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.

1chowan

1 Chowan Road, Sedgefield, Guilford County

• $1.995 million (originally $2.595 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 5,232 square feet, 1.73 acres
• Price/square foot: $381
• Built in 1975
• Listed May 5, 2026
• Last sale: $900,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield, with views of the 13th and 14th holes at Sedgefield Country Club.
• Listing: “[T]his extraordinary Mid-Century Modern masterpiece has been completely transformed by the current owners into a stunning showcase property.” Which explains why the price is about $1.7 million higher than it was five years ago.
• Note: Designed by renowned Modernist architect George Matsumoto. The house was featured in House & Garden in 1964 and in Architectural Record in 1962 (details here).
  • N.C. State College of Design: “Matsumoto taught architecture at the (then) School of Design from its inception in 1948 until 1961, after which he went into architecture practice full time. He came to North Carolina from San Francisco, and, along with Dean Henry Kamphoefner and the founding faculty of the School, led the state to the forefront of the modernist architecture movement. Many faculty members, including Matsumoto himself, were in practice while teaching, and the residences and commercial buildings they designed are still celebrated today.”
  • The original owners were Edwin Kenneth Thrower (1916-2009) and Elizabeth “Boots” Antrim Thrower (1938-2011). Edwin was a native of Lumberton and an Army veteran of World War II. He founded Founders Furniture Company and became president of Thomasville Furniture after the company acquired Founders.
  • Boots was originally from Guilford County. She was a graduate of Duke University and worked as a school teacher. She served on the advisory board of the Duke Marine Laboratory. After selling the house in 1994, they lived in Key Largo and then Vero Beach.

2756peachtree

2756 Peachtree Road, Statesville, Iredell County
The Victor and Louise McIntyre House
Sale pending August 13, 2024, to October 12, 2025
Listing withdrawn July 1, 2026
Relisted July 15, 2026

• $1.5 million (originally $1.75 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 4,012 square feet (per county), 21 acres
• Price/square foot: $374
• 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 nine 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.

565knob

565 Knob View Drive, Winston-Salem
The William and Glenda Folds House
Listing removed December 29, 2025; relisted January 12, 2026
Listing withdrawn August 1, 2026
Relisted August 10, 2026

• $795,000 (originally $950,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, 2 half bathrooms, 3,901 square feet (per county), 2.42 acres
• Price/square foot: $204
• 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.

2051royall

2051 Royall Drive, Winston-Salem
Sale pending August 23, 2026

• $650,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,380 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $273
• Built in 1967
• Listed May 13, 2026
• Last sale: $62,500, October 1985
• Neighborhood: Wake Forest University
• Note: The house was built by Wake Forest University in a development for faculty and staff. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1969 with Harold Sims “Pete” Moore (1921-2014) and Maxine Beddow Moore (1925-2022) as residents. The university sold it to them in 1985. Maxine’s estate is now selling it.
  • Pete was an Army veteran of World War II. While fighting in Italy, he spent six months in a prisoner of war camp. He came to Winston-Salem in 1953 to help prepare for the college’s move from Wake Forest. He spent 40 years as director the WFU physical plant, working well beyond the campus itself. In 1974 he returned to Italy to lead the renovation of the palatial former U.S. consulate in Venice, the school’s first semester-abroad site. In 1977, he led the renovation of a house in London for another such site. Wake Forest’s H.S. Moore Physical Plant Building is named in his honor.
  • Maxine and Pete met while both were working at the University of Virginia. In Winston-Salem, she began taking classes at Wake Forest but transferred to UNC Greensboro for her undergraduate degree and masters degree in library science. She worked for many years in the Wake Forest library’s rare book room.

120woodland

120 Woodland Drive, Morganton, Burke County
The Taylor and Janice Vernon House

• $600,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,657 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1957 (per county, but possibly 1958; see note)
• Listed August 13, 2026
• Last sale: $465,000, September 2023
• Note: Designed by Stewart Penn of Asheville
  • Although the house wasn’t built until the late 1950s, the property was owned by members of the closely entwined Taylor and Vernon families from 1914 to 2023. The relationships are complicated and difficult to follow, given that several male first names are repeated among the generations. Here’s a short version.
  • The property was bought in 1914 by Dr. Isaac Montrose Taylor (1857-1921), an early psychiatrist. He was a co-founder and later owner of the Broadoaks Sanatorium in Morganton. He and Susan Evans Taylor (1863-1962) had five children, including Sarah Cole Taylor (1894-1984). Sarah married Dr. James William Vernon (1886-1955). James later succeeded Isaac as superintendent of Broadoaks. James and Sarah had a son, Dr. James Taylor Vernon (1921-2005), known as Taylor and also a psychiatrist.
  • In 1958, Susan sold this property to grandson Taylor and his wife, Florence Franklin Royal Vernon (d. 1982). Taylor and Florence both lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • During World War II, Taylor had served as a physician for the Army Air Corps. Florence, the daughter of a doctor herself, was from Morehead City and attended Greensboro College before graduating from the Women’s College.
  • After the war Taylor and Florence returned to Morganton, where he joined the staff of Broadoaks. Taylor left to study psychiatry at Harvard, returning to Broadoaks as a third-generation psychiatrist in 1951. The family closed Broadoaks in 1959, and Taylor joined Broughton Hospital in Morganton, the state psychiatric facility. In 1971, he was a founder of the Foothills Area Mental Health Program and practiced there until retiring in 1987. He also had a private practice. For some time, he was the only psychiatrist with a private practice in Western North Carolina outside of Asheville.
  • Taylor had grown up in a home with a brother and a cousin, Isaac Montrose “Ike” Taylor (1921-1996). Ike was another grandson of Isaac and Susan Taylor through their son Alexander. Alexander’s wife died shortly after giving birth to Ike. At her request, the baby was raised by Sarah and James along with their sons James Taylor Vernon and Livingston Vernon.
  • When Ike grew up, he, too, became a doctor, eventually serving as dean of the medical school in Chapel Hill. He married twice and had eight children. He named two of his sons James Vernon Taylor and Livingston Taylor. And for a while he had Carly Simon as a daughter-in-law.
  • Much of the information, about the Vernons in particular, came from a post on a remarkable blog called Write Something Pretty for Me.

11culbreth

11 Culbreth Avenue, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Bill and Laurel Busby House
Sale pending August 17, 2026

• $569,900
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,948 square feet, 2.61 acres
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1983
• Listed July 30, 2026
• Last sales: $435,000, December 2023; $250,000, March 2009
• Note: The house has had only three owners.
  • The house was built by Dr. William Jarvis Busby (1944-2020) and Laurel H. Busby. Bill was Thomasville’s only orthopedic surgeon for more than 30 years. He was an Army veteran and was a Morehead Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill as both an undergraduate and as a medical student.
  • Bill was a pole vaulter in high school and college. As an adult, he was a track and field official, coach, competitor and administrator. He funded track facilities at Mount Tabor High School and Thomasville High School. He competed in U.S. Masters track and field events and sponsored a Masters event annually in Thomasville.
  • In 2009, Bill sold the house to Dr. B. Gray Bowman and Anita Hill Bowman. Gray was a professor of chemistry at High Point University. Anita was an instructor in physical science at the school. She also taught chemistry and mathematics methods for elementary teachers. The Bowmans sold the house to the current owners in 2023.

146 Cherokee Lane, Purlear, Wilkes County
Listing withdrawn August 3, 2026

• $500,000 (originally $524,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,875 square feet, 2.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $267
• Built in 2002
• Listed April 28, 2026
• Last sales: $340,000, February 2025; $35,000, October 2001
• Neighborhood: Bobcat Mountain
• Note: The lower level contains a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.

183sgatewood

183 S. Gatewood Road, Yanceyville, Caswell County
The Maud Gatewood House

• $499,000
• 3 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,513 square feet, 2.16 acres
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1979
• Listed August 15, 2026
• Last sales: $410,000, November 2021; $170,000, March 2018; $220,000, August 1999
• Note: Built by Maud Florance Gatewood (1934-2004), probably the most significant person born in Caswell County since its boom days in the early 1800s. Maud was one of the most significant painters in North Carolina history.
  • “… an exceptional figure in the art history of North Carolina and the American Southeast. A painter of exacting technique with a keen eye for composition and cultural commentary, her pictures capture the Carolinas (and the expanding world beyond) across much of the 20th Century. A native of Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC, Gatewood’s paintings reveal rural landscapes and their denizens in the midst of transformation while also cleverly framing the experience of modern life with acerbic wit and a surprising wealth of empathy.” (Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, 2024)
  • Maud was the only child of Caswell Sheriff John Yancey Gatewood, raised in the Graves-Florance-Gatewood House on the courthouse square (now the Richmond-Miles Museum).
  • “As a girl, she often rode shotgun with her father on patrols or moonshine still busts — carrying a leather holster and toy gun. On a pony her father gave her, she found freedom beyond her picket-fence town, riding out to the farms and forests where she developed her lifelong appreciation for nature that constantly showed up in her work.” (The Charlotte Observer )
  • Maud was a graduate of the Woman’s College and received an MFA from Ohio State. In 1963 she was named a Fulbright Scholar and studied in Austria. She taught at UNC Charlotte and Averett University. In 1976 she became the first woman elected to the Caswell County Board of Commissioners. Before building this house, she lived in historic Longwood, the Romulus Saunders House, where she did significant restoration work. (Saunders was a congressman, judge and ambassador to Spain in the early 1800s).
  • The Maud Gatewood Studio Arts Building was named in her memory at UNC Greensboro.

405luola

405 Luola Street, Madison, Rockingham County
The Rahn and Patty Boyer House
Sale pending August 10, 2026

• $465,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,720 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1968
• Listed July 6, 2026
• Last sales: $120,000, May 2012; $226,000, June 2006
• Note: Designed by Haywood Newkirk. Built by Daniel G. Boyer, a builder in Mayodan who was Newkirk’s roommate as students at N.C. State.
  • The original owners were Daniel Boyer’s son and daughter-in-law, James Rahn Boyer and Patty Swann Boyer. They owned the house for 38 years. They bought the property from the family of Green Penn, founder of the Penn Suspender Company, now known as Gem-Dandy.
  • James later served as president of the company, a Madison-based manufacturer of belts and accessories. It markets products for the golf, Western wear and workwear markets under its own Danbury brand and through licensing agreements with Alexander Julian, Greg Norman, John Deere, Wrangler and other brands.
  • The matriarch of the Penn family was named Luola Vaughn Penn.
  • The Boyers sold the house in 2006 to Ross Adam Halevy (d. 2007, age 37) and Sarah Grace Halevy. Ross was active in film production and was a 3-D consultant. He designed and sold 3-D cameras that he built by hand. Sarah sold the house in 2012.

2220lakeview

• $425,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,122 square feet, 0.77 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1965
• Listed April 30, 2026
• Last sales: $345,000, December 2022; $210,000, August 4, 2000
• Note: The original owners were Rhulon Albright Fowler (1931-2020) and Joyce Workman Fowler. Rhulon was a doctor of chiropractic and a veteran of the Coast Guard. They sold the house in 2000.

2512sunnycrest

2512 Sunnycrest Drive, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Freeman House

• $400,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,724 square feet, 1.0 acre
• Price/square foot: $232
• Built in 1965
• Listed July 18, 2026
• Last sales: $380,000, March 2025; $380,000, May 2022; $177,500, January 2022
• Note: It looks like the house was subjected to a quickie flip job in 2022. They may have done a good job of it, but caveat emptor.
  • Isn’t “Sunnycrest Drive” about as 1960’s-ish a street name as you’ll ever see?
  • The initial listing includes only three photos.
  • One of more than 50,000 California Contemporary ranches built by Scholz Homes of Toledo, Ohio. The company had a factory in Durham, one of seven across the country.
  • NCModernist: “These homes featured strong horizontal lines and were offered in several facade styles to appeal to a broad array of tastes. Exteriors were sheathed in asbestos board siding, often brightly painted. Interiors were painted in vibrant primary colors. …
  • “Although modest by today’s standards, the California contemporary plans are spacious and open, with cathedral ceilings and ample windows. Each home has a patio in the back that is partially sheltered by the overhanging roof to further encourage outdoor activities. Kitchens are sleek and modern for the era, and Scholz offered high-end appliances from select manufactures as standard features.
  • “Scholz utilized innovative prefabrication techniques to reduce the cost of his homes while maintaining a modicum of luxury. The wall panels were constructed at one of seven factories, delivered by semi to the home site and then erected by the company. Very little was wasted in the manufacturing process, further controlling costs. Many of Scholz’s homes also featured red doors, said to signify good fortune in Asian cultures.”
  • The original owners were Jack Arnold Freeman (1933-2020) and Mary Anne Smith Freeman (1933-2012). They bought the property in 1965 and had the house built that year. They lived there for the rest of their lives. Jack was an Army veteran. He worked as a telecommunications engineer for AT&T. Mary Anne worked for the Reidsville school system.
  • Their son, Richard Wayne Freeman (1956-2025) inherited the house in 2020. He sold it in 2022.

3743crosland

3743 Crosland Road, Winston-Salem

• $330,000 (originally $330,000, later $319,900 and then back up to $330,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,935 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1955
• Listed March 24, 2026
• Neighborhood: Old Town Heights
• Last sales: $310,000, January 2025; $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 five times since 2006 (including a 2018 foreclosure).

2080 Pannel Road, Wentworth, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn October 11, 2025; relisted October 31, 2025
Sale pending January 5-21, 2026
Sale pending June 4, 2026
No longer under contract June 23, 2026

• $230,000 (originally $259,000)
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 2,020 square feet, 4.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $114
• 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.

1200peachtree

120 Peachtree Street, Winston-Salem

• $135,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,691 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $80
• Built in 1957
• Listed August 17, 2026
• Last sales: $103,000, July 2026; $75,000, April 2001
• Neighborhood: Morningside Manor
• Note: The original owner was Mary Alice Cruise (dates unknown), who bought the property in 1958. She sold it in 1960. It changed hands a couple times before being bought in 1970 by Blanche C. Bryson (1912-1995), who owned it for the rest of her life. It is now being sold by the estate of a daughter, Marvel Choate (1945-2025).