Piedmont Historic Homes

2022 Sales

• 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.

• 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. The house was sold in 2016 after Ann’s death.

• 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