Piedmont Historic Homes

• Sold for $427,500 on June 27, 2023 (originally $499,999)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,744 square feet, 1.05 acres
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1966
• Listed April 7, 2023
• Last sale: $175,000, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Forest Oaks
• Note: Located on the 12 hole of the Forest Oaks Country Club, once the home of Greensboro’s annual PGA Tour tournament.
  • The house has had nine owners in 57 years.
  • The original owners were Sanders Lee Sirmons and Camilla E. Sirmons, who bought the property in 1967. Sandy was the proprietor of Mr. Lee’s Beauty Salon in downtown Greensboro. They sold the house in 1977.
• Sales hype: The listing includes “million-dollar gem,” “sprawling,” “magnificent,” “highly-coveted,” “gorgeous,” “perfectly,” “stunning,” “delivers in spades,” “spa-inspired,” “huge,” “luxurious,” “breathtaking,” “one-of-a-kind,” “perfect” and “golf course lifestyle.”

• Sold for $342,500 on July 27, 2023 (listed at $330,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,684 square feet (per county), 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1960
• Listed June 22, 2023
• Last sale: $159,500, July 2004
• Note: A relatively uncommon Mid-Century Modern split level
  • The listing shows 2,468 square feet.
  • The original owners were Julian Josephsohn (1912-2001) and Roselyn Kahn Josephsohn (1922-2014). They bought the property in 1956. The address first appears in the city directory in 1961.
  • Julien was president of Sundial Lamps at the time. He owned or headed several lighting companies in his career. He also was a cofounder and first president of the Lamp & Decorative Accessory Association.
  • He was born in Manhattan and was an Army veteran of World War II. He served as commander of the Jewish War Veterans in High Point, president of B’nai B’rith of High Point and treasurer of B’nai Israel Synagogue. His obituary said that in the 1950s and 1960s he was “a pioneer in fighting for federal school lunch programs in High Point City Schools.”
  • Roselyn was originally from Birmingham, Alabama. “She was the first volunteer at the Roy Culler Senior Center and also was a ‘Gray Lady’ volunteer for many years at High Point Regional Hospital,” her obituary said. 
  • Julian and Roselyn sold the house in 1969. It has been sold nine times since then. The current owners bought it in 2004, making them by far the longest-tenured owners of the house.

• Sold for $325,000 on July 14, 2023 (listed at $299,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,482 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built around 1958
• Listed June 15, 2023
• Last sale: $215,000, January 15, 2021
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: County records give the date of the house as 1950, but the address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1958. The original owners were Daniel Hamilton Stoddard (1912-2003) and Leonora Margaret Hopkins Stoddard (1917-2007). They sold the house in 1978.
  • Dan was a mechanical engineer with Western Electric for 32 years. Leonora had organized a Girl Scout troop when they previously lived in Haw River, volunteered with the High Point Memorial Hospital Gray Ladies Auxiliary, served as a docent at the High Point Area Historical Museum and after they moved to Florida worked with the St. Augustine Preservation Society.

• Sold for $700,000 on June 28, 2023 (originally $850,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,358 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built in 1969
• Listed August 17, 2022
• Last sale: $436,000, August 2015
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a circular driveway and attached two-car garage.

• Sold for $855,000 on June 27, 2023 (originally $895,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,688 square feet, 1.03 acres
• Price/square foot: $232
• Built in 1978
• Listed October 5, 2022
• Last sale: $340,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Bermuda Run Golf & Country Club
• Note: Designed by Henry Dole Norris (1913-1992). Built by Tommy Jones.
  • Featured in Better Homes & Garden Magazine in 1972 as the readers’ favorite house plan.
  • The original owners were Jeremiah Michael Supple (1905-1986) and Mary Leonard Supple (1905-1987). They were both born in Ireland. Jerry was a retired employee of the New York City Transit Authority. The house was sold for the first time in 2003 by their son. It was sold in 2020 to the current owners, who renovated it.

1602 E. Cone Boulevard, Greensboro
The Edwin and Elizabeth Tate House

• Sold for $175,000 on June 15, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,203 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1957
• Listed February 18, 2022
• Last sale: $80,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: O. Henry Oaks
• Note: Out-of-town seller
  • The original owners were Edwin Cicero Tate (1932-2011) and Marian Elizabeth Holloway Tate (1934-1987). Edwin was a service technician with Burroughs Corp.

• Sold for $455,000 on May 26, 2023 (listed at $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,124 square feet, 1.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $214
• Built in 1968
• Listed April 19, 2023
• Last sale: $73,000, August 1977
• Neighborhood: Cedarwood
• Note: The original owners were Robert Schultheis (1931-2023) and Merlyn Schultheis (1934-2020). They sold the house in 1977.
  • The buyers were Frank Joseph Jordan (1928-1986) and Veronica Kaye Jordan (dates unknown). Veronica’s estate is now selling the house.

• Sold for $765,100 on May 17, 2023 (listed at $685,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,336 square feet, 0.62 acre
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1962
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $232,000, December 2002
• Neighborhood: Starmount Forest
• Something you don’t see every day: The property includes a granite bocce court.
• Note: John T. and Mabel S. Hiatt bought the property in 1960 from the Starmount Company (which had owned it since 1929). John was president of Hiatt Homes Inc. (“If it is a Hiatt home, it is different”). They were listed at this address from 1962. The property was sold in 2002.
  • N.C. Modernist: “Designed and built by John Hiatt, who built over 500 houses in the Greensboro area. John Hiatt’s home studio/office was located on the second floor. Mabel Hiatt’s dance studio was in the basement. Remodeled 1985 by Hiatt.”

• Sold for $530,000 on April 24, 2023 (originally $575,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,277 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1957
• Listed September 16, 2022
• Last sale: $480,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The original owners were Nelson Douglas Sowerby Jr. (1929-2011) and Mary Lee Dehart Sowerby (1935-1970). They bought the house for $8,800 in 1957. Nelson was vice president and manager of the family business, the Greensboro Nehi Bottling Company. His father was president, and his mother was vice president and secretary.
  • In 1962, the Sowerbys sold the house to Charles W. Causey Jr. (1907-1990) and Jane Stafford Pendleton Causey (1907-1995). They owned it for 30 years. Charles and his brother Frank were co-proprietors of Causey Brothers, a yarn wholesaler.
  • After Charles’s death, Jane sold the house in 1992 to Roy Max O’Dell (1937-2021) and Carolyn Jackson “Mimi” O’Dell (1937-2022). They, too, owned the house for 30 years.
  • Max and Carolyn were graduates of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. They lived in Roanoke for 20 years before moving to Greensboro. Max worked in IT for the state of West Virginia, the Home Shopping Network and, from 1987-2004, Cone Mills. Carolyn worked in the clothing industry for 40 years and owned, with her husband and daughter, Kelley, Mimi’s Plus Limited from 1990 to 2008. Max and Carolyn were married for 63 years.

• Sold for $350,000 on April 14, 2023 (listed at $329,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,729 square feet, 1.11 acres
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1972
• Listed March 21, 2023
• Last sale: $214,000, August 2003
• Note: The property includes an in-ground salt water pool with a patio and pool house, also an RV parking pad/hook-up.
  • Realtor hype: “this property is a lifestyle!”

182 Golfview Drive, Bermuda Run, Davie County

• Sold for $325,000 on March 30, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,850 square feet, 0.1 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1972
• Listed March 6, 2023
• Last sale: $316,000, February 20, 2023
• Neighborhood: Bermuda Run Country Club
• HOA: $225/month
• Note: This home has been sold three times in 12 months, including twice in March 2023. It was sold in April 2022 for $250,000. It was sold on February 22, 2023, for $316,000. It was again listed for sale 14 days later and closed in 24 days.

• Sold for $740,000 on March 2, 2023 (listed at $750,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,986 square feet, 1.8 acres
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1962
• Listed January 10, 2023
• Last sale: $260,000, October 2017
• Note: Located barely west of the High Point and Guilford County lines in Davidson County
  • Realtor hype: “No detail has been left untouched!”
  • Something you don’t see every day: “beautifully landscaped yard, adorned with over $80,000 in specimen plants.”
  • The property includes an outbuilding now used as an art studio.

• Sold for $687,500 on February 24, 2023 (originally $787,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 5,219 square feet, 1.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1978
• Listed August 26, 2022
• Last sale: The property hasn’t been sold since the house was built.
• Listing: “Based off an original design by architect Avriel Shull.” Avriel Joy Christie Shull (1931–1976) was an architectural designer/builder and interior decorator who worked primarily in Indiana. She is best known for her mid-century modern residential designs. In the 1970s she began selling house plans in do-it-yourself home-building magazines.
  • Something you don’t see every day: “large entertainment room with bar and dance floor”
  • The property was bought in April 1975 by James Miller Ferrell (1938-2017) and Katherine Jane “Pookie” Ferrell (1937-2021). They operated Ferrell Manufacturing Company in Graham. At the time of his death, Jim had remarried and was living in Kyiv, Ukraine.

• Sold for $316,000 on February 20, 2023 (listed at $299,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,850 square feet, 0.1 acre
• Price/square foot: $111
• Built in 1972
• Listed January 30, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: Bermuda Run Country Club
• HOA: $225/month
• Note: The listing describes it as one of only two detached homes in the golf-course development.
  • The house backs up to the driving range and main clubhouse.
  • Country club membership is optional.
  • The property includes a two-car garage.
  • Something to ask about: The description says the home has “two additional rooms that could easily be used as bedrooms/office/storage.” Those rooms would be problematic as bedrooms if they’re the two rooms in the basement that don’t have windows. The 2022 listing for the home claimed it had five bedrooms, including “2 in the basement without windows.” Under the building code, bedrooms are required to have two ways in and out (typically a door and a window).

310 Coffey Street, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County
The Leonard and Rose Herring House

• Sold for $475,000 on February 14, 2023 (originally $845,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,751 square feet, 2.96 acres
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built in 1972
• Listed May 3, 2022
• Last sale: The house is being sold for the first time since it was built.
• Neighborhood: Finley Park
• Note: Designed by Aiji Tashiro; construction by Claude Foster
  • The property includes a heated in-ground pool, pool house, gazebo, lighted tennis court and slate patio.

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• Sold for $190,000 on February 2, 2023 (originally $215,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,352 square feet, 0.62 acre
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1994
• Listed November 10, 2022
• Last sale: $155,000, June 2020
• Note: Hexagonal house built in an embankment
  • The house was sold in 2019 for $18,000.

• Sold for $420,000 on January 18, 2023 (listed at $474,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,505 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1978
• Listed November 3, 2022
• Last sale: $270,000, February 2016
• Note: Located on Oak Hollow Lake
  • The original owners were Ralph Taylor Holland Jr. and Ann Crockett Holland, who bought the house in 1978. Ralph (1938-1990) was proprietor of Ralph Holland Photography in Greensboro.

• Sold for $320,000 on January 6, 2023 (listed at $295,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,573 square feet, 0.77 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1959
• Listed December 2, 2022
• Last sale: $145,000, December 2005
• Neighborhood: Grove Park
• Note: Designed by Delmer Adams, of whom nothing can be found on the internet