Piedmont Historic Homes

May 29, 2025

A 1940 Stone Cottage in Greensboro’s Latham Park, $595,000

1309 Latham Road, Greensboro

• $595,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,546 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $234
• Built in 1940
• Listed May 29, 2025
• Last sales: $375,000, April 2020; $337,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.

The original owner was Ruth M. Barnes (1903-1998, later Ruth Bowman), who bought the property in 1940 and was listed at the address in the city directory in 1941. She had owned and operated the family business, Barnes Furriers, since the death of her husband Milton in 1932. She owned the house for the rest of her very long life. It was sold by her heirs in 1999.

May 29, 2025

A circa 1909 Restoration Project in Graham, $149,900

705 Washington Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Cates-Gilbert House

• $159,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,571 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built circa 1909
• Listed May 26, 2025
• Last sales: $50,000, December 2015; $40,000, June 2011
• Note: The house had two owners in tis first 100 or so years.

The original owners, Urias Frederick Cates (1862-1945) and Margaret Partin Caters (1864-1939), were listed on Washington Street as early as 1909. Urias was overseer of the dye house at Sidney Mills. His heirs sold the property in 1946 to Leander Jefferson Gilbert (1921-1962) and Gertrude Hazel Gilbert (1923-2009). Leander was an insurance agent. Hazel worked in hosiery mills. Her heirs sold the house in 2011.

May 29, 2025

Two Restoration Projects in a Winston-Salem Historic District

1900 Peachtree Street, Winston-Salem
The David and Athene Day House

• $149,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,647 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1947 (per county, but probably a couple years later; see note))
• Listed May 27, 2025
• Last sale: November 1978, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has had only two owners.
  • The property includes a wired workshop and a detached garage.
• District NR nomination: “Cape Cod. One and a half story; side gable; painted Formstone; gable-roof dormers; gable-roof entry porch; paired, Tuscan columns; six-over-six, double-hung sash; enclosed side porch. Appears on 1951 Sanborn map.”
  • The property doesn’t appear in the city directory until the 1949-50 edition, listed as 1924 Peachtree, its original address. The first owners were David Evans Day Jr. (1920-1983) and Athene Myatt Day (1921-2002). David was a carpenter. They sold the house in 1978 to Willard E. Harris (1941-2009) and Juliet Gilbreath Harris. Juliet is now selling the house.

708 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem, $110,000

708 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• $110,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,084 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1922
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sale: $21,000, May 2015
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Raleigh.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One story; side gable; vinyl siding; six-over-six replacement windows; replacement posts on brick piers; shed-roof porch; knee braces. Appears on 1917 Sanborn Map.”

May 27, 2025

A Renowned Modern-Furniture Maker’s MCM Mansion in High Point, $849,000

1032 Rockford Road, High Point
The Thayer and Dot Coggin House
Sale pending May 26, 2025

• $849,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,557 square feet (per county), 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1971
• Listed May 23,2025
• Last sale: $16,500, May 1966
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: Designed by Fred Babcock of Salt Lake City. Interior design by Milo Baughman, the longtime designer for Thayer Coggin Furniture.

The house hasn’t been sold since it was built by Julius Thayer Coggin (1922-2003) and Doris Matilda “Dot” Royals Coggin (1928-2023). Thayer founded Thayer Coggin Furniture in 1953. His work with Baugham made the company a national leader in modern furniture design. The house is located on the Emerywood Country Club golf course.

May 27, 2025

Edward Lowenstein’s Last Commencement House, Quickly Flipped, $1.1 Million

• $1.1 million
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,088 square feet, 1.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1965
• Listed May 26, 2025
• Last sales: $870,500, January 2025; $835,000, July 2024; $359,000, October 2009
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield

The last and last remaining of Edward Lowenstein‘s three “Commencement Houses,” homes designed by Lowenstein and his students at the Women’s College (which had become UNCG by the time this one was built).

Sold in July 2024 and again, without being listed on MLS, in January 2025. Then quickly flipped — caveat emptor — with a huge markup. Did this house actually need $200,000-plus in renovations, or was it just to fatten up the price? The interior was already in excellent condition (compare with the 2024 photos below). They apparently added a fourth bathroom. At least they didn’t tear it down.

May 25, 2025

Two Relatively Affordable Bungalows in Yadkin County

335 N. Bridge Street, Jonesville, Yadkin County

• $244,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms. 2,143 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $199,900, October 2023; $70,500, April 2018

This house has the oddest half-bathroom. The house was owned from 1952 to 2006 by Robert Lee Smitherman (1919-1974) and Helen Lucille Davis Feimster Smitherman (1923-2003). and then their daughter. Robert was a World War II veteran who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He was an employee of Chatham Manufacturing Company in Elkin.

1444 Buxton Road, Hamptonville, Yadkin County
The William and Mary Branon Farm

• $302,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,786 square feet, 2.16 acres
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1907 (per county)
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $165,500, August 2020; $94,000, September 2004

William Fred Branon (1893-1965) and Mary Pearl Hinson Branon (1901-1987) bought the property in 1922. It was sold after Mary’s death.

May 25, 2025

A 1932 Tudor Cottage in High Point, $275,000

1501 Wiltshire Street, High Point

• $275,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,853 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $140,000, September 2020; $124,900, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Forest Park
• Note: In its first 78 years, the house had four owners. This would be the fourth time the house has been sold since 2011.

The house was initially a rental. Walter Sohnchen (1906-1984) and Gertrude Ida Pauline “Trudy” Amstein Sohnchen (1908-1960) were the earliest known tenants, listed in the city directory from 1935. They bought the house in 1941 and owned it until 1956, when they moved to Sedgefield. Walter and Trudy were born in Germany. Walter was manager of Superior Trademark Manufacturing and later owned Crest Labor Corp.

May 24, 2025

A 1908 House in the Bynum Historic District in Chatham County, $775,000

967 Bynum Road, Chatham County
The Neal-Snipes House

• $775,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,495 square feet, 1.00 acre
• Price/square foot: $311
• Built in 1908
• Listed May 2, 2025
• Last sale: $440,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Bynum Historic District (NR)
• Note: Now being used as a short-term rental
  • Located 5 miles northeast of Pittsboro, just off U.S. 501 across the Haw River. The property has a Pittsboro mailing address.

District NR nomination: “Triple-A I-house with three-bay façade; hipped front porch with turned columns, sawn brackets, and turned balustrade; weatherboard exterior; replacement one-over-one sash; brick end chimneys with corbelled caps; five-V metal roofing; and a single-story rear ell with interior corbelled brick chimney at the center of its roof ridge.” The original owners were mill superintendent Charles W. Neal and Martha Williamson Neal.

May 24, 2025

A Prominent Businessman’s 1898 Home in Mocksville, $375,000

131 E. Lexington Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Gaston E. Horn House

• $375,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,192 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1898
• Listed May 24, 2025
• Last sales: $75,000, July 2020; $87,000, April 2001
• Note: The current owner used part of the house as an office for her interior-design business and part as a two-bedroom short-term rental (“Priscilla’s Victorian Getaway”).

Gaston E. Horn (1859-1929) was quite a prominent local businessman. He founded the Mocksville Chair Factory in 1901 and was involved with the Horn Brothers and Johnson flour mill and the Horn Telephone Company. After the 1904 fire that destroyed the Davie Hotel, he bought the property and in 1909 sold it to the county to be the site of the new courthouse and jail. He took the old jail, just around the corner from this house, as partial payment and converted it into a residence. It’s now on the National Register.

May 23, 2025

A 1905 Bungalow in Southside, Greensboro’s ‘New Urbanism’ Neighborhood, $499,000

420 McAdoo Avenue, Greensboro
The Margaret Murray Thornton House
Blog post (2021) — New Listing: 420 McAdoo Avenue, A 1905 Bungalow Long Owned by One of Southside’s Earliest Families

• $499,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,071 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $241
• Built in 1905
• Listed March 27, 2021
• Last sales: $310,000, April 2021; $156,600, November 2014 (foreclosure)
• Neighborhood: Southside
• Note: Solar panels on roof

The house sits at the corner of McAdoo and Murray streets. Originally part of the Murray family’s large estate, the property was bought in 1901 by Margaret Murray Thornton (1872-1926) from her mother, four siblings and other relatives. After her death, her husband, Charles Dilk Thornton (1872-1947) owned the house until 1943. He was born in Gloucestershire, England, and worked as a dispatcher for Southern Railway. The Greensboro Redevelopment Commission bought the house in 1997 as part of Southside’s redevelopment.

May 23, 2025

Two Properties with Acreage in Guilford County

4166 Dicks Mill Road, McLeansville, Guilford County

• $540,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,712 square feet, 20.10 acres
• Price/square foot: $315
• Built in 1902 (per county; see note)
• Listed May 23, 2025
• Last sales: $468,000, October 2023; $135,500, June 2016
• Note: South Buffalo Creek runs through the property.

The listing says the house was built in the 1880s. The historic character of the interior has largely been wiped out.

6447 Beulah Church Road, $525,000

6447 Beulah Church Road, Southeast Guilford County

• $525,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,974 square feet, 5.69 acres
• Price/square foot: $266
• Built in 1917
• Listed May 23, 2025
• Last sales: $490,000, May 2024; $315,000, May 2021; $135,500, June 2016

The property has a Liberty mailing address but is in Guilford County, about 8 miles north of Liberty. Three acres of the property are fenced.

May 22, 2025

A Grand 1913 Classical Revival in Mount Airy, $559,000

311 Cherry Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Campbell A. Baird House

• $559,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,316 square feet, 1.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1913
• Listed May 21, 2025
• Last sales: $320,000, May 2020; $55,000, January 2012
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house includes a salt-water hot tub.

District NR nomination: “Grand two-story frame Neo-Classical Revival style house constructed in 1917 for physician, Dr. Campbell A. Baird [1871-1949]. The large, hip-roofed house is dominated by a colossal pedimented portico supported by paired Doric columns. A one-story full-facade hip-roofed attached porch is surmounted by a one-bay second story balustraded porch accessible from an exterior staircase or a second story door identical to the main entrance with sidelights and transom. The house is set in a large lot marked by a granite retaining wall.”

Three More Historic Homes in Winton-Salem

10 W. Banner Avenue, $725,000

10 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Joseph and Minnie Vance House

• $725,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,005 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $241
• Built in 1923
• Listed May 20, 2025
• Last sale: $560,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)

Joseph Addison Vance (1851-1927) and Minnie Kennedy Cole Vance (1872-1950) were the original owners. Joseph was a major figure in the Salem community. He founded J.A. Vance Iron Works in 1884. He was elected mayor of Salem twice and served on the city’s board of aldermen and as chair of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

335 Fairfax Drive, $1.195 Million

335 Fairfax Drive, Winston-Salem

• $1.195 million (originally $1.4 million)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,025 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $297
• Built in 1941
• Listed October 18, 2024
• Last sale: $705,000, May 2006
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a detached garage/guest house.

The original section of the house has a stone facade. A sizable addition is on the right. Attorney Archibald Craige bought the property in 1941. The house was either had been built already or was built very soon thereafter. In any case, it didn’t appear in the city directory until 1945, while Archibald was in the Army. He served as a captain in China, Burma and India. He was listed at the address only in 1946.

617 S. Green Street, Winston-Salem

• $299,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,531 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1918
• Listed May 20, 2025
• Last sales: $241,500, May 2021; $55,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Originally a single family home, now divided into two apartments.
  • County records give 1918 as the date of the house, but it appears on the 1917 Sanborn map. The district National Register nomination puts it at circa 1915.

District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; diamond-pane transom over single-light windows; stuccoed, square posts on brick piers; shingled balustrade. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

May 21, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1937 House in Eden, $210,000

709 Irving Avenue, Eden, Rockingham County

• $210,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,950 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 19, 2025
• Last sale: $98,500, July 2007
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

May 20, 2025

A 1915 Bungalow in Greensboro’s Fisher Park, $425,000

809 Simpson Street, Greensboro
The Donnell-Rogers House

• $425,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,388 square feet (per county), 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1915
• Listed May 16, 2025
• Last sale: $135,000, September 2000
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a cottage in the backyard that has been rented out.

The address was first listed in the city director in the 1913-14 edition, with George Emsley Donnell (1857-1947) listed as resident. George was a dairy farmer. He and his wife, Mary Louise “Loula” Donnell (1860-1948), bought the property in 1912. They lost it to foreclosure in 1930.

An 1895 House with a Former Neighborhood Grocery in Winston-Salem, $469,000

1010 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem

• $469,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,652 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1895
• Listed May 15, 2025
• Last sale: $297,000, July 2010
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing describes the house as being built in 1880. County records say 1895; the district’s National Register nomination says circa 1900.

The property includes a former neighborhood grocery store, formerly 1016 S. Poplar. The NR nomination says it was built around 1915, but it didn’t appear in the city directory until 1925, as Disher’s Grocery. The listing says it has about 680 square feet. In the late 1990s it was known as the Poplar Street Country Store and Antiques.

May 19, 2025

Another Outstanding Mansion in Winston-Salem, $789,000

638 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem
The Thomas S. Douglas House
Blog post (2021) — From Listing to Closing in Two Weeks: The Douglas House, a 1907 Mansion in Winston-Salem

• $789,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,287 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1907
• Listed May 16, 2025
• Last sales: $635,000, July 2021; $170,000, September 1997
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District

DistrictNR nomination: “The Douglas House combines late Victorian irregular massing with Colonial Revival detailing. The two-story frame house has a multi-gable roof, with some of the sparse ornamentation seen in the Palladian window of the smaller front gable and in the trefoil attic vent of the larger gable.”

The original owners were Thomas Sylvester Douglas (1863-1939) and Fannie Wilson Douglas (1870-1955). Thomas was a traveling salesman. Their sons established the Douglas Battery company, which operated from 1921 to 2010.

May 19, 2025

A Curious 1930-ish Bungalow in Elkin, $349,000

310 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Nichols-Hall House

• $349,000 (originally $309,000, later $409,900 and then down to $289,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,221 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built around 1930
• Listed September 2021 to August 2022; relisted May 12, 2025
• Last sale: $66,500, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (local and NR)

Looks like a nice enough little house. Curious: It was bought by a real-estate investor in 2020. She put it on the market for 11 months in 2021-22 — at the height of the COVID home-buying frenzy — and accepted offers over and over again, five times total. None closed. I think that’s a record for this website. In the last nine years, tracking more than 5,000 for-sale listings for historic homes, I don’t think I’ve seen another seller have five offers fall through. Anyway, three years later, she’s trying again.

May 19, 2025

A 1908 House in Mount gilead, $275,000

514 N. Main Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County

• $275,000
• 3 bedrooms (per county), 1 bathroom, 2,456 square feet, 1.92 acres
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1908
• Listed May 19, 2025
• Last sale: $45,000, December 2005

Online listings show 5 bedrooms but describe the house as “potentially 5 BR.” The property includes a detached garage/workshop. Note on county property record card, presumably outdated but worth asking about: “ROOF FALLEN IN ON REAR OF GARAGE IN OUTBLDGS”

May 18, 2025

Two Exemplary Million-Dollar Mansions in Winston-Salem

523 Summit Street, $1.095 Million

523 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The Pepper-McClung House

• $1.095 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,495 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $244
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 15, 2025
• Last sale: $365,000, May 2004
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing says the house is on the highest point in the West End.
  • Online listings show 4,763 square feet.

The interior of this house is fabulously restored. District NR nomination: “The Pepper-McClung House is a large, two-story frame, symmetrically planned Colonial Revival house with a hip roof, a gabled front dormer with a Palladian window, slightly projecting bays on either side of the house, and a large wrap-around porch with Tuscan columns and a deck above the central entrance bay. …

“The focal point of the exterior is the elaborate front entrance with a glass and wood paneled double-leaf door, leaded and beveled glass sidelights and transom, and a Classical surround with Roman Doric columns and pilasters. Flanking the entrance are large windows with leaded glass transoms. The interior is ornamented with a Roman Doric colonade dividing the front hall from the rear stair hall, a Colonial Revival stair, parquet floors, a vertical sheathed wainscot, three pairs of sliding pocket doors, and well-developed dining room mantel and cupboard details.”

3054 Country Club Road, $1.119 million

3054 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem

• $1.119 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,551 square feet (per county), 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $246
• Built in 1922
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sales: $775,000, September 2017; $314,000, November 2011
• Neighborhood: Burkwood Place/Buena Vista

Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage: “As Winston-Salem developed to the west, property owners speculatively subdivided large parcels of land. Hinshaw and Marshall surveyed Ellen T. Harrison and Mamie M. Transou’s holdings on the south side of what is now Country Club Road in 1925, creating Burkwood Place. Two dwellings flank the subdivision entrance: a frame 1922 foursquare at 3054 Country Club Road and a stylish brick 1924 bungalow at 3100 Country Club Road.”

May 9, 2025

A 1920s Bungalow in Greensboro’s Fisher Park, $345,000

805 N. Church Street, Greensboro
The Rees-Harrison House

• $345,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,454 square feet (per county), 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $237
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sales: $242,000, November 2020; $87,000, August 2016
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park (just outside local historic district), Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1925-30”

The address first appears in the 1925 city directory, listed as vacant. In August 1925, the property was bought by William Henry Rees (1860-1936) and Alice Wolfe Rees (1860-1936), and they were shown there in 1926. In 1936, they sold the house to their daughter Mary Reese Harrison (1896-1966) and son-in-law William Sandidge Harrison (1895-1965). Mary and William lived in the house for the rest of their lives. It was sold by Mary’s estate in 1967.

May 6, 2025

A Relatively Affordable 1933 Bungalow in Mocksville, $240,000

141 E. Lexington Road, Mocksville, Davie County

• $240,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,272 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $189
• Built in 1933
• Listed May 5, 2025
• Last sale: $75,000, July 2020
• Note: The property includes a detached office.

The original residents may have been Alex McGuire Kimbrough (1883-1949) and Mamie A. Horne Kimbrough (1888-1978), who bought the property in 1933. It remained in their family for 55 years. The deed suggests a house was already on the lot. Alex worked for Southern Railway for 47 years. He was the railroad’s agent in Clemmons when he died. In 1958 they sold the house to their daughter Louise Kimbrough Osborne (1907-1999). She sold the house in 1988.

May 5, 2025

A Gorgeously Renovated and Expanded Glencoe Mill House, $390,000

2440 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County
Blog post (2018)

• $390,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,031 square feet (per county), 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1885
• Listed May 5, 2025
• Last sales: $252,000, September 2018; $38,000, April 2000
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Historic District (local and NR). The village has Burlington mailing addresses.

Glencoe Mill Village is on the Haw River just north of Burlington. Its 30-some restored houses comprise one of the most intact mill villages still standing in North Carolina. The houses themselves have been renovated and in many cases, like this one, sensitively expanded.

May 5, 2025

A Steeply Gabled 1948 Period Cottage in Winston-Salem, $349,000

2353 Walker Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $349,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,522 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1948
• Listed May 5, 2025
• Last sale: $180,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; gable-roof dormers; asbestos shingle siding; six-over-six, double-hung sash and one-over-one replacement windows; front patio; small sidelights; steeply pitched, front-gable entry pavilion.

May 5, 2025

A 1900 Restoration Project in Mount Gilead, $49,000

105 E. 2nd Avenue, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County

• $49,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (per county), 2,734 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $18
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 5, 2025
• Last sale: $20,000, March 2022

Another lovely old house in Mount Gilead fallen on hard times, it’s a modest Queen Anne with asbestos siding, two-over-two windows, a wrap-around porch and a new metal roof. It’s an absolute mess inside. No heat or air conditioning. Online listings show 2 bedrooms and no bathrooms.

May 4, 2025

A Former Baptist Parsonage in Lexington, $525,000

414 S. State Street, Lexington, Davidson County
Former First Baptist Church Parsonage

• $525,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,424 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built circa 1940 (see note)
• Listed May 4, 2025
• Last sale: $253,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)

First Baptist Church of Lexington bought the property in 1919 and owned it until 1970. District NR nomination: “This house replaced an earlier dwelling and was built after 1929 when the older house is illustrated on the Sanborn map and before 1948 when the current dwelling appears on the Sanborn map.” According to the relatively few Lexington city directories available online, there was no house at the address as late as 1937, but it was listed again by 1941.

May 3, 2025

A Remarkably Expensive Cottage in Greensboro’s Latham Park, $699,000

1221 Briarcliff Road, Greensboro
The Stacey and Myrtle Gifford House

• $699,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,546 square feet (per county), 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $452
• Built in 1934
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sale: $650,000, November 2024
• Neighborhood: Latham Park

The price per square foot is astoundingly high.

In 1932 Pilot Life acquired 32 tracts totaling more than 100 acres in Latham Park, Irving Park and other neighborhoods from the Irving Park Company and Sedgefield Inc. in a foreclosure auction. The house was built a couple years later and rented out before being sold in 1939 to attorney Albert Stacey Gifford (1899-1954) and Myrtle Cline Fulenwider Gifford (1911-1950). They lived in the house until their deaths.

May 2, 2025

A 1905 House in Greensboro’s Lindley Park, $510,000

631 Scott Avenue, Greensboro
The Lydia and Joseph Cartland House, “Beechwood”
Blog post (2019) — 631 Scott Avenue: A 1905 Lindley Park House

• $550,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,142 square feet
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1905
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sales: $400,000, July 2021; $347,500, September 2019
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house was built across the street at the corner of Scott Avenue and Sherwood Street (then called Lake Street) and moved to its present location around 1923.

“The two-story frame house is typical of Greensboro residences of the first decade of the twentieth century. Simply detailed, the Late Victorian form is characterized by a hipped roofline and a projecting hipped wing. … The house is a special footnote for the neighborhood and represents the earliest history of Lindley Park.” — Preservation Greensboro

May 1, 2025

A 1900 House Near Healing springs in Davidson County, $360,000

476 Bringle Ferry Road, Denton, Davidson County
The Snider House

• $360,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,000 square feet (per county), 1.23 acres
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 1, 2025
• Last sales: $320,000, December 2021; $164,000, December 2013
• Neighborhood: Healing Springs, about 4 1/2 miles southeast of Denton.
• Note: The property includes a barn/shed.

The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the Snider House. Albert Monroe Snider (1891-1959) bought the house and its then 43-acre property in 1948. His wife, Rena Butler Snider (1898-1995), and other family members sold it in 1992. Albert and Rena were school teachers.