Piedmont Historic Homes

1032 Rockford Road, High Point
The Thayer and Dot Coggin House

• Sold for $854,000 on June 23, 2025 (listed at $849,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,557 square feet (per county), 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $187
• 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 renowned, longtime designer for Thayer Coggin Furniture.
  • The house is located on the Emerywood Country Club golf course.
  • Featured in the Greensboro Daily News (“With the Women” section), April 4, 1973:
  • “‘Thayer had the idea that he wanted the house to contour to the hillside,’ Mrs. Coggin said last week as she prepared to open her new home to the press gathered here for the Southern Furniture Market.
  • “‘It just didn’t make sense to level off the lot and build a two-story house.’
  • “The architect, Fred M. Babcock, A.I.A., of Salt Lake City Utah selected a sand-textured four-by-four brick for the exterior of the house in order to make it compatible with the colonial atmosphere which prevails in Emerywood.”
  • 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 was born in High Point. He served in North Africa with the Army medical corps during World War II. In 1953, he founded Thayer Coggin Furniture. His work with Baugham made the company a national leader in modern furniture. He was awarded the first Outstanding Design Support Award from the American Society of Furniture Designers in 1989.
  • “The success of Coggin’s design concepts were underscored by the wide coverage his collections received in metropolitan newspapers and high-style magazines as well as by his high-profile, celebrity clientele,” the News & Record wrote.
  • Thayer also was a benefactor to the High Point community. The emergency room at High Point Regional Hospital is named for Coggin in recognition of his fund-raising for the hospital. He supported the restoration of the High Point railroad depot and the establishment of the High Point Theatre and Exhibition Center. He helped establish the fire department that served outlying areas of High Point and Thomasville not served by the cities. He also worked as a volunteer fire fighter. He was a longtime member of the String and Splinter Club.
  • Dot worked for Thayer Coggin in public relations and accounting. She also served on the High Point University Board of Trustees and was a member of the Red Hat Society.

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

• Sold for $312,000 on June 12, 2025 (originally $329,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,086 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• 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.
  • One of the most intact examples of mid-century kitchen glory that you’re likely ever to see.

• Sold for $1.7 million on June 3, 2025 (originally $1.3 million, later $2.2 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 7,040 square feet, 2.21 acres (all per county; see note below)
• Price/square foot: $241
• Built in 1964
• Last sale: $860,000, May 2012
• Listed September 21, 2019
• Neighborhood: Reynolda Woods
• Note: The property is adjacent to Reynolda Gardens.
  • Designed by Byron Simonson of Palm Beach, landscape design by the remarkable Dick Bell of Raleigh.
  • The house was featured in an eight-page spread in Architectural Digest in 1970.
  • Listed on locationshub.com, a directory of locations available for film or television productions: “The 1963 Albert Butler House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the exemplar of high Mid-Century Modern style. Designed by Addison Mizner protégé Byron Simonson (designer of the Colony Hotel and the now-defunct Coquille Club, Palm Beach), the house is 7500-SF of glam ready for filming.
  • “Some of the spectacular features of the Albert Butler House are crotched mahogany walls, carved wall divider screens, inverted ship’s prow cypress ceilings with quatrefoil skylights, indoor and outdoor soaring green marble and quartz walls, coromandel screen custom fitted around a stainless fireplace, hand-pegged diagonal wood floors, octagonal dining room in Tiffany blue with bespoke starburst chandelier, convex ceiling and hand-poured plaster moldings, ceiling-to-floor circus stripe curtains, carved teak double front doors, and turquoise and malachite kitchen with colored stove, hood, and wall oven.”
  • Online listing services have two listings for this house, both attributed to the same agency. One says there are 6 bedrooms, 6 full bathrooms and two-half-bathrooms, and 7,758 square feet. The other shows 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, and 10,400 square feet.
  • The original owners were Albert Louis Butler Jr. (1918-1997) and Elizabeth Hill Bahnson Butler (1919-1996). Albert studied economics at Princeton and served in the Army during World War II. He returned to become president of the Arista Company, a textile firm owned by Elizabeth Butler. He moved it into data processing in 1969, sold that business in 1984 and turned Arista into a real-estate holding company.
  • The Winston-Salem Journal called him “a distinguished man who poured himself into making his hometown a better place to live.” He was active with the YMCA, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Children’s Home of North Carolina, the Urban League, the Arts Council, the library, the symphony and the Chamber of Commerce. He chaired the Winston-Salem Foundation for 19 years. He also served on the board of trustees of Salem Academy and Wake Forest University and received the Distinguished Service Award from the WFU Medical Alumni Association.
  • Albert was a politically active conservative Democrat. He campaigned for Republican Wendell Wilkie in 1940 against President Franklin Roosevelt.
  • He was a director of several corpoarions, including R.J. Reynolds and Wachovia. He served on the RJR Nabisco board committee that reviewed bids for the conglomerate in 1998 (the result was a $25 billion sale to the investment group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts).
  • “He has been with Arista since 1946 and a director of RJR Nabisco since 1976,” The New York Times said. “Mr. Butler has been involved in several corporate restructurings and takeovers, including Ashland Oil’s acquisition of the Filter Corporation, of which he was a director.”
  • The house was sold by Albert’s estate in 1998 to Michael E. Pulitzer Jr. and Ramelle C. Pulitzer. Michael is a great-grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. He was an executive with WXII-TV in Winston-Salem. The Pulitzer company owned WXII from 1983 to 1998. The Pulitzers sold the house in 2012 to the current owners.

1903 Colonial Avenue, Greensboro
The Robert and Violet Atkinson House

• Sold for $469,000 on April 30, 2025 (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
  • The listing was withdrawn/relisted in 2015/2017, 2017/2018, 2020/2021 and 2021/2025.
• Last sale: $230,000, July 2014
• Neighborhood: Kirkwood
• Note: 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.
  • Previous listing: “Original quarry tile flooring was discovered during remodel and restored to 1950’s condition.”

3300 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro
The Ernest and Stella Gulley House

• Sold for $208,400 on April 28, 2025 (originally $210,000)
• 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, 1,221 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1959
• Listed June 14, 2024
• Last sales: $151,500, September 2021; $120,000, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Rankin
• Note: The property was bought by Ernest Omar Gulley (1916-2002) and Stella Joyce Gulley (1922-2005) in 1959. The address first appears in the city directory in 1961. Omar was a clerk. The Gulleys owned the house until they died.

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

• Sold for $626,000 on April 23, 2025 (listed at $600,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,148 square feet, 9.27 acres
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1980
• Listed September 8, 2023
• Last sales: $525,000, January 2024; $481,000, June 2021
• Note: 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.
  • The house was built by Herbert E. Williams (1941-2020) and Patricia W. Williams. They bought the property in 1979 and owned it until 2021. Herbert was born in Forsyth County. He graduated from Gray High School and Guilford College. He worked for Reynolds American for 30 years.

503 Finley Avenue, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County
The Lewis and Lucille Jenkins House

• Sold for $343,000 on April 9, 2025 (originally $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,645 square feet, 1.13 acres
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1956
• Listed January 2, 2025
• Last sale: The house may not have been sold since it was built.
• Note: The property includes a swimming pool.
  • There’s an undersized bedroom in this house that really has to be seen.
  • The earliest documented owners were Lewis Hill Jenkins Sr. (1926-2013) and Lucille Russell Jenkins (1924-2008), listed in the city directory in 1962. Ownership of the property is still in Lucille’s name. Lewis was president of Jenkins Wholesale Supply Company and vice president of the family company, Jenkins Inc., which sold building materials, hardware and sheet metal. He was chairman of the local flood control committee that was instrumental in the building of the W. Kerr Scott Reservoir in Wilkes County. He was appointed by Gov. Jim Holshouser to the state Environmental Management Commission. He served on the boards of the North Wilkesboro schools, Wilkes Community College and Appalachian State University.
  • Lewis also was a renowned restorer of automobiles, Buicks in particular, as was their son, Lewis Jr. (1956-2024). They had a car museum that included Samuel Goldwyn‘s 1928 Buick Roadster and a 1946 Buick Super 56C that won Best of Show at the fall 1998 Charlotte AutoFair.
  • They located their auto restoration business in a 1920s tannery, which is now considered a brownfield site. They also affixed the name of their hardware business to the tannery’s colossal smokestack, which still stands.

4132 Dogwood Drive, Greensboro
The Ned and Betty Lawrence House

• Sold for $575,000 on April 4, 2025 (originally $675,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,915 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $197
• Built in 1958
• Listed November 22, 2024
• Last sale: $270,000, December 2008
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: The house has had three owners. Edward M. “Ned” Lawrence (2018-2006) and Betty Jane Johnston Lawrence (1920-2003) bought the property from the Starmount Company in 1958. Ned served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He was vice president of Pomona Pipe Products. Betty was a 30-year member of the Wesley Long Hospital Auxiliary and a founder of the Charioteers service club at Grimsley High School.
  • In 1980 Ned and Mary sold the house to their daughter, Christine Lawrence McGrath, and son-in-law, Terrill McGrath. They sold the house to the current owners in 2008.

1804 Dantzler Drive, High Point
The Ralph and Ann Holland House

• Sold for $655,900; date uncertain (see note; listed at $649,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,790 square feet (per county), 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1978
• Listed February 27, 2025
• Last sales: $420,000, January 2023; $270,000, February 2016
• Note: The deed is dated February 22, 2025, five days before the house was listed for sale. It wasn’t filed until April 3. Something screwy here.
  • Located on Oak Hollow Lake
  • The original owners were Ralph Taylor Holland Jr. (1938-1990) and Ann Crockett Holland (1937-2025), who bought the house in 1978. Ralph was proprietor of Ralph Holland Photography in Greensboro. Ann was a school teacher and later was an interior designer with Reynolds House Interiors of Greensboro. Ann was a 1959 graduate of Marshall University in her home state of West Virginia.

4300 Cold Springs Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $1.15 million on March 28, 2025 (originally $1.475 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 5,050 square feet, 2.11 acres
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1976
• Listed August 9, 2024
• Last sale: $18,000, November 1974
• Neighborhood: Mount Tabor
• Note: The house was designed by architect Robert F. Arey (1920-1996), who designed a number of modernist homes in Winston-Salem. He had worked for Northup and O’Brien between stints with the Corps of Engineers in World War II and the Korean War. In 1960 he started his own firm.
  • The property adjoins a small lake. The 1974 deed suggests the lake was only recently created at the time.
  • The property incudes an in-ground pool and pool house and a three-car garage.

518 Edwin Court, Roxboro, Person County
The Benjamin and Janie Thaxton House

• Sold for $284,000 on March 28, 2025 (listed at $320,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,540 square feet, 1.71 acres
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1970
• Listed February 13, 2025
• Last sale: $157,000, April 2020
• Neighborhood: Reade Park
• Note: The original owners were Benjamin Adams Thaxton Jr. (1921-1998) and Janie Gilbert Paschal Thaxton (1920-2012). Benjamin was an insurance agent. They bought the property in 1969 and lived there until Benjamin’s death 29 years later. Janie sold the house in 1999.

4505 Kenbridge Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $449,000 on March 27, 2025 (listed at $439,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,397 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $187
• Built in 1981
• Listed February 21, 2025
• Last sale: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
• Neighborhood: Starmount Forest
• Note: Neighborhood developer the Starmount Company sold the lot to Frederick C. Nielsen and Marlene Nielsen (dates unknown for both) in January 1981. Frederick was district director of the Internal Revenue Service. In 1985 the deed was put into Marlene’s name. She is now selling the house.

3516 Kingston Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $320,000 on March 13, 2025 (listed at $349,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,819 square feet, 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1957
• Listed November 18, 2924
• Last sale: $173,000, September 2015
• Neighborhood: Town and Country Estates
• Note: The house was built by Ross Minish Sigmon Jr. (1918-2006) and Frances “Polly” Crowder Sigmon (1920-2004). They bought the property in 1956 and were listed in the city directory in 1958. Ross was a Navy veteran and an engineer with Western Electric.
  • By 1960, the Sigmons were gone and John P. Tynes and Katherine N. Tynes (dates unknown for both) were listed at the address. John was another Western Electric employee.
  • The Tynes sold the house in 1962 to William Hamilton Nifong (1922-2000) and Doris Snider Everhart Nifong (1921-2006). They owned the house for 42 years. William served in the Army Air Force during World War II and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves. He, too, was Western Electric employee. Doris sold the house in 2004.

803 Winview Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $420,000 on March 7, 2025 (originally $495,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,750 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built in 1968
• Listed August 15, 2024
• Last sale: $8,800, January 1967
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Forest
• Note: The owners have made some bold color choices.
  • The lot was bought in 1967 by Richard F. Potthoff and Judith F. Potthoff. This is the first sale of the house. Richard is a mathematical statistician and a visiting scholar in the Duke University political science department and the Social Science Research Institute. His areas of expertise include voting theory, elections, electoral systems, social choice, proportional representation, spatial models, design of election polls, prediction markets, linear and integer programming applications, and biostatistics (design and analysis of clinical trials, missing data, case-control studies, genetics).
    

1307 Shamrock Drive, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $397,000 on March 7, 2025 (listed at $424,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,828 square feet, 0.92 acre
• Price/square foot: $217
• Built in 1963
• Listed January 8, 2025
• Last sale: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
• Neighborhood: Located a couple miles south of Interstate 40/85 off N.C. 49 and Monroe Holt Road.
• Note: The property includes a swimming pool and an attached workshop with an upstairs bedroom and bathroom.
  • The property was bought by Herbert Anderson “Andy” Carmen III (1929-2021) and Fleta Aline Hampton Carmen (1930-2024) in 1963. Andy designed the house. It is being sold by Fleta’s estate.
  • Andy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architectural engineering, joined Western Electric in Winston-Salem and then the architecture firm of McMinn, Norfleet & Wicker in Greensboro. In 1960, he was a founder of Alley, Williams, Carmen & King, an engineering and architecture firm in Burlington. He served as the firm’s head of architecture from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. He specialized in schools and commercial, industrial and medical buildings. He also served as president of the Piedmont Section of the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
  • Fleta was born in Winston-Salem. She graduated from Mars Hill College and Appalachian State Teachers College and became a school teacher. Later, she earned a master’s degree in business education from UNC Greensboro and taught at Alamance Community College and Elon College. Together, Fleta and Andy restored a restored an 1878 farmhouse built by one of Fleta’s great-grandfathers.
    

146 Cherokee Lane, Purlear, Wilkes County

• Sold for $340,000 on February 28, 2025 (listed at $498,900, originally $549,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,875 square feet, 2.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 2002
• Listed April 29, 2024
• Last sale: $35,000, October 2001
• Neighborhood: Bobcat Mountain
• Note: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
  • The lower level contains a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.
  • Located in the county’s “ONLY gated community!”

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

• Sold for $1.379 million on February 26, 2025 (listed at $1.4 million)
• 6 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 5,810 square feet, 14.8 acres
• Price/square foot: $237
• Built in 1963
• Listed February 4, 2025
• Last sales: $865,000, June 2020; $450,000, March 2017
• Note: The property includes a tennis court with a pool-house-type building.
  • The kitchen seems to have two refrigerators.
  • Is that laundry room cedar-lined? I don’t think I’ve seen that before.
  • The listing says the house was featured in Architectural Digest in 1965.
  • Designed by Austin and Faulk of Southern Pines.
  • 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. …
  • “Two large old trees, a hickory and a post oak, were incorporated to enhance and provide shade, especially on the deck. A slope and view to the east are enjoyed from the porch and deck as well as Master Bedroom and glimpsed from Living Room, Dining Room and Recreation Room. Most of house is on one level, but because of slope to the east, part of the house, bedrooms, are on a basement level.”
  • The original owners were Harry Marshall Vale Jr. (1923-1964) and Jane Drexel Vale (d. 2008, age 79). Harry was born in Princeton, New Jersey, but grew up in Southern Pines. He attended Saint George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island, and Princeton University. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Force as a bombardier in the Burma-China-India theater. “In later years, he travelled widely and was prominent in the cultural life of this community,” his obituary said. He died after a short illness just a year after the house was built. He created the property’s landscape design.
  • Jane was a great-granddaughter of Anthony J. Drexel, banker and partner of J.P. Morgan and founder of Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her family moved to Southern Pines when she was six years old. She sold the house in 1975.

6832 Colonial Club Drive, Randolph County

• Sold for $779,000 on February 25, 2025 (listed at $799,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,123 square feet, 1.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $249
• Built in 1982 (per county; see note)
• Listed November 1, 2024
• Last sale: $292,000, September 1998
• Neighborhood: Colonial Country Club
• Note: Designed by Jon Andre Condoret (1934-2010). Condoret was born in Algiers and received a bachelors degree in architecture from the L’Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris. He came to North Carolina from Algeria in 1962. He designed a number of modernist houses in Chapel Hill and Chatham County and served as senior architect for Fearrington Village in Chatham County near Chapel Hill.
  • The house has a Thomasville mailing address, but is across the county line in Randolph County, about 3 1/2 miles east of Thomasville and 7 miles southwest of Archdale.
  • Online listings give the date as 1976.
  • Listing: “Views of the 14th hole at Colonial Country Club”
  • The original owners were James G. McGhee and Brenda L. McGhee (dates unknown for both), who bought the property in 1974. James sold the house to the current owners in 1998.

264 Knollwood Street, Winston-Salem
The A.G. and Lois Foster House

• Sold for $610,000 on February 21, 2025 (originally $599,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,777 square feet (per county), 0.74 acre
• Price/square foot: $343
• Built in 1955
• Listed January 24, 2025
• Last sales: $389,900, September 2020; $232,000, February 2015
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The listing shows 2,327 square feet, 31 percent larger than country records show.
  • The original owners were Arvel Greene “A.G.” Foster (1921-2002) and Matelois “Lois” Walsh Foster (1921-2012). They lived in the house until around 1962. Arvel served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He was a serial entrepreneur, best known as co-founder, CEO and chairman of Salem Carpet Mills, which became one of the nation’s largest carpet manufacturers. He also was a founder of Foster & Bailey, plumbing and electrical contractors; developer of Town and Country Estates with his father and brother; and founder of Solution Fibers of Lafayette, Georgia, a synthetic yarn manufacturer.

780 S. Ridge Street, Southern Pines, Moore County

• Sold for $357,000 on February 3, 2025 (listed at $345,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,630 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1923 (per county)
• Listed December 19, 2024
• Last sale: $70,000, June 2016
• Neighborhood: Adjacent to the Southern Pines Golf Club
• Note: This doesn’t look like a 1923 house. No other houses on the block date to the 1920s, although there are a few built in the past 20 years that could have been tear-downs.
  • The property was bought in 1952 by Thomas Edward Shockley (1918-2000) and Iris Lillian Tate Shockley (1913-1997). Thomas was vice president and later president of Aberdeen Packing. The house was sold by their son in 2016. It has been a rental since then.

402 Dorado Court, Davidson County

• Sold for $420,000 on January 29, 2025 (listed at $459,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,577 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $163
• Built in 1983
• Listed November 23, 2024
• Last sale: The property hasn’t been sold since the house was built.
• Neighborhood: Willow Creek, located about 7 miles west of High Point. It has a High Point mailing address.
• Note: Designed by Norman Zimmerman. His best-known work may be the Bob Timberlake Gallery in Lexington.
  • Online listings show the lot size as 0.59 acre, but county records give 95 feet by 187, or 0.41 acre.

3743 Crosland Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $310,000 on January 22, 2025 (originally $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,935 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1955
• Listed November 8, 2024
• Neighborhood: Old Town Heights
• Last sales: $279,900, October 2022; $145,000, April 2019
• Note: The house has had a remarkable number of owners. It was sold five times between 1976 and 1977.
  • The house was built by Walter A. Bishop and Clara M. Bishop, who bought the property in 1955. Whether they ever lived there is unknown (Crosland Road was outside the city, so the city directory didn’t list it). They sold the house in 1956 to James L. and Ruby S. Hodgin (dates unknown for both). They sold the house in 1963 to James Terry Gates and Dana N. Gates (dates unknown for both). Terry worked for Pilot Freight Carriers and was transferred to Wilmington in 1966.
  • The buyers in 1966 were Richard Q. Little and Reva G. Little (dates unknown for both). Later owners were James D. Booton and Patricia H. Booton, 1972-76; Rodney T. Nance and Marisa R. Nance, February 1976-March 1976; Lillie Frye Williams, March 1976-August 1976; Earl R. Barrett and Elizabeth P. Barrett, 1976-1977; Calvin N. Cave and Nancy R. Cave, 1977-1996; Albert Fortin and Carolyn Fortin, 1996-2006. The house has been sold four times since 2006 (including a 2018 foreclosure).

1602 Country Club Drive, High Point

• Sold for $415,000 on January 21, 2025 (listed at $399,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,384 square feet (per county), 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1970
• Listed July 16, 2024
• Last sale: $161,500, April 1997
• Neighborhood: Emerywood Forest
• Note: Online listings show 2,508 square feet.
  • The original owners were Charles Durham Wallace (1939-2012) and Carol Purvis Wallace. Charles worked for Golding Upholstery Fabric. They bought the property in 1970 and sold it in 1986.

3541 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $765,000 on January 3, 2025 (originally $795,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,860 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $267
• Built in 1975
• Listed April 24, 2024
• Last sale: $462,000, August 2015
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: There’s an in-law suite in the basement.
  • The original owner was Kay Frances Beeker Messick (1937-2021), who bought the property in 1973. Kay had become a real-estate agent after her husband died in a plane crash in 1968. She married David Mack Deese Jr. in 1979. Her obituary said she was a fan of the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees. Her favorite player was Reggie Jackson. Kay and David sold the property in 1982.