Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated December 17, 2025

Featured Listing
Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
Alamance, Caswell, Rockingham and Neighboring Counties
Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, Davie and Neighboring Counties
Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Neighboring Counties

Recent Sales

Featured Listing: A distinguished Architect’s 1928 Bungalow in Greensboro, $345,000

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro
The Lorenzo and Albinia Winslow House

• $325,000 (originally $375,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $285
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed August 22, 2025
• Last sales: $285,000, April 2023; $205,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is in the National Register historic district but outside the local Fisher Park Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled bungalow with stone porch piers and chimney”
  • The original owners were Lorenzo S. Winslow (1892-1976) and Albinia Daggett Fish Winslow (1889-1969), who bought the property in 1923, the first year the address appeared in the city directory. Lorenzo was one of Greensboro’s most significant architects. He had come to Greensboro to work for Harry Barton and by 1923 was designing homes for A.K. Moore Realty. He may well have designed this house for himself.
  • Lorenzo went into practice on his own in 1927. Among his local works are the Winburn Court Apartments on Tate Street, the Irving Park Apartments on North Elm Street, the Mary and Hugh Preddy House at 303 W. Greenway Drive North and the R.L. Holloway House at 2100 W. Market Street.
  • In 1932 he moved to Washington to work for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. North Carolina Architects & Builders: He became the White House architect after he won a competition to design a heated swimming pool for President Franklin Roosevelt’s therapy for polio (photo from National Archives). Between 1948 and 1952 he directed the removal and reconstruction of the entire interior of the White House.

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Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

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3404 N. Rockingham Road, Sedgefield, Guilford County
Old Orchard Farm

• $435,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 576 square feet on 3.4 acres (!)
• Price/square foot: $755
• Built in 1938
• Listed November 19, 2025
• Last sale: $45,000, December 1983
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield
• Note: There’s probably no hope of this tiny, very secluded house — on 3-plus acres in Sedgefield — surviving beyond the sale, especially since the listing says, “This property offers investment and development potential.”
  • The property was bought in 1939 by Charles F. Alderman (1885-1960) and Sara Carlisle Alderman (1886-1961). They bought it from their daughter and son-in-law, Jacqueline Alderman Rochelle (1913-1967) and Zalph Laskey Rochelle (1911-1987). The property was referred to on deeds as “Old Orchard Farm” and comprised 6.27 acres at the time.
  • Digression: “Zalph” is not a name I had seen before. The findagrave.com website lists only 10 men named Zalph in its database of U.S. graves, plus two named Zalpheus, one of whom was the father of Zalph Rochelle. In addition there are 21 people named Zalpha, Zalphia or Zalphida, all but one apparently women (although the one identifiable male had “Sr.” attached to his name, so there must have been one more out there somewhere).
  • Charles was a banker for 18 years before becoming budget officer for the Guilford County schools in 1931. When he retired in 1959, the school system’s budget had grown from $100,000 a year to $3 million. He served as substitute organist for Greensboro’s First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian and West Market Street UMC. He played entirely by ear. He wrote music as well and composed a song, “Jacqueline,” when his daughter was born. He also had an extensive antiques collection.
  • The Aldermans sold the house in 1951 to Rufus Dempsey Chappell Jr. (1922-2016) and Johnsie Farlow Chappell (1917-1997). Rufus was a Marine veteran of World War II; he was wounded during the Battle of Guadalcanal. He was a food service manager with the Sands Vending Company.
  • They sold the house in 1984 to Raoul M. “Bud” Turcot and Sahron M. Turcot, who are now selling it.

2114wright

2114 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Hobbs-Linville House
Listing withdrawn September 5, 2025; relisted September 16, 2025
Sale pending November 13, 2025

• $375,000 (originally $419,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,706 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $220
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 21, 2025
• Last sale: $49,500, January 1985
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The second floor is “730 sq ft that is partially finished with ceiling two inches too low to be counted.”
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, three-bay, side-gabled, brick Period Cottage exhibits two front-facing gables with returns and wheel windows in their upper gables. An inset southeast corner entry porch displays an arched bay in its façade and contains a divided-light door. A three-part window dominates the façade; it includes a fifteen-over-one window at the center of flanking nine-over-one lights. An interior chimney rises from the front roof slope. A hip-roofed ell extends from the rear.”
• Clarence A. “Benny” Hobbs (1904-1991) and Margaret Hobbs (1910-1994) bought the property in February 1929 and were listed at the address in the city directory that year. Clarence was a shipping clerk for Wysong and Miles Company, which manufactures woodworking machinery. He also worked as a design engineer in the textile industry. By 1933, they had moved. They sold the house in 1936. They lived for 40 years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where they owned a pet store.
• Robert L. Bentley and Julia F. Bentley (dates unknown for both) had been renting the house before they bought it in 1936. Robert was an insurance claims adjuster. They sold the house in 1937.
• Canton Curtis “C.C.” Linville (1903-1980) and Pearl Knight Linville (1898-1983) bought the house in 1937 and lived there the rest of their lives. C.C. owned a filling station downtown. Pearl was a secretary with the Farm Administration Bureau. Their heirs sold the house to the current owners in 1985.

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307 S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro
The Rozelle and Giles Morris House

• $349,900
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,607 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1930 (per county, but probably a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed December 6, 2025
• Last sales: $259,000, October 2020; $208,000, February 2018
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records date the house to 1930, but the neighborhood’s NRHP nomination has it built by 1928.
• District NRHP nomination: “The one-story, four-bay, low-pitched-side-gabled stucco Spanish-influenced house features an off-center recessed front gable. The side-gabled roof encompasses a recessed entrance porch with arched openings.
  • “A later pergola shelters the patio with a solid balustrade and French doors on the front gable. Façade windows are one-over-one with weatherboard skirts below. They are topped with arched wood trim.
  • “A porte cochere with arched openings and supported by battered stucco posts is located on the north elevation. A stucco chimney also occupies the north gable end.”
  • From 1926 to 1928 the property was sold four times. In 1928, Giles Chapman Morris (1890-1958) and Rozelle Marion Martin Morris (1894-1980) bought it out of foreclosure. The address was listed in the city directory for the first time that year. Giles was department manager for the Morrison-Neese Furniture Company. They lost the house to foreclosure two years later.
  • In 1970 the house was bought by James D. Terrell Jr. (1923-2008) and Susan Marjorie Dunham Terrell (1925-2009). Marjorie sold the house in 2009. James was a letter carrier with the Post Office. Marjorie was a secretary with the Internal Revenue Service.

805 N. Church Street, Greensboro
The Rees-Harrison House
Sale pending July 16-24, 2025
Sale pending October 2, 2025
No longer under contract October 15, 2025

• $299,000 (originally $345,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,454 square feet (per county), 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sales: $242,000, November 2020; $87,000, August 2016
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park (just outside local historic district), Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1925-30”
  • The address first appears in the 1925 city directory, listed as vacant. In August 1925, the property was bought by William Henry Rees (1860-1936) and Alice Wolfe Rees (1860-1936), and they were shown there in 1926. William was a salesman for H.W. Clendenin & Son, a real-estate firm. He had been assistant postmaster of Greensboro for 15 years.
  • Shortly before their deaths in 1936, they sold the house to their daughter Mary Reese Harrison (1896-1966) and son-in-law William Sandidge Harrison (1895-1965). William was manager of the Carolina Maytag Sales Corp. Mary and William lived in the house for the rest of their lives. It was sold by Mary’s estate in 1967.

904wharton

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro
The Lorenzo and Albinia Winslow House

• $325,000 (originally $375,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $285
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed August 22, 2025
• Last sales: $285,000, April 2023; $205,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is in the National Register historic district but outside the local Fisher Park Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled bungalow with stone porch piers and chimney”
  • The original owners were Lorenzo S. Winslow (1892-1976) and Albinia Daggett Fish Winslow (1889-1969), who bought the property in 1923, the first year the address appeared in the city directory. Lorenzo was one of Greensboro’s most significant architects. He had come to Greensboro to work for Harry Barton and by 1923 was designing homes for A.K. Moore Realty. He may well have designed this house for himself.
  • Lorenzo went into practice on his own in 1927. Among his local works are the Winburn Court Apartments on Tate Street, the Irving Park Apartments on North Elm Street, the Mary and Hugh Preddy House at 303 W. Greenway Drive North and the R.L. Holloway House at 2100 W. Market Street.
  • In 1932 he moved to Washington to work for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. North Carolina Architects & Builders: He became the White House architect after he won a competition to design a heated swimming pool for President Franklin Roosevelt’s therapy for polio (photo from National Archives). Between 1948 and 1952 he directed the removal and reconstruction of the entire interior of the White House.

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Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

800 Brent Street, Winston-Salem
The Carl and Pauline Charles House

• $437,500 (originally $454,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,097 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $209
• Built circa 1938
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $380,806, July 2023; $90,000, April 1990
• Neighborhood: Ardmore historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show the date as 1942, but the city directory lists the address beginning in 1938.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable projection; brick; front-gable entry pavilion; six-over-six, double-hung sash; stuccoed gable ends; recessed entry with arched opening; arcaded, engaged side porch; facade chimney with decorative brickwork.”
  • The original residents were Carl Teague Charles (1898-1975), Pauline Hyatt Charles (1904-1998) and their son, Carlyle Hyatt Charles (1927-2022). Charles was a postal clerk. Carlyle grew up to become a colonel in the U.S. Army and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Tenants were listed along with the family until 1941. The Charleses lived in the house until 1955.

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4720 Old Rural Hall Road, Winston-Salem

• $375,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,517 square feet, 0.89 acre
• Price/square foot: $247
• Built in 1951
• Listed October 15, 2025
• Last sale: $6,000, July 2008 (that doesn’t make sense, but it’s what the deed says)
• Neighborhood: Montview-Ogburn Station
• Note: “The separate entertainment house includes a recording booth and a fully equipped commercial kitchen”
  • A Cotswold Cottage-style house, a Tudor Revival variation with a steeply pitched roof, asymmetrical facade and a rough-cut stone exterior.
  • The original owners were Claude Allen Brown (1925-1973) and Sue Billings Martin Brown (1926-1991). Claude was a pipe-fitter at R.J. Reynolds. They were listed at the address in 1951, the first year the city directory listed addresses on Old Rural Hall Road. Claude had been listed in the directory without a street address since 1948, so they could have been in the house as early as then.

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415 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn September 24, 2025
Relisted November 28, 2025

• $350,000 (originally $362,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1,056 square feet (per county), 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $331
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sale: $9,000, December 1994
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Originally for sale by owner with a wildly expensive price. Still wildly expensive ($331/square foot).
  • County records show 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in 1,056 square feet, which wouldn’t seem to leave much room for anything else. The revised listing now shows 4 bedrooms and four bathrooms.
  • The house was originally located across the street and was numbered 416 S. Poplar. It was moved in 1994 when a townhouse development was built. Another townhouse development is to the right of the house; a vacant lot is on the left, likely unbuildable because of the slope of the land.
• District NR nomination: “Pyramidal Cottage. One story; hip roof; pressed tin shingles; front-gable dormer; two-over-two, double-hung sash; engaged porch; chamfered posts; sawn brackets; spindle frieze; weatherboard.”
  • 416 S. Poplar first appears in the city directory in 1924. The directories show different residents almost annually throughout the 1920s, suggesting the house was originally a rental.

4798 Cherry Street, Winston-Salem
The Styers-Severt House
Listing withdrawn June 9, 2025; relisted June 29, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 13
Relisted October 23, 2025

• $337,000 (originally $379,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,881 square feet, 1.13 acres
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1927
• Listed april 2, 2025
• Last sale: $100,000, May 2020
• Neighborhood: About a block north of where Germanton Road splits off Cherry Street.
• Note: In 1922, Jesse James Styers (1886-1935) and Dollie Ogburn Styers bought an 18-acre tract, including this property, from Jesse’s widowed aunt, Malinda Ann Hester Styers (1873-1946). Jesse was a sheriff’s deputy; he died in an auto accident at age 48. Dollie sold or donated the property to the N.C. Baptist Homes in 1963.
  • The Baptists soon sold the house to Earl Wiley Severt (1928-2011) and Inez P. Severt (1930-1987). Earl sold the house until 1989. They both were born in Ashe County. Earl worked in the data processing department of the city of Winston-Salem for 33 years.

122 Rosedale Circle, Winston-Salem
The Harry and Geneva Bailey House

• $327,000 (originally $405,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,979 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built in 1937
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sale: $400,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Oak Crest Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Marietta, Georgia. The house has been owned by a series of five LLCs since 2014.
• District NR nomination: “The Bailey House is a one-and-a-half-story, brick-veneered, Period Cottage-style dwelling. The house has many distinctive features, among which are the clipped-gable primary roof and the steep front gable encompassing the south two bays of the four-bay façade.
  • “The front gable has a round-arched window under the peak and its north roof slope swoops downward to the side of the chimney. The front chimney is decorated with rusticated-stone inserts and terra cotta chimney pots. The front entrance is immediately north of the chimney and is accentuated by a steep gable above it. Two rusticated stone blocks are at the base of the gable, and above the door is a round-arched fanlight. A band of header bricks outlines the door and its fanlight. Immediately adjacent to the entrance on the right is an engaged porch with heavy brick posts.
  • “Concrete steps with brick side walls access the entrance and a relatively narrow terrace that carries across the façade from the porch southward to the north end of the south bay. Windows are one-over-one sash; the small, horizontal window south of the chimney likely was filled originally with diamond muntins. The small weatherboarded front dormer with broad gable roof and side-sliding window may be an addition.
  • “At the rear of the house is a brick-veneered garage with a front-gable roof that was likely built at the same time as the house. “However, a tall picket prevented a full view of the garage, so that it could not be recorded and evaluated.”
  • Harry Freed “Bill” Bailey (1902-1961) and Geneva Marie Hauser Bailey (1907-2003) purchased the property in 1934. Geneva sold it in 1995. Harry worked in the construction department of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.

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Alamance, Caswell, Rockingham and Neighboring Counties

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11921 Academy Street, Milton, Caswell County

• $349,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,868 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1825
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sale: $78,000, October 2007
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• Note: A 1937 deed, the oldest identifiable online, refers to the house as the H.H. Dodson home place and later the J.J. Lipscomb home place. Dr. Henry Harding Dodson (1855-1926) was a longtime physician in Milton. He was a second-generation doctor, son of Dr. Charles Russell Dodson (1829-1898) of Milton, who practiced until he was 76 years old. John James “Jack” Lipscomb (1877-1951) was a merchant. He served on the town commission.
  • In 1932, Solomon Angle (1901-1935) bought the house from a Danville bank. Ownership passed to his brother Thomas Spencer Angle (1907-1969). Thomas was a rural mail carrier for more than 20 years. In 1937 he sold the house to his widowed mother, Eva Margaret Staton Angle (1869-1949).
  • In 1938, Eva sold the house to her other son, Montrose Staton Angle (1900-1984), and daughter-in-law Lois Threatte Bass Angle (1891-1976). Montrose was a construction worker who served as mayor of Milton, which was the only incorporated town in Caswell County for several decades in the 20th century.
  • Montrose and Lucy sold the house in 1960 to their son Robert T. Angle (1927-1987) and Lucy Jane Perkinson Angle (1930-2005). Robert was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He worked as an executive with Dibrell Brothers in Danville, tobacco distributors, where he worked for 32 years. When he died in an auto accident at age 59, he had been a Milton Town Council member for 17 years and was vice mayor.
  • Lucy was a graduate of Longwood College. She was a first-grade teacher and taught at Piedmont Academy and Piedmont Community College.
  • After Lucy’s death, their children sold the house to the current owner in 2007.

307e5th

307 E. 5th Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The John D. Robertson House

• $335,000
• 6 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,459 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1922
• Listed December 6, 2025
• Last sales: $278,000, February 2022; $123,000, November 2018
• Neighborhood: South Broad-East Fifth Streets Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by out-of-town owner. Rental property.
  • The property includes a one-car garage built with the same stone as the house.
• District NR nomination: “Intact 1 1/2 story side-gabled bungalow of random ashlar stone, with engaged porch supported on ashlar piers.
  • “Other features include a gabled front dormer, decorative brackets, exposed rafter tails, 1/1 sash windows, and gables stuccoed to simulate wood shakes.
  • “Early owners of the house include John Robertson, a city employee; Guy E. Fitzgerald, owner of Alamance Vending Co., and R.E. Barnett, a pharmacist.”

1820 South Park Drive, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Paul and Myrtle Trent Turner House
Listing withdrawn December 1, 2025; relisted December 16, 2025
Listing withdrawn December 17, 2025

• $244,000 (originally $285,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,464 square feet, 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1939 (or possibly a few years later; see note)
• Listed May 26 2025
• Last sale: $123,500, July 2017
• Neighborhood: Various records show it as Pine Hill or Trentwood.
• Note: The property includes a two-car garage and a detached building that has been used as a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom residence.
  • The earliest known owners of the property were William Ernest “Willie” Trent (1865-1954) and Lula Virginia Smith Trent (1870-1942). Willie and his sons founded Pine Hill Dairy nearby in 1922.
  • In 1929, Willie and Sallie Mae sold the lot to their son Luther Allen Trent (1902-1951) and daughter-in-law Sallie Mae Sharpe Trent (1901-1991).
  • In 1943 they sold the lot to Allen’s sister Myrtle C. Trent Turner (1894-1996) and brother-in-law Paul A. Turner (1891-1972). It was described in the deed as being “on the Northwest side of the road leading from Reidsville to Pine Hill Dairy Farm … upon which said plot of land is a new dwelling.” By 1961 Myrtle apparently owned quite a bit of the land around the house and had the subdivision platted. Her heirs sold the house in 1997.

537 Washburn Avenue, Eden, Rockingham County
Sale pending July 29 to August 8, 2025
Sale pending November 18, 2025
No longer under contract December 17, 2025

• $179,900 (originally $235,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,696 square feet, 0.49 acre
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1912
• Listed November 12, 2024
• Last sale: $22,000, August 1989
• Neighborhood: North Spray

425 Boone Road, Eden, Rockingham County
Auction listing withdrawn, late August or early September; relisted October 2, 2024
Sale pending January 29 to February 5, 2025
Sale pending April 24 to May 12, 2025
Sale pending June 10 to August 26, 2025
Sale pending October 13, 2025
No longer under contract November 5, 2025

• $104,100 (originally $223,000)
  • Months of continual online auctions were unsuccessful.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,954 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $35
• Built in 1910
• Last sales: $150,500, November 7, 2023 (foreclosure auction, property reverted to the lender); $160,000, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Boone Road Historic District (NR)
• Note: Bank owned property
• District NR nomination: “This spacious one-and-one-half story house is one of the most elaborate of the several bungalows along Boone Road. It has a complex roofline covered with diamond-shaped asbestos shingles and composed of the main, steeply pitched gable-side roof fronted by a high hip roof from which a hip-roof dormer projects; a hip-roof one-story full-facade front porch is carried by pairs and trios of box posts set on brick piers and connected by decorative staggered balusters.
  • “Exterior sheathing consists of weatherboards on the first story, with wider boards at the base, and split shake shingles covering the front dormer and gable ends. Multi-paned transom and sidelights enframe the main entrance. On the interior, tall ceilings, vertical board wainscot, and neoclassical mantels and overmantels are typical of the period of construction.
  • “Built in the late 1910s by Marshall Field Company, the house is best known for its long-time occupant, Marshall Field executive E.D. Pitcher, who moved to this house after his house in Spray burned in the 1920s. After a few years, the Pitchers moved to the John M. Morehead, II House across the street, but Mr. Pitcher purchased and returned to this house following his wife’s death and remained here for many years.”

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Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, Davie and Neighboring Counties

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637 Stokesburg Road, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
The Harry and Willie Sanders House

• $525,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,116 square feet, 2.09 acres
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 16, 2025
• Last sale: $77,000, April 1994
• Neighborhood: Stokesburg
• Note: Included on the state’s study list for the National Register.
• Stokes County Historic Inventory (1989): “One of the most outstanding bungalows in Stokes County is the 1923-1924 Harry Sanders House in Walnut Cove. Harry and Willie (Hairston) Sanders [1885-1946] had spent a couple of years in California prior to moving to Walnut Cove· and building their house. While in California they had become enamored of the bungalow house type and chose it for their own dwelling, calling it their ‘California bungalow.’
  • “The impressive house makes good use of dark-stained, wood-shingle siding and contrasting Mount Airy granite for the foundation, chimneys, porch, and porte-cochere. Typically, the front porch is offset, the low roof lines have widely overhanging eaves with braces and exposed rafter ends, and windows are primarily in groups of two, three, or four.
  • “Less typical is the small, wood-shingled second story which rises from the center of the house. Continuing the use of natural materials, the dominant feature of the interior is a huge granite fireplace.
  • “Behind the Sanders House is an unusual two-story garage/storage building/apartment with an engaged second-story porch. Coordinating with the main house, it is sheathed in square-cut wood shingles.”
  • Willie attended Salem Academy and Lenoir-Rhyne Junior College. She lived in Walnut Cove most of her life.
  • W. Harry Sanders (dates unknown) was a traveling salesman, home builder and secretary of the Walnut Cove chamber of commerce. Originally from New England, he boasted of having visited every state except Louisiana. A 1925 newspaper account described him as a “live wire and go-getter” and frequent visitor to Winston-Salem, where he was “well known among the progressive citizens of that city.”

724 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
The George and Kate Neal House
Listing withdrawn June 16, 2025
Relisted November 15, 2025

• $436,900 (originally $449,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,930 square feet, 1.36 acres
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1918
• Listed January 11, 2025
• Last sale: $70,000, November 2010
• Note: The property includes a brick garden shed and other storage buildings; apple, peach, pecan and walnut trees; grapevines; and a stream.
  • The original owners were George W. Neal (1877-1961) and Kate Griffin Neal (1878-1972). They bought the property in 1917, and it remained in their family for 93 years. George was the proprietor of Neal Hardware & Furniture in Walnut Cove; he worked until suffering a stroke two days before his death at age 84. He had been postmaster and a storekeeper in the Meadows community of Stokes County before moving to Walnut Cove. He also served as county treasurer from 1910 to 1912.
  • Kate attended the State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro. She was the first student from Stokes County to receive a scholarship to attend the school. At her death she was the oldest member of the Walnut Cove Primitive Baptist Church.
  • Ownership passed to the Neals’ daughters, Annie Kate Neal (1910-2005) and Erna E. Neal (1919-2009). Erna’s estate sold the house in 2010.

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• $379,000 (originally $399,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,691 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1940
• Listed September 26, 2024
• Last sales: $45,000, August 2023; $30,000 February 2021; $15,000 February 1995
• Note: Flipped house — caveat emptor, although this one was done with more respect for the historic character of the house than many (except for the inevitable cheap replacement windows and vinyl siding).
  • County records show 2,812 square feet.

310 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Nichols-Hall House
Sale pending December 8-11, 2021
Sale pending December 17, 2021, to January 27, 2022
Listing withdrawn January 27, 2022; relisted March 8, 2022
Sale pending March 15 to April 8, 2022
Sale pending May 4-11, 2022
Listing withdrawn May 17, 2022; relisted June 4, 2022
Sale pending August 25-31, 2022
Listing withdrawn August 31, 2022; relisted May 12, 2025
Sale pending October 31, 2025

• $349,000 (originally $309,000, later $409,900 and then down to $289,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,221 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built around 1930
• Listed September 25, 2021
• Last sale: $66,500, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The National Register nomination gives circa 1930 as the date of the house and Henry Grady Nichols (1895-19) as the earliest known owner. Deeds show Nichols bought the property in 1923 from his brother, Walter Ernest Nichols (1887-1966), and sister-in-law Metta Llewellyn Nichols (1886-1964).
  • Owned by an LLC in Virginia.
• District NRHP nomination: ““A long flight of steps leads up the steep hill from the street to the front entrance. The square house has weatherboard siding with beveled corners and a hipped roof with intersecting, wood-shingled, gabled dormers. The center-bay front entrance with sidelights is sheltered by a gable-roofed porch with grouped wood posts with lattice between the posts.
  • “The porch on the south side of the house repeats the use of grouped posts with lattice, but also has wood-shingled plinths and skirt. The gabled roofs of the dormers and porches all have overhanging, flared eaves with plain bargeboards that have circular notches at the ends. Windows have grouped nine-over-one or six-over-one sash.”
  • “The earliest known occupant of this one-and-a-half-story frame house was H. Grady Nichols, manager of the Elk Printing Company, which published The Elkin Tribune. Grady Nichols served as manager of the paper, while his brother, Walter E. Nichols (who owned a house—no longer standing—on Gwyn Avenue directly behind Grady Nichols’s house), was editor.
  • “In 1936 the Clyde A. and Mano B. Hall family took occupancy of the house. Clyde Hall worked at the power plant at Chatham Mill; at the time of his death in 1989, he had attained the position of chief engineer at the mill.”
  • Clyde and Mano sold the house in 1972 to the Elkin Presbyterian Church. It was owned by churches for the next 48 years, including the Assemblies of God district office and local nondenominational Trinity Christian Center. It was sold to a real estate investor in Virginia in 2020. She tried but failed to sell it for 11 months in 2021-22 at the height of the COVID home-buying frenzy.

104 N. Madison Street, Yadkinville, Yadkin County

• $284,500 (originally $318,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,693 square feet, 0.77 acre (per county; see note)
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1941
• Listed May 9, 2025
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Note: The property consists of two lots across the street from each other that have been combined, totaling 0.77 acres. The listing refers to the property for sale as “almost a half acre,” suggesting that only the part on the east side of Madison is being sold.
  • That’s the Yadkinville Methodist Church right behind the house on West Main Street.

335 N. Bridge Street, Jonesville, Yadkin County
Sale pending September 18 to October 30, 2025
Listing withdrawn November 22, 2025
Relisted December 2, 2025

• $224,900 (originally $244,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms. 2,143 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $105
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $199,900, October 2023; $70,500, April 2018
• Note: This house has the oddest half-bathroom.
  • The house was owned from 1952 to 1987 by Robert Lee Smitherman (1919-1974) and Helen Lucille Davis Feimster Smitherman (1923-2003). Robert was a World War II veteran who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He was an employee of Chatham Manufacturing Company in Elkin.
  • Helen sold the house in 1987 to her daughter Bobbie Feimster Reinhardt (dates unknown) and her husband, James Donald Reinhardt (1939-2008). They owned the house from 1987 to 2006.

117 Hillcrest Street, Jonesville, Yadkin County
Listing withdrawn December 22, 2024; relisted January 17, 2025
Sale pending May 21, 2025; no longer under contract May 29, 2025
Listing withdrawn June 5, 2025; relisted June 29, 2025
Sale pending September 10-20, 2025
Sale pending September 23, 2025
No longer under contract October 14, 2025

• $214,900 (originally $225,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,131 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1924
• Listed November 29, 2024
• Last sale: $95,700, November 2023
• Note: If the 1924 date is accurate, the first owners were James Walter Pardue (1883-1967) and Alice Porter Pardue (1887-1961), who bought the property in 1925. James worked Chatham Manufacturing.
  • James and Alice had 12 children, including two ministers and, unfortunately, Harvey Glenn “Peewee” Pardue (1915-1992). Harvey served nine years on a 1943 armed robbery conviction. After serving that sentence, he was arrested in 1953 for a robbery in Wilkes County. He jumped bail — posted by his father and a brother who mortgaged their homes for him — on that charge. Although he vowed to never be taken alive, he was arrested and accused of kidnapping a police officer in Virginia while on the run. He pleaded guilty to the robbery and was sentenced to another nine years (no resolution on the kidnapping can be found online). He died at age 76 in Stuart, Virginia. His obituary didn’t mention his life of crime, describing him simply as a retired drug-store owner.
  • In 1929 the Pardues sold the house to Edmond Benjamin Scott (1879-1935) and Lula Isabelle Long Scott (1883-1945). Edmond was a factory worker.
  • Lula sold the house in 1944 to Dan Edgar Nixon (1913-1980) and Ennis Marie Cockerham Nixon (1912-2006). Dan worked for Chatham Manufacturing. The house remained in the Nixon family until 2023.

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Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Neighboring Counties

200 Cameron Avenue, Vass, Moore County

• $970,000 (originally $980,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,650 square feet, 2.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $366
• Built in 1917
• Listed June 20, 2025
• Last sale: $805,000, July 2023
• Note: The property includes an in-ground pool, guest house and detached garage.
  • Online listings show 2.5 acres. The owners must be dividing the lot, which is now 4.59 acres.
  • A rail line runs along the back of the property (originally the Seaboard Air Line railroad).
  • The early history of the house and its two lots is obscure. Deeds show that D.A. McLauchlin and Mary A. McLauchlin owned one of the lots, one acre, selling it in 1922. They were probably Daniel Alexander McLauchlin (1869-1956) and Mary Alice Gillis McLauchlin (1876-1947). D.M. was a county commissioner on the 1920s. He had a diverse career in business — proprietor of Valley View Poultry Yards, insurance agent, cashier of the Bank of Vass, and director and president of the Vass Building and Loan Association. In 1922 he was named president of the North Carolina Squab Company in Vass, which raised pigeons as food.
  • The other lot, described in deeds as “a small tract,” was owned by George W. Griffin (1863-1938) and Nettie A. Byrd Griffin (1874-1957), who sold it in 1935. George was a mechanic with the Seaboard railroad. Which lot the house was on is unknown.
  • William Herbert Keith (1880-1942) and Mamie Cameron Keith (1883-1964) bought the lots in two transactions in 1922 and 1935. William’s obituaries around the region agreed that he was a prominent citizen long active in the business and religious life of Vass, but, as was often the case in that era, offered no specifics about his actual occupation.
  • It’s nor clear when the Keiths sold the property. There were at least two other owners before it was sold in 1978 to Craig Stanford Eury Jr. and Susan Morris Eury. They owned the house until 2023. Stan Eury founded International labor Management Corporation in Vass, which secured temporary jobs for foreign farm workers and advised employers on hiring issues. In 2015 he was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to obstruct a government function and conspiracy to defraud the United States. He had been accused of submitting fraudulent visa applications to evade limits on the number of workers who can enter the country on H-2B visas and moving workers on agricultural H-2A visas into non-agricultural H-2B positions (also here).

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509 Carthage Street, Cameron, Moore County

• $440,000 (originally $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,330 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $189
• Built in 1875 (per county)
• Listed October 1, 2025
• Last sale: $70,000, December 2017
• Neighborhood: Cameron Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The index to deeds indicates that John Scott sold this lot to Dr. Kenneth Ferguson [1859-1921] in 1886 (D7, p. 422). Ferguson served as mayor of Cameron for several terms (see Branson’s Directory for 1890 and 1896). He later removed to Southern Pines where he served as mayor. …
  • “The house Ferguson built in Cameron is a one-and-a-half story triple A Victorian cottage with decorative sawnwork bargeboards in the broken pediment front gable. The porch roof has a broken pediment which repeats the woodwork in the gable. Square posts with carved brackets support the one-story porch sheltering the front facade.
  • “The entrance contains a ‘Cameron door’ of vertical panes over rectangular panels. The double windows on each side of the door, like those throughout, are 6/6. Recent additions have been made to the rear. Out-buildings include a garage with German siding, and a small frame shed.”

12 Vance Circle, Lexington, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn September 8, 2025; relisted September 15, 2025
Sale pending December 8, 2025

• $355,000 (originally $400,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,972 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built ca. 1929 (see note)
• Listed March 7, 2025
• Last sale: $121,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Upstairs not heated but has window cooling units.”
  • The property includes a detached garage.
  • County records give a 1940 date
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story weatherboarded bungalow with a side-gable roof and a large clipped-gable dormer; wraparound porch engaged on the front, partially-screened and supported by tapered posts on brick piers; 4/1 sash, projecting hip-roofed bay on east elevation, brick interior chimney, wood-shingled gables, triangular eave brackets, exposed rafter ends.
  • “This house appears on the 1929 Sanborn map and was occupied by Bonnie B. and Ethel E. D. Mullis in 1937. Mr. Mullis was an insurance agent.” Newspaper accounts indicate that Bonnie Bivens Mullis (1897-1969) and Ethel R. Mullis (1901-1981) and their children, who were frequent correspondents with the children’s section of The Charlotte Observer, were living at this address by 1935.

501 W. 2nd Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County
The Ezra and Ida Myers House
Listing withdrawn May 7, 2025
Relisted May 16, 2025

• $339,999 (originally $390,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,191 square feet (per county), 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $155
• Built in 1911
• Listed February 12, 2025
• Last sales: $269,000 on January 2022; $157,000, August 2004
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: A remarkably gaudy makeover, with multiple non-historic additions to the exterior, including a new marble walk from the street. It’s amazing that a local preservation commission would allow such a falsification of the house’s appearance (unless the owners had evidence that the home originally looked like this). Photos from the 2022 for-sale listing are here and here.
• District NRHP nomination: “One-and-one-half-story weatherboarded bungalow with a side-gable roof, a large gabled dormer and an engaged porch supported by square posts on brick piers spanned by a wood railing; replacement windows, brick interior chimneys, triangular eave brackets.
  • “This house appears on the 1923 Sanborn map and was occupied by Ezra L. and Ida Myers in 1925-26. Mr. Myers was a manager at Efird’s Department Store.”

316 Spring Street, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Ralph and Marion Hinkle House
Sale pending November 3, 2025

• $319,000 (originally $385,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,160 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 22, 2025
• Last sale: $200,000, July 2024
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: Flipped house, owned by an LLC in Greensboro. Caveat emptor.
  • The address first appears in the 1930-31 city directory, with W. Ralph Hinkle (1904-1981) and Marion Butler Hinkle (1904-2004) as residents. Ralph was assistant manager of Thomasville Roller Mills, which was owned by his father, William Grimes Hinkle. Ralph and Marion met as undergraduates as Duke University; they graduated in 1926. They lived in the house until around 1950.

403 W. Center Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• $315,000 (originally $415,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,177 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 18, 2025
• Last sales: $270,000, July 2023; $245,000, August 2022; $224,500, January 2022; $120,000, June 2015
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story Craftsman bungalow with a clipped-side-gable roof and a clipped-gable dormer; wraparound porch engaged on the front and supported by square posts on brick piers spanned by a wood railing, 4/1 sash, brick interior chimneys, triangular eave brackets, asbestos siding, brick retaining wall at sidewalk.”
  • The 1925 city directory identifies the resident as Mrs. D.R. Cecil. Mary I. Mitchell Cecil (1890-1964) was the widow of David Richard Cecil (1886-1924). Living next door at 401 W. Center Street was his mother, also a widow, Crissie Jane Miller Cecil (1848-1931).
  • David was a contractor. In 1924, he died of cancer at age 38, leaving Mary with five young children. A sixth child, also named David, had died about a year earlier. David’s father, also named David and also a contractor, had died earlier in 1924.

• $287,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,388 square feet (per county), 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 14, 2025
• Last sales: $255,900, January 2025; $245,000, November 22, 2021; $65,000, June 2021
• Note: Unusual Craftsman design with porte-cocheres on both sides of the house.
  • The earliest known owner was John Alfred Bagwell (1907-1940). In 1939 he sold the house to his father and step-mother, William Henry Hawes Bagwell Jr. (1872-1952) and Lola J. Griffin Bagwell (1887-1968). William and John were in the real estate business together, along with John’s brother, William H.H. III.
  • William Jr. and Lola may have lived in the house; Lola was listed as the resident there as late as 1963.
  • William Jr. operated Bagwell Real Estate and Insurance for 50 years. Lola was a school teacher. Sadly, William Jr. outlived both his sons. John committed suicide in his father’s office in 1940; William III died after a brief illness in 1943.