Piedmont Historic Homes

October 30, 2024

A 1935 House on 5 Acres, $1 million, or on Just 1.26 Acres, $749,900

4150 Shattalon Drive, Winston-Salem (5.01 acres)
4150 Shattalon Drive, Winston-Salem (1.26 acres)
The Thomas and Lillian Brown House

• $1.05 million (5.01 acres)
• $749,900 (1.26 acres)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,678 square feet
• Price/square foot: $392 (5.01 acres)
• Price/square foot: $280 (1.26 acres)
• Built in 1935
• Listed October 29, 2024 (5.01 acres)
• Listed September 23, 2024 (1.26 acres)
• Last sale: $500,000, March 2022

The seller is willing to sell the entire property or just the house and 1.26 acres. The property includes a detached three-car garage. The original owners appear to have been Thomas Henry Brown Sr. (1900-1956) and Lillian West Brown (1901-1999), who bought the property in October 1929. Thomas was a farmer and operated the Pic N Pay grocery store. Lillian worked for ARA Food Service at Wake Forest University. The house was in the family for three generations before being sold in 2022.

October 29, 2024

A Former Methodist Parsonage in Mebane, $775,000

205 S. 4th Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• $775,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,957 square feet (per county), 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1955
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $455,000, April 2024; $3,300, December 1951.
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)

Formerly the parsonage of the Mebane United Methodist Church, which is across the street. Quickie flip job that lost some of the historic character — caveat emptor. The listing shows 3,584 square feet, 21 percent more than county records show. Measurements sometimes vary, but not often by this much.

October 28, 2024

A 1925 Cottage in Greensboro, $349,900

101 Westover Terrace, Greensboro

• $349,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,549 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $231,000, October 2021; $152,000, June 2008
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace/Westerwood
• Note: The property includes a detached carport with a storage building.

Previous owners have included Henry Augustus Smathers, a dentist (1884-1971) and one of 21 children born to Henry Austin Smathers (1848-1943), also a dentist and a minister as well. Also, Albert Grover Poindexter (1922-2007), a clerk at his father’s pharmacy, Poindexter’s Drug Store. He was known as A. Grover Poindexter Jr., although his father, who went by A. Grover Sr., was actually named Augustus, not Albert.

October 28, 2024

Yet Another Historic-District Bungalow in Winston-Salem, $409,900

2368 Walker Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Frederick and Cecelia Saunders House

• $409,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,664 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $246
• Built in 1929
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sales: $308,900, June 2020; $204,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; front-gable projection; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; side-gable, wrap around porch; battered posts on brick piers; stone retaining wall.” The property first appeared in the city directory in 1931 as 1170 Walker Avenue with Frederick Daniel Saunders (1891-1976) and Cecelia Artie Melton Saunders (1895-1959) as residents. They owned the house until they died.

October 27, 2024

A 1920 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, Originally Owned by … oh my God! … a Communist! $315,000

408 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem

• $315,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 960 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $328
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 30, 2024
• Last sale: $250,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Only one photo was included in the initial listing.

District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable porch; square posts on brick piers; knee braces; six-over-one, Craftsman-style windows.”

The address first appears in the city directory in 1925, when William Gwyn Binkley (1895-1985) and Nellie Laws Binkley (dates unknown) bought it and were listed as residents. Although Gwyn apparently was a practicing attorney at some point, he was better known to newspaper readers and the House Un-American Activities Committee as a Communist, “participating in labor troubles in and around Winston-Salem,” as The Twin City Sentinel put it. In 1956 the Greensboro Daily News bellowed that he was a “professor of violence and subversion … a Red for more than 20 years, and the spiritual father of regional communism.” And that was in the news pages, not the editorial section.

October 27, 2024

Three Bungalows in Winston-Salem Historic Districts

208 Shawnee Street, Winston-Salem
The George and Nealie Knouse House

• $399,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 24, 2024
• Last sales: $207,500, September 2017; $137,500, August 2005
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is on a double lot.

District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame Craftsman bungalow with front shed dormer, full inset porch supported by full-height posts with plain picket balustrade. Paired windows at west elevation.” The house has a stone retaining wall along the sidewalk and steps shared with 204 Shawnee Street, next door. That house was built by George’s brother John E. Knouse.

324 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Oma Sills House

• $399,500
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,246 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $321
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 22, 2024
• Last sale: $90,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Small hipped·roof shingled bungalow with projecting hipped-roof porch over 2 bays; interior chimney, paired windows. Sills (wife Oma) was clerk, later assistant secretary at RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; they moved here from S. Main Street.”

1707 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem

• $365,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,246 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $293
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 26, 2024
• Last sales: $208,000, March 2018; $196,000, June 2013
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side-facing jerkinhead roof; stucco; six vertical-light transom over single light; front-facing jerkinhead porch; brackets; battered posts on stuccoed piers.” The original owners were Rhodes Estill Pullen (1882-1951) and Nannie Viola Younts Pullen (1894-1986). Rhodes was a salesman at Norfleet-Baggs, Inc., the local Dodge Brothers car dealership.

October 26, 2024

A Potentially Charming 1938 Cottage in Winston-Salem, $150,000

2240 Queen Street, Winston-Salem
The James and Ruth Snyder House

• $150,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,557 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1938
• Listed October 25, 2024
• Last sale: $25,000, March 1977
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Listing: The house requires “significant updates and renovations.”

District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half-story; side gable; brick; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; front-gable porch with catslide roof line and arched openings; brick piers; round-head door; facade chimney; round-head attic window.”

October 26, 2024

A 1915 BUngalow in Greensboro’s Latham Park, $369,900

1312 Winstead Place, Greensboro

• $369,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,260 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $294
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 22, 2024
• Last sale: $139,000, November 2004
• Neighborhood: Latham Park

Deeds and city directories suggest that the street was part of Battleground Avenue when the house was built. It was later called Second Street and was changed to Wendover Avenue around 1925. It became Winstead Street around 1968 and Winstead Place in 1970. Almost all of the 30 or so residences on Winstead were built from the mid-30s to early 50s. Only two others date from before 1920.

October 26, 2024

A Condo in Winston-Salem’s Historic Brown Brothers Tobacco Prizery, $595,000

401 E. Fourth Street, Suite 504, Winston-Salem

• $595,000
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms 1,998 square feet
• Price/square foot: $344
• Built in 1921
• Listed October 24, 2024
• Last sales: $359,900, June 2019; $373,081, July 2006
• HOA: $550/month
• Note: The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Online listings show only 1,878 square feet.

Forsyth County Local Historic Landmark Program: “The Brown Brothers Tobacco Prizery is one of the few remaining buildings from Winston’s late 19th century tobacco industry. … a six-story, brick, Second Empire-style building, complete with mansard roof. The building features multiple window styles, including double-hung sash topped by brick segmental arches. The mansard roof is sheathed in alternating fish scale and straightedge slate shingles.”

“The building is Winston-Salem’s only remaining industrial example of the Second Empire style and one of only three examples of the style remaining in the city.”

October 25, 2024

An Impressive 1895 House in Pilot Mountain, Quickly Flipped, $560,000

524 W. Main Street, Pilot Mountain, Surry County

• $560,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,228 square feet, 0.90 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1895
• Listed October 25, 2024
• Last sales: $260,000, May 2024; $225,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: West Main Street Historic District (National Register study list)

The renovation included painting the red-brick exterior white, giving the columns and front gable (which had been white) a contrasting beige and removing a very large Chippendale supraporte over the door. The last photo above was included in the 2023 listing.

October 23, 2024

A 1924 House in Greensboro’s Westerwood, $489,000

404 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
The James and Sara Baxter House

• $489,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,160 square feet, 0.17 acre (per county)
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 23, 2024
• Last sale: $199,000, August 2007
• Neighborhood: Westerwood

The original owners were James Crosby Baxter and Sara D. Baxter (dates unknown for both). They bought the property in 1923. James was a traveling salesman. Sara, by then a widow, sold it in 1950.

October 22, 2024

An 1880 House in Glencoe Mill Village, $450,000

2416 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• $450,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,943 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $232
• Built in 1880
• Listed October 22, 2024
• Last sale: $217,900, July 2015
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Mill Village Historic District (NR). Located north of Burlington, just off N.C. highway 62. Glencoe has Burlington mail addresses.
• Note: The property includes a 400 square-foot workshop, a smaller storage building and a well house.

District NR nomination: Glencoe “is a typical but remarkably well-preserved example of nineteenth century industrial villages that once flourished in North Carolina’s Piedmont region.”

October 21, 2024

A 1924 Craftsman Foursquare in Greensboro, $798,900

209 Isabel Street, Greensboro

• $798,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,803 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $285
• Built in 1924 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed October 21, 2024
• Last sale: $425,000, April 2024
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)

Note: Flipped house with a quick turnaround — caveat emptor. The house was sold to a Chapel Hill LLC in April without being publicly listed for sale. District NR nomination: “Craftsman foursquare. Low hipped roof, front dormer, overhanging eaves, bungalow porch.”

October 21, 2024

A Relatively Affordable 1920 Bungalow in Winston-Salem, $220,500

410 Beaumont Street, Winston-Salem

• $220,500
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,627 square feet, 0.07 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 21, 2024
• Last sale: $200,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable dormer; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; gable-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.”

October 20, 2024

A 1929 Period Cottage in Greensboro’s Sunset Hills, $774,900

122 Kensington Road, Greensboro
The Pattie and James Price House

• $774,900
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,787 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $278
• Built in 1929
• Listed October 16, 2024
• Last sale: $20,900, October 1967
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Like suburban neighborhoods that developed across the state during the first half of the twentieth century, the Sunset Hills Historic District includes an extensive collection of Period Cottages. Related to the Tudor Revival style in form and finish and built extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, the overwhelming majority of these small houses are brick, but many are of stone or exhibit significant stone detailing. Period Cottages are typically side-gabled dwellings with steep front-facing gables and chimneys on their facades or side gables. …

“The Pattie and James Price House from ca. 1928 is a one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, brick period cottage with two-front-facing gables. Located at 122 Kensington Road, the house features a Tuscan-columned porch with carved purlins.”

October 20, 2024

A 1961 Mid-Century Modern in Greensboro, $300,000

2607 Woodview Drive, Greensboro

• $300,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,356 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $221
• Built in 1961
• Listed October 19, 2024
• Last sale: $140,000, July 2013
• Neighborhood: Guilford Hills

The original owners were Paul E. McDowell, a mechanic, and Mary E. McDowell, a secretary (dates unknown for both). They bought the house in 1961 and sold it in 1964.

October 19, 2024

A Relatively Affordable 1918 Craftsman Foursquare in Greensboro, $195,000

707 Broad Avenue, Greensboro

• $195,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,884 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1918
• Listed October 19, 2024
• Last sale: $108,000, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Craftsman foursquare, residence, 1920-25.”

October 19, 2024

A 1925 Cottage in Greensboro’s Westerwood, $420,000

518 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Julia Eaton House

• $420,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,587 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $265
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 19, 2024
• Last sales: $325,000, December 2023; $162,000, April 2002
• Neighborhood: Westerwood

This is a huge markup after owning the house less than a year. The original owner was Julia Louise Boyd Eaton (1869-1939). Her granddaughter sold the house in 1972.

October 18, 2024

Two 19-Century Farmhouses, 8 Miles Apart in Caswell and Orange Counties

214 Barnwell Road, Caswell County

• $520,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,244 square feet, 10.35 acres
• Price/square foot: $234
• Built in 1898 (per listing; see note)
• Listed October 16, 2024
• Last sale: $60,000, February 1990
• Neighborhood: Located about 3.8 miles north of Prospect Hill and 3.3 miles south of Hightowers, just off N.C. Highway 86. The property has a Prospect Hill mailing address.

County records give the date as 1959, which looks wrong. 1898 is more likely. The property includes a pond.

110 Hawkins Road, Orange County

• $250,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,774 square feet, 10.94 acres
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1871
• Listed October 18, 2024
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2001
• Neighborhood: Just off N.C. Highway 86, 4.3 miles south of Prospect Hill and 3.6 miles northeast of Cedar Grove. The property has a Cedar Grove mailing address.

Listing: “Very rustic.” Originally a two-room log cabin, the house received multiple additions of rooms and porches, “likely” in the 1920s. The property includes a pond.

October 18, 2024

A 1901 House in Greensboro’s College Hill Historic District, $297,000

924 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
The Jeffreys-Murray house

• $297,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,646 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1901
• Listed October 17, 2024
• Last sales: $137,000, May 2014; $140,000, March 2008
• Neighborhood: College Hill historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Longtime rental property

District NR nomination: “Queen Anne L-plan, Residence, 1895-99.” The original owner was Priscilla Franklin Lee Jeffreys (1841-1934). “Mrs. Jeffreys was once a guest of Grover Cleveland at the White House and was one of the women that stood in a rain to feed soldiers at Petersburg, Virginia,” her obituary said.

October 17, 2024

A 1911 Farmhouse in Winston-Salem, $329,900

4968 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem

• $329,900
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,925 square feet, 2.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1911
• Listed October 17, 2024
• Last sales: $105,000, April 2020; $60,000, October 2017; $86,000, June 1996
• Neighborhood: Winding Ridge

Odd — The listing says, “eight fireplaces (condition unknown).” The owners have had the house for 4 1/2 years and apparently done a significant amount of work, yet they haven’t even bothered to look at the fireplaces?

October 16, 2024

A 1915 Foursquare in Greensboro’s Dunleath Historic District, $399,000

746 Park Avenue, Greensboro
The William and Espie Forbis House

• $399,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,152 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1915 (per county, put probably a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed October 18, 2024
• Last sales: $194,481, November 2023 (auction); $38,000, February 1980
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)

Flipped house; caveat emptor. The first owner was William Vance Forbis (1879-1950), a furniture salesman. William bought the property from the Summit Avenue Building Company in 1912. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1913. The house remained in his family until 1960.

October 15, 2024

A Relatively Affordable 1930 Home in Eden’s Central leaksville Historic District, $289,900

523 S. Hamilton Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The A.B.J. Martin House

• $289,900
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,050 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $95
• Built circa 1900 (per NR nomination)
• Listed October 15, 2024
• Last sale: $176,000, May 2007
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “When it was originally constructed c. 1900 for tobacconist Anthony B.J. Martin, this two-story, three-bay, double-pile hip roof house was stuccoed and scored to look like stone. In the early 1940s, local contractor/designer J.W. Hopper, remodeled the house for druggist Jim Chandler in a carefully detailed symmetrical Colonial Revival style. Brick veneer was applied to the elevations and one-story wings, topped with a Chippendale balustrade, now flank the main block. The eaves are ornamented with dentils. Eight-over-eight sash windows are topped by flat arches. The main entrance is slightly recessed, flanked by sidelights, set in a handsome pier-and-lintel surround and further defined by a dentilled cornice.”

October 15, 2024

A Cabin with a 19th-Century Barn on 27 Acres in Davie County, $389,000

256 Pine Ridge Road, Davie County (brochure, PDF)
The Forbes-Luther Cabin, Sleepy Hollow

• $389,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,237 square feet (per listing) and 27.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $314
• Built in 1953
• Last sale: October 1936, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Located near the Jerusalem community, about 7 1/2 miles south of Mocksville, just off U.S. 601, and about 3 miles east of Cooleemee. It’s also about 11 miles north of Salisbury.

Listing: “The Forbes-Luther Cabin’s centerpiece is a monumental stone fireplace in the vaulted main living area. … The entire interior is clad in knotty pine.” A two-story hardwood dog-trot log barn is believed to date back to the mid-19th century, when the property was part of the large Livengood plantation.

October 14, 2024

A Quickly Flipped 1922 Bungalow in Mebane, $520,000

209 N. Wilba Road, Mebane, Alamance County
The Tyson-Mace House

• $520,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,266 square feet (per county), 1.05 acres (per county)
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 21, 2024
• Last sales: $150,000, April 2024; $287,000, September 2020

Flipped house with a two-month turn-around time. Caveat emptor. The listing shows 2,607 square feet and 0.42 acre. The property had two owners from 1919 to 1997, and three owners since.

October 14, 2024

A Former Episcopal Rectory in Burlington, Fallen on Hard Times, $209,000

414 E. Morehead Street, Burlington, Alamance County
Episcopal Rectory

• $209,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,755 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $76
• Built ca. 1890 (per district NR nomination)
• Listed October 13, 2024
• Last sales: $170,000, May 2023; $125,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: South Broad-East 5th Streets Historic District (NR)
• Note: Currently divided into two units
  • Tax records show a date of 1950, which appears to be way off.

District NR nomination: “Well-preserved [as of 2001] 2-story gable-and-wing house of eclectic design, with original siding, an ornate boxed cornice with pendanted brackets, tall 4/4 sash windows with peaked lintels, and an entrance with beveled glass transom and sidelights.” Once the home of Doctor Franklin Rudd (1880-1950), a janitor and painter with the school system (“Doctor” was his first name). Mechanic Kemp DeWitt Blalock (1884-1959) and the lyrically named Carrie Exie Oakley Blalock (1893-1967) owned it from 1937-1981.

October 13, 2024

A 1922 House on West Market Street in Greensboro, $375,000

1506 W. Market Street, Greensboro
The Cobb-Jones House

• $375,000
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,193 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 11, 2024
• Last sales: $218,500, April 2019; $199,000, September 2017
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace

The original owner was Penelope W. Cobb (1882-1962), who bought the property in 1920. She operated a public stenography and letter-writing business and later worked as an examiner for the Federal trade Commission in Washington. Penelope sold the house in 1941 to Hammond Roger Jones (1889-1964) and Sarah Beatrice Wimberly Jones (1892-1986). The house remained in their family for 64 years.

October 13, 2024

A 1923 Bungalow in Greensboro, Saved from Demolition In UNCG’s Expansion, $225,000

812 Haywood Street, Greensboro

• $225,000 (originally $239,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,222 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 8, 2024
• Last sale: $148,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Glenwood

The house is part of a preservation success story. Originally built nearby on Highland Avenue, it’s one of three houses on Gregory Avenue and Highland Avenue that were bought by UNCG as part of a major expansion project and then sold in 2011 to the Preservation Greensboro Development Fund so they could be relocated and preserved. UNCG also sold three lots on Haywood Street to the fund for the homes’ relocation.

October 13, 2024

A 1925 Bungalow in Sad Shape in Winston-Salem, $140,000

1704 Longview Drive, Winston-Salem

• $140,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,232 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 11, 2024
• Last sale: $40,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belville Historic District (NR)

The listing notes “water damage on the roof in the bathroom [it’s actually the ceiling], a structural evaluation is recommended, and LVP flooring needs to be replaced in the kitchen and bathroom.” Rental, owned by an LLC in Raleigh. The original residents were police detective T. Jefferson Morgan (1892-1971) and Jessie Evelyn Cowen Morgan (1873-1955) from 1925 to around 1933.

October 12, 2024

A 1900 Farmhouse in Chatham County, $500,000

4265 N.C. Highway 87, Chatham County
The Jerry Alston House

• $500,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,282 square feet, 1.82 acres
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 12, 2024
• Last sale: $329,000, December 2019
• Neighborhood: Located 5 miles northwest of Pittsboro.

The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina: “The residence is a plain two-story three-bay triple-A house constructed around the turn of the century. It has a one-story ell, an interior corbeled-cap brick chimney, cornice returns and decorative shingles on the house’s three gables.”

October 12, 2024

An 1883 Farmhouse on 122 acres in Davie County, $1.3 million

234 Pollard Lane, Mocksville, Davie County

• $1.3 million
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,354 square feet, 122.50 acres
• Price/square foot: $552
• Built in 1883
• Listed October 10, 2024
• Last sale: $16,500, June 1961
• Neighborhood: Located 7 1/2 miles northeast of Mocksville off U.S. 158

The house overlooks a 1-acre pond. The property has been owned for the past 63 years by James Daniel Pollard (1926-2018) and Mildred B. Pollard (1927-2012). It is being sold by one of their daughters. James served in the Army during World War II and received the Bronze Star. He worked for McLean Trucking.

October 12, 2024

Two 1920s Houses in the Mount Airy Historic District

125 W. Church Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• $410,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,712 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1924
• Listed September 24, 2024
• Last sale: $370,000, December 2022
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)

The duplex is now a short-term rental. It may have been a duplex as far back as 1928.

220 W. Church Street, Mount Airy
The J. Weldon Parker House

• Auction scheduled online Friday October 18, 8 a.m., to Saturday November 2. Onsite bidding begins Saturday November 2, noon.
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,199 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Built in 1923
• Last sale: $350,000, October 17, 2022
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District

No interior photos are included in the listing. A viewing of the house is scheduled for Wednesday, October 23, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. J. Weldon Parker was listed at the address in 1928. He was still living there when he died in 1966. He was a partner in W.E. Merritt Hardware, where he worked for 50 years. His wife, Nell, was a secretary and bookkeeper at the store.

October 11, 2024

A Moravian Minister’s 1850 Log Cabin in Winston-Salem, $300,000

220 Carter Circle, Winston-Salem
The Robert Leinbach House

• $300,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,385 square feet, 1.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $217
• Built in 1850
• Listed October 11, 2024
• Last sale: $78,750, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Mount Tabor

The State Historic Preservation Office describes the house as the Robert Leinbach House, “c. 1850, 1970 trad/vern Wood Shingles log.” Robert Parmenio Leinbach (1831-1892) was a Moravian minister. His diary is quoted in The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, by Alice Fahs. A reviewer in The Journal of Southern History commented:

“One of the most interesting documents … is the private diary of Robert Parmenio Leinbach, who served several of the rural congregations outside Salem and wrote eloquently of the ‘countless terrible evils brought upon this devoted country by secession’ (p. 6549). In April 1865 Leinbach described the panic accompanying the arrival of both Union and Confederate troops in the region: ‘Everybody everywhere about half-witted-excepting, of course, myself,’ he wrote.”

October 11, 2024

An Unusual 1900 Brick House in the Star Historic District, $85,000

100 Harper Street, Star, Montgomery County
The Seward House

• $85,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,528 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $34
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 10, 2024
• Last sale: $10,000, August 1984
• Neighborhood: Star Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: A one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled bungalow with an unusual two-story, parapet-roofed section on the left and  a full-width engaged porch with square brick columns on brick piers. The porch extends to the right as a side-gabled porte-cochere on matching brick supports.

October 11, 2024

A 1976 Mid-Century Home with a BArn and Studio on 12 Acres in Rockingham County, $799,999

1579 Brown Road, Rockingham County

• $799,999
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,760 square feet, 12.74 acres
• Price/square foot: $455
• Built in 1976
• Listed October 10, 2024
• Last sales: $590,000, August 2023; $420,000, April 2021
• Neighborhood: Located about 10 miles northeast of Summerfield in southern Rockingham County.

The property includes a 600 square-foot studio; a four-stall horse barn with electricity, water and loft storage; and fenced pastures.

October 6, 2024

A 1952 Colonial revival Mansion in Reidsville, $675,000

1620 Fairway Drive, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Benjamin and June Goodes House

• $675,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,694 square feet, 5.29 acres
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1952
• Listed July 26, 2024
• Last sale: $407,000, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Belmont Forest

The original owners were Benjamin Lawrence Goodes (1912-1997) and June Hooper Goodes (1819-1999). They bought the property in 1949 and were listed there in the 1953 city directory, the first to include residences on Fairway Drive. Benjamin was the owner of Cardinal Cleaners (“Cleaners, Hats Rebuilt”).

October 6, 2024

Two Restoration Projects in Davidson County

200 Salem Street, Thomasville, Davidson County

• $120,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,308 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $52
• Built in 1917
• Listed September 6, 2024
• Last sale: $4,000, May 2017; $4,750, January 2017; $42,750, March 2003; $74,000, June 1999
• Neighborhood: Salem Street Historic District (local and NR)

No interior photos are included in the listing. The house is across the street from the grand Heidelberg Evangelical and Reformed Church.

1626 Greensboro Street Extension, Lexington, Davidson County

• $75,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,672 square feet, 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 6, 2024
• Last sales: $53,000, August 2024; $1,000, March 1971

Listing: “Currently uninhabitable, the house requires major repairs and renovations, and lacks working heat and power. There is minor fire damage in the dining room/kitchen area. Evidence of foundational and structural issues … The condition of this house would prevent conventional/FHA financing. Cash offers only.”

October 4, 2024

A 1913 House in Elkin, $475,000

113 Gwyn Avenue Elkin, Surry County
The Dan Chatham House

• $475,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,298 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1913
• Listed September 1, 2024
• Last sale: $219,150, April 2020; $176,000, September 2003
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NR)

The district’s National Register nomination calls it “a solid example of the Colonial Revival style,” but that was before the original front porch was removed. The original owners were Thomas Daniel Chatham (1889-1972) and Ruth Abernathy Chatham (1892-1969). Dan was a landscaper and civil engineer. He was the youngest of seven children of Alexander Chatham, a founder of Chatham Manufacturing.

October 3, 2024

A 1923 Mediterranean Revival House in Greensboro, $650,000

205 E. Hendrix Street, Greensboro
The Arthur and Clara Ellington House

• $650,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,008 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1923
• Listed October 3, 2024
• Last sale: $365,000, July 2015
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)

District NR nomination: “Mediterranean Rev, Residence, 1920-25. Large, rectangular, brick-veneered dwelling with shaped exposed rafter ends.” The original owners were Arthur Gilbert Ellington (1882-1946) and Clara Elizabeth Elam Ellington (1888-1976). Arthur was a partner in W.I. Anderson & Company, produce wholesalers. Clara sold the house in 1951.

October 3, 2024

A doctor’s 1924 Dutch Colonial in Greensboro’s Sunset Hills, $499,000

1712 Madison Avenue, Greensboro

• $499,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,476 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 3, 2024
• Last sale: $80,000, April 1982
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)

The original owners were Dr. Duncan Waldo Holt (1891-1967) and Helen Knaur Holt (1896-1969). Waldo was a physician. He graduated from Duke and the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He practiced in Greensboro from 1920 to 1960. They bought the house in 1925; their son sold it in 1970.

October 3, 2024

A 1937 Cottage in high Point, $339,000

911 N. Rotary Drive, High Point
The Jack and Florence Wright House

• $339,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,126 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $159
• Built in 1937
• Listed October 4, 2024
• Last sales: $205,000, June 2018; $207,500, August 2008
• Neighborhood: Emerywood

The original owners were Walter Jacob “Jack” Wright (1900-1981) and Florence Grey Archer Wright (1897-1961). Jack was the owner of Wright’s Clothing Store. Jack’s heirs sold the house in 1982.

October 2, 2024

A Drug-Store Owner’s 1935 Cottage in High Point, $674,900

815 Arbordale Avenue, High Point

• $674,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,341 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1935
• Listed October 2, 2024
• Last sale: $464,000, January 2018

The house had only two owners in its first 81 years. The original owners were Holland Broadis Leonard (1900-1970) and Mary Pauline Archer Leonard (1903-2002). Broadis owned the Leonard Drug Store.

October 2, 2024

A 1905 House Near High Rock Lake, $305,000

173 High Rock Drive, Denton, Davidson County

• $305,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,300 square feet (per county), 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $133
• Built in 1905 (per listing; see note)
• Listed September 18, 2024
• Last sales: $281,000, September 2023; $100,500, January 2022; $105,000, July 1999

Located about 6.8 miles southwest of Denton, almost to Tuckertown Reservoir. The property has a Denton mailing address.

October 1, 2024

A 1922 Tudor Cottage in Winston-Salem’s Buena Vista, $899,900

1900 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem

• $899,900
• 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2,582 square feet (per county; see note), 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $349
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 1, 2024
• Last sale: $41,500, October 1973
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

The house appears to have had only three owners, with the last two owning the house for 45 and 51 years, respectively.

October 1, 2024

A 1918 House in High Point, Now a Duplex, $295,000

501 Steele Street, High Point
The Fidello and Mattie Barker House

• $295,000
• 4 bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,705 square feet, 0.38 109acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1918
• Listed September 25, 2024
• Last sale: $51,000, January 2022

Originally a single-family home, the house has been divided into two units, upstairs and downstairs, since 1956. The original owners appear to have been Fidello Harris Barker (1861-1942) and Mattie Jane Millikan Barker (1863-1951), who were listed at the address in 1921, when it first appeared in the city directory. Their family owned the house for 88 years. Fidello operated Barker Roller Mills, which produced flour just down the street at 207 Steele.

October 1, 2024

A quickly Flipped 1925 House in Reidsville, $185,000

1400 Barnes Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $185,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,582 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 29, 2024
• Last sales: $70,000, June 2024; $20,000, April 2012

Flipped house, very quick turnaround. Caveat emptor.

October 1, 2024

A 1903 Restoration Project in One of Elkin’s Historic Districts, $149,900

249 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Chatham-Shores House

• $149,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,998 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1903 (per county)
• Listed September 19, 2024
• Last sale: $10,000, December 1987
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “Until the early 1980s, the house retained its wood German siding and one-story, classical facade porch with Tuscan columns, plain balustrade, classical frieze, and gabled entrance bay. Since then the porch has been removed and the house has been wrapped in vinyl siding. Across the front of the lot is a stone retaining wall, and a flight of stone steps leads upward to the front walk.”