Piedmont Historic Homes

Recent Sales

• Sold for $625,000 on December 1, 2023 (listed at $585,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,945 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $212
• Built in 1976
• Listed November 17, 2023
• Last sale: $223,500, May 1995
• Neighborhood: Woodberry Forest
• Note: The house was designed by Wesley McClure of the McClure Design Group of Raleigh.
  • The original owners were Donald Howard Wolfe (1934-2019) and Nancy B. Wolfe, who owned the house from 1976 to 1995. As a faculty member of Wake Forest’s theatre department, Donald directed more than 30 plays from 1968 to 2000. He served as president of the Southeastern Theatre Association and the North Carolina Theatre Association, was active in the Little Theatre in Winston-Salem and was a supporter of the North Carolina Black Repertory Company and the International Black Theatre Festival, which honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • The Wolfes sold the house to its current owner in 1995.

• Sold for $345,000 on October 18, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,015 square feet, 0.91 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1969
• Listed September 12, 2023
• Last sale: $240,000, December 2020
• Neighborhood: Garden Valley
• Note: The property includes an attached two-car garage and a detached carport.
  • Leon Dale Leeds (1935-2001) and Kay Ila Shultz Leeds (1935-2003) were the original owners. They bought the property in 1968 and sold it in 1979. They both were originally from Iowa. Leon was manager of manufacturing for Ingersoll Rand in Mocksville. They moved in 1979 to St. Charles, Missouri, where he became director of manufacturing engineering with ACF Industries.
  • The house was owned from 1979 to 2017 by Clyde Herman Cartner (1934-2013) and Carolyn Cartner (dates unknown). Clyde was a dairy farmer.

• Sold for $228,400 on October 10, 2023 (originally $229,900)
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 768 square feet, 4.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $297
• Built in 1998
• Listed March 23, 2023
• Last sale: $76,000, February 2023
  • Note: The home is one floor with a loft and a basement.
    The house has a Reidsville mailing address, but is just on the other side of Wentworth.

• Sold for $480,000 on September 27, 2023 (originally $525,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,430 square feet, 0.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $198
• Built in 1960
• Listed August 18, 2023
• Last sale: $69,000, June 1977
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The original owners were Delmar Ray “Dick” Meadows (1925-2009) and Dorothy Meadows (1925-2003). They owned the house for 13 years.
  • Dick was born in Oak Ridge and served in the Army in World War II. He was manager of Dick Leonard Finance and Meadowland Insurance Agency before joining Bank of Greensboro. After a merger, Dick became First Union’s city manger for High Point. He served as the first president of Phillips Factoring in High Point and as marketing manager of Annedeen Hosiery in Burlington. He started his own company, Delmarco, Inc. in High Point. Later he worked for radio station WIST and the High Point Enterprise. 
  • After moving to High Point, Dick and Dot bought a Mid-Century Modern house there, which they later sold to Nido and Marina Qubein.

4897 Robinhood Road, Winston-Salem
The Voyce and Aline Cheatwood House

• Sold for $375,000 on September 22, 2023 (originally $498,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,802 square feet, 4.3 acres (seven lots)
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built in 1958
• Listed March 20, 2023
• Last sale: The seven lots were acquired in separate transactions dating back to 1964.
  • The property includes a two-car detached garage/workshop,
  • A photo appears to show an in-ground pool, but it isn’t mentioned in the listing.
• Neighborhood: Sharonwood
• Note: Voyce M. Cheatwood (1923-1991) and Mabel Aline McNeil Cheatwood (1924-2022) began buying the seven lots in 1955 and built the house in 1958. Voyce worked as a supervisor for Hennis Freight Lines. Aline was a florist. She still owned the property when she died at age 97, 31 years after her husband.

• Sold for $270,000 on September 11, 2023 (originally $299,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,080 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $250
• Built in 1961
• Listed July 7, 2023
• Last sale: $ 70,000, November 2019
• Neighborhood: College Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The price is conspicuously high for College Hill, where even the grandest houses have sold for under $200 per square foot in recent years.
  • Currently a short-term rental, previously a rental (mid-1960s to 2023)
  • This house was built by J.B. Deal and Therry Deal, who lived in it for only about five years before moving away from Greensboro. They continued to own it until as a rental until 2019. J.B. was with Kansas City Life Insurance and later was a salesman for Rhodes Furniture.
  • There was an earlier house on the property as far back as 1909, when it was bought by Emily Stewart, a widow. She used it as a rental property until 1914, when she lost it in a foreclosure. It was bought then by Robert Ruffin King Jr. (1889-1960), an attorney. He rented it out until around 1951. The fate of the original house is unknown, but it had disappeared from the city directory by 1952. The Deals bought the property from King’s children in 1961 and built the existing house.

• Sold for $445,000 on August 22, 2023 (listed at $369,000)
  • The buyer is an LLC in Greensboro.
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,519 square feet, 0.77 acre
• Price/square foot: $293
• Built in 1959
• Listed June 17, 2023
• Last sale: $225,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Windsor Heights
• Note: Designed by renowned Modernist architect Edward Lowenstein of Greensboro.
  • A creek runs through the property toward the rear.
  • The house was built for Myrtle JoAnne Spangler (1926-2006). JoAnne was a chemist with Dan River Inc. for 32 years.
  • N.C. Modernist: “Commissioned 1953. The 1700-square foot, one-story home perches on the hillside and a large exterior deck floats above the creek, suspending deck-sitters in the midst of trees. Sold in 2006 … In 2011, architect Carl Myatt designed a bathroom addition.”

• Sold for $1.075 million on August 10, 2023 (originally listed at $1.095 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 5,588 square feet, 23.47 acres
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1974
• Listed July 13, 2023
• Last sale: $605,000, March 2016
• Sales hype: “An exquisite architectural gem … a dream come true for those seeking both opulence and tranquility”
• Note: Designed by renowned modernist architect Thomas Hayes. Landscape design by Lewis Clarke.
  • The property includes a vineyard, barn, solar energy installation near the barn and 2,400 square-foot swimming pool.
  • County property records show 9 bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms.
  • The property consists of two adjacent lots, split by the city-county line. The lot with the house (15.2 acres) is in the city of Troy; the other (8.27 acres) is in the county.

• Sold for $475,000 on August 10, 2023 (listed at $495,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,867 square feet, 0.5 acre
• Price/square foot: $166
• Year built: 1977
• Listed June 21, 2021
• Last sale: $365,000, July 2021
• Note: The original owners were Patrick A. Miesky and Sandy W. Meisky, who bought the property in 1976. Patrick has been a banker, financial services consultant and real-estate developer. They sold the house in 1987.

• Sold for $389,500 on August 1, 2023 (listed at $389,500)
  • Sold to a nonprofit in St. Petersburg, Florida (Center For Special Needs Trust Administration)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,420 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1959
• Listed June 20, 2023
• Last sale: $290,000, December 2016
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Long, low ranch house with brick veneer elevations, shallow pitched gable roof, wide overhanging eaves, large picture windows and flat-roofed entrance portico sheltering the recessed main entrance.”
  • N.C. Modernist: Designed by Richard Burke Schnedl (1926-2012). He was a member of the first graduating class of the NCSU School of Design. He joined his brother Ed in 1953 to form Schnedl & Schnedl in Reidsville. “An admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Schnedl’s early residential designs reflect sophisticated open floor plans uncommon for Southern residences at the time. Around 1968, Schnedl partnered with architects Dick Mitchell, Tommy Hayes, and Calvin Howell at Hayes Howell in Southern Pines. He was the design partner for the award-winning African Pavilion building at the North Carolina Zoo. In 1984, Schnedl left Hayes Howell and moved to Bald Head Island, where over the remainder of his career he designed more than forty houses as his own firm.”
  • Commissioned 1957. Landscape design by Lewis Clarke.
  • Henry Clay Pace Jr. (1914-2000) was a native of Leaksville and a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and Roanoke Business College. His operated Pace Funeral Home, later Pace-Stone. Henry served on the Leaksville Township Board and was a director of Leaksville Bank and Trust. He also was a member of Leaksville Lodge 136 and the author of a book, Secrets of Leaksville Lodge #136 A.F.A.M. 1850-1992 (now available at the Internet Archive).
  • Alice Elizabeth Fleming Pace (1921-2016) also was a native of Leaksville. She was a graduate of the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina. She sold the house in 2010.

• Sold for $415,000 on July 31, 2023 (originally $475,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,556 square feet, 1.16 acres
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1973
• Listed March 1, 2023
• Last sale: $125,000, October 2022
• Note: The house appears to have been built by Charles F. Clark and Vera E. Clark, who bought the property in 1972. They sold it in 1978.
  • The house was sold for $185,000 in 1994. It was sold next to the current owners in 2022 for $125,000.