Piedmont Historic Homes

Recent Sales

• Sold for $707,500 on December 31, 2023 (listed at $779,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,058 square feet, 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $344
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 26, 2021
• Last sale: $630,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes an 800 square-foot guest house.
  • John Watson Moore and Marjorie McApline Moore bought the property in 1921. They owned it for 48 years. John was the first principal of R.J. Reynolds High School and also served as football coach.
  • John (1891-1968) and Marjorie (1885-1974) both were born in Japan. Their fathers were missionaries.
  • John was a 1912 graduate of Davidson College. He served in World War I as a captain in the U.S. Army Cavalry. He left Reynolds to become superintendent of the city schools for 23 years. An elementary school in Winston-Salem is named for him.
  • Bonus facts about Reynolds High School: Its official name is now the Richard J. Reynolds Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts. The school auditorium’s opening in 1924 featured a performance by Harry Houdini (John probably got to meet him). Notable alums include musician Ben Folds, country music star George Hamilton IV and the late ESPN anchor Stuart Scott.

• Sold for $363,000 on December 29, 2023 (originally $400,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,982 square feet, 2.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1924
• Listed July 20, 2023
• Last sale: $236,141, January 2019
• Note: The property has a Greensboro mailing address, although the “Welcome to Pleasant Garden” sign is in the front yard.

• Sold for $190,000 on December 28, 2023 (listed at $184,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,340 square feet, 1.01 acres
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1928
• Listed November 27, 2023
• Last sale: $37,000, October 2006
• Note: The interior retains much of its historic character.
  • Located about 13 miles southeast of Yanceyville and 16 miles northwest of Hillsborough

518 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Julia Eaton House

• Sold for $325,000 on December 20, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,587 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $205
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 3, 2023
• Last sale: $162,000, April 2002
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The original owner was Julia Louise Boyd Eaton (1869-1939), widow of Samuel C. Eaton (1865-1923). Samuel was a lumber inspector for the Hickory Chair Manufacturing Company in Hickory. After his death, Julia moved to Greensboro, where their son Robert (dates unknown) lived.
  • After her death, her son and daughter-in-law Chester Alwyn Eaton (1905-1970) and Nancy McNeely Lentz Eaton (1907-1993) lived in the house. Chester was an auditor for Security National Bank; Nancy was a member of the Junior League and a board member of Gateway Education Center.
  • Julia’s daughter Faye sold the house in 1972.

• Sold for $178,000 on December 19, 2023 (listed at $185,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,144 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1920
• Listed November 8, 2023
• Last sale: $82,500, August 2023
• Note: Caveat emptor — 10-week flip job, which included adding a second bathroom
  • Annie Penn Hospital is across the street.

• Sold for $210,622 on December 13, 2023 (foreclosure auction)
  • The house also had been listed for sale at $254,900 (originally $269,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,192 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $66
• Built in 1918
• Listed September 13, 2023
• Last sale: $230,000, April 2021
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Something you don’t see everyday: The house has “a secret entrance to the attic in an upstairs room.”
• Note: Next door is the Penn House, a National Register mansion now owned by the city and operated as a wedding and event venue.
• District NR nomination: “At the same time that the classical revival styles were enjoying popularity in Reidsville and elsewhere, the less formal bungalow became a dominant house form, with the craftsman style being the prevailing fashion. some of its elements were grafted onto other forms, particularly the four-square, many examples of which have porches very similar to those frequently found on bungalows. In its various guises, the bungalow was built for professionals, merchants, foreman at local industrial plants, as well as members of the blue-collar community.
  • “Two of the finest examples of the bungalow in Reidsville are located on Maple Avenue and were built at about the same time. Constructed in 1917 for attorney and Recorders Court Judge Ira R. Humphreys, the house at 312 Maple Avenue has a clipped gable roof, wide shed dormer, a shed-roofed porch supported by tapered wooden posts on brick piers, and wood shingle siding in the gable ends. …
  • “[T]his handsome one and one-half story frame bungalow was an attractive addition to the landscape as a somewhat unusual example of the style. Set on a well-shaded, elevated lot with a stone retaining wall, the house features a clipped gable side roof, a wide shed dormer with exposed rafter ends and a smaller shed attic dormer layered above.
  • “A one-story, attached, shed-roofed porch with tapered posts on brick piers and a turned balustrade spans the three-bay facade, paired ten over one windows flanking the entrance, which has beveled sidelights and transom.
  • “Interior end chimneys on the north and south elevations have exposed faces. A bay window on the south elevation and a porte cochere on the north complete the house, whose only exterior change has been the application of aluminum siding [now vinyl] on the first floor, leaving the wood shingle gable ends intact.”

• Sold for $179,900 on December 11, 2023 (listed at $179,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,165 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $154
• Built in 1910
• Listed November 9, 2023
• Last sale: $138,500, March 2018
• Note: Alamance County property records for this house do not include the year built, square footage or the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.

• Sold for $229,000 on December 8, 2023 (originally $239,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 999 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1922
• Listed September 27, 2023
• Last sale: $70,000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: White Oak
• Note: The house was built by Cone Mills, which sold it in 1958. The first individual owner was Ethel D. Harris, a Cone employee. She owned the house until she died in the mid-1990s.

• Sold for $478,000 on November 30, 2023 (originally $525,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built circa 1914
• Listed July 27, 2023
• Last sale: $330,000, June 2015
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “Detached stone carriage house … with a full bath and space that can be used for an office, art or fitness studio or guest suite (there is a deed restriction allowing only use as a single family home).”
  • Contrary to what both the listing and the NR nomination say, this is not the only stone house in College Hill. But it’s one of only two (the other is 913 Spring Garden Street).
  • County records give a 1911 date for the house, but the address didn’t appear in the city directory until 1915.
• District NR nomination: “Although it is [not] the only stone house in College Hill, the choice of granite for this bungalow and its garage and retaining wall is not surprising. [William M.] Roach, for whom it was built about 1914, was president of the Rowe and Roach wholesale granite company.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1915 with William Martin Roach (1866-1927) listed as the resident. William died 12 years later while working as a contractor on a church under construction in Wilmington. He was inspecting the church tower when he lost his balance and fell 25 feet. His wife, Manie Mary Somers Roach (1873-1925) had died two years earlier.
  • In 1946 the house was bought by William B. Slayton and Peggy Slayton (dates unknown for both). William was an interior decorator.
  • Three years later, the Slaytons sold the house to James Russell Slayton Sr. (1876-1966). James’s relationship to William is uncertain, but James did have a son named William (James was 70 when he bought the house). Assuming there was a family relationship, the house was owned members of the Slayton family for 39 years.
  • James was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and was retired from the Salvation Army. He married Elizabeth Odell Andrews Slayton (1895-1985) in 1952. Elizabeth was supervisor of Mendenhall Nursing Home. James’s will left the house to her. It was sold after her death.

• Sold for $380,000 on November 30, 2023 (listed at $365,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,208 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 6, 2023
• Last sale: $330,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The property includes a detached garage. The house has a walk-out basement.
  • The house was first listed in the city directory in 1924 under its original address, 2412 Lake Street. George William Cross (1898-1974) and Jessie Lee Morris Cross (1898-1983) were the residents. George was a linotype operator for the Greensboro Daily News. They sold the house in 1930.
  • After several short-term owners in the 1930s, Clarence Henry Slater Sr. (1897-1956) and Jewell O. Maxwell Slater (1903-1951) bought the house in 1939. Clarence was president of C.H. Slater Realty and Mortgage Corp.
  • The Slaters sold the house in 1950 to Herbert Marvin Smith (1892-1972) and Fannie Mae Scales Smith (1893-1973), who owned the house until 1973. Marvin was an engineer with Southern Railway for 48 years. Fannie’s estate sold the house in 1975.

• Sold for $190,000 on November 30, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,802 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $105
• Built in 1934
• Listed November 2, 2023
• Last sale: September 1970, price not available in online records

• Sold for $275,000 on November 29, 2023 (listed at $275,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,979 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $139
• Built in circa 1941
• Listed October 2, 2023
• Last sale: $91,000, April 2023
• Note: Caveat emptor — quickie flip job of a previously unpainted brick house. The owner is an LLC in Wake County.
  • County records give the date as 1947, but the address was listed in the city directory in 1942, the year after it was bought by the original homeowners.
  • Isaac Glenn Doby (1905-1992) and Flada Maie Smith Doby (1910-1978) bought the property in 1941. It was sold by Glenn’s estate in 1993. He was a carpenter with Tomlinson furniture company and later a bookkeeper for R.D. Fowler Motor Lines.

• Sold for $203,500 on November 28, 2023 (originally $235,000, later $195,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms (per county), 1,938 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $105
• 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.

• Sold for $141,500 on November 27, 2023 (originally $230,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,170 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 26, 2023
• Last sale: Not available in Forsyth County online records
• Neighborhood: Centerville Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “The fridge stays so you can move right in.”
• District NR nomination: “One-story side-gable single-pile house with gable-roof entry porch; weatherboard; six-over-six replacement windows; corbeled interior chimneys.”

• Sold for $240,000 on November 21, 2023 (listed at $250,000)
  • Sold to a landlord who owns more than a dozen rental properties in Greensboro.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,264 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1926
• Listed October 20, 2023
• Last sale: $24,000, July 1981
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house has been a rental for at least 42 years.
  • Owned by an LLC headed by the owner of Leon’s Beauty School of Greensboro and the six Leon’s salons.
  • The house apparently was a rental from 1928, when it first appeared in the city directory, until 1941, when it was bought by the Rev. James Robert Hutton (1867-1953) and Maxie Emma Whitaker Hutton (1894-1981). They owned the house until 1982. James was a Methodist pastor for 47 years. Maxie was a seamstress who worked for Stage Decorations and Supplies, two blocks away at 620 Joyner Street.

• Sold for $265,000 on November 20, 2023 (originally $285,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,566 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1920 (per county, or a few years later; see note)
• Listed September 1, 2023
• Last sale: $169,900, January 2021
• Sales hype: “HISTORIC FLARE!”
• Neighborhood: Johnson Place
• Listing: “Please see directions – do not use GPS as there is no access to house from Hamilton Street.”
  • The original owners appear to have been Paul Jennings Dishner (1896-1963) and Mary Kathryn Dishner (1899-1987). They bought the property in 1923 and were listed there in 1925, when it appeared in the city directory for the first time (as 407 Burns Street, the property’s original address).
  • Paul was en engineer and served in the Army Corps of Engineers in both world wars, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1925, Paul was superintendent of the city water and sewer department. By 1938, they had moved to Greensboro, where Paul worked as a civil engineer. They sold the house in 1944.
  • In 1953 the house was sold to John Henry Almond (1909-1954) and Susie Pauline Lyle Almond (1908-1993). They owned it for 37 years. Paul worked for Silver Knit Hosiery. He was a member of North Main Street Baptist Church, where he served as chairman of the board of deacons.

• Sold for $240,000 on November 20, 2023 (originally $265,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,216 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $197
• Built in 1928
• Listed August 26, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Chapel Hill
  • The property was bought in 1929 by Carrie G. Yates (1862-1939), as guardian of Eugene Brantley Yates (1888-1957), who was 41 years old at the time. She immediately put the house into Eugene’s name. They used the house as a rental property. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1930, listed as vacant. Eugene owned the house until his death. His obituary said he had been in declining health for 35 years and lived in a rest home for the last 10 years of his life. He had worked for Vick Chemical Company and Norfolk and Western Railroad.

• Sold for $212,500 on November 20, 2023 (listed at $225,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,689 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1923
• Listed September 22, 2023
• Last sale: $16,000, July 2007
• Neighborhood: Old Asheboro
• Note: The original residents were George Gillespie Freeland (1882-1965) and Bessie Irwin Freeland (1884-1962). They apparently began renting the house in 1922 before buying it in 1948. They sold it just four years later. George was proprietor of Freeland Music Company.

1302 Randolph Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $137,000 on November 20, 2023
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,540 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1918
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $195,500, September 2022
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: This is puzzling: At least three online services (Realtor.com, Redfin and Zillow) show this house selling on November 20 for $137,000, but no deed has been filed to that effect.

• Sold for $300,000 on November 14, 2023 (originally $425,000)
  • House: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,912 square feet, 0.94 acre
  • Store’s size and age not recorded in county records
• Built in 1937 (house)
• Listed July 11, 2023
• Last sale: $20,500, October 1974 (two tracts); $11,000, December 1969
• Note: The Myers Grocery sign reads: “Family Operated Since 1968.” It’s not clear from the photos whether it’s still open.

• Sold for $195,000 on November 8, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,708 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1935
• Listed October 1, 2023
• Last sale: $86,000, April 2023
• Note: Caveat emptor — quickie flip job, with cheap vinyl floors

• Sold for $365,000 on November 7, 2023 (listed at $365,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,554 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $235
• Built in 1926
• Listed October 4, 2023
• Last sale: $154,500, April 2001
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The original owners were Donald Marion Stafford (1888-1976) and Annie Chase Boren Stafford (1890-1978), who lived a block away at what was then 110 Northridge Street (now 809 Northridge). They apparently used it as a rental property. Donald was the auditor and later secretary-treasurer for Pomona Terra Cotta. The street had previously been named Oak Street, one of three streets in Greensboro with that name. By 1926, two had been renamed.
  • The Staffords bought the property in 1926 and sold it in 1927. It was sold again in 1928 and twice in 1930. The second buyers in 1930 were William Francis “Hay” Hayworth (1890-1979) and Myra Gulley Hayworth (1902-1997). Francis was proprietor of Hayworth Jewelers. They lived in the house and sold it in 1948.
  • In 1954 the house was bought by Carl D. Sawyer (1904-1967) and Bessie Mary Smith Sawyer (1902-1982). Carl was a plant manager with Southern Bell. Bessie sold the house in 1984.

• Sold for $345,000 on November 7, 2023 (listed at $345,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,058 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 14, 2023
• Last sale: $260,000, July 2021
• Note: The earliest known owner of the property was Daniel Winston Venable (1827-1907). “Mr. Venable was born and raised in Stokes county near this place and moved here during the latter part of the Civil War, where he has resided ever since,” The Charlotte Observer said in a poetic obituary. “He would have been 80 years old in a few weeks. He was one of the oldest citizens of this place and in his younger days had seen the place where the little village stands in wood and pasture.
  • “Mr. Venable was a man of considerable means and has been an influential citizen in the building up of the town and community and will be greatly missed by the people of the town and surrounding country.”
  • Squabbling among Dan’s heirs resulted in a court-ordered sale of the property in 1913 to Jarvis Kennon Smith Jr. (1878-1966) and Ida Carrie Smith Smith (1887-1990). Jarvis was a merchant and mail carrier. He served on the board of the Bank of Pilot Mountain from 1929 until his death in 1966.
  • The house remained in the Smith family until 1983, when it was sold by the estate of Mabel Lawson Smith (1900-1981), widow of one of Jarvis’s seven brothers, Robert Emmett Smith (1886-1928).

• Sold for $310,000 on November 7, 2023 (listed at $335,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,690 square feet, 1.37 acres
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1936
• Listed August 9, 2023
• Last sale: $230,000, May 22, 2019
• Note: Originally a three-room log cabin, the house has been enlarged.

• Sold for $145,000 on November 7, 2023 (originally $160,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,585 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1916
• Listed October 5, 2023
• Last sale: September 20, 2023, price not recorded on deed. Last sale with a recorded price: $128,000, August 2020

• Sold for $460,000 on November 3, 2023 (listed at $460,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,753 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1923 (per county)
• Listed October 2, 2023
• Last sale: $64,000, October 1983
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, residence 1910-15, J.W. Callahan, traveling salesman
  • “Gable-end bungalow, gable-front dormer with balcony; battered posts on brick piers at engaged front porch; front bay; Oriental kick to eaves”

• Sold for $332,500 on November 2, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,042 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $163
• Built in 1928
• Listed October 6, 2023
• Last sale: $148,000, April 2014
• Note: After having a variety of residents and a foreclosure in the 1930s, the house was bought in 1940 by James Arthur Kidd (1909-1962) and Amelia Leo Dardine Kidd (1910-2006), who owned it for 46 years. James was a salesman and a member of the American Association of Textile Colorists. He died of a heart attack at age 52. Leo sold the house 24 years later in 1986.

• Sold for $230,000 on October 31, 2023 (listed at $235,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,915 square feet, 2.7 acres
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 10, 2023
• Last sale: Not available
• Neighborhood: Pleasant Hill/West Elkin
• Note: The property has an Elkin mailing address but is across the county line in Wilkes County.

• Sold for $210,000 on October 31, 2023 (listed at $205,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,116 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably closer to 1929; see note)
• Listed October 3, 2023
• Last sale: $98,000, July 2017
• Neighborhood: Piedmont Heights
• Note: The early history of the property is vague. It was bought in 1920 by C.F. Cranford and sold two more times in the 1920s. None of the owners were ever listed as living on Trogdon Street. The address wasn’t listed in 1927, the first year that Trogdon Street addresses were listed in the city directory. Two years later, it appeared for the first time with an apparent renter as the resident. It remained a rental property through multiple ownership changes in the 1930s.
  • Berta V. Cox (dates unknown) bought the house in 1941 and lived in it. She was a seamstress for Blue Bell. Although listed as “Mrs. Berta V. Cox,” no husband was listed. She sold the house in 1948.

• Sold for $175,000 on October 26, 2023 (originally $195,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,480 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 9, 2023
• Last sale: $120,000, May 2020

4345 Old Thomasville Road, Davidson County

• Sold for $352,000 on October 20, 2023 (listed at $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,486 square feet, 1.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1914
• Listed August 28, 2023
• Last sale: $133,000, March 2023
• Note: The house is in Davidson County but has a Winston-Salem mailing address.
  • Quickie flip job. How it looked in in March 2023:

• Sold for $369,000 on October 19, 2023 (listed at $369,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,381 square feet (per county), 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $268
• Built in 1925 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Last sale: $195,600, October 2014
• Listed September 9, 2023
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Hip-roofed, brick-veneered bungalow”
  • The address was listed in the city directory in 1922. Residents were the original owners, Edward Thomas Lewis (1865-1926) and Susan Virginia “Sudie” Farley Lewis (1866-1942). Edward was the proprietor of R K Motor Company, an auto dealer, and later the Electrik Maid Bake Shop. They came to Greensboro around 1921 from Danville, where they both were born. Sudie sold the house in 1942, two months before she died.
  • In 1959 the house was sold to Robert Lee Kistler (1911-1974) and Mary Louise Scott Kistler (1912-1977). They owned the house for 26 years. Robert worked for AT&T for 44 years.

• Sold for $295,000 on October 19, 2023 (originally $300,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, 1,935 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $152
• Built in 1939
• Listed August 4, 2023
• Last sale: $162,900, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Lake Daniel
• Note: The original owners were Leslie Ulmond Ricketts Jr, (1918-2016) and Cassandra K. Ricketts (b. 1921). They bought the house in November 1941, five months after their wedding. Leslie was classified advertising manager for the Greensboro Daily News. He worked at the newspaper for 41 years. They owned the house for two years.
  • Before Benjamin Parkway was built, the address was 1304 W. Lake Drive.

415 Broad Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $278,900 on October 17, 2023 (originally $289,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,187 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 21, 2022
• Last sale: $139,000, May 2018

• Sold for $312,000 on October 13, 2023 (listed at $298,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,161 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $269
• Built in 1927 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed September 12, 2023
• Last sale: $155,000, August 2016
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • The house is in the National Register district but lies just outside the local historic district’s boundary.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, 1920-25, H.L. Hicks, superintendent”
  • The property was bought in 1920 by Cora L. York Hicks (1874-1939). The address was first listed in the city directory in 1922. Apparently a rental property, it had different residents listed in 1922 and 1923, with Cora and her husband, Henry Lee Hicks (1867-1960) listed as living elsewhere. Cora and Henry lived in the house from 1924-26 and then rented it out again. Cora sold the house in 1930.
  • Henry was chief engineer and later production manager for Tatum’s Inc., an ice and coal dealer. His first wife died in 1914 at age 42. He married Cora in 1916; she died at age 64 in 1939. Henry outlived his third wife, too, dying in 1960 at age 93.
  • In 1951 the house was bought by Anna Belle Payne Neal (1893-1975), and it remained in the Neal family for 56 years. Residents listed at the address from 1951 were Bell’s son, Henry Dwight Neal (1911-1990), and his wife, Annie “Madie” Cheek Neal (1914-2008). Dwight was a police officer and later detective who rose to the rank of lieutenant. Annie sold the house in 2007.

• Sold for $199,900 on October 13, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms. 2,144 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $93
• Built in 1937
• Listed September 6, 2023
• Last sale: $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.

• Sold for $625,000 on October 11, 2023 (listed at $600,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,841 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $339
• Built in 1938
• Listed September 14, 2023
• Last sale: $211,500, March 2019
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The property includes a saltwater pool.
  • The house has been extensively and extravagantly renovated. “The primary bathroom, a true masterpiece, featuring a wall-mounted toilet, Italian-style bidet, and a stylish vanity, complemented by dual Grohe rain head shower system.”
  • The price is conspicuously high for for Lindley Park, but not unprecedented, on a per-foot basis, at least. Ten home sales in the neighborhood have been listed on the website this year. Two have sold for more than $300/square foot; the other eight sold for $157/square foot to $253/square foot. Nine of them sold at a premium to their listed price. (Several other homes in the neighborhood have been listed and sold this year as well.)
  • County records give the date of the house as 1937, but a Greensboro Daily News photo suggests 1938.
  • The original owners were Noland Benard Dickey and Maxine D. Dickey (dates unknown for each). They bought the property in 1938 and sold it in 1941. Noland was a traveling salesman.
  • In 1961 the house was sold to Dallas Ralph Jarrett (1928-2014) and Eula Mae Jarrett (dates unknown). They owned the house for 58 years. Dallas worked with his father in grocery and real estate businesses before starting Jarrett Sheet Metal. Later, he was joined by one of his sons in the business. Eula sold the house in 2019.

• Sold for $400,000 on October 11, 2023 (listed at $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,152 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1922
• Listed September 8, 2023
• Last sale: $255,000, November 2019
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-story, front-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is four bays wide and triple-pile with a projecting gabled bay on the left (west) end of the facade. It also has two projecting gabled wings on the right (east) elevation and one on the left elevation.
  • The house has vinyl siding, six-over-six, wood-sash windows, and an arched, four-light-over-four-panel door. The shed-roofed porch extends across the right three bays of the facade and is supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers.
  • The original owners were Earl Francis Craver (1886-1979) and Ethel May Ferree Craver (1893-1963). They owned the house until 1990. Earl was a salesman with R.G. Lassiter & Company, a street and road contractor. He later was co-proprietor of High Point Cigar Company, a wholesaler.

• Sold for $150,500 on October 10, 2023 (Foreclosure auction, property reverted to the lender)
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not listed, 2,954 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $51
• Last sale: $160,000, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Boone Road Historic District (NR)
• 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.”

• Sold for $288,000 on September 28, 2023 (listed at $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,292 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $223
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 8, 2023
• Last sale: $158,550, October 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. Front gable; asbestos siding; paired and tripartite, eight-over-one, Craftsman style windows; attached, hip roof porch with paired, square posts; central entry. Notable green, broken tile entry walk.
  • “1926 CD: Loving M. Bates, manager of the Charles Store, and wife Alice. Succession of occupants in subsequent years suggests that this may have been a rental property until about 1940.”

• Sold for $258,000 on September 27, 2023 (listed at $269,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,951 square feet (per county), 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1936
• Listed August 26, 2023
• Last sale: $179,000, November 2000
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The listing shows only 1,816 square feet.
  • The original owners were David Morrah Kennedy (1891-1963) and Lucile Pirkle Kennedy (1901-1960). David was a manager with Piggly Wiggly. They bought the property in 1933 and were listed in the city directory as living elsewhere in Greensboro until 1936, when they were listed for the first time at an unnumbered address on Walker Avenue Extension. The Kennedys sold the house in 1938.
  • In 1943, the house was sold to Bertis DeLeon Ennis (1895-1972) and Phoebe Louise Gurley Ennis (1899-1993). They owned the house for 36 years. B.D. was a traveling salesman for Lever Brothers and later was in real estate. They were charter members of Christ United Methodist Church. Phoebe sold the house in 1979.

• Sold for $103,000 on September 26, 2023 (originally $135,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,368 square feet, 3.96 acres
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 17, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, May 2004
• Note: The property has a Lexington mailing address but is about 6 1/2 miles west of town.

• Sold for $415,000 on September 25, 2023 (listed at $389,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,382 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $300
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 25, 2023
• Last sale: $317,500, April 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; brick; six-over-six, double-hung sash; side-gable, wraparound porch; square posts and turned posts. replacements; stuccoed gable ends. 1929 CD: Hubert and Katherine Knight, bill clerk at F.M. Bohannon; and Raymond and Blanche VanHoy, a barber at Robert E. Lee Barber Shop.”

705 West Street, Winston-Salem
The Clyde and Kathleen Ragland House

• Sold for $255,000 on September 25, 2023
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,008 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1920
• Listed not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $46,000, October 1999
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• District National Register nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable porch; square posts on brick piers; eight-over-one windows; decoratively cut knee braces.”
  • Clyde Byron Ragland (1894-1970) and Kathleen Lindamood Ragland (1899-2000) bought the property in 1920 and were listed at the addrfess beginning in 1923, the first year it was listed in the city directory. Clyde was a chauffeur at Jesse Bowen & Company, a piano and organ dealer, and later worked at R.J. Reynolds. Kathleen sold the house in 1990.

• Sold for $202,500 on September 25, 2023 (listed at $210,000)
  • Bought by an LLC based in Raleigh
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,419 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1926
• Listed August 11, 2023
• Last sale: $195,000, February 2022

• Sold for $366,000 on September 22, 2023 (listed at $399,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,043 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 5, 2023
• Last sale: $274,000, December 2009
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: “Home will require some restoration”
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story frame bungalow is a typical design of the 1910s and 1920s period. It has a broad gable roof with widely overhanging braced eaves, a large matching front dormer, a French door entrance with matching sidelights and transom, and an engaged front porch with paneled Classical posts and a sun room at the southeast corner.
  • “The house was sheathed with vinyl siding in recent years, but its overall form and detailing still contribute to the architectural character of the West End.
  • “Northwest of the house is a rusticated block garage shared with 1221 W. Fourth St.
  • “A one-and-a-half-story house at this location is shown on the 1917 Sanborn map, but its configuration does not conform with this house, and it appears more likely that the present house (or its present form) dates from several years later.
  • “In 1919 J.C. and Ophelia Reich purchased the property, and by 1921 they were listed here in the city directory. The Reich family remained owner-occupants until 1967.”
  • John Cicero Reich (1984-1964) was a clerk and later shipping superintendent at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, where he worked for 42 years. Ophelia Phillips Reich (1884-1973) was a public school teacher.

• Sold for $315,000 on September 22, 2023 (listed at $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,806 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1932
• Listed August 4, 2023
• Last sale: $165,000, January 2017

• Sold for $314,000 on September 21, 2023 (listed at $308,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,126 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $279
• Built in 1939
• Listed August 13, 2023
• Last sale: $157,500, January 2016
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The original owners were Ben Russell Walters (1906-1964) and Mabel Barham Walters (1911-1991). They bought the house in 1940 from Clarence H. Slater, president of C.H. Slater Realty & Mortgage Corp. Slater lived at 2412 Sherwood.
  • Ben worked for more than 20 years at Mock, Judson, Voehringer Company, the large hosiery mill just a block away across Spring Garden Street. He later worked as a deputy sheriff. One of his brothers, John Ernest Walters, had been sheriff from 1945 to 1962. At age 58, Ben died suddenly, apparently of a heart attack, at home. Mabel sold the house in 1978.

• Sold for $61,234 on September 20, 2023 (listed at $40,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 992 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $62
• Built in 1937
• Last sale: $145,000, February 2023 (foreclosure)
• Note: The house previously was for sale in an online auction with a starting bid of $89,900. The seller accepted a bid of $132,000, but the sale didn’t close.

• Sold for $275,000 on September 14, 2023 (originally $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,710 square feet, 1.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1927
• Listed June 1, 2023
• Last sale: $86,000, July 2006

• Sold for $260,000 on September 14, 2023 (originally $349,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,830 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1930 (or 20-plus years later? see note)
• Listed June 2, 2023
• Last sale: $500, December 1984 (sale from a father to daughter and son-in-law)
• Note: The property consists of two buildings on three lots. The house is on one lot, a garage and upstairs apartment are on a second lot, and the third is vacant. The apartment is 624 square feet with two bedrooms, one bathroom and a kitchen.
  • The address wasn’t listed in the city directory until 1956, when it appeared as 4208 W. 1st Street. Although the lots and most of their immediate neighbors had been platted in 1927, only addresses up to the 4000 block were listed until then.
  • The resident was Frankie Camilla Russell Whitley (1907-1987), who worked in the cafeteria at South Fork Elementary School. She had not been listed in the Winston-Salem directory before. Her husband, Hoyt Lee Whiteley (1901-1954), had died in 1954. She later worked as a machine operator for the Turner-White Casket Company. Frankie was one of eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood. Her siblings were Ina, Stella, Grover, Pearl, Zinna, Samuel and Gilmer.
  • Frankie sold the three-lot property in 1963 to John Lewis Hensley (1917-1986) and Julia Zimmerman Hensley (1914-2004). It has been in their family ever since. John was a World War II veteran who received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He worked for the Winston-Salem ABC board.
  • In 1984 they passed the property to their daughter, Shelby Jane Lewis Vogler (1941-2022), and her husband, Albert Chester Vogler (1940-2008). Shelby was an employee of Forsyth Medical Center. Albert was a commercial artist.

• Sold for $377,000 on September 13, 2023 (listed at $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1941
• Listed August 3, 2023
• Last sale: $295,000, August 2020
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The original owners were Robert Francis Farley (1907-1996) and Selena Marion Dubose Farley (1909-2004). “Mr. Bob,” as he was known, was an editor at the two Greensboro newspapers for 35 years. At the Greensboro Daily News, he served as news editor, city editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. Selena sold the house in 2001.

• Sold for $300,000 on September 13, 2023 (listed at $300,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,374 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 3, 2023
• Last sale: $170,000, June 2023
• Note: Extremely quick flip job. What it looked like in June 2022:

• Sold for $164,000 on September 12, 2023 (listed at $169,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,313 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Year built: 1939
• Listed June 30, 2023
• Last sale: $56,000, June 2014

• Sold for $184,000 on September 11, 2023 (listed at $180,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,229 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 3, 2023
• Last sale: $12,500, October 2012
• Neighborhood: Clinton Heights
• Note: The property was owned by Clara F. Johnson (1890-1985) and her heirs from 1922 to 2009. Although she was listed in a 1933 document as a widow, it appears her husband actually lived until 1962. His name doesn’t appear in any of the deeds documenting ownership of the house. Clara used it as a rental property for all or most of her ownership of the house.

• Sold for $296,000 on September 8, 2023 (listed at $275,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 2,698 square feet, 11 acres
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1917
• Listed July 11, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, December 2009 (part of a three-property sale)
• Note: The house is a log cabin with wood siding on the exterior. Some of the interior has exposed log walls.
• Listing: “Wired Horse barn with upstairs hay loft, several stalls and lean-to’s with separate power meter and water. Approximately 6-7 acres of open, cleared fields … 2nd barn with covered shelter and 2 fully enclosed spaces. … Stream meanders along back property line.”
  • The property has a Madison mailing address but is about five miles east of town.
  • Until recently, the property was part of a much larger tract that included 327 and 328 Tobacco Road, also now for sale. The three properties were divided so recently there’s no separate property tax card for this one in the county tax system.
  • The property is just a couple miles up the road from Intelligence, or Intelligence Crossroads, the wonderfully named community at State Road 2308/Bald Hill Loop and Bailey Road. The name came about 100 years ago when the community was the home of Rockingham County’s first modern public school.

• Sold for $285,000 on September 8, 2023 (listed at $260,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,317 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 10, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, May 2020
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: Queen Anne cottages “with high hip roofs and front-gable projections, illustrate the complexity that a modestly-sized house could obtain. The house at 803 Academy Street (c.1910) is a good example and features a high, hip roof, weatherboard siding, a hip-roof dormer, Tuscan porch columns, and a trefoil-motif attic vent.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1912. A different resident was listed each year until 1920, suggesting it was a rental property. In March 1920, Maude Hoffman bought the house. Her husband, Roy Basil Hoffman, was co-owner of Hoffman Brothers auto repair shop, but her name alone was on the deed. They were listed at the address until 1926.

• Sold for $612,000 on September 6, 2023 (listed at $625,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,335 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 15, 2023
• Last sale: $360,000, June 2017
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: The original owners were William Stancliff Eskridge (1887-1942) and Alberta Snodgrass Eskridge (1893-1962). William was a salesman. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1932.
  • The house was bought by Richard Harry Lewis and Daphne W. Lewis (1898-1978) in 1939, and it remained in their family for 40 years. Richard’s occupation was listed in the city directory as “state agent,” whatever that meant. He was a brother of McDaniel Lewis, an investment banker and one of Greensboro’s most prominent residents for decades. Harry and Daphne owned the house until their deaths.

• Sold for $185,000 on September 6, 2023 (originally $199,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,071 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1936
• Listed July 31, 2023
• Last sale: $120,000, June 23, 2023
• Note: Caveat emptor — five-week turn-around time for fix-and-flip

• Sold for $229,000 on September 5, 2023 (listed at $229,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,228 square feet, 0.35 acre (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 20, 2023
• Last sale: $73,000, March 2005 (part of a multi-property sale)
• Note: The listing shows only 1,173 square feet.

• Sold for $495,000 on September 1, 2023 (originally $550,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,796 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $276
• 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):

• Sold for $381,000 on September 1, 2023 (originally $399,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,613 square feet, 11.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1940
• Listed June 12, 2023
• Last sale: $135,000 on May 31, 2023
• Note: The exterior is remarkable, but on the interior, it now looks largely like the kind of home you can find in any subdivision.
  • The turn-around time on this house — 12 days — is amazing, especially in view of the price increase.

• Sold for $305,500 on September 1, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
  • Bought by a Virginia-based LLC
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,038 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1908
• Listed July 18, 2023
• Last sale: $235,000, October 2021
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Single-family home divided into three apartments.
• District NR nomination: “L-plan, Residence, 1909-12”
  • The address first appeared in the 1909-1910 city directory with Augustus Lewis Grundman (1887-1960) listed as the resident. Also at the address were two of his sisters, Dottie (1885-1909) and Dora (1889-1980). Augustus was a stonecutter. He apparently rented the house; there’s no record of him buying the property, and another resident was listed the next year.
  • In 1939 the house was bought by Wiley Arnold Sykes (1884-1967) and Gertrude Harts Sykes (1890-1978). Wiley was vice president of Bray Brothers, an investment firm. Gertrude sold the house in 1968. It apparently was divided into apartments sometime later.

• Sold for $189,900 on September 1, 2023 (listed at $189,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $133
• Built in 1942
• Listed July 16, 2023
• Last sale: $87,000, June 2015

• Sold for $214,900 on August 31, 2023 (listed at $214,990)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,560 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1911
• Listed July 29, 2023
• Last sale: $28,000, January 2020
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: A mostly well-done restoration, though by cutting corners on the windows (replacing rather than restoring) they somehow ended up in the dormer with one-over six windows, which looks odd (and is).
  • The second photo above shows the sad state of the house when it was last sold.

• Sold for $200,000 on August 31, 2023 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,690 square feet, 3.04 acres
• Price/square foot: $118
• 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.

• Sold for $250,000 on August 29, 2023 (listed at $279,000)
• Two homes on the property
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,014 square feet
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, square feet not listed
  • 3.24 acres
• Price/square foot: $246
• Built in 1946, 1947
• Listed July 21, 2023
• Last sale: $105,000, July 2010
• Note: The property includes a barn and a workshop.
  • The property has a Westfield mailing address but is 8 miles northeast of town.

• Sold for $370,000 on August 28, 2023 (listed at $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,370 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $270
• Built in 1925
• Listed August 11, 2023
• Last sale: $244,000, August 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; front-gable porch; battered posts on brick piers; asbestos shingle siding; Craftsman-style six-over-one, double-hung sash and Craftsman-style, six-light transom over-one windows; knee braces; exposed rafter tails.
  • “1926 CD: S.W. Hutchins, engineer at B.F. Huntley Furniture.”

• Sold for $82,500 on August 28, 2023 (listed at $72,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,144 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $72
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 10, 2023
• Last sale: $74,000, December 2007
• Note: Very few houses are priced for a sale at a loss.
  • The seller is the Reidsville YMCA.

• Sold for $212,500 on (listed at $215,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 932 square feet, 1.33 acres
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1931 (see note)
• Listed June 30, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, December 2009 (part of a three-property sale)
• Note: Log cabin with painted brick exterior
  • The listing speculates the house was built as a log cabin “possibly” in the 19th century.
  • The house has a Madison mailing address but is about five miles east of town.
  • Until recently, the property was part of a much larger tract that included 326 and 327 Tobacco Road, also now for sale. The three properties were divided recently.
  • The property is just a couple miles up the road from Intelligence, or Intelligence Crossroads, the wonderfully named community at State Road 2308/Bald Hill Loop and Bailey Road. The name came about 100 years ago when the community was the home of Rockingham County’s first modern public school.

• Sold for $445,000 on August 23, 2023 (listed at $414,900)
  • The sale closed five days after the house was listed, two days after the offer was accepted.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,254 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $355
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 18, 2023
• Last sale: $302,500, March 2022
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: Buyers should expect better than cheap vinyl replacement windows when paying the inflated prices that houses like this are going for.
  • Lindley Park Inc. sold the property to real estate agent Henry W. Clendenin in November 1924. Clendenin apparently had built the house by 1926, when he sold it to John F. Stevens and Mildred H. Stevens. John was secretary of the Gate City Building & Loan Association. A week later, they sold the house to John Stanley Johnson Sr. (1897-1963) and Dora Mozelle Weston Johnson (1900-1960).
  • Stanley and Mozelle were listed as residents when the address first appeared in the city directory in 1927. He was a teacher at Greensboro High School. Stanley was a native of Pender County, one of nine children, all of whom survived to adulthood. Mozelle was born in Haw River, one of 12 children, all but the first of whom lived to adulthood. She and Stanley lived in the house until around 1934, when they apparently lost it in a foreclosure.
  • Willis Hester Malone (1891-1971) and Vera E. Britt Malone (1899-1962) bought the house in 1937 and owned it for 30 years. Willis was a meter reader for the city water department and later served as supervisor of accounts.

• Sold for $245,000 on August 23, 2023 (listed at $265,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,386 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1940
• Listed July 27, 2023
• Last sale: $79,000, October 2007

• Sold for $225,000 on August 23, 2023 (originally $234,999)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,709 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1900 (per county)
• Listed July 1, 2023
• Last sale: $142,000, August 2019
• State Historic Preservation Office: “c. 1916 1-story Triple-A frame 19th-20th c. traditional/vernacular house”
  • The listing shows a 1912 date for the house.
  • John Emmett Ayers (1884-1959) was a salesman. He was married to Mazy Harman Ayers (1885-1981). It’s not clear why the State Historic Preservation Office associates them with the house. There’s no online record of them living there. They moved to Mount Airy from their native Virginia sometime after 1910, census records show.

• Sold for $215,000 on August 23, 2023 (listed at $199,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,120 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 8, 2023
• Last sale: $105,000, August 2013
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing says the upstairs area isn’t included in the square footing, most likely because the ceiling is too low.
  • The seller is a limited partnership based in Dallas.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. Similar to 617 [One and a half story; front gable; brick; front-gable porch; brick piers; six-over-one, double-hung sash; exposed rafter tails; knee braces] with multi-light door.”

• Sold for $460,000 on August 22, 2023 (listed at $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,820 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1935 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed June 16, 2023
• Last sale: $304,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1937, with Walker Turner Hobbs (1911-1995) and Blanche Steele Broadhurst Hobbs (1915-2002) listed as the residents. Turner was a branch manager for A&P food stores. They bought the property in 1937, and it remained in their family until 2013.
  • Turner’s mother bore eight children between 1900 and 1915. The first two died in infancy, but the other six all lived to be at least 75. One lived to be 106.

• Sold for $270,000 on August 17, 2023 (listed at $279,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,107 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 20, 2023
• Last sale: $245,000, August 2022
• 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.

• Sold for $142,500 on August 17, 2023 (originally $215,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,520 square feet, 1.81 acres
• Price/square foot: $94
• 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.

• Sold for $321,000 on August 15, 2023 (listed at $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,667 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $193
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 16, 2023
• Last sale: $175,000, August 2018
• Note: The house was owned for 42 years by Henry Burdette Whipple (1906-1983) and Mildred Diser Wipple (1908-2000). They bought the house in 1956; Mildred sold it in 1998. Henry was minister of music at First Presbyterian Church.

• Sold for $240,000 on August 15, 2023 (listed at $255,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,516 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1939
• Listed July 12, 2023
• Last sale: $129,900, January 2017

• Sold for $225,000 on August 15, 2023 (listed at $219,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,512 square feet, 3.81 acres
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1935
• Listed June 30, 2023
• Last sale: $120,000, September 2017
• Note: The property has a Mount Gilead mailing address but is about six miles east of town.
  • A creek runs along part of one side of of the property.
  • Listing: “Lg. Tractor Shed, Woodshed, Chicken Coop & aged horse barn, upper & lower pastures & pretty ‘hollar’ behind the house.”

• Sold for $125,500 on August 11, 2022 (auction)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,759 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built in 1923
• Last sale: $117,500, May 2023 (foreclosure auction, bought by lender)
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: The house sold for $75,000 in 2006, then $27,000 in 2010 and $55,000 in 2016.

• Sold for $295,500 on August 10, 2023 (listed at $274,800)
• 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, 1,540 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1918
• Listed June 29, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, January 2023
• Note: Quickly flipped house — caveat emptor.
  • The listing shows 1,836 square feet.
  • What it looked like when it was sold in January 2023:

• Sold for $390,000 On August 9, 2023 (listed at $399,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,257 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1915
• Listed June 22, 2023
• Last sales: $336,500, October 2021; $112,000, February 2020
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Sales hype: “one of the trendiest historic neighborhoods in Winston-Salem”
• District NR nomination: “One-and-a-half-story side-gable Craftsman Bungalow with vinyl siding; shed-roof dormer; one-over-one and hexagonal and diamond multi-light-over-one sash windows; engaged porch with square posts with applied, thru-tenon detail. Appears on 1917 Sanborn Map.”
  • Replacement windows

• Sold for $379,400 on August 9, 2023 (listed at $364,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,687 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $225
• Built in 1926
• Listed July 6, 2023
• Last sale: $225,000, May 2010
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The address first appears in the 1928 city directory, listed as vacant. It was owned by real estate agent Beatrice Selden Chamblee (1889-1957). She bought the property in 1927 from contractor Daniel L. Kenerly, who likely built the house. Beatrice owned it until 1935, apparently using it as a rental property, as she was never listed as living there.
• After it was sold a couple times, the house was bought in 1947 by William Alois Schneider (1902-1994) and Elizabeth Maria Schneider (1910-1983). They owned it for 34 years. William was an engineer with Western Electric, the equipment division of AT&T.

• Sold for $220,000 on August 9, 2023 (originally $269,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,804 square feet, 1.57 acres
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1950
• Listed May 19, 2023
• Last sale: $6,000, February 1992
• The property is about 3 1/2 miles east of Elkin off East Main Street/N.C. Highway 268.

• Sold or $234,999 on August 8, 2023 (listed at $234,999)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,568 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1930
• Listed July 17, 2023
• Last sale: $185,000, June 2022

• Sold for $215,000 on August 8, 2023 (listed at $200,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,120 square feet, 0.70 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 22, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, September 2020

• Sold for $180,000 on August 7, 2023 (originally $225,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,954 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 3, 2023
• Last sale: $150,000, May 2020

• Sold for $125,000 on August 2, 2023 (originally $169,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,343 square feet (per county), 0.49 acre
• Price/square foot: $93
• Built in 1955
• Listed April 14, 2023
• Last sale: The last five deed transfers on the property, going back to 1962, all have been non-taxed sales (presumably transfers among family members), so no sales figures were noted on the deeds.
• Neighborhood: Smitherman Park
• Note: The interior is more interesting than the exterior.
  • The listing shows 1,421 square feet.
  • The house is on two lots at the corner of Eldorado and Capel streets. A railroad line runs along the other side of Eldorado Street.
  • Next door on Eldorado Street is a 4-acre-plus tract owned by Capel Real Estate & Development Corp., containing a warehouse and parking lot (if you’re not familiar with the Capel family of Troy, click here).

• Sold for $405,000 on August 1, 2023 (originally $474,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,315 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $175
• 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.”

• Sold for $280,000 on July 31, 2023 (originally $189,900, later $294,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,330 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1920
• Listed November 3, 2020
• Last sale: $85,000, May 2008
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Rental property
  • Recent “improvements” include replacement windows and vinyl siding.
• District NRHP nomination: “M. Quilla Snow (1881-1972) is believed to have been the original owner of this one-and-a-half-story house. He owned and operated the Snow Clothing Company store (no longer standing) at the same location in the 100 block of West Main Street for fifty-eight years, from 1905 to 1963. He also served on the Surry County [Board of Commissioners] for approximately thirty years.”
  • Martin Quilla Snow taught school from 1899-1903. “Mr. Snow then traveled in a horse and buggy for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. as a salesman in Georgia,” his obituary in the Winston-Salem Journal said. Of his career as a retailer, the newspaper said, “he took pride in the fact that he had never sued anyone and had never been sued.”
  • He was elected to 12 terms as a county commissioner, serving chairman for 21 years. He resigned in 1956.
  • “The weatherboarded frame dwelling exhibits an unusual combination of form and details. It has a broad three-bay-wide first story and an upper half story framed within an expansive, metal-shingle-sheathed, front-facing gambrel roof, giving the house a barn-like appearance.
  • “Contradicting this feeling are the first-story wraparound porch with turned posts and the upper half-story, center-bay porch with its turned posts, plain balustrade, and pedimented roof.
  • “Both the upper porch pedimented gable and the triangular peak of the gambrel roof are decorated with square-cut wood shingles. Windows are one-over-one and four-over-four sash, and a decorative window in the upper porch gable has a center diamond surrounded by squares,” which is no longer present.

• Sold for $335,500 on July 28, 2023 (listed at $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,305 square feet
• Price/square foot: $257
• Built in 1915 (or a few years later; see note)
• Listed June 20, 2023
• Last sale: $205,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• Note: The address, originally 505 Gloria, doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1921.
• District NR nomination: “Frame front-gabled bungalow; inset full-facade porch with large shingled posts and weatherboarded balustrade. Asbestos siding. Noble (wife Edith) was president of Cobb-Noble Co. and secretary-treasurer of Realty Exchange; they moved here from Cascade Avenue.”
  • Edith Avery Appleby Noble (1894-1928) was born in Morganton; Charles Stott Noble (1892-1979) was originally from Alabama. They lived in the house from 1921 to 1923. By 1937, Charles had remarried and left Winston-Salem. He’s buried in Madiera, Ohio.

• Sold for $244,000 on July 28, 2023 (originally $254,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,813 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built in 1941
• Listed March 21, 2023
• Last sale: $219,000, November 2021
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.

• Sold for $195,000 on July 28, 2023 (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.

• Sold for $185,900 on July 28, 2023 (originally $202,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,461 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $133
• 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.

• Sold for $160,000 on July 28, 2023 (originally $389,000)
  • The house sold for an extraordinarily low 41 percent of its original asking price.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,688 square feet (per county), 2.13 acres
• Price/square foot: $60
• 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.

• Sold for $260,000 on July 27, 2023 (listed at $250,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,426 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $182
• 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.

• Sold for $419,000 on July 26, 2023 (listed at $419,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,872 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 25, 2023
• Last sale: $255,000, August 2019
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half house that appears to be a Craftsman bungalow with an extensive late 2010s Craftsman-inspired remodeling.
  • “The frame house has modern board-and-batten siding and a composite-shingled side-gable roof with a shed dormer. The engaged front porch has modern paneled square wood columns and the original weatherboarded railing has been removed.
  • “Inside the porch is an entry with a Craftsman-inspired door with an eight-pane window with a ‘corbeled’ sill above a single tall wood panel. The door may be a reproduction.
  • “In the gables are modern stick ornament and on each side elevation is a pent roof, also new. Other features include a brick foundation (probably the only original material now visible), replacement windows, and a modern rear deck.
  • “A concrete tire strip driveway leads to a carport on the east side of the lot. 1929 Sanborn map address: 198.
  • “Several individuals are listed at the address in 1913, apparently at a previous house on the site. F. [Fred] B. Quesinberry is listed at the address in 1928 and 1962. The county date for the property is 1920.”

• Sold for $300,000 on July 25, 2023 (listed at $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.

• Sold for $194,700 on July 25, 2023 (auction)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,336 square feet, 0.64 acre
• Price/square foot: $146
• Built in 1904
• Listed May 26, 2023
• Last sale: $41,000, June 1999

• Sold for $169,000 on July 25, 2023 (listed at $179,000)
  • Sold to an LLC based in Asheboro
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,176 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1924
• Listed July 8, 2023
• Last sale: $71,000, June 2001
• Neighborhood: Cone Mill
• Note: Cone Mills sold the house in 1974 to John Peter Draper Jr. (1921-1992) and Mildred Reed Draper (1922-2006). They owned it until 2001.

• Sold for $24,000 on July 25, 2023 (originally $32,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 844 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $28
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 16, 2023
• Last sale: $90,000, August 2004
• Neighborhood: Spray
• Listing: “There are 2 properties on this lot & currently being surveyed to separate the houses into 2 lots.”

• Sold for $155,000 on July 24, 2023 (originally $175,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,096 square feet, 0.49 acre
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 31, 2023
• Last sale: $59,000, July 2001

• Sold for $225,000 on July 21, 2023 (originally $238,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,062 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• 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.

• Sold for $720,017 on July 20, 2023 (originally listed at $679,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,549 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $465
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 29, 2023
• Last sale: $113,000, December 2013
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The seller, a partner in a high-end realty brokerage, is attempting to radically increase home prices in Washington Park [Update: And it worked.] The house has been sensitively restored, with original windows and floors intact. But the price is off the charts for this neighborhood or any neighborhood in Winston-Salem.
• District NR nomination: “Hipped-roof frame house with prominent projecting central pediment creating entrance porch supported by triple-grouped Doric columns at corners. Paired windows, central chimney.
  • “Graham & his wife Hattie had boarded on 4th Street until they moved here in 1920 or 1921 when Graham became secretary at J.G. Flynt Tobacco Co.”

• Sold for $381,000 on July 20, 2023 (listed at $398,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,097 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $182
• Built in 1938
• Listed June 7, 2023
• Last sale: $90,000, April 1991
• 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.

• Sold for $164,900 on July 18, 2023 (listed at $169,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,539 square feet, lot size not recorded in property records
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 26, 2023
• Last sale: $44,500, January 2023
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: Three-month fix-and-flip — caveat emptor.

1818 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $350,000 on July 17, 2023 (listed at $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,716 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 6, 2023
• Last sale: $156,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an out-of-town LLC. The last two owners have been LLCs.
  • The property includes two lots. It also has a detached garage.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; steeply-pitched, front gable; brick; six-over-six, double-hung sash; side-gable, wrap around porch; hip roof in gable; brick piers; sidelights; stuccoed gable end.
  • “1928 CD: Charles Kirby, a clerk at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”

• Sold for $190,000 on July 17, 2023 (originally $190,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,420 square feet, 0.73 acre
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 20, 2023
• Last sale: $192,000, August 2022
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

203 Markham Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $270,000 on July 13, 2023 (listed at $250,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,595 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1937
• Listed June 13, 2023
• Last sale: $60,000, November 2022
• Note: Caveat emptor — fix and flip, though it doesn’t show the tasteless, thoughtless approach typical of most house flippers.

4814 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem
The Moser House

• Sold for $223,500 on July 13, 2023 (listed at $220,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,285 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $174
• 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.

303 N. Elam Avenue, Greensboro
The Clara and Clarence Phillips House

• Sold for $400,000 on July 12, 2023 (listed at $389,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,754 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• 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.

402 Aberdeen Terrace, Greensboro
The Tillman-Barefoot House

• Sold for $435,000 on July 11, 2023 (listed at $399,900)
  • The buyers’ address of record is in Ardmore, Tennessee.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,778 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1932
• Listed June 5, 2023
• Last sale: $40,000, May 1998
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace
• Note: The original of the house was Rose Tillman, and it remained in her family for at least 82 years. She bought the property in 1929; the address appeared in the city directory for the first time in 1930 with her and her husband listed as residents.
  • The purchase was a little odd in two ways. Although Rose was married, the deed was in her name alone, a situation not common at the time. The same day, two loans were recorded for the purchase, one to “Rose Tillman etvir” and one to “J.E. Tillman etux,” also unusual.
  • Rose M. Ozment Tillman (1904-1978) was chief operator for Southern Bell in Greensboro, a position she held for more than 30 years. Joseph Earl Tillman (1900-1959) was a salesman.
  • Rose, by then a widow, sold the house in 1963, around the time she remarried. The buyer was one of her sisters, Nettie Ozment Barefoot (1897-1997).
  • Nettie left the house to her son, Julius Carl Barefoot Jr. (1923-1999). In 1998, he gave to house to Robert Earl Barefoot and Catherine Rose Barefoot, probably his children.
  • In 2011, Catherine may have given the house to the current owners; although it wasn’t marked as a gift deed, it did show there was no taxable consideration on the change of ownership. Her relationship to them is unknown.

• Sold for $280,000 on July 11, 2023 (listed at $249,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,346 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1923
• Listed June 15, 2023
• Last sale: $229,00, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records date the house to 1926, but the address appears in the city directory from 1923.
• District NR nomination: “One-story, side-gable bungalow with engaged porch supported by replacement columns on brick piers with asbestos shingle-sheathed balustrade; aluminum siding; four (vertical), one and three (vertical) over-one windows; gabled dormer; knee braces.”
  • The original residents were Charles G. Ziglar and Leila Ziglar. Charles was a machinist with the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. They were listed at the address from 1923 to 1940.

3901 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
The Jamie Pearl O’Connor House

• Sold for $201,000 on July 11, 2023 (listed at $150,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 851 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1939
• Listed June 9, 2023
• Last sale: $133,000, April 2007
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The listed price was conspicuously low for Lindley Park, even for a house this small.
  • Located between Wendover Avenue and Holden Road. When the house was built, Holden Road was the city limit.
  • The earliest listed owner of the property was the J. Van Lindley Nursery, which sold it in 1939. The first homeowner bought the house from Dixie Realty and Loan Company, the predecessor to Yost & Little, which remains a major residential realty broker in Greensboro.
  • The first homeowner was Jamie Pearl O’Connor (1889-1985). She was a public stenographer and notary who maintained an office in the King Cotton Hotel. She owned the house until 1965.

• Sold for $153,000 on July 10, 2023 (originally $189,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,552 square feet (per county), 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• 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.

66 Noell Avenue, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $177,900 on July 7, 2023 (listed at $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

1300 Sunnyside Drive, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $79,995 on July 7, 2023 (listed at $79,995)
  • The buyer is El Progreso restaurant of Lexington.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,144 square feet, 2.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1937
• Listed June 16, 2023
• Last sale: December 2013, price not listed on deed; last previous sale with a known price was in November 1956, $4,400.

630 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Altah and John Walker House

• Sold for $268,000 on July 6, 2023 (originally $284,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,172 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• 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.