Piedmont Historic Homes

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Mid-Century Modern is in a class by itself — not old by historic standards, but historic in the innovation and aesthetic breakthrough that it brought to home design. Mid-Century Modern homes are found throughout the 12 counties of the Triad, though they aren’t as plentiful in the Triad as in the Triangle, Charlotte and the mountains.

The authoritative source for information on Mid-Century Modern homes in North Carolina is North Carolina Modernist Houses.

2850galsworthy

2850 Galsworthy Drive, Winston-Salem
The Butler House
Sale pending April 8, 2026

• $1.996 million
• 5 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 7,040 square feet (per county), 2.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $284
• Built in 1964
• Last sales: $1.7 million, June 2025; $860,000, May 2012
• Listed February 25, 2026
• Neighborhood: Reynolda Woods
• Realtor hype: “a stunning home beyond imagination! A MASTERPIECE!” It really is a masterpiece (which is why you don’t have to say it, much less scream it).
• Note: The property is adjacent to Reynolda Gardens.
  • The house now has a travertine pool.
  • 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.
  • The original owners once hosted a seated dinner for 60 people in the living room.
  • 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 listings show 7,625 square feet.
  • “With the exception of a few strategic steel beams, used to span the living room, the house is supported structurally by wooden beams and masonry walls. To show off the wood that covers part of the exterior, Simonson created fir squares, glued together, sandblasted to bring out the grain and mounted diagonally.
  • “Sliding glass doors let the outdoors in when open, and shut the outdoors out when closed to give a spatial continuity between the house and the nature beyond.” (Winston-Salem Journal, 1966)
  • 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 his wife. 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 corporations, including R.J. Reynolds and Wachovia. He served on the RJR Nabisco board committee that reviewed bids for the conglomerate in 1989 (the result was a $25 billion sale to the investment group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, then the largest leveraged buyout in U.S. history).
  • “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.

2756peachtree

2756 Peachtree Road, Statesville, Iredell County
The Victor and Louise McIntyre House
Sale pending August 13, 2024
No longer under contract October 12, 2025

• $1.75 million
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 4,012 square feet (per county), 21 acres
• Price/square foot: $436
• Built in 1954
• Listed October 9, 2023
• Last sale: November 1950, price not recorded on deed
• Note: The listing shows 4,144 square feet.
  • “Built on a former farm, there are 3 parcels of land … The house on 6 acres surrounded by old oak trees, plus 11.91 acres of 25 year growth Loblolly Pines plus one acre parcel that adjoins East Iredell Elementary.”
  • “A 900+square’ shop, plumbed and wired and could be made into a second residence or wonderful work/shop, plus another metal building for tractor/vehicle storage.”
  • Ominous: “Also a prime location for development.”
  • The house was built by Victor O. McIntyre (1925-2022) and Annie Louise Murdock McIntyre (1928-2019). They bought the property in 1950, the year they were married. The house is being sold by one of their sons.
  • Victor owned McIntyre Custom Floors. He was a member of the Cool Spring Volunteer Fire Department. Victor was a Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve, retiring after 42 years in 1985 as a chief petty officer. 
  • Louise was a graduate of Cool Spring High School. She attended Brevard College and received her degree in art from Greensboro College. She taught art at Cool Spring school and then taught art, weaving and pottery in her home.

153hillhaven

153 Hillhaven Place SE, Lenoir, Caldwell County
Sale pending November 11, 2025; no update in more than five months

• $1.399 million
• 6 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 7,982 square feet, 2.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1963
• Listed July 2, 2025
• Last sale: $749,900, May 2022
• Note: The house is now a $4,000/month rental, Zillow says.
  • Designed by Ajii Tashiro (1908-1994), a native of New Haven, Connecticut. “In 1938, Tashiro was recruited to Appalachian State University (ASU) in Boone NC as Landscape Architect and Associate Architect. He also taught Landscape Design, Creative Writing, and History of Western Civilizations. … By 1959 he went on his own as both architect and landscape architect. He moved to North Wilkesboro NC around 1961. Lowes was just taking off and used Tashiro for a variety of projects. … Tashiro resisted being labeled a specialist in any aspect of design work, preferring a wide variety of projects, clients, and challenges. He designed many types of buildings, retiring around 1985 but continuing part time until about 1993.” (NCModernist)
  • The original owners were Allene Edith Broyhill Stevens (1922-2021) and William Edward Stevens Jr. (1922-1983). Allene was the daughter of James Edgar Broyhill, founder of Broyhill Furniture Industries. Her estate sold the house in 2022.
  • Allene was a graduate of Converse College and served as a trustee of Appalachian State University and the Caldwell County Community College Foundation. She was a philanthropist and was honored by the Caldwell Council of Women with the Satie Broyhill Lifetime Achievement Award, which was named for her mother.
  • William was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was executive vice president of Broyhill and the unsuccessful 1974 Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate (Robert Morgan won the seat).
  • There are only two houses on Hillhaven Lane. The other belonged to Allene’s brother James Thomas Broyhill, longtime member of Congress and, briefly, U.S. senator.

1710wright

1710 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Warren and Helen Ashby House

• $875,000
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,018 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $290
• Built in 1958
• Listed April 10, 2026
• Last sales: $740,000, November 2022; $266,000, December 2016
• Neighborhood: College Park
• Note: Designed by Helen Ashby and Edward Lowenstein, one of North Carolina’s most renowned Modernist architects
  • Dr. Warren Ashby (1920-1985) is a major figure in the history of the Women’s College and UNCG. He joined the faculty of Woman’s College in 1949 and taught at the school until he retired in 1983. “Ashby, who specialized in Western ethics, originated and served as head of the Department of Philosophy for twenty years. In 1970 he founded a residential college on the campus, later named Warren Ashby Residential College at Mary Foust in his honor. He was the recipient of the UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 1967. His book, Frank Porter Graham: A Southern Liberal, was published in 1980 after more than 20 years of research. His book A Comprehensive History of Western Ethics: What Do We Believe was published posthumously in 1997.” From 1964 to 1966, Ashby served as the Associate Director of the international affairs division of the American Friends Service Committee in Delhi, India. (Wikipedia)
  • UNCG’s annual Ashby Dialogues program was created “to implement the vision of the late Warren Ashby that the University should be a community of inquiry, with faculty and students engaged in the pursuit of understanding both in and out of the classroom.”
  • Helen Ashby (1915-2014) was assistant director for the Institute for Child and Family Development at the Woman’s College and UNCG from 1958 to 1964. Helen served as a board member and executive director of the YWCA and later became a professional weaver. She exhibited nationally; her work can be seen at UNCG’s Jackson Library and the Three College Observatory. She and Warren were prominent figures in Greensboro’s progressive and civil-rights politics.

565knob

565 Knob View Drive, Winston-Salem
The William and Glenda Folds House
Listing removed December 29, 2025
Relisted January 12, 2026

• $810,000 (originally $950,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, 2 half bathrooms, 3,901 square feet (per county), 2.42 acres
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built in 1975
• Listed September 30, 2025
• Last sales: $435,000, July 2018; $28,000, December 1974
• Neighborhood:
• Note: Online listings show 4,476 square feet.
  • You don’t see many refrigerators like this one.
  • The property includes an in-ground swimming pool and a lower-level two-car garage.
  • The original owners were Dr. William Franklin Folds (1931-2022) and Glenda Lee Fulp Folds (1936-2017), who bought the property in 1974. Bill sold it in 2018. He was a physician and a graduate of Wake Forest and Bowman Gray Medical School. He served as chairman of the county Board of Health and as president of the medical staff at Forsyth Memorial Hospital. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

4228starmount

4228 Starmount Drive, Greensboro
The Frank and Bertha Holliday House

• $775,000 (originally $839,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,031 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $256
• Built in 1952
• Listed October 27, 2025
• Last sales: $700,000, June 2022; $390,000, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: The house has a bedroom with an en suite bathroom and exterior door that could be used an in-law suite.
  • The original owners were Frank Robertson Holliday Jr. (1922-1990) and Bertha Anthony “Bert” Holliday (1926-2017). They bought the property in 1951. Although county records show the home’s date as 1952, they weren’t listed as living on Starmount Drive until 1956. Frank was a graduate of N.C. State University and served as an Army captain in World War II. He was president of Holliday Manufacturing Company and secretary-treasurer of F.R. Holliday and Company, plumbers, where he worked with his father and uncle Earle Holliday.
  • Frank died of asbestos-related lung cancer in 1990. Bert sold the house in 1996.
  • A renovation of the home included painting the exterior stone work, a highly second-guessable decision:

434swestview

434 S. Westview Drive, Winston-Salem
The Frank and Ellen Forsyth House
Sale pending April 14, 2026

• $550,055
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,681 square feet, 1.30 acres
• Price/square foot: $205
• Built in 1955
• Listed April 9, 2026
• Last sale: $60,000, May 1971
• Neighborhood: Westview
• Note: The initial price is a palindrome, probably the only one I’ve seen in nine years of doing this.
  • Designed by Fred Washington Butler Jr.
  • “The long dwelling consists of two wings intersecting at a roughly 45-degree angle with extremely low-pitched gable roofs. Roman brick veneer and vertical board siding sheathe the exterior walls. Deep roof overhangs supported by exposed beams shelter wood-frames plate glass windows.” (Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage … the book is out of print, but can be found online and at some used-book stores)
  • The original owners were Dr. Harry Francis Forsyth (1914-1988) and Ellen Blanche Clancy Forsyth (1917-1996). Frank was an orthopedic surgeon and professor at Bowman Gray Medical School. Ellen received her masters degree in education from UNC Greensboro and worked for the Winston-Salem Forsyth school system. After their divorce, Ellen sold the house in 1962. (Frank later married Anne Cannon Reynolds, daughter of Z. Smith Reynolds.)
  • Juanita Bruton Tredwell (1912-2007) and Kenneth I. Tredwell Jr. (1919-1983) bought the house in 1962. During World War II, Juanita was an ambulance driver in London during the Battle of Britain. She had been a kindergarten teacher in California. Later, while living in Charlotte, she and Ken were among the developers of the Burtonwood neighborhood. She was politically active and an advocate for kindergarten programs.
  • Kenneth was a vice president at Wachovia. He was a retired lieutenant colonel who had served with the Army Air Force in World War II. He worked with the BBC in London to produce radio interviews with American soldiers for broadcast in the United States. He was a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He later worked for WBT radio and television and Charlotte before coming to Winston-Salem.
  • The Tredwells sold the house in 1971 to Paul Eugene Marshall (1930-2026) and Carolyn Riddle Marshall (d. 2023, age 87). Paul’s estate is selling the house. Paul was an accountant and internal auditor who worked for Price Waterhouse in New York and Tokyo before coming to Winston-Salem to work for R.J. Reynolds, where he served in upper management for 20 years. Carolyn worked for Wachovia and for H&R Block.

1208cleburne

1208 Cleburne Street, Greensboro
The Lashley-Hammer House
Sale pending June 11-19, 2024
Listing withdrawn February 2, 2025
Relisted February 24, 2026

• $499,900 (originally $599,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,564 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1957
• Listed January 25, 2024
• Last sale: $50,000, February 1973
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: The house has had only two owners. Carl Amos Lashley (1925-2020) and Betty Slater Lashley (1932-2012) bought the property in 1957 and were listed at the address in 1958. Amos served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He graduated from the University of Miami and worked as instructor at Vern’s Dance Studio. He soon joined Pilot Life as a supervisor and later joined Prudential. Betty worked in her father’s real-estate office.
  • In 1973, they sold the house to John Richard “Dick” Hammer Sr. (1922-2004) and Hannah Martin Davis Hammer. Dick also was in life insurance, with Mutual of New York. Hannah is now selling the house.

804willowbrook

804 Willowbrook Drive, Greensboro
Sale pending March 20, 2026

• $325,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,144 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $284
• Built in 1955
• Listed March 17, 2026
• Last sales: $255,000, August 2022; $229,000, November 2021
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house was built by Robert G. Paschal (1909-1981) and Lula Busick Heath Paschal (1907-1990). Robert was a department manager at Binswanger & Company. They sold the house in 1969.
  • From 1985 to 2019, the house was owned by the family of Frederick J. Schultz (d. 2018, age 88) and Donna Hansen Schultz (dates unknown). Frederick had a doctorate in chemistry. He worked for Lorillard Tobacco Company for 30 years and retired as vice president of research and development. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club and the U.S. Power Squadron, Greensboro chapter.

2080 Pannel Road, Wentworth, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn October 11, 2025; relisted October 31, 2025
Sale pending January 5, 2026
No longer under contract January 21, 2026

• $235,000 (originally $259,000)
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 2,020 square feet, 4.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1998
• Listed April 15, 2025
• Last sales: $228,500, October 2023; $76,000, February 2023
  • Note: The house is a geodesic dome with one floor, a loft and a basement.
  • The house has a Reidsville mailing address, but is just on the other side of Wentworth.
  • County records show 768 square feet, which appears to be the size of the first floor only.