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem

• $809,800
• Single-family home divided into five apartments, bedrooms and bathrooms not specified, 3,628 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $223
• Built in 1920 (per county)
• Listed March 20, 2025
• Last sale: $14,000, March 1983
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)

The listing says there are five apartments, but photos show six mailboxes and six electric meters. The city directory shows five apartments at the address beginning in 1956.

March 20, 2025

A 1980 MCM House on 9 Acres in Clemmons, $600,000

9069 Lasater Road, Clemmons, Forsyth County
The Herbert and Patricia Williams House

• $600,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,148 square feet, 9.27 acres
• Price/square foot: $279
• Built in 1980
• Listed September 8, 2023
• Last sales: $525,000, January 2024; $481,000, June 2021

The current owners have changed the house substantially. They’ve decimated the landscaping. They’ve also installed cheap vinyl floors; at this price, buyers should expect better.

March 19, 2025

A 1937 Greensboro Condo Listed with Two Remarkably False Claims

1700 N. Elm Street, Unit C-4, Greensboro

• $159,900
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 616 square feet
• Price/square foot: $260
• Built in 1937
• Listed March 19, 2025
• Last sale: $95,000, August 2019
• HOA: $335/month
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)

The only notable thing about this listing is that it contains two glaring falsehoods. It calls the complex a National Historic Landmark, which isn’t even remotely possible (Blandwood, Biltmore and the Cape Hatteras lighthouse are National Historic Landmarks). And it says the apartments are a gated community, also untrue. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a listing with two such obviously false statements. A good example of why you shouldn’t take at face value anything said by anyone who’s trying to sell you something — check it out. Caveat emptor.

March 18, 2025

A 1922 Bungalow in a Lexington Historic District, $199,000

222 Vance Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• $199,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,698 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 18, 2025
• Last sale: $13,500, October 1978
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Online listings show only 1,259 square feet.
  • No central air conditioning

District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable bungalow with a gabled dormer and a recessed front porch supported by square posts on concrete block piers; 4/1 sash, brick interior chimney, exposed rafter ends, projecting shed-roofed bay on south elevation, vinyl and asbestos siding.”

March 17, 2025

The 1953 Home of MCM Architect Robert Atkinson, $469,000

1903 Colonial Avenue, Greensboro
The Robert and Violet Atkinson House
Relisted March 20, 2025

• $469,000 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,075 square feet, 0,41 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1953
• Listed July 27, 2015
• Last sale: $230,000, July 2014
• Neighborhood: Kirkwood

This was the home of Robert A. Atkinson Jr. (1923-1976), partner of Edward Lowenstein in the Lowenstein-Atkinson firm. He and his wife, Violet Gertrude Hedrick Atkinson (1926-1993), bought the property in 1953. Violet sold it in 1985. The house was sold in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2014 and then put up for sale again, unsuccessfully, in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2021.

March 16, 2025

A Forsyth County Historic Landmark: The 1904 John Henry Pfaff House, $415,000

4798 Pfaff Lane, Pfafftown, Forsyth County
The John Henry Pfaff House

• $415,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,736 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $152
• Built in 1904 (per county property records)
• Listed March 16, 2025
• Last sales: $339,900, June 2022; $166,500, February 1997

Designated a Forsyth County Historic Landmark. “It is a fine example of traditional, vernacular houses built in the Piedmont during the early 20th century,” the county’s description of the house says.

John Henry Pfaff (1858-1949) was the great grandson of Peter Pfaff (1724-1804), the town’s namesake. After working in stores in Winston-Salem and Bethania, John Henry came home and opened a store of his own in 1891. It operated until 1972 at the corner of Yadkinville Road and Pfaff Lane. A Solomon-like decision left the house to two daughters who didn’t like each other.

March 16, 2025

For-Sale Signs Are Popping Up in Winston-Salem Like Daffodils

806 S. Sunset Drive, $354,000

806 S. Sunset Drive, Winston-Salem

• $354,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,405 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $252
• Built in 1939
• Listed March 15, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, June 2024
• Neighborhood: Ardmore (outside the historic district)

Flipped house with cheap replacement windows — caveat emptor. Owned by an LLC in Huntersville.

334 E. Sprague Street, $399,900

334 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• $399,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $280
• Built in 1916
• Listed March 13, 2025
• Last sale: $125,000, March 2024
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside, Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house — caveat emptor.

District NR nomination: “One-story Queen Anne cottage with hip roof; weatherboard; gabled dormer; gable ell; decorative shingles in gable ends; hexagonal multi-light-over-one windows; Tuscan columns.”

803 Madison Avenue, $270,000

803 Madison Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $270,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,336 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1928
• Listed March 14, 2025
• Last sale: $100,100, November 2006
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property appears to have been a rental for at least 19 years.

District NR nomination: “Foursquare. Two story; hip roof; brick; hip-roof dormer; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers.” The house was apparently a rental in its earliest days, too, with different residents listed when it wasn’t vacant.

March 16, 2025

A 19th-Century Italianate House in Walnut Cove, $250,000

310 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
The Cahill-Fulton-Cates House

• $250,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,693 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built between 1875 and 1900 (see note)
• Listed March 15, 2025
• Last sale: $165,000, October 2020
• Note: County records give the date as 1910. The 1989 Stokes County Historic Inventory dates the house to “the last quarter of the 19th century.” B.M. Cahill Jr. owned the property in the 1890s, selling it in 1899; since his name is attached to the house, it was likely built before he sold the property.

The Stokes County Historic Inventory mentions “houses of simple but handsome Italianate influence … built in Stokes County during the last quarter of the nineteenth century” and cites the Cahill-Fulton-Cates House as an “excellent example.”

March 15, 2025

Two Steeply Gabled Bungalows in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore Historic District

2428 Maplewood Avenue, $495,000

2428 Maplewood Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $495,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,150 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1928
• Listed March 17, 2025
• Last sale: $356,500, April 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; cross gable; brick; shed dormer sheathed in shingles; six-over-one windows; engaged porch with battered, brick pier; arched hood at entry; exposed rafter tails; stone retaining wall.”

2201 Westfield Avenue, $499,000

2201 Westfield Avenue, Winston-Salem
Sale pending March 14, 2025

• $499,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,118 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1926 (per county, or possibly a few years later; see note)
• Listed March 14, 2025
• Last sale: $295,000, June 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

The owners accepted an offer the day the house went on the market. District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; steeply-pitched, front-gable projection; shed-roof dormer; brick; six-over-six, double-hung sash; side porch; small sidelights; blind fanlight on consoles; recessed entry.” Westfield Avenue doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1931.

March 15, 2025

A 1913 House in Rural Stokes County, $277,500

1077 Flat Shoals Road, Stokes County
Capella Church of Christ

• $277,500
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,839 square feet, 1.62 acres (per county)
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1913 (see note)
• Listed March 14, 2025
• Last sale: $131,000, March 2006
• Neighborhood: Located about 7 miles north of King near the Capella community.

Online listings give a 1985 date. That actually was the year the house was renovated.The house originally served as the Capella Church of Christ, now located at 1187 Flat Shoals Road.

March 13, 2025

Two 1935 Bungalows in Greensboro with Very 2025 Prices

211 Chapman Street, $799,900

211 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro
The W. Howard Gardner House

• $799,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,834 square feet (per county), 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $282
• Built circa 1935
• Listed October 13, 2021
• Last sales: $355,200, October 2021; $92,000, May 1984
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)

To support a price more than double what the house sold for less than four years ago, the roughly 100-word listing includes the words luxury, updated, sought after, charming, modern, timeless, stunning, elegant, warmth, ambience, thoughtfully upgraded, breathtaking, sophistication, elegance, stylish, updated (again), sought after (again) and high end.

306 S. Chapman Street, $650,000

306 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro

• $650,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,950 square feet (per county), 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $333
• Built in 1935
• Listed March 13, 2025
• Last sale: $225,000, May 1999
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, four-bay, side-gabled, brick Period Cottage displays a projecting front-gabled bay whose south eave extends across the façade’s brick chimney with random granite blocks.

“An arched opening outlined with granite and culminating in a crowning granite keystone pierces the projecting bay that shelters a batten door with three lights set in a stepped arrangement. The granite elements embellish the brick arches that front the southeast corner porch that is set under a side-gabled porch; a multi-light, single-leaf door on the leads from the interior to the porch.”

March 12, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1923 House in Lexington, $299,900

417 Ford Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• $299,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,366 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1923
• Listed March 14, 2025
• Last sale: $153,000, April 1999
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (local and NR)

District NR nomination: “Two-story gambrel-roofed Dutch Colonial Revival with full-width shed dormers across the façade and rear elevation; partially-screened, hip-roofed front porch supported by square paneled posts spanned by a wood railing; 9/1 sash, brick interior chimney, vinyl siding on the first story and wood shingles on the second story.”

March 12, 2025

A 1925 Period Cottage in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore Historic District, $399,000

813 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• $399,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,629 square feet (per county), 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 12, 2020
• Last sales: $271,000, June 2020; $179,000, May 2010
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable projection; cedar shingles; brick facade chimney; brick, jerkinhead-roof entry porch with battered sides; six-over-one, double-hung sash; segmental arch door head.”

March 12, 2024

A 1940 Bungalow in Lexington, $410,000

208 Chestnut Street, Lexington, Davidson County
The Earl and Catherine Andrews House

• $410,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 2,545 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 22, 2022
• Last sales: $395,000, September 2022; $257,700, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Grimes Park, Lexington Residential Historic District (NRHP)

District NRHP nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable-roofed Colonial Revival with a polygonal bay window in a projecting gabled wing on the north side of the façade; very wide, triple, multi-paned window on the east side of the façade; 6/6 sash, slightly recessed entry, two gabled dormers, vinyl siding, brick front patio.” The windows have lost their historic character.

March 11, 2025

A 1942 House in Eden (Leaksville), $325,000

308 Highland Drive, Eden, Rockingham County

• $325,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,808 square feet (per county), 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1942
• Listed March 11, 2025
• Last sale: $187,000, February 2020
• Neighborhood: Highland Park

The only piece of furniture left in the house is an arcade-style video-game machine. Maybe they didn’t want to unplug it and lose their record-high Frogger score.

March 10, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1923 Bunglow in Burlington, $275,000

1127 W. Webb Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
The Walker House
Listing withdrawn February 1, 2025
Relisted March 10, 2025

• $275,000 (originally $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 1,943 square feet (per county), 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 23, 2024
• Last sale: $170,000, November 2021

Located across the street from Westminster Presbyterian Church. The earliest known owner was Viola Florance (with an “a”) Walker (1889-1978), who bought the property in 1926. It remained in her family for 75 years. Although she was married, only her name appears on the deed, which is unusual but not unheard of at the time.

March 9, 2025

5 New Listings for Very Nice Bungalows in the Past Few Days, But No Bargains

A 1920 Cottage in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore Historic District, $448,000

2411 Rosewood Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $448,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,666 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $269
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sale: $268,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage/studio.

District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival Bungalow. One story; side-facing jerkinhead roof; three-over-one windows; front-gable porch with arched opening; false keystone; paired, Tuscan columns; side, hip-roof wing.” The address first appears in the city directory in 1925 with Alfred Edgar Shelburn (1888-1936) and Mary Cooper Shelburn (1892-1967) listed as residents. The city directory refers to the neighborhood as Melrose. Alfred was a bookkeeper at Clinard Electric.

March 9, 2025

A 1940 Bungalow in Boonville, Flipped But Somewhat tastefully, $399,000

110 Baptist Church Road, Boonville, Yadkin County

• $399,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,691 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1940
• Listed September 26, 2024
• Last sales: $45,000, August 2023; $30,000 February 2021; $15,000 February 1995

Flipped house — caveat emptor, although this one was done with more respect for the historic character of the house than many (except for the inevitable cheap replacement windows and vinyl siding).

March 8, 2025

A 1930 Tudor Cottage in Greensboro’s Lake Daniel Neighborhood, $575,000

705 Twyckenham Drive, Greensboro
The Kesler House

• $575,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,349 square feet (per county), 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $223
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 8, 2025
• Last sale: $168,000, May 1995
• Neighborhood: Lake Daniel

One of the oldest homes in Lake Daniel. Although development of the neighborhood began in 1926, less than 10 percent of its homes were built before 1940. The house was probably built by neighborhood developer Garland Daniel before he lost it to foreclosure in 1929. It was a rental property until Dr. Robert Cicero Kesler (1902-1981) and Elizabeth Ann Grossman Kessler (1905-1947) bought the house and moved into it around 1947. It remained in their family for 45 years.

March 8, 2025

A Modest 1915 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, $390,000

310 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Edith Noble House

• $390,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,305 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $299
• Built in 1915 (or a few years later; see note)
• Listed March 8, 2025
• Last sales: $335,500, July 2023; $205,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The address, originally 505 Gloria, doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1921.

District NR nomination: “Frame front-gabled bungalow; inset full-facade porch with large shingled posts and weatherboarded balustrade. Asbestos siding. Noble (wife Edith) was president of Cobb-Noble Co. and secretary-treasurer of Realty Exchange; they moved here from Cascade Avenue.”

March 8, 2025

A circa 1929 Lexington Bungalow in a Historic District, $400,000

12 Vance Circle, Lexington, Davidson County

• $400,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,972 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built ca. 1929 (see note)
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sale: $121,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Upstairs not heated but has window cooling units.”
  • The property includes a detached garage.
  • County records give a 1940 date

District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story weatherboarded bungalow with a side-gable roof and a large clipped-gable dormer; wraparound porch engaged on the front, partially-screened and supported by tapered posts on brick piers; 4/1 sash, projecting hip-roofed bay on east elevation, brick interior chimney, wood-shingled gables, triangular eave brackets, exposed rafter ends.”

The house appears on the 1929 Sanborn map. Bonnie Bivens Mullis (1897-1969) and Ethel R. Mullis (1901-1981) and their children, who were frequent correspondents with the children’s section of The Charlotte Observer, were living at this address by 1935.

March 7, 2025

A 1911 Queen Anne in Winston-Salem’s West End, $699,000

1182 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
The Dull-Hinkle House

• $699,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,939 square feet (per county), 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $238
• Built in 1911 (per county, maybe a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sale: $410,650, August 2022; $26,500, December 1986
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NRHP)

District NRHP nomination: “The Dull-Hinkle House is a late Victorian dwelling of simple Queen Anne style influence. The two-story frame hip-roofed house is dominated by a boldly projecting right front polygonal bay with a decoratively shingled gable and sawnwork corner brackets.”

George Lewis Dull (1843-1932) and Susan Virginia Bowman Dull (1850-1926) were listed at what appears to be this address from as early as 1908 to 1928. George was president of Wachovia Mills, “which at that time operated one of the largest feed and roller mills in this section of the state,” the Winston-Salem Journal’s obituary said. It called him “one of Winston-Salem’s oldest and best-known citizens.”

µarch 6, 2025

A relatively Affordable 1942 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, $235,900

2641 Belews Creek Road, Winston-Salem

• $235,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,994 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1942
• Listed March 5, 2025
• Last sale: $86,000, November 13, 2024; $57,000, November 13, 2024

Caveat emptor — flipped house. Owned by an LLC in Miami. The property is adjacent to Salem Parkway. Originally outside the city limits, the address wasn’t listed in the city director until 1951, when Mitchell Byrd (1903-1982) and Minnie Bell Jones Byrd (1915-2002) were shown as residents. Mitchell was a salesman for N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company. Minnie worked for R.J. Reynolds.

March 5, 2025

A Pair of Million-Dollar Mansions on a Single Block in Winston-Salem

819 Oaklawn Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $1.59 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 6,202 square feet (per county), 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $256
• Built in 1928
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sales: $825,000, May 2014; $1.3 million, October 2007
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

The property includes a guest house and a swimming pool. The original owners were Ralph Madison Stockton (1897-1972) and Margaret Mae Thompson Stockton (1897-1978). Ralph served in the heavy artillery in World War I. He was a superintendent and later vice president with B.F. Huntley Furniture Company. He served on the city’s Board of Aldermen and the Winston-Salem school board. He also served as president of Goodwill Industries. Margaret was a graduate of Salem College. She taught piano before her marriage in 1921.

830 Oaklawn Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $1.4 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,809 square feet (per county), 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1924
• Listed March 5, 2025
• Last sales: $1.18 million, May 2022; $860,000, May 2004
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

The property includes a garage-guest house with an exercise room. The first known owners were Harry Holland Davis (1888-1937) and Lena Seward Davis (1892-1981), who bought the property in 1928. Harry was co-proprietor of Brown’s tobacco warehouse. They had moved by 1934.

March 4, 2025

A 1963 MCM Classic on 14 Acres in Southern Pines, $1.4 Million

1645 E. Indiana Avenue, Southern Pines, Moore County
Indian Springs

• $1.4 million
• 6 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 5,810 square feet, 14.8 acres
• Price/square foot: $241
• Built in 1963
• Listed February 4, 2025
• Last sales: $865,000, June 2020; $450,000, March 2017

The property includes a tennis court with a pool-house-type building. The listing says the house was featured in Architectural Digest in 1965. It was featured in North Carolina Architect, September 1965: “The house was designed for a middle age couple with a family of three girls and one boy. Entertaining and family living are emphasized. The Owners have a love for the ageless, comfortable, well worn and obviously quality things of life that get more beautiful with use and asked that the home reflect this feeling. A strong integration of house with site was required. No period architecture was requested but a feeling of growth out of the past rather than a break was thought desirable.”

March 4, 2025

One of Leaksville’s Oldest Bungalows, $282,900

512 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Barker-Fulp House

• $282,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,951 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1925 (or more than 25 years earlier; see note)
• Listed March 4, 2025
• Last sales: $215,000, March 2022; $150,000, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NRHP)
• Caveat emptor: “Beautiful bamboo trees in the backyard!” Bamboo is incredibly invasive and can be an absolute curse.

The date of the house is given as 1925 in county records, as ca. 1910-1920 in the district’s National Register nomination, and as “before the turn of the century” in A Tale of Three Cities: A Pictorial History of Leaksville, Spray and Draper, which calls this house one of Leaksville’s first bungalows. District NRHP nomination: “A group of three exceptionally well-preserved one-and-one-half story frame bungalows, constructed between 1910 and 1920 and ornamented with a variety of decorative elements, is located at 510, 512 and 514 Patrick Street …”

March 4, 2025

A Once-Grand 1924 House in Burlington, $299,900

616 N. Mebane Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Hurdle House

• $299,900
• 10 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,276 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built ca. 1924
• Listed March 4, 2025
• Last sale: $73,000, December 2015

“The dominant features of this large, late nineteenth/early twentieth century are its one-story wraparound porch with corner pavilion and the rock-faced stone used for the foundation, porch piers and chimneys. … Now converted to rental apartments, the house features Colonial Revival trim, such as slender classical columns, an entrance with transom and sidelights, and a round window lighting the second-floor stair hall.” (An Architectural History of Burlington, North Carolina, p. 57)

March 3, 2025

A 1906 Cottage in Graham, $599,900

531 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Ward-Hogan House

• $599,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,240 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1906
• Listed March 3, 2025
• Last sales: $225,000, April 2008; $165,000, October 1997
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half story pyramidal hipped-roof cottage with a front-gabled wing exhibits a one-story shed porch with wide wood railing, Doric columns, and a hip roofed dormer. Fenestration includes single and paired nine- over-one sash windows and a multi-paned door. The interior brick chimney appears to have a replacement stack.”

The original owners may have been Zebulon B. “Zebie” Ward (1862-1921) and Mary Olivia Martin Ward (1874-1958). Zebie and Olivia were listed at the address in the 1909 city directory (the oldest available online). The house remained in their family until 1984. Zebie was a carpenter.

March 3, 2025

A Flipped 1940 House in Asheboro, $339,000 — What Were These People Thinking?

401 Worth Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

• $339,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,154 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1940
• Listed March 3, 2025
• Last sale: $130,000, March 2024

Included only because its living room is the worst room I’ve ever seen, even in a flipped house. I usually just ignore bad taste and bad renovations, but that one room is such a mess it has to be seen. The rest of the house features a lot of cheap vinyl flooring and wall-to-wall carpeting.

March 1, 2025

A 1902 Cottage, Enlarged in 1912, in Winston-Salem’s Holly Avenue Historic District, $797,500

111 N. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem
The Peter and Ella Blum House

• $797,500
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,644 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1902
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sales: $600,000, August 2020; $396,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)

Tinsmith Peter Wilson Blum (1878-1971) and Ella Mason Blum (1880-1938) lived in the house from 1902 until they died. It remained in the family until 2002. (Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage, p. 149) The garage, located on an alley behind the house, includes a 1-bedroom apartment.

NRHP district nomination: “This house was originally a side gabled one-story, Queen Anne cottage with a rear ell. The facade retains that configuration, but on the rear of the house is a substantial, two-story rectangular, 1912 addition with a nearly flat hip roof and exposed raftertails.”