Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated June 1, 2023

A bungalow is a one or one-and-a-half story home, typically with a front porch and often, though not always, relatively small and intimate. “Cottage” as an architectural style (rather than as functional description, such as vacation cottage) describes small homes, informal and descended from modest farm houses and other rural dwellings.

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Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County
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Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties
Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

Recent Sales

Featured Listing: An Unusual 1930 Blue-Slate Cottage in Denton, $255,000

• $245,000 (originally $275,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,473 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1930
• Listed May 8, 2023
• Last sale: $70,500, February 1988
• Neighborhood: Denton Historic District (on National Register study list)
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • The exterior is blue slate.
  • The property includes a 1-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath “carriage house.”
  • The house needs some interior and exterior work.

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

803 Magnolia Street, Greensboro
The Jacob and Elizabeth Cunningham House
Sale pending June 1, 2023

• $525,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,254 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1923 (per county, maybe 1922; see note)
• Listed May 31, 2023
• Last sale: $158,500, May 1993
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Tudor Rev Bungalow … Veneer of oversized bricks laid in Flemish bond pattern; multiple stuccoed and half-timbered gables”
  • The address originally was 801 Magnolia.
  • The original owners were Jacob Harry Cunningham (1878-1968) and Elizabeth Adams Cunningham (1885-1935). They were listed at the address when it first appeared in the city directory in 1922.
  • Harry was president of Cunningham Brick Company and vice president of Cunningham Springless Shade Company. His brother Charles was VP of the brick company and president of the springless shade company.

2304 Sherwood Street, Greensboro
The Vance and Nell Nichols House

• $499,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,552 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $322
• Built ca. 1927
• Listed June 4, 2023
• Last sale: $172,500, June 2010
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: This price is conspicuously high for Lindley Park.
  • The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • County records show the date of the house as 1945, but the address was listed in the city directory by 1927.
  • The house originally was a rental. The first owner-occupants were Edward Vance Nichols (1900-1978) and Nell Stewart Nichols (1901-1979). They bought the property in 1931 and lived there for the rest of their lives. Vance was a salesman for Thomas & Howard, wholesale grocers.

218 Kensington Road, Greensboro
The Jeffreys-Walker House
Sale pending May 2, 2023

• $485,000 (originally $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,562 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $310
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 19, 2023
• Last sale: $310,000, April 2020
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: An attention-getting price for Sunset Hills (or anywhere, really)
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, side-gabled with returns, brick Minimal Traditional-style dwelling displays an off-center, front-facing gable with returns.
  • “A flat-roofed porch spans the southern half of the façade and shelters a multi-light door. Windows throughout are three-over-one. A three-vertical-light window pierces the upper level of the front gable. Soldier-course lintels and header-course sills frame each window.
  • “A brick chimney rises from the interior, just behind the roof ridge. A gabled ell extends from the rear. A picket fence borders the front yard [no longer present].”
  • The original owners were Wiley Gaston Jeffreys (1870-1942) and Margaret Tye Jeffreys (1873-1944). They bought the property in 1926, but were listed at another address until 1928. Wiley was a conductor with Southern Railway. They sold the house in 1929.
  • The buyers were three siblings, Wilsie Walker (1892-1985), James M. Walker (1895-1979) and Patricia Walker (1902-1967). They lived in the house with their widowed mother, Plutina L. Lawrence Walker (1867-1964). James was a truck driver and later worked for the local Coca-Cola bottler. Wilsie and Pat were school teachers. Except for Patricia, who got married in 1940, they all lived in the house until their deaths.

417 Scott Avenue, Greensboro
The Marion Lee House
Sale pending March 13, 2023

• $399,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,804 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $221
• Built in 1939
• Listed March 11, 2023
• Last sale: $279,000, June 2017
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The city sold the property for taxes in 1939 to Marion Bobbitt Lee (1904-1979). By 1941 she had built a house at the address. She was a bookkeeper for Patterson Brothers, a downtown grocery store, and later for North Carolina National Bank.
  • Marion was listed as “Mrs.” in the city directory, but there was no Mr. Lee at the address. Also listed there was her widowed mother, Beulah C. Gentry Bobbitt (1882-1952). In 1975, Marion married Thomas Earl Everngam (1891-1980). Marion owned the house until her death in 1979.
  • Curiously, the house was owned from 1983 to 2013 by Elmer Billman Jr. (1917 or 1918-2016), who had been married to Mary Eleanor Bobbitt (1919 or 1920-2007). Her relationship to Marion and Beulah, if any, is unknown. She was originally from Enfield in Halifax County. Mary and Elmer married in 1944 and moved to Greensboro in 1964. They were divorced in 1978.
  • At the age of 72, Mary earned a bachelor’s degree in child development and family relations from UNCG. “She earned her degree over a period of several years after working in the clerical field for a number of years,” the News & Record reported.
  • Elmer was a math professor at Iowa State University, North Dakota State College, N.C. State University, and the University of Richmond. He became an actuary and served as a vice president at Pilot Life.

303 N. Elam Avenue, Greensboro
The Clara and Clarence Phillips House
Sale pending May 21, 2023

• $389,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,754 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $222
• Built in 1941
• Listed May 18, 2023
• Last sale: $240,000, May 2014
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: The property includes the original detached one-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, three-bay, side-gabled, brick Colonial Revival-influenced house displays a center front gable with a vaulted soffit and supported by curved brackets.
  • “It shelters a paneled wood door with four lights at its crown. Windows are replacement eight-over-eight and six-over-six.
  • “A brick chimney rises from the south gable end, just forward of the roof ridge. A slightly projecting, side-gabled, brick extension is located on the rear (west) side of the south gable end.
  • “The Phillips co-owned Hammer and Phillips, a filling station at 300 West Gaston Street [now West Friendly Avenue].” Clarence’s partner for 27 years was Clara’s brother, Joseph P. Hammer.
  • Clara Lee Hammer Phillips (1912-1999) and Clarence Pearl Phillips (1907-1996) bought the property in 1940. It was sold after Clara’s death.

1014 Wharton Street, Greensboro
Sale pending April 9 to May 4, 2023
Sale pending May 15, 2023

• $365,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,388 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $263
• Built in 1924 (per county, but probably a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is in the National Register district but just outside the locally designated historic district.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled cross-gabled bungalow with recessed central entry and a front-facade stone chimney.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1921, listed as vacant. It was likely owned by M.B. and Margaret C. Hite, who sold the property in 1923 to Madge R. Caffey (1895-1973). The Hites apparently used it as a rental property, as they were not listed at the address (or in the city directory at all).
  • The first residents appear to have been Charles Troxell and Emily Troxell (dates unknown for both) in 1922. Charles was a singer and music director.
  • Madge was listed as the only buyer on the 1923 deed. She and her husband, Myron M. Caffey (1897-1968), were listed at the address in 1923, along with the Troxells. Myron was the proprietor of Motor Bearings and Parts, a wholesaler of auto parts. The Caffeys owned the house until 1939.

2631 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
Sale pending May 22, 2023

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,523 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 12, 2023
• Last sale: $198,500, July 2015
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The original owners were Robert L. Phillips and Helen B. Phillips (dates unknown for both), who bought the property at the end of 1926. Robert was a salesman. The address was listed in the city directory for the first time in 1928. The Phillipses sold the house that year to the same man they bought it from, C.G. Crevensten, who apparently rented it out for the next 10 years.
  • Sidney F. Marsh Jr. (ca. 1907-1998) and Sara Louise Johnston Marsh (born ca. 1914) bought the house in 1955 and owned it for 41 years. Sidney was assistant director of industrial relations for Burlington Industries.

2001 Fernwood Drive, Greensboro
Sale pending May 15, 2023

• $320,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,364 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $235
• Built in 1930
• Listed May 12, 2023
• Last sale: $239,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Kirkwood
• Note: The second floor (320 square feet) isn’t counted in the square footage. It has air vents that aren’t connected to the HVAC and plumbing for a third bathroom.
  • The address first appears in the 1929 and 1930 city directories, listed as vacant. The neighborhood’s developer apparently used it as a rental property until selling it in 1938 to William F. Smyre (1909-1992) and Irene Hicks Patterson Smyre (1907-1997). William worked at a service station owned by his brother Paul. He and Irene owned the house until 1953.

919 Rotary Drive, High Point
Sale pending May 10, 2023

• $314,900
• bedrooms, bathrooms, 1,639 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1935
• Listed May 8, 2023
• Last sale: $232,000, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Emerywood

711 N. Church Street, Greensboro
Sale pending May 26, 2023

• $295,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,536 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1926 (per county, but possibly much later; see note)
• Listed May 5, 2023
• Last sale: $128,500, May 2006
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Although county records give the date of the house as 1926, the address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1948.
  • The original owners were William Kotis Sr. (1892-1970) and Evelyn Kotis (1915-1955). William was the owner of Manuel’s Cafe at 112 W. Market Street. He was born in Greece and served in the U.S. Army in World War I as a cook. He sold the house in 1969.
  • The 100 block of West Market Street between the original Jefferson-Standard Building and Greene Street is now occupied by the insurance company’s newer building, built in 1989. Before that building went up, nine addresses were in that space on West Market, occupied in 1948 by the Odd Fellows Hall, Western Union, two restaurants, a bookstore, a camera shop, a florist, a jeweler and many tenants of offices above the stores.

630 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Altah and John Walker House
Sale pending March 28 to May 5, 2023
Sale pending May 16, 2023

• $278,500 (originally $284,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,172 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, April 1993
• Neighborhood: Sheraton Hills/Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • Double lot
• District NR nomination: “This one-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and four-pile. The house has a brick veneer with board-and-batten in the gables.
  • “It has sixteen-over-one, wood-sash windows with twenty-over-one windows flanked by sixteen-over-one windows on the left (west) end of the facade and the right (east) elevation.
  • “The twenty-four-light French door is sheltered by a front-gabled porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers. There are exposed rafter tails, exposed purlins, and knee brackets in the gables.
  • “Several gabled wings and projecting bays extend from the right and left elevations.
  • Mary Altah Pickett Walker (1895-1978) bought the lot in 1922 and owned it for 55 years. She was married, to John Harris Walker Jr. (1898-1978), but only her name appeared on the deed. John was a bookkeeper for Beeson Hardware Company. She, or perhaps they, built the house soon after.
  • Altah bought the adjoining lot in 1946.
  • Sign of the times: Only Altah’s name was on the 1922 deed, and only her name was on the one in 1946. But the 1946 deed describes the lot as adjoining the land of John Walker, not Altah.

1321 Mount Hope Church Road, McLeansville
The Clapp-Boone House

• $215,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,520 square feet, 1.81 acres
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1929
• Listed May 8, 2023
• Last sale: $15,000, March 1996
• Note: The property includes a detached one-car garage and storage buildings.
  • Jacob Lafayette Clapp (1879-1966) and Nora Boone Clapp (1885-1939) received the property in 1925 from James’s parents, James Melbane Clapp (1856-1933) and Nancy Ann Hudson Clapp (1855-1944). Jacob was a farmer.
  • Jacob and his second wife, Annie Burnette Clapp (dates unknown), sold the house in 1942 to Luther A. Boone (1921-1982) and his sister Agnes Boone (1912-1999). Luther’s wife, Nannie Elizabeth Brannock Boone (1922-2010), sold the property in 1996.

602 Old Winston Road, High Point
Sale pending May 21, 2023

• $215,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,580 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1936
• Listed May 19, 2023
• Last sale: $190,000, April 2022
• Note: The property includes a second brick house with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
  • The listing shows only 1,454 square feet.

• $210,000 (originally $225,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,954 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 3, 2023
• Last sale: $150,000, May 2020

• $199,500 (originally $275,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,258 square feet, 0.2 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1918
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $20,000, March 1986
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: Needs at least quite a bit of interior cosmetic work.
  • The house has an attached two-car garage.
  • The property includes a gazebo and storage buildings.
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile. The house has vinyl siding and trim, four-over-one, Craftsman-style, wood-sash windows and replacement picture windows flanking the door.
  • “The shed-roofed porch extends the full width of the facade and wraps around the left (east) elevation; it is supported by tapered wood posts on stuccoed piers and the right end has been enclosed with vinyl siding and windows. There are knee brackets in the gabled and on the gabled front dormer.
  • “A shed-roofed rear ell connects to a gabled wing that then connects to a shed-roofed garage.
  • “The house appears on the 1924 Sanborn map; however, the earliest known occupant is Emmett A. Edwards (grocer) in 1925.”
  • The house was last sold in 1986 to Robert Fred Hiatt Jr. (1933-2017) and Marie Clodfelter Hiatt (1934-2021). Robert was a High Point police officer.

• $195,000 (originally $235,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms (per county), 1,938 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1927
• Listed November 7, 2022
• Last sale: $120,000, October 2010
• Listing: “Unpermitted work completed by seller and/or contractor include addition of primary bathroom on main level, conversion of existing half bath into full bathroom on main level (totaling 3 full bathrooms), and HVAC installation. Seller says make an offer.”
  • The original owners were the Rev. Samuel Thomas Hensley (1875-1930) and Lollie Elizabeth Tomberlin Hensley (1882-1962). They were listed in the city directory in 1928, the only house on Chandler Avenue (as it was for several years) in its first year appearing in the directory. Also listed were two of their five children — son Gay, a student; and daughter Ila, a teacher (they had three other sons as well — Alba Homer, Samuel Jr. and James). Lollie continued to live in the home for about 11 years after Samuel died.

1112 Textile Place, High Point
Sale pending May 25, 2023

• $80,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 630 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 20, 2023
• Last sale: $24,500, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Highland Cotton Mills Village Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property has a preservation easement in place.
  • The seller is the High Point Preservation Society.
• District NR nomination: Identified as a Type B-2 house, among the 12 designs found in the village. “The design of the Type B houses is derived from D.A.
  Tompkins’ design for a ‘Three-Room Gable House,’ one of several designs for cotton mill houses he published in 1899.
  • “They have three rooms, a brick-pier foundation, weatherboard siding, and a cross-gable roof, originally sheathed with pressed-metal shingles.” This particular type has a front-to-rear wing on the left side with an intersecting wing extending to the right, so that the shape of the house forms a T.
  • “The roof has boxed and molded eaves with cornice returns and wood louvered vents in the gables. A single interior chimney rises from the intersection of the two wings.” A hip-roofed front porch carries across the two right bays of the three-bay façade “and originally had turned posts and spindle or spindle-and-sawn brackets. Windows are wooden two-over-two double-hung sash.”

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

• $659,000 (originally $749,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,182 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1905
• Listed on September 22, 2022
• Last sale: $150,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “The Lentz House is a one-and-a-half-story frame bungalow with a broad gable roof with overhanging, braced eaves, three hipped dormers across the front, a south side bay window, nine or twelve-over-one sash windows, and an unusual wrap-around engaged porch with paneled posts set on brick plinths.”
  • At one point, the house had aluminum siding. The listing says it now has vinyl siding, which is very unusual in a local historic district.
  • “A cement and stone retaining wall begins at the front walk and wraps around the east and north sides of the property.
  • “James M. Lentz, Forsyth County’s Register of Deeds for twenty-nine years, purchased the property in 1913, although city directories list him at this location as early as 1907.” Lentz (1891-1949) died at age 81. He was still in office as register.
  • The Lentz family owned the house until 1975, when they sold it to Elizabeth Ann Melton (dates unknown). She owned the house until 2019.

833 W. 6th Street, Winston-Salem
The Byrd-Justice House

• $540,000 (originally $550,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,796 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $301
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 11, 2023
• Last sale: $310,000, January 2022
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: Fix-and-flip job, with some easily visible poor judgment (they painted the chimney — always a bad idea to paint masonry), so there may be more problems that are less visible.
  • The exterior is covered with unusual wooden fish-scale-cut shingles.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story frame Shingle style house complements while not copying the Shingle style Hinshaw House (#205) next door. It has a clipped gable roof, a front hipped dormer, an exterior front chimney, and a left front porch with openings forming a shingled arcade.
  • “The house was first listed in the 1910 city directory, when carpenter Henry D. Byrd and his wife, Hartha, lived here. In 1923 Mrs. Alice Bearden Justice purchased the property, and various members of the Justice family occupied the house. Mrs. Justice retained ownership until 1943.”
  • How it looked when it was sold in 2022 (with unpainted chimney):

• $489,000 (originally $499,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,203 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $222
• Built in 1925
• Listed December 5, 2022
• Last sale: $290,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; German siding and vinyl siding; eight-over-one Craftsman-style windows and tripartite fourteen-over-one with six-over-one sidelights; engaged porch; brick piers with short posts; side passage entry; exposed rafter tails; gable-roof dormer; brick balustrade; spindle trim and brackets have been added.”
  • The address first appears in the 1928 city directory with John A. Stallings (1892-1975) and Lallah Cable Stallings (1895-1956) as residents. John was an engineer with the city Public Works Department.

1922 Brantley Street, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 30, 2023

• $459,900
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,048 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 23, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, January 1988
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a koi pond in the backyard.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman. One and a half story; front gable; shed-roof side dormers with shingle siding; wood shingles; eight-over-one and six-over-one Craftsman-style windows; hip-roof porch; battered posts; exposed rafter tails; knee braces; two-story, rear addition with vinyl siding. 1926 CD: William and Natie Crabtree, a salesman at Home Light and Power Company.”

1618 Doune Street, Winston-Salem
The Robert & Emma Jordan House
Sale pending May 29, 2023

• $459,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,139 square feet, 0.08 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1923
• Listed April 15, 2023
• Last sale: $155,000, April 28, 2022
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame house with small shed-roofed dormers; three bays wide; central entrance beneath inset porch at SE corner, which has been screened. Entrance to porch is from Vintage Avenue. 
  • “False knee braces in gable ends, exposed rafter ends at eaves and dormers; triple-grouped 6/1 windows. Weatherboarded. 
  • “Jordan (wife Emma) was a fireman at Southern Railway. They moved here from 129 Gloria.”

• $449,900 (originally $474,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,315 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $194
• Built in 1930 (probably at least a year earlier; see note)
• listed May 19, 2023
• Last sale: $285,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes an original brick outbuilding.
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival Bungalow. One story; side-facing jerkinhead roof; brick; nine-over-one windows; jerkinhead roof at entry; flat-roof entry porch; Tuscan columns; multi-light sidelights; engaged side porch.
  • “1929 CD: James and Nina Norrell, a clerk at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”

• $449,000 (originally $479,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,972 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 14, 2023
• Last sale: $293,500, August 2015
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing contains “historic,” “fabulous,” “urban oasis,” “stunning,” “huge,” “TONS of counter space,” “beautiful,” “”tons of storage” and “bonus.”
• District NR nomination: “This small bungalow is typical in form, material, and detail of many of those built in the West End and elsewhere during the 1910s and 1920s. It is a one-and-a-half-story house with a pebbledash first story, a wood shingled upper story, a steep gable roof whose slopes curve down and out toward front and rear, widely overhanging braced eaves, a front shed dormer, and an engaged porch with tapered wood posts on brick plinths and a recently added plain balustrade.
  • “The glass panel front door has sidelights and is flanked by three-part bungalow windows. Sanborn Maps show that the house was built post 1917 … “
  • The address appears for the first time in the 1921 city with Wiley R. Jones and Ida Jones as residents. Wiley was a bookkeeper for Wachovia and later worked for the Standard Motor Sales Company.
  • “Between the Jones occupancy of the early 1920s, and 1939, when the house’s longest-term owner acquired it, the house had several owners and occupants. In 1939 H. Russell and Bina Coleman purchased the property for their residence, and they owned it until 1959.” Russell was a barber at the Reynolds Building Barber Shop.

1834 Grace Street, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Lucy Lindsay House
Sale pending April 30, 2023

• $402,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,656 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1930 (per county, but maybe a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed April 26, 2023
• Last sale: $288,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Across the street from Lockland Park
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. Cross gable (asymmetrical); two story; vinyl siding; six-over-six, double-hung sash; shed dormer; recessed entry porch with arched opening and paired square posts; stone retaining wall.
  • The original owners were Charles S. Lindsay (1898-1950), city circulation manager for Winston-Salem Journal, and Lucy Camilla Carpenter Lindsay (1901-1946).

2208 Sunnyside Avenue, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 8, 2023

• $389,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,599 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1919
• Listed May 6, 2023
• Last sale: $225,000, April 2020
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-story front-gable Craftsman Bungalow with vinyl siding [update: now has wood siding]; shingled gable ends; gable-roof porch supported by square posts on brick piers; decorative, concrete pier caps; boarded windows.”

618 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Crichton-Atkinson House
Sale pending April 5-24, 2023
Sale pending May 4, 2023

• $350,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,650 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $212
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 21, 2023
• Last sale: $224,000, December 2012
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Across the street from Hanes Park
• District NR nomination: “The Crichton-Atkinson House is an unusual bungalow with simple Classical detailing. It is a one-story stuccoed house with a hip roof, six-over-one sash windows, and a symmetrical facade whose central bay is emphasized by a pedimented entrance porch with slender Tuscan columns and a vaulted ceiling.
  • “James H. and Hargaret Crichton, both employees of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., were the first to be listed at this location in the city directories (1925). In 1926 Mrs. Ada Atkinson, widow of J.B. Atkinson, purchased the property, but she was not listed here until the 1930 directory. The Atkinson family owned the house until 1972.”
  • City directories in the 1920s listed the house as 585 West End Boulevard. The district’s National Register nomination (1986) has it as 731. The State Historic Preservation Office lists it as 618.

116 Rosedale Circle, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 3, 2023

• $325,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,550 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1931
• Listed April 29, 2023
• Last sale: $173,500, October 2007
• Note: The property includes an in-ground swimming pool and an oversized one-car garage with an office with a separate entrance.

124 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem
The Francis and Opie Grunert House
Sale pending May 8, 2023

• $315,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,766 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1919
• Listed May 3, 2023
• Last sale: $51,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-and-a-half-story side-gable bungalow with gabled dormer; engaged porch supported by paneled square posts; weatherboard siding; shingled dormer and gable ends; nine-over-one tripartite and eight-over-one windows; exposed rafter tails.”
  • The original owners were Francis William Grunert (1893-1980) and Mollie Emeline Opal “Opie” Kimel Grunert (1892-1966), first listed in the city directory in 1922. Francis was a clerk with the N&W Railway and later chief clerk for the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. They lived in the house for at least 40 years.

1798 Polo Road, Winston-Salem
The Nichols House

• $300,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,418 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $124
• Built in 1929
• Listed May 25, 2023
• Last sale: $181,000, February 2016
• Note: The street originally was named Mount Tabor Road, then by 1930 Polo View Road.
  • The property was bought in 1929 by Era Perry Nichols (1897-1981), and it remained in her family for 52 years. The deed identified her as “Mrs.,” but the name of her husband, John Thomas Nichols (1893-1984) didn’t appear on it. John owned Ideal Cleaning Company and later was president of Beck & Company, a loan company.
    • In 1954, Era and John (his name had been added to the deed by then) gave the property to their son, Lawrence Richard Nichols (1924-2000), and his wife, Emily Conrad Nichols (1924-2014). Lawrence and Emily owned the property until 1981, although by then they had moved to Charleston, Illinois, where Lawrence served as a professor of history for 32 years at Eastern Illinois University. A scholarship fund in their names was established at the university.

2224 Elizabeth Avenue, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 20, 2023

• $285,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,388 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $205
• Built in 1925 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed May 18, 2023
• Last sale: $13,000, June 1974
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One story; side gable; front-gable projection; brick; one-over-one replacement windows; shed-roof porch; replacement classical columns.”
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1930, when Mrs. Carrie A. Lentz was listed as the resident. She was identified as the widow of C.O. Lentz.

1053 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• $282,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,450 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $194
• Built in 1948
• Listed May 18, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, June 2011
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Across the street from Ardmore Park
  • The property includes a detached two-car garage
• District NR nomination: “Minimal Traditional. One story; side gable; front-gable projection; vinyl siding; one-over-one replacement windows; facade chimney with stone accents.”
  • The original owners were Carl G. Hester and Benita C. Hester, listed in the city directory in 1951, the first year the address was listed. Carl was a clerk for Duke Power.

1724 Willard Road, Winston-Salem

• $260,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,222 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $213
• Built in 1929
• Listed May 29, 2023
• Last sale: The last two deed transfers have been as gifts, dating back to 1994.
• Note: “Beautifully preserved” with cheap replacement windows and vinyl siding.

3141 Konnoak Drive, Winston-Salem
Sale pending March 17 to April 20, 2023
Sale pending April 24, 2023

• $254,900 (originally $259,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,767 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1939
• Listed March 3, 2023
• Last sale: $5,000, December 1968
• Note: The property includes two lots.
  • The listing says there are hardwood floors under the wall-to-wall carpeting.

626 Knollwood Street, Winston-Salem
The Long-Robbins House
Blog post — An Eye-Catching 1940 Cottage in Winston-Salem’s Ardmore Historic District, $250,000
Sale pending May 30, 2023

• $250,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,426 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1940
• Listed May 25, 2023
• Last sale: $5,500, September 1960
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. Cross gable (with front gable projecting above ridge of side gable); brick; one story; six-over-six, double-hung sash; gabled entry pavilion; facade chimney; engaged side porch with segmental arch openings; metal awning at entry [now removed]; lattice in front gable peak; half-height, brick walls with curved tops at entry pavilion [also removed]; buttresses at corners of side porch.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1941 with Thomas Virgil Long (1903-1975) and Julia Waye Shelton Long (1904-1980) listed as residents. Thomas was a clerk at the City Department of Public Works. He later worked in similar capacities for the city revenue, tax and water departments. They lived in the house until 1960.
  • In September 1960, the house was bought by Ernest Hoover Robbins (1929-2011) and Eulala Bradley Robbins (1916-1996). Ernest was a welder with the William J. Fishel Steel Shop. Eulala was a stenographer. The house is now being sold by their daughter.

• $229,000 (originally $238,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,062 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $108,000, January 27, 2023
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Quick and cheap fix-and-flip; caveat emptor. The new vinyl floors are particularly awful.
  • County records show 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
• District NR nomination: “Side-gabled frame house with corbelled brick interior chimney, hipped-roof porch supported by plain wood posts with square picket balustrade. Concrete steps lead to central entrance.
  • “Richard Wright and Fred Wilson bought the property including #2204, 2208, and 2212 Rawson in 1892 and sold it to Jessica Fogle in 1938, when she hired A W. Linville and Son to erect the dwelling for $1,100.”
  • The first owners of the house were Carroll Clark and Bessie L. Clark. Carroll was a chauffeur.

106 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $224,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,060 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $212
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 31, 2023
• Last sale: $136,250, September 2014
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “L-shaped vernacular gable-roofed frame house; hipped-roof porch
  supported by turned posts and sawn brackets with plain picket balustrade.
  • “Similar to #112 Gloria next door. … According to local tradition, this house and #112 were built in 1906 for sisters.” No documentation appears to exist (online, at least) to support this.
  • The nomination form lists Joseph T. Peay (1875-1952) and Lucy Bell Keehln Peay (1885-1932) as the original residents. They were first listed in the 1912 city directory at 315 Gloria, which may have been the home’s original address. Joseph was a clerk first with Southern Railway, later with Mengel Box Co. Also listed on the street were George Leander Keehln (1862-1926) at 319 Gloria, possibly Lucy’s father, and George Franklin Keehln (1889-1953) at 317, George L.’s son and possibly Lucy’s brother. By 1924, Joseph and Lucy has moved to Acadia Avenue.
  • In 1925 the house was occupied by Reverend William A. Kaltreider (1901-1990) and Elsie Evelyn Kahler Kaltreider (1897-1996). William was assistant pastor of Home Moravian Church in Salem, served at Friedland Moravian Church and was a Moravian Missionary in Jamaica and Alaska for 50 years.

4814 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem
The Moser House

• $220,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,285 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1949
• Listed May 26, 2023
• Last sale: $170,000, May 2022
• Note: Charlie Ray Moser (1901-1959) bought the property in December 1945. The deed was put into the name of his wife, Nellie Brooks Moser (1902-1992), in 1947. She gave the house to William Kent Moser (1963-2011), one of their grandchildren, in 1988. His heirs sold the house in 2011.

5050 Dalton Manor Court, Winston-Salem

• $187,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,152 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 30, 2023
• Last sale: $31,750, November 1990

612 Motor Road, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 15, 2023

• $129,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, square feet, 876 0.88 acre
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 12, 2023
• Last sale: $56,500, April 2014
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

404 Glenwood Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• $435,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1935
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $215,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: Quick fix-and-flip — caveat emptor.
  • The listing includes “luxury living,” “unparalleled craftsmanship,” “exceptional,” “spacious,” “state-of-the-art,” “spa-like,” effortless,” “perfect,” “secluded,” “tranquility and privacy,” “abundance,” “the lap of luxury” and “perfect” (again).
  • In 1968 the house was bought by Donald E. Johnson (1934/35-2021) and Sylvia Smith Johnson (1936-1980). Their son sold it in 2022. Donald was a manager at Glen Raven Mills. “A passionate fan of the Duke Blue Devils, Atlanta Braves and NASCAR, he was also the Fast Pitch Softball Batting Champion in 1953,” his obituary said.

503 Hawfields Road, Mebane, Alamance County

• $400,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,738 square feet, 0.49 acre
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 31, 2023
• Last sale: $90,000, September 2019
• An opinion — take it for what it’s worth: The LLC that’s flipping this house wants you to believe they’ve been “able to keep all of the original, wonderful characteristics” of this historic home, but the details tell a different story. It’s a fix-and-flip job that sacrifices historic character with cheap materials — a front door from Lowe’s; sloppy patching of the porch floor with deck boards where the original tongue-and-groove flooring needed to be replaced; cheap replacement windows; vinyl siding. Tearing out walls to create an open floor plan doesn’t maintain the historic character, either. And that’s just what can be seen from the listing’s photos.
  • At least they didn’t replace the hardwood floors with cheap “luxury” vinyl (though they didn’t refinish them, either, which is something you should expect at such a high price). They didn’t paint the masonry, either, a bad move currently in fashion with house flippers. But it’s faint praise to point out basic things they didn’t screw up.
  • Add it all up and it’s hard to avoid the impression that these people don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to restoring historic houses, which is probably true, or that this sale is a just cynical money-grab, which also may be true (bought for $90,000, asking $400,000). Either way, for $230 per square foot – a rich price even by the rapidly inflating standards of Mebane today — a buyer deserves better.

403 S. 2nd Avenue, Mayodan, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn July 16, 2022; relisted March 28, 2023
Sale pending April 11, 2023

• $355,000 (originally $389,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,760 square feet, 0.80 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1926
• Listed May 11, 2022
• Last sale: $265,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Washington Mills
• Note: The property was sold in 2017, 2019 and 2021. It was put on the market again in 2022 but was withdrawn.
  • Renovations have added cheap vinyl siding and replacement windows.
  • The property has two outbuildings.
  • Washington Mills, less than a block away, originally owned the house. The company sold it to private owners in 1964. The listing says the house had been the home of the company president. The plant opened in 1896 as Mayo Mills.

1200 Center Church Road, Eden, Rockingham County

• $249,999 (originally $254,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,813 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1941
• Listed March 21, 2023
• Last sale: $219,000, November 2021
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.

402 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
Sale pending April 5, 2023

• $240,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,711 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1938
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $55,000, March 1984
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “[T]his one-story brick veneer dwelling is one of numerous period houses on Fountain Place.
  • “It is built on a modified H-plan and has a bellcast side gable roof on the front and rear sections. The vestibule entrance at the center of the three-bay facade has a round-arch door opening and is also covered with a bellcast gable roof which is repeated on a bay at the rear of the house.”
  • Virgil Henry Lane (1869-1936) and Nora Latrobe Padgett Lane (1869-1951) bought the property in 1934. It was sold by their son, Virgil Wilton Lane (1904-1977) in 1961. City directories never show them living there.

• $239,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,399 square feet, 2.32 acres
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1936
• Listed April 7, 2023
• Last sale: $126,000, December 2020
• Note: The property includes a tobacco barn and two storage buildings.
  • The property is about four miles east of Stoneville on U.S. 311/N.C. 165.

2386 Baynes Road, Caswell County

• $225,000 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,690 square feet, 3.04 acres
• Price/square foot: $133
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 24, 2023
• Last sale: $120,000, August 2018
• Note: The property has a Burlington mailing address but is in southern Caswell County near the Anderson community.

1503 Vance Street Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $199,900 (originally $202,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,461 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1916
• Listed May 11, 2023
• Last sale: $87,500, January 2023
• Note: Caveat emptor — fixed-and-flipped house with a turnaround time of less than four months.

604 Boyd Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending January 11-31, 2023
Listing withdrawn January 31, 2023; relisted May 17, 2023
Sale pending May 26, 2023

• $197,000 (originally $207,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,628 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1928
• Listed October 12, 2022
• Last sale: $3,500, February 1990
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “This attractive one and one-half story frame bungalow was built between 1922 and 1929, according to Sanborn maps.
  • “Clad in brown wood shingles [now vinyl siding], it is topped by a side gable roof and has a wide shed dormer across the facade.
  • “Wood shingles cover the tapered posts [now replaced] supporting the engaged porch which shelters the asymmetrical three-bay porch. Mature trees shade the house.”

1205 1st Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Sale pending May 2, 2023
No longer under contract May 15, 2023

• $169,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,539 square feet, lot size not recorded in property records
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 26, 2023
• Last sale: $44,500, January 2023
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: Three-month fix-and-flip — caveat emptor.

425 Bridge Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Sale pending June 1, 2023

• $159,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,590 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 9, 2023
• Last sale: $5,600, September 1966
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

805 Montgomery Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending

• Online auction completed; final bid $132,400
  • Starting bid: $112,400; reserve price $149,803.45
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 992 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot (reserve price): $151
• Built in 1937
• Last sale: $145,000, February 2023 (foreclosure)

1030 N. Main Street, Troy, Montgomery County
Sale pending March 21, 2023

• $295,000 (originally $389,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,688 square feet (per county), 2.13 acres
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1915
• Listed September 14, 2022
• Last sale: Not identifiable in online records
• Note: The property includes a pond and several outbuildings.
  • The listing gives the size as only 2,294 square feet.

428 S. Whiskey Road, Candor, Montgomery County
Sale pending May 19, 2023

• $290,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,505 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 15, 2023
• Last sale: $90,000, July 2021
• Note: The property includes a detached garage/workshop.

• $274,900 (originally $299,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,651 square feet, 1.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $167
• Built in 1926
• Listed April 14, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, August 2018
• Note: The property includes an in-ground salt-water pool.
  • The listing has conflicting information on the number of bedrooms, showing three in a couple places but also saying there are four.
  • The sellers also own an adjoining vacant lot of 1.6 acres, which is not included in the listing.

• $245,000 (originally $275,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,473 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1930
• Listed May 8, 2023
• Last sale: $70,500, February 1988
• Neighborhood: Denton Historic District (on National Register study list)
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • The exterior is blue slate.
  • The property includes a 1-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath “carriage house.”
  • The house needs some interior and exterior work.

10 Hillcrest Circle, Lexington, Davidson County
The Wade and Pattie Davis House
Sale pending May 23, 2023

• $239,000 (originally $245,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,739 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1933
• Listed April 27, 2023
• Last sale: $110,000, December 2022
• Neighborhood: Grimes Park, Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house was sold in November 2022 for $30,000.
• District NR nomination: “One-story weatherboarded Period Cottage with a side-gable roof and a projecting front-gable bay at the west end of the façade; gabled entry porch with vaulted ceiling and square posts shelters round-arched entry, 6/6 sash, brick interior chimney, front patio.
  • “This house does not appear on the 1929 Sanborn map and was occupied by Wade H. and Pattie L. Davis, who owned Davis Hardware, in 1937.”

127 Dixon Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

• $238,000 (originally $265,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,462 square feet, 0.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 18, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, September 2020
• Note: Currently a rental property
  • The house has a studio apartment.
  • The property includes an outbuilding.

1001 Blair Street, Thomasville, Davidson County
Sale pending May 31, 2023

• $225,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1931
• Listed May 18, 2023
• Last sale: $115,000, March 201

• $195,000 (originally $215,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,084 square feet, 0.62 acre (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1936
• Listed April 19, 2023
• Last sale: $129,500, January 2020
• Note: The property includes a one-car detached garage and an outbuilding.

513 W. 5th Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County
Sale pending May 8, 2023

• $189,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,176 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 21, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, February 2023
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Caveat emptor — the turn-around time on this fix-and-flip was 10 weeks, with a new roof, new kitchen, new HVAC, updated electrical, new tile floors, updated bathroom and new deck, and driveway.
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable-roofed bungalow with a partial-width, shed-roofed front porch supported by square posts on brick piers spanned by a wood railing; replacement 1/1 sash, rusticated concrete block foundation, interior chimney, vinyl siding.”

66 Noell Avenue, Denton, Davidson County

• $177,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 972 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1911
• Listed May 16, 2023
• Last sale: $145,000, September 2022

• $165,900 (originally $189,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,552 square feet (per county), 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 26, 2023
• Last sale: $69,000, August 2021
• Note: The listing describes the house as “swanky.” It has cheap replacement windows, vinyl siding and a muddy, unpaved driveway.

541 Columbia Avenue, Ramseur, Randolph County
Sale pending April 23, 2023

• $129,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 905 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1914
• Listed April 3, 2023
• Last sale: $55,000, January 2023
• Note: Very quick fix-and flip — caveat emptor. Cheaply renovated with vinyl floors and windows.

621 Park Circle, Lexington, Davidson County
Sale pending May 21, 2023

• $75,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 728 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1913
• Listed May 17, 2023
• Last sale: $32,500, June 2011
• Neighborhood: Erlanger Mill Village Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: This and some other homes in the neighborhood may have been built from kits manufactured by the Minter Homes Company.
  • “One-story, double-pile, cross-gable-roofed bungalow with a partially-recessed shed-roofed front porch supported by square brick or wood posts (sometimes spanned by a kneewall or railing), paired and single six-over-six sash (some examples have eight-over-eight sash on the façade and six-over-six sash on the other elevations), an interior chimney, a brick foundation, weatherboards or wood shakes, exposed rafter ends, triangular eave brackets or false beams in the gables, and rectangular or diamond-shaped gable vents. Twenty Erlanger Mill houses fall into this category…”

211 Spring Street, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Auction scheduled for Monday April 17, 2023; no update available
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,759 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Built in 1923
• Last sale: $55,000, September 2016
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: Special Proceeding 23 SP 8
  • The house sold for $75,000 in 2006, then $27,000 in 2010 and $55,000 in 2016.