Piedmont Historic Homes

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• Sold for $135,000 on May 31, 2023 (listed at $140,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,613 square feet, 11.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1940
• Listed February 17, 2023
• Last sale: Unclear; it may have been in the owner’s family since before 1959.
• Note: Apparently listed with an offer already accepted.

• Sold for $400,000 on May 26, 2023 (listed at $369,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,586 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $252
• Built in 1936
• Listed April 20, 2023
• Last sale: $271,250, December 2020
• Neighborhood: Latham Park
• Note: The address first appears in the 1938 city directory as the only house in the 1500 block of Matthews Street. Mary Liza Parks Parrish (1873-1958) was listed as the resident, identified as the widow of Nelius Joseph Parrish (1870-1938). Nelius was a carpenter. In 1910 he bought several properties in the neighborhood, including 1507, 1515 and 1517 Matthews and 1201, 1205 and 1207 Northwood Street, all contiguous properties. He and Mary lived at 1203 Northwood until Nelius died. Mary moved to 1515 Matthews and lived there until she died 20 years later.

• Sold for $230,000 on May 26, 2023 (listed at $220,000)
  • The buyers’ address of record is in Los Angeles.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,528 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1948 (or perhaps a few years later; see note)
• Listed April 20, 2023
• Last sale: $147,000, March 2021
• Note: The house was built several years after most others on the block.
  • The property was owned from 1927 to 1958 by Oscar Scales Chandler (1894-1964), president of Acme Feed Mills. He and his wife, Minnie E. Chandler (1893-1996), lived nearby on Fountain Place.
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1952 with William Scales Chandler (1919-1993) and Catherine Paris Chandler (1921-2008) listed as residents. William was Oscar and Minnie’s son. He was also secretary-treasurer of the mill. Catherine was a graduate of the Women’s College and operated an antiques and decorating business in Burlington.
  • Oscar sold the house in 1958. He was president of the mill for 35 years. He also served as president of the North Carolina Feed Manufacturers Association. He died three months after suffering severe injuries in an auto accident.
  • William lived to be 74, dying more than more than two years before his mother, who lived to be 102.

• Sold for $310,000 on May 25, 2023 (listed at $300,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,223 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1938 (per county, but probably earlier; see note)
• Listed March 31, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house appears in the city directory from 1928, when it was listed as vacant. The original owner appears to have been Curtis Avent Holland (1894-1981), an employee of Vicks Chemical Company. He bought the house in 1926 and used it as a rental property.
  • Curtis sold the property in 1944 to his sister Gladys Holland Thomas (1905-1967) and her husband, Wesley Ellis Thomas Jr. (1894-1949). It remained in their family for 41 years.
  • Wesley was a traveling salesman for the West Publishing Company of Minneapolis. He was a native of Rockingham, N.C., and had come to Greensboro around 1919. He graduated from the UNC Law School, attended the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant and had served in both world wars. He was in Chattanooga when he died after a short illness. The house was sold by their daughter in 1985.

• Sold for $203,500 on May 25, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,520 square feet, 1.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1924
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $150,000, November 2022
• Listing: “It still needs some TLC”

• Sold for $200,000 on May 25, 2023 (originally $269,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,269 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1915
• Listed August 1, 2202
• Last sale: $25,000, March 1979
• Neighborhood: West Salem
• Listing: “… classic bungalow in need of a buyer that will make it the jewel that it can be.” It needs cosmetic work — interior painting, floor refinishing, etc. — and perhaps a kitchen makeover (and who knows what you can’t see in photos), but it appears livable as is.
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; weatherboard; ten-light, Craftsman-style transom over single-light windows; front-gable dormer; front-gable porch; battered posts on brick piers; wood shingles in gable ends and on dormer; knee braces; exposed rafter tails. 1915 CD: James and Jessie Prater, a plumber”

• Sold for $247,500 on May 24, 2023 (listed at $259,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,290 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 1, 2023
• Last sale: $169,900, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: Ethel Elizabeth McCormick Cox (1891-1973) bought the property in 1920, and it remained in the Cox family for 99 years. Although she had married Carson Clay Cox Sr. (1893-1948) by then, her name alone was on the deed. By 1933 they had built the house and were living there.
  • Carson was a coffee roaster and later vice president and general manager of the Lexington Grocery Company. He served on the Thomasville school board and during World War II on the local draft board and ration board.
  • Their son, Carson Jr. (1926-2000), and his wife, Pauline Phillips Walker Cox (1930-2017), owned the house after Ethel. Twelve heirs sold the property in 2019.

• Sold for $320,000 on May 23, 2023 (listed at $300,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,380 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1948
• Listed April 30, 2023
• Last sale: $192,000, September 2015
• Note: The house is across the street from High Point Central High School.
  • The street was called Jones Street when the house was built. The house number has always been 812.
  • It had only two owners in its first 59 years.
  • The original owners were Robert David Armfield (1905-1963) and Helen Allred Armfield (1910-1993). Robert was a printer for the Greensboro Daily News.
  • Helen sold the house in 1964 to James Herbert Blair (1925-2009) and Helen Marie Bayne Blair (1926-1973). James was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was co-owner of Green House Fabrics. Herbert and his second wife, Edith Lucille Calloway Blair (1932-2017), sold the house in in 2007.

• Sold for $249,900 on May 23, 2023 (listed at $249,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,148 square feet, 0.78 acre
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1930
• Listed April 28, 2023
• Last sale: $105,500, June 2005
• Neighborhood: Carter Park

• Sold for $326,000 on May 22, 2023 (originally $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,427 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 23, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• Note: Fix-and-flip house — caveat emptor.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; wraparound porch; paneled, square posts; asbestos shingle siding [now removed]; nine-over-one windows [also removed]; shed-roof dormer with six-over-one, double-hung sash; knee braces.”
  • The city directory lists the address from 1920, when Jonas Weisner (1861-1933) and Louisa Weisner (1868-1939) were listed as residents. Jonas was a pattern-maker with Briggs-Shaffner, founders and machinists. After Jonas died, Louisa lived in the house until her death in 1939.
  • In 1981 the house was bought by Mary L. Green, later Mary Green Noel (1953-2020). Mary was a longtime marketing coordinator for Krispy Kreme. She also was a Girl Scout leader for many years. The house was sold by her husband, Rubin M. Noel Jr., in 2022.

• Sold for $205,000 on May 18, 2023 (originally $234,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,261 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $163
• Built in 1928
• Listed April 27, 2023
• Last sale: $118,000, September 2005
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story frame house is a basic Colonial Revival cottage with a steep gable roof, large gabled dormers, a gable end chimney, and an entrance porch with paired Tuscan columns.”

• Sold for $400,000 on May 15, 2023 (listed at $385,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,009 square feet, 1.44 acres
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1953
• Listed April 22, 2023
• Last sale: $129,900, July 2005
• Note: The property is on Oak Hollow Lake.
  • Joseph Tilman McGhee (1913-1998) bought the property in 1944. In 1947 he married Ila Marie Morgan (1923-1997). They built the house in 1953 and lived there the rest of their lives. Joseph was a partner in Koonts-McGhee Drug Store for 27 years. The property was sold in 2005 by their three children.

• Sold for $389,000 on May 15, 2023 (listed at $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,645 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $236
• Built in 1937
• Listed April 5, 2023
• Last sale: $256,500, June 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Cape Cod. Side gable; brick; gabled dormers; six-over-six, double-hung, replacement sash; small, gabled, entry porch with replacement columns; screened side porch. 1939 CD: Jesse Pfaff, secretary-treasurer of the Winston-Salem Real Estate Board.”

• Sold for $321,000 on May 12, 2023 (listed at $329,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,463 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1914
• Listed March 31, 2023
• Last sale: $290,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Gaston E. Miller, a contractor, built this Colonial Revival/Queen Anne, weatherboarded, home for his son, Byron, also a carpenter, around 1914. This is a one-story, pyramidal cottage with gabled ells and a wraparound porch with Tuscan columns. Windows are one-over-one. The front door has stained glass blocks surrounding one light.”

• Sold for $300,000 on May 12, 2023 (originally $159,000)
  • The house was sold with an additional property that was listed separately; specific prices for each were not given.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,360 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Built in 1935
• Listed April 14, 2023
• Last sale: $80,000, November 2004
• Note: Not owner-occupied

• Sold for $227,780 on May 12, 2023 (listed at $227,780)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,269 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1927
• Listed March 9, 2023
• Last sale: $110,000, August 2022
• Neighborhood: Cone Mill
• Note: Mill house built by Cone Mills, sold in 1970.
  • Quickie fix-and-flip. Caveat emptor.
  • The property includes a detached garage.

4530 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $250,000 on May 10, 2023
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,522 square feet, 0.92 acre
• Price/square foot: $164
• Built in 1935
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $140,000, October 2021
• Note: Sold along with an adjacent 0.42-acre property, which is vacant.
  • Previous listing: “Vacant for a long time. Would require extensive upfit if the house is to be used.**No heat or air source**”

• Sold in an online auction for $85,000 on May 5, 2023
  • Sold to an LLC in Gold Hill, North Carolina
  • An earlier online auction resulted in a bid of $84,749, which wasn’t accepted
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,059 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $41
• Built in 1926
• Last sale: $85,608 on February 27, 2023 (foreclosure auction, reverted to lender)
• Note: “First Look properties are sold exclusively to buyers who intend to live in the property or Approved Entities.” First Look period ended April 5, 2023.
  • Bank-owned property

• Sold for $370,000 on May 4, 2023 (listed at $383,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,367 square feet, 1.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1890
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: September 1969, price unknown
• Note: The mailing address is Graham, but the property is in the Eli Whitney community in southern Alamance County.
  • The house was built as a school. It was moved to its current location in 1968.

• Sold for $340,000 on May 4, 2023 (listed at $349,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,569 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $217
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 23, 2023
• Last sale: $235,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; front gable; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; side-gable, wrap-around porch; front-gable projection; square posts; stone steps from street; shingled gable end.”
  • The first recorded residents were William F. Davis and Ada M. Davis in the 1929 city directory. William was a foreman at R.J. Reynolds. He was one of 10 men named William Davis listed in the city directory, and one of three named William F. Davis.

• Sold for $358,000 on May 3, 2023 (listed at $358,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,309 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $273
• Built in 1940
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $16,000, May 1981
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has had only two owners.
  • The property includes a two-car detached garage.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One story; side gable; brick; gable-roof at eave line; asymmetrical gable entry pavilion; facade chimney; side porch; sidelight; six-over-one, double-hung sash.”
  • The house appears in the city directory for the first time in 1941 with James Arnold Wester (1900-1977) and Kate Richardson Wester (1900-1984) as residents. James was a clerk at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Kate sold the house in 1981 to the current owner.

• Sold for $350,000 on May 2, 2023 (listed at $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,532 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $323,500, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District
• Sales hype: “what Ardmore dreams are made of”
• Something you don’t see every day: There’s an outdoor shower at the back of the house.
• District NR nomination: “Dutch Colonial Revival. One and a half story; gambrel roof; shed dormer; weatherboard; six-over-one, double-hung sash (paired and single); entrance portico with hip roof and Tuscan columns. 1926 CD: James Byerly, a traveling salesman.”

• Sold for $241,500 on May 2, 2023 (listed at $220,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,928 square feet, 1.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1913
• Listed February 6, 2023
• Last sale: $180,000, February 2023
• Listing: “Sellers relocated to NC and bought this home [in February 2023] in hopes to live in it for 10-15 years. Now they are home-sick and you have the opportunity to continue their renovations.”
  • No central heating or central air conditioning
  • The property includes a barn and two storage buildings.

• Sold for $435,500 on May 1, 2023 (listed at $429,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,751 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 3, 2023
• Last sale: $290,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “This Craftsman house is a small two-story frame dwelling with a weatherboarded first story, a wood shingled second story, a street-facing gable roof with overhanging braced eaves, an offset corner porch with tapered wood posts set on brick plinths with a ramped brick balustrade, and a northeast side gable wing.
  • “Like 920 Carolina Ave. next door, this house was owned for years by the Gilmer C. Thomas family, but whether they actually resided here is uncertain.
  • “In 1946 the house was sold to Critz and H.B. Lambert, and they did occupy the house, He was a physician with the Veterans Administration. The Lamberts owned the property until 1972.”

• Sold for $230,000 on May 1, 2023 (originally $225,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,680 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 23, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, January 2022

• Sold for $331,500 on April 28, 2023 (listed at $307,400)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,263 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1944
• Listed March 30, 2023
• Last sale: $235,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore but just outside the NR historic district
• Note: How did this house get built in 1944? There were almost zero new homes built in the United States from 1942-45.
  • The house includes a one-car garage in the basement (sloping lot).
  • The original owners were John Thomas Maugans (1913-2001) and Ora Burton Maugans (1912-2004). John was a native of West Virginia. He was the manager of Advance Stores shop on North Trade Street (the company is now known as Advance Auto Parts). Ora, originally from Thomasville, was a tax examiner for the Internal Revenue Service.
  • After a year or two, the Maugans were no longer listed in the city directory. John died in New Bern at age 87; Ora died in Arden in Buncombe County at age 91. They’re buried in Statesville.
  • Napoleon B. Bunker (1890-1954) and Myrtle Christine Creed Bunker (1897-1995) were listed as the owners from 1946. The house was sold by their descendants in 2003.
  • Both were originally from the White Plains community in Surry County. Napoleon worked for the Bahnson Company, which manufactured industrial air conditioning equipment.
  • He also was a grandson of the famous conjoined twin Eng Bunker (1811-1874), the Winston-Salem Journal reported in his obituary. Eng and his brother Chang lived near Mount Airy for the last 35 years of their lives. They fathered 21 children.
  • Napoleon hated his rather predictable middle name. “He was given the middle name of Bonepart but he didn’t like it so he refused to use it,” his findagrave.com page says. “He married Myrtle Christine Creed Jan. 4, 1918. He enlisted in the Army at an early age and prior to World War I, he served at Army posts in the Philippine Islands and in the Panama Canal Zone. Upon his discharge he entered government construction work in the Canal Zone where he and his wife raised their family.”

• Sold for $225,000 on April 28, 2023 (originally $265,000)
  • The buyer is an LLC based in Durham County
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,303 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1917 (per county)
• Listed October 12, 2022
• Last sale: $67,500, December 2008
• Realtor hype: “Oldest home in Gibsonville city limits.” If the house was built in 1917, that’s not even close to true.

• Sold for $130,000 on April 28, 2023 (listed at $159,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,382 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1917
• Listed February 10, 2023
• Last sale: $72,500, April 2017

• Sold for $300,000 on April 26, 2023 (originally $349,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,576 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1924
• Listed March 10, 2023
• Last sale: $260,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “Finished basement apartment with full bathroom, kitchenette, laundry hookup, separate entrance & parking”
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos siding [now removed]; front gable dormer; front gable porch with square columns on brick piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.
  • “1924 CD: Benjamin B. Huband and Misses Francis and Mary Huband, teachers.”

• Sold for $279,900 on April 24, 2023 (listed at $279,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,064 square feet, 1.60 acres
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1927
• Listed March 14, 2023
• Last sale: $80,000, September 2001
• Note: The property includes a workshop, tractor shed and chicken coop.
  • County records show the lot size as 5.50 acres.

• Sold for $460,000 on April 21, 2023 (listed at $435,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,944 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $237
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $321,500, August 2015
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Sale hype: “… on arguably the best street in all of Ardmore!”
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman. Two story; front gable; weatherboard siding; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; front-gable porch; battered piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces; shingled gable ends; porch and main roof have curved fascia boards. 1925 CD: Otha and Inez Chandler, a jitney driver.”

• Sold for $357,500 on April 21, 2023 (listed at $339,000)
  • Bought by an LLC based in High Point
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,946 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1939
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $282,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1942. The original owners were Clifford E. Lehmann and Ethel K. Lehmann. Clifford was a chemist.

• Sold for $367,000 on April 21, 2023 (listed at $330,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,352 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1938
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: $206,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached studio apartment.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One story; front gable; brick; six-over-one, Craftsman-style windows; gable-roof porch; brick piers; stuccoed gable ends; Tudor arch porch opening; gable retun1s; brick balustrade.
  • The house first appears in the city directory as 1135 Walker Avenue in 1939 with W. Edward Douglass and Mary E. Douglas as residents. Edward was a draftsman for the renowned Northup & O’Brien architecture firm. In 1941 the house was listed as vacant.

• Sold for $206,729 on April 21, 2023 (listed at $189,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,584 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1936
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2021

• Sold for $165,000 on April 20, 2023 (originally $198,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,810 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1913
• Listed August 12, 2022
• Last sale: $36,000, November 2021

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $285,000 on April 14, 2023 (not publicly listed for sale)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $250
• Built in 1928
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $205,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is in the National Register historic district but outside the local Fisher Park Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled bungalow with stone porch piers and chimney”

• Sold for $154,900 on April 14, 2023 (listed at $154,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,293 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1906
• Listed February 13, 2023
• Last sale: $100,000, August 2022
• Note: Two blocks away:

• Sold for $90,000 on April 13, 2023 (originally $132,000, later $185,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,342 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $38
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 15, 2023
• Last sale: $26,000, October 1997
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District (local), Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Borderline restoration project
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable bungalow with a large gabled dormer and an engaged front porch supported by paired square posts on brick piers; 4/1 and 5/1 sash, sidelights at entry, brick interior chimney, weatherboards and vinyl siding.
  • “The house appears on the 1923 Sanborn map and was occupied by Samuel D. and Julia McMillan in 1925-26. Mr. McMillan was a telegraph operator at the Southern Railway Passenger Station.”

• Sold for $402,000 on April 12, 2023 (listed at $390,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,089 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1928
• Listed March 8, 2023
• Last sale: $335,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a one-car garage with a workshop/potting shed.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; steeply-pitched front gable with catslide line; stucco; side, shed-roof dormers; front-gable entry pavilion; broken pediment door surround; facade chimney; eight-over-eight, replacement windows; oculus window over door; side porch.
  • The house was first listed in the city directory in 1929 with Rex Holt Freeman (1898-1963) and Mary Eliza Boozer Freeman (1899-1986) as residents. Rex was a salesman and later advertising manager at the Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel. Rex and Mary were still living in the house when Rex died 34 years later. Mary sold the house in 1984.

2818 Bon Air Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $86,000 on April 11, 2023
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,708 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1935
• Not listed publicly for sale.
• Last sale: $67,000, October 2004

• Sold for $250,000 on April 10, 2023 (listed at $239,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 968 square feet, 0.8 acre
• Price/square foot: $258
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 27, 2023
• Last sale: $110,000, March 2015
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable porch; square posts on brick piers; Craftsman-style, six-light transom over one-light windows, double-hung sash; knee braces.”
  • The address first appeared in the 1924 city directory with Samuel J. Eskridge and Margie Eskridge as residents. Samuel was co-proprietor of the Lentz Fruit Stand on East Third Street.

• Sold for $340,000 on April 6, 2023 (listed at $335,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,706 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1925
• Listed January 13, 2022
• Last sale: $225,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• Note: Double lot
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; gable-roof dormer; engaged porch; paneled, square posts; five-over-one and four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; knee braces; vinyl siding.”
  • The original owners were Oscar Norman Kimel (1889-1961) and his wife, Charlie Estelle Spathe Kimel (1894-1978). They were the first residents listed at the address in the city directory in 1923. Oscar was a carpenter and worked for Orinoco Supply Company, a building material dealer. They lived in the house until 1934.

• Sold for $136,000 on April 6, 2023 (originally $155,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,420 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1917
• Listed January 18, 2023
• Last sale: $67,000, September 2015
• Neighborhood: South Broad-East 5th Street Historic District
• District NR nomination: “Front-gabled 1-story bungalow with 4/1 Craftsman style sash windows and an offset gabled porch supported by brick posts, with a latticed brick balustrade.
  • “Walls and decorative eave brackets are covered in vinyl.
  • The earliest known residents are Thomas L. Roberson and Lilian Roberson, in 1927. Thomas was an employee of May Hosiery Mills. Samuel J. Ferguson [1890-1964], an electrician, lived in the house in the 1930s.
  • Guthrie Edwin Robbins (1888-1962) and Bertha Lea Michael Robbins (1895-1991) owned the house from 1939 to 1973. Guthrie worked for the Greensboro News Agency and later operated City Laundry and Dry Cleaners.

• Sold for $110,000 on April 5, 2023 (originally $110,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,016 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $55
• Built in 1921
• Listed February 2, 2023
• Last sale: $60,000, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Draper

• Sold for $330,000 on April 4, 2023 (listed at $330,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,338 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $247
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 7, 2023
• Last sale: $120,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; front-gable porch … two-over-two, double-hung sash and awning windows; knee braces; exposed rafter tails.”
  • The address first appears in the 1925 city directory with Joseph S. Thomasson and Irma Thomasson listed as residents. Joseph was a clerk in a florist shop.

• Sold for $235,000 on April 4, 2023 (listed at $220,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 960 square feet (per county), 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1918
• Listed March 17, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, December 2020
• Note: Oddly positioned on its lot, the right side of the house faces the street. The side of the house with the main entrance faces the neighbor to the left (view blocked by a privacy fence on this lot). This property’s gravel driveway comes in along the back of the house (the side opposite the main entrance), where there appears to be no door.
  • The listing describes an “extra large fenced in back yard,” but the entire lot is only 0.15 acre.
  • The listing gives the square footage as 1,010 square feet.
  • From 1979 to 2011, the house was owned by Thelma Dodson Reitzel (1921 or 1922 to 2011). She worked at Alamance County Hospital and Alamance Memorial Hospital. The property was sold by her heirs.

436 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $249,000 on March 30, 2023
  • Sold to an LLC based in South Carolina
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,102 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $80
• Built in 1925
• Not publicly listed for sale
• Last sale: $112,000, March 2000
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-and-a-half-story side-gable bungalow with nine-over-one replacement windows; vinyl siding; partially-enclosed, engaged porch; multi-light door; gabled dormer.”

• Sold for $220,000 on March 30, 2023 (listed at $185,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,065 square feet, 0.89 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1948
• Listed February 24, 2023
• Last sale: $95,500, December 1996
• Note: From 1949 to 1992 the house was owned by Nolan William Jones (1919-1968) and Geraldine Jackson Jones (1923-2013). Nolan served in the 251st Anti-Aircraft Brigade in World War II. He and Geraldine were married in 1948. Nolan was a farmer, or at least he was when he received his draft card. Geraldine kept the house for 24 years after Nolan died. Nolan may have gone by William, as some records, including his death certificate, show his name as William Nolan Jones.

• Sold for $150,000 on March 30, 2023 (originally $169,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,750 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $86
• Built in 1911
• Listed February 5, 2023
• Last sale: $34,500, January 2019
• Neighborhood: Lexington Avenue Historic District (local)
• Listing: “Home needs work, but could shine again.”

• Sold for $240,000 on March 29, 2023 (listed at $228,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,064 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1935
• Listed February 15, 2023
• Last sale: $193,500, June 2021
• Note: Beautifully restored

• Sold for $178,000 on March 28, 2023 (listed at $192,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,278 square feet, 0.7 acre
• Price/square foot: $139
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 17, 2023
• Last sale: $47,500, July 2000
• Note: Remarkable brickwork
  • City water, septic tank

• Sold for $108,000 on March 28, 2023 (originally $125,000)
  • Sold to an LLC with a California address
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,196 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $90
• Built in 1940 (per county, but probably earlier)
• Listed February 26, 2023
• Last sale: $9,000, April 2013
• Note: Rental property
  • The house first appears in the city directory in 1927 (as 503 Hawthorn) with Irma Surratt as the resident. Irma was a stenographer for the Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company. The next year, listed as 603 Hawthorn, Irma’s mother, Mary L. Surratt (1864-1939), and Irma’s husband, James Roy Boone (1902-1985), were added as residents. Mary was the widow of McCoger C. Surratt (1851-1921), vice president of an oil company. Roy was proprietor of Boone Coal Company. They lived in the house until 1939.

• Sold for $240,000 on March 27, 2023 (listed at $229,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,236 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1940
• Listed February 23, 2023
• Last sale: $28,000, May 1974
• Note: The listing calls it an “all brick home,” but the photo appears to show siding on the left elevation.
  • Listing: “Mrs. Johnson [the late owner] took pride in her home & loved to decorate for every season. Everyone in Reidsville would ride down Richardson Dr. just to see how beautiful it was at Christmas! … She was also very particular about her yard & landscaping & push mowed her yard into her early 80’s.”
  • “Detached 30×32 workshop/garage & 12×32 storage bldg built & anchored on site.”
  • A little odd: “2nd flr BR is heated & cooled, bonus room is not heated/cooled & not included in the SQFT.”

• Sold for $177,500 on March 27, 2023 (listed at $174,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,856 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 17, 2023
• Last sale: $83,500, February 2007
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Cheaply renovated with vinyl siding, replacement windows and vinyl flooring in some rooms.
• District NR nomination: “A typical North Carolina house, this one-story frame dwelling is topped by a side and facade gable roof of standing seam tin and has a rear ell.
  • “Standing slightly below street level, the house has a three-bay facade with paired two over two windows in the west bay in contrast with a single window to the east of the central entrance.
  • “A simple porch with an unusual central gabled projection spans the three bays, and brick chimneys rise behind the roof ridge. …
  • “Census records indicate this was the home in 1910 of police chief L.L. Joyce, while by 1929, Virgil Truitt, a driver for Wilkerson Funeral Home, was its occupant.”

• Sold for $295,000 on March 24, 2023 (listed at $305,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,476 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1928 (per county, probably a bit earlier)
• Listed February 25, 2023
• Last sale: $149,000, November 2006
• Neighborhood: McAdoo Heights
• Note: The original owners were Farley A. Horner and Lucille Horner (dates unknown for both). Farley was a foreman. They bought the property in 1927 and were listed at the address in the city directory that year. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1937.

• Sold for $220,000 on March 24, 2023 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,980 square feet, 0.49 acre
• Price/square foot: $111
• Built in 1933
• Listed May 18, 2022
• Last sale: $37,011, February 2012
• Listing: “… in the heart of Denton!”

• Sold for $134,000 on March 24, 2023 (listed at $129,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,386 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1938
• Listed January 31, 2023
• Last sale: $82,400, April 2018

• Sold for $164,900 on March 23, 2023 (originally $169,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,966 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 7, 2023
• Last sale: $50,000, August 2005
• Note: The property includes two outbuildings with electricity.

• Sold for $325,000 on March 17, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,714 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1935
• Listed February 17, 2023
• Last sale: $230,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Central Heights Historic District (NR study list)
• Note: Fix-and-flip in four months. Caveat emptor.

1105 Campbell Street, High Point

• Sold for $55,000 on March 17, 2023 (originally $135,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,025 square feet, 0.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $27
• Built in 1924
• Listed December 30, 2022
• Last sale: $55,000, March 17, 2022
• Listing: “clean slate interior with lots of options”

• Sold for $424,900 on March 15, 2023 (listed at $424,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,745 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1918
• Listed February 1, 2023
• Last sale: $335,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a wired storage building.
• District NR nomination: The original owners were John August Kleemeier (1879-1957) and Helen L. Bouldin Kleeneier (1884-1920). John, a native of Cincinnati, was president of Wysong & Miles. He sold the house in 1937.
  • Wysong & Miles was a manufacturer of machine tools and woodworking machinery established in 1903 (still in business).
  • For 48 years, from 1955 to 2003, the house was owned by Guy Delafield (1920-2008) and Letitia Carter Delafield (1920-2008). Guy was the office manager for the Lassiter Corporation, which sold cellophane products. Carter was an associate professor of English at Guilford College. She received her master’s degree in English from UNCG in 1966. Her thesis was titled, “Flannery O’Connor: Prophet and Evangelist.”
  • Guy and Carter were born six months apart in 1920 and died eight days apart in February 2008.

• Sold for $390,000 on March 15, 2023 (originally $465,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,322 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1925 (per county, probably much later; see note)
• Listed July 11, 2022
• Last sale: $97,000, November 2015
• Neighborhood: Grimes Park, Lexington Residential Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The house was gutted to the studs in a recent renovation.
  • The listing shows 2,600 square feet.
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directories for 1925, when Williams Circle wasn’t listed, or 1937, when only two addresses were listed. The 1941 directory lists 14 residences but doesn’t give house numbers.
  • The earliest identifiable owner was Dr. Edwin J. Cathell, a surgeon and owner of the Cathell Clinic, in 1948. The house remained in the Cathell family until 2007, when it was sold to the current owners.
• District NRHP nomination: “One-and-one-half-story, side-gable-roofed Period Cottage with a large front-gable bay and a tapered brick façade chimney; 6/6 sash, arched window in front gable, entry recessed in an arched opening sheltered by a gabled hood, tapered brick end chimney, offset screened side porch extends from north elevation, vinyl siding.
  • “Very similar to 18 Williams Circle. The house appears on the 1948 updates to the 1929 Sanborn map”

4629 Shattalon Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $70,000 on March 15, 2023
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,396 square feet, 1.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1924
• Apparently not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $150,000, November 2022
• Note: Sold by one LLC to another after four months for less than half of the 2022 price.

• Sold for $330,000 on March 9, 2023 (listed at $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,288 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $256
• Built in 1922
• Listed December 16, 2022
• Last sale: $158,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The property was sold four times in 1924-25, Northfield Street didn’t appear in the city directory until 1925.

• Sold for $195,000 on March 6, 2023 (listed at $195,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,075 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 19, 2022
• Last sale: $39,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Arlington Park
• Note: Renovated with cheap plastic floors, replacement windows and siding.
  • The listing shows 1,444 square feet.
  • It’s not clear who the original owner was. Bessie Virginia Bitting Brame (1893-1981) bought the house in 1916 and owned it until 1933. Although she was married, only her name appeared on the deeds. Her husband, Arthur Archie Brame, was an assistant steward at the Guilford Hotel.
  • By 1931, Bessie was listed as Arthur’s widow, although he reportedly didn’t die until 1943. She had become a clerk with Dixie Fire Insurance Company.
  • The house number was originally 446.
  • What it looked like when it was sold in 2020:

• Sold for $310,000 on March 3, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,586 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1922
• Listed February 19, 2022
• Last sale: $80,000, December 1996
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• District NR nomination: “This one-story, side-gabled, bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile with a gabled wing at the left rear (southeast).
  • “The house has vinyl siding and a combination of four-over-one and six-over-one, wood-sash windows. The six-panel door is sheltered by a shed-roofed porch with a later denticulated cornice on replacement square columns.
  • “There is a decorative gable centered on the facade with a stained-glass window in the gable. There is a modern bay window at the right rear (southwest).
  • “The earliest known occupant is Walter C. Garner (office manager, Premier Furniture Manufacturing Company) in 1923.”

• Sold for $316,000 n March 1, 2023 (listed at $299,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,951 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1934
• Listed January 21, 2023
• Last sale: $220,000, February 2021
• Note: Recently renovated, much period detail remains, although the windows were replaced.
  • The house was bought in 1938 Robert and Hilda Fountain. Robert (1895-1982) was manager of the claims department of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Hilda still owned the house when she died in 2012. It was sold by their heirs in 2013, 75 years after the couple bought it.

• Sold for $275,000 on February 27, 2023 (listed at $263,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,575 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1909
• Listed February 2, 2023
• Last sale: $105,000, July 2003
• Note: The property includes a two-car garage, a chicken coop and a raised-bed garden.
  • “The house is being sold AS-IS and will need some work.”
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1927, when it was the home of Edgar N. Allen (1880-1943) and Annie Grady Hastings Allen (1883-1981). Edgar was a traveling salesman. They were listed at the address until 1932.

• Sold for $85,608 on February 27, 2023 (foreclosure auction, reverted to lender)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,059 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $42
• Built in 1926
• Last sale: $83,000, June 2016
• Note: Foreclosure auction

• Sold for $180,000 on February 21, 2023 (listed at $165,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,928 square feet, 1.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $93
• Built in 1913
• Listed February 6, 2023
• Last sale: $260,000, October 2004
• Note: No heating system, no central air conditioning
  • The property includes a barn and two storage buildings.
  • The listing refers to the house as an “early 19th-century bungalow.”

• Sold for $469,900 on February 20, 2023 (originally $549,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,412 square feet, 0.70 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 18, 2022
• Last sale: $54,000, August 2015
• Note: The property includes a detached three-car garage.

• Sold for $278,250 on February 17, 2023 (listed at $269,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,340 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $208
• Built in 1928
• Listed February 3, 2023
• Last sale: $30,000, March 1984
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The kitchen is a little odd.
• District NR nomination: “Gable-front brick·veneered bungalow, three bays wide with wrap shed-roof porch supported by square posts on brick piers. Stretcher bond with continuing lintel course of alternating soldier and horizontal stretchers.
  • “Paired and triple-grouped 6/1 windows, two brick chimneys, one interior, one exposed face.
  • “Charles (wife Pauline) moved here from Franklin Street; he was a clerk with the post office and agent for Shenandoah Life Insurance Company.”
  • Carl Teague Charles, 1898-1974; Pauline Hyatt Charles, 1904-1998.

• Sold for $180,000 on February 17, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,725 square feet, 2.68 acres
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 3, 2023
• Last sale: $58,000, October 1998
• Note: Located 4 miles west of Westfield

2410 Pineview Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $57,000 on February 17, 2023
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,184 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $48
• Built in 1938
• Not publicly listed for sale
• Last sale: $11,500, September 1963
• Neighborhood: Lamrocton

• Sold for $327,300 on February 16, 2023 (originally $365,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,139 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built in 1909
• Listed July 7, 2022
• Last sale: $159,900, October 2006
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “This well-maintained frame bungalow, although altered by the use of vinyl siding, retains much of its original fabric and contributes to the overall character of the district.
  • The one- and one-half-story structure has a side-gable roof and gable dormer, a side-lighted entrance, full-facade porch extending to a porte-cochere supported by paneled posts on brick piers, purlin brackets and wood shingles in the gable ends, and shed-roofed projecting side bays.”

• Sold for $250,000 on February 6, 2023 (listed at $265,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,730 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1930
• Listed October 29, 2022
• Last sale: $150,000, September 2017
• Note: The property includes a two-car detached garage and and an oversized driveway for additional parking.

• Sold for $230,000 on February 3, 2023 (listed at $250,000)
• 13 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,345 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $69
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 17, 2022
• Last sale: $63,500, August 1994
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District (NRHP)
• Listing: “Has been a Boarding house … During Covid the owners shut it down and planned to remodel but have decided to sell.”
  • “Needs cosmetic work such as sheetrock work, painting, and refinishing flooring. … Kitchens and Baths are ready for your renovations.”
• District NRHP nomination: “large bungalow/craftsman house that is very distinctive due to its quartzite stone exterior; gable roof with wide front dormer that is gable front at each end with a shed in between; front porch with massive tapered stone piers extending to porte cochere. Approximately ],670 square feet.
  • “The Cecil House is among the finest examples of the bungalow/craftsman style house found in High Point.
  • “Cecil was a furniture manufacturer with his plant not far from this home on English. In the 1920s, Cecil started a chain of car service stations and an oil supply company supply them.”

• Sold for $175,000 on January 27, 2023 (originally $199,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,764 square feet, 1.18 acres
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1917
• Listed November 19, 2022
• Last sale: $112,000, July 2018

• Sold for $235,000 on January 13, 2023 (originally $265,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,366 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1926 (per county)
• Listed September 23, 2022
• Last sale: $115,000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Standing in an area known for its more substantial structures, this late nineteenth century one-story frame cottage is a good example of the more traditional forms of architecture used in Burlington.
  • “Its single-pile rectangular form is topped by a pressed tin triple-A gable roof and expanded to the rear by gable-roofed double ells. The openings on the three-bay facade are sheltered by a hip-roofed porch with square posts and simple balustrade.
  • “A second facade with central gable is found on the side of the west ell; the porch at this entrance is identical to that on the front except for a turned balustrade.”

• Sold for $234,000 on January 9, 2023 (listed at $245,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,037 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1931
• Listed December 7, 2022
• Last sale: $116,000, July 2012
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: Bungalow, ca. 1920-25
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1923, listed as vacant. The house was bought by Susan Jane “Jennie” Morris Shaffer (1875-1957) and William Samuel Shaffer (1870-1937) in 1923. It was owned by their family for 36 years. William was a co-proprietor of Couch & Shaffer, a pool hall. Their daughter Kathryn “Kizzie” Shaffer Murray (1897-1958) and her husband, Eli Malcolm Murray (1896-1957), were listed as residents in 1924. Eli was a traveling salesman for W.I. Anderson, a produce wholesaler. Eli and Jennie’s descendants sold the house in 1959.

• Sold for $75,000 on January 6, 2023 (listed at $125,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bedroom, 1,540 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1918
• Listed November 11, 2022
• Last sale: $550, September 1942

• Sold for $205,000 on January 4, 2023 (listed at $209,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,744 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1947
• Listed November 10, 2022
• Last sale: $59,000, January 2020
• Note: The property turns up on Google Maps as 4837 Oakdale Drive and as 4746 Dippen Road, which apparently is an obsolete address. The county GIS system identifies it as 4837 Oakdale only.

• Sold for $510,000 on January 3, 2023 (listed at $499,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,753 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1900
• Listed November 19, 2022
• Last sale: $199,500, April 2017
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival: Gambrel-front roof with pedimented side dormers; full-facade front porch supported by fluted Doric columns.”