MCM: Withdrawn Listings

210 Patterson Avenue, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Roland and Virginia Carpenter House
Sale pending January 7 to February 12, 2023
Listing withdrawn April 1, 2023

  • $155,000 (originally $199,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,416 square feet, 0.23 acre
  • Price/square foot: $109
  • Built in 1947
  • Listed August 6, 2022
  • Last sale: $29,000, May 2013
  • Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)
  • Listing: “Completely furnished except for DR table & chairs and pictures.”
    • Currently “a very successful and profitable short term rental property.”
    • “An enclosed sitting porch, laundry room and storage room are added bonuses, but are not heated or cooled, so are not counted in the available square footage.”
    • There’s an attached garage, but, oddly, it was built around an outcrop of granite, which doesn’t allow room for a car.
  • District NR nomination: “One-story Modernist house of stuccoed concrete block construction with a parapet shed roof. The parapet jetties slightly over the walls below and has a ceramic tile coping.
    • “The main façade is five bays with a central entrance and flanking one-over-one windows (short and wide windows on each side of the entrance and taller and narrower windows at the outer bays). The bay immediately to the right of the entrance projects with a rectangular footprint and has a window on each side.
    • “A set-back wing with a garage-like shed attached to the house by infill extends from the west side. Other features include replacement windows, novelty vinyl siding on the wing, and modern entry awnings.”
    • The house was built for James Roland Carpenter (1908-1975) and Vera Virginia Collins Carpenter (1915-2007), who owned the property from 1948 to 2007. Roland was the manager of Granite City Cleaners and later produce manager at Moseley Super Market. The house was sold after Virginia’s death at age 91.
    • “The site has granite outcrops, one of which is inside the ‘garage’ which would have rendered the space too small to park a car … The 1948 Sanborn map identifies the building as a garage, though that may have been an educated guess on the part of the mapper. The garage was shown with an open-air covered connection to the house. Carpenter also had a backyard grill created by mounting a grill between two granite boulders.”

7410 Spoon Road, Guilford County
Listing withdrawn March 15, 2023

  • $450,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,775 square feet, 11.43 acres
  • Price/square foot: $162
  • Built in 1989
  • Listed February 21, 2023
  • Last sale: The property hasn’t been sold since the house was built.
  • Note: Geodesic dome with attached geodesic garage with loft.
    • The property includes a detached outbuilding described as a “garage/shop.”
    • The property has a Liberty mailing address but is in southeast Guilford County near Kimesville, Alamance and Julian.

2854 Robinhood Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn February 1, 2023

  • $750,000 (originally $850,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,646 square feet, 0.58 acre
  • Price/square foot: $206
  • Built in 1969
  • Listed August 17, 2022
  • Last sale: $436,000, August 2015
  • Neighborhood: Buena Vista
  • Note: Original owner and architect unknown.

2022

205 Chadwick Drive, Jamestown, Guilford County
listing withdrawn September 30, 2022

  • $785,000 (originally $867,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,314 square feet, 2.88 acres
  • Price/square foot: $237
  • Built in 1978
  • Listed April 8, 2022
  • Last sale: $550,000, December 2019
  • Note: Architect unknown, according to N.C. Modernist, who would know.

1602 E. Cone Boulevard, Greensboro
The Edwin and Elizabeth Tate House
sale pending February 25 to April 8, 2022
sale pending April 19 to May 3, 2022
sale pending May 9 to June 13, 2022
sale pending July 9-29, 2022
sale pending August 8 to September 15, 2022
listing withdrawn September 16, 2022

  • $179,900
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,203 square feet, 0.22 acre
  • Price/square foot: $150
  • Built in 1957
  • Listed February 18, 2022
  • Last sale: $80,000, August 2021
  • Neighborhood: O. Henry Oaks
  • Note: Out-of-town owner
    • The original owners were Edwin Cicero Tate (1932-2011) and Marian Elizabeth Holloway Tate (1934-1987). Edwin was a service technician with Burroughs Corp.

5275 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn June 13, 2022

  • $285,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,483 square feet, 0.44 acre
  • Price/square foot: $192
  • Built in 1977
  • Listed April 29, 0222
  • Last sale: $40,500, January 1989

3307 Gaston Road, Sedgefield, Guilford County
The Herbert and Nancy Downs Smith House
also known as Commencement House III
listing withdrawn June 2022

  • $765,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,088 square feet, 1.6 acres (figures per county)
  • Price/square foot: $187
  • Built in 1965
  • Listed April 5, 2022
  • Last sale: $359,000, October 2009
  • Neighborhood: Sedgefield
  • Note: One of Edward Lowenstein‘s “Commencement Houses,” the three homes designed by Lowenstein and his students when he taught at the Women’s College (which had become UNCG by the time this one, the third, was built).
    • The entrance hall has a 17-foot high wall of windows. There are large windows throughout the house, an open staircase and minimal ornamentation. At the back, a second-floor deck provides a view of the Sedgefield Country Club golf course. The house sits well back from the street in a forested landscape. The kitchen is modern but maintains its strikingly 1950s look.
    • Herbert L. Smith Jr. was general manager of Cummins Diesel Carolina. Nancy was with WUNC-TV. “Nancy Downs, hostess for the WUNC-TV show Potpourri, had covered the 1958 Commencement House and had her eyes on being the next Commencement House client,” N.C. Modernist says. The Smiths owned the house until 1986.

1122 Trogdon Drive, Eden, Rockingham County
listing expired March 31, 2022

  • $209,900
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,254 square feet, 0.71 acre
  • Price/square foot: $93
  • Built in 1959
  • Listed October 21, 2021
  • Last sale: $114,000, January 2021
  • Neighborhood: Leaksville

2021

1111 Green Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
listing withdrawn March 28, 2021

  • $149,900
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,422 square feet, 0.44 acre
  • Price/square foot: $105
  • Built in 1960
  • Listed February 17, 2021
  • Last sale: $65,000, April 2014

2750 Thornfield Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn February 1, 2021

  • $795,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,141 square feet, 1.39 acres
  • Price/square foot: $192
  • Built in 1968
  • Listed December 7, 2020
  • Last sale: $654,000, April 2018
  • Neighborhood: Reynolda Estates
  • Note: Designed by Ray Troxell
    • The house includes separate guest quarters and a main-level two-car garage.
    • Japanese-themed landscape

2020

510 Emerywood Drive, High Point
The Wayne and Betty Lackey House
listing withdrawn July 1, 2020; relisted September 28, 2020
listing withdrawn December 31, 2020

  • $800,000 (originally $750,000, previously as low as $699,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,025 square feet, 0.71 acre
  • Price/square foot: $199
  • Built in 1960
  • Listed September 13, 2018
  • Last sale: $450,000, November 2009
  • Listing: Stone fountain in foyer
    • New bathrooms in 2017 “w/white Zen quartz, LED mirrors“
    • Whole house water filtration system with reverse osmosis/alkaline for drinking water
    • Solar panels
    • Schonbek chandelier in dining room
    • Owned by an LLC in Florida

2850 Galsworthy Drive, Winston-Salem
The Butler House
listing withdrawn January 2020

  • $1.3 million
  • 6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, 7,250 square feet, 2.2 acres
  • Price/square foot: $179
  • Built in 1964
  • Last sale: $979,000, May 2012
  • Note: The property is adjacent to the Reynolda House gardens. Teak entry doors, marble walls

2019

3905 Henderson Road, Greensboro
The Will and Diane Howard House
Blog post — A 1955 Mid-Century Masterpiece in Greensboro, $1.099 Million
listing withdrawn December 5, 2019

  • $1.099 million (originally listed at $1,195,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,864 square feet, 0.4 acre
  • Price/square foot: $384
  • Built in 1955
  • Listed July 25, 2019
  • Last sale: $225,000, September 2013
  • Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
  • Listing: Designed by Thomas Hayes for his college roommate, Will Howard
    • Listing: The house “has been completely restored to its former glory w/open floor plan, sleek lines, walls of glass, original terrazzo floors, 6 outdoor terraces & 2-story Casita. Completely rebuilt by Gary Jobe, preserving almost everything in the original 1955 plan.”
    • The reconstruction addressed “long-term challenges related to materials, drainage, and sustainability. It retains its original H-shaped plan and honors the scope, scale and materials of the initial design.” (Preservation Greensboro)
    • Architects for the restoration were Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn of UrbanLab of Chicago; Brent Skelton did the landscape design. (N.C. Modernist)
    • Before being bought and restored by the current owners, the house was included on the N.C. Modernist 2013 Endangered List.