Condos: Sales, Winter-Spring 2023

Condos: Sales, 2022

238 Willow Street, Unit 103, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $365,000 on May 19, 2023 (listed at $374,500)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,454 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $251
  • Buildings in the complex date back as far as 1888; it’s not clear when this building went up, but it appears to be from the 20th century.
  • Listed January 10, 2023
  • Last sale: $280,000, December 2017
  • HOA: $250/month
  • Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NRHP)
  • Note: The condo features a built-in Miele Coffee system, wine refrigerator, quartz counter tops, workstation with moveable filing cabinets, Brizo plumbing fixtures and heated guest bathroom floor.

315 N. Spruce Street, Unit 105

  • Sold for $270,000 on May 19, 2023 (listed at $275,000)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,036 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $261
  • Built in 1927
  • Listed April 22, 2023
  • Last sale: $160,000, November 2021
  • HOA: $273/month
  • Note: Not owner-occupied

1013 N. Elm Street, Unit C8, Greensboro

  • Sold for $165,000 on May 18, 2023 (listed at $169,000)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,098 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $150
  • Built in 1930
  • Listed March 29, 2022
  • Last sale: $130,000, August 2022
  • HOA: $380/month
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NRHP)
  • Note: Top-floor end unit
    • The apartment was sold in 2016, 2021 and 2022.

165 Virginia Street, Unit 201, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $231,600 on May 5, 2023 (originally $254,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,419 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $163
  • Built in 1893
  • Listed February 8, 2023
  • Last sale: $174,000, July 2020
  • HOA: $230/month

165 Virginia Street, Suite 12, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $335,000 on April 28, 2023 (originally $369,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,505 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $223
  • Built in 1893
  • Listed December 2, 2022
  • Last sale: $188,000, April 2021
  • HOA: $235/month

232 Willow Street, No. 202, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $308,000 on April 27, 2023 (listed at $317,900)
  • 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 1,334 square feet
  • Price/square ft: $231
  • Buildings in the complex date back as far as 1888; it’s not clear when this building went up, but it appears to be from the 20th century.
  • Listed January 28, 2023
  • Last sale: $227,000, November 2017
  • HOA: $250/month
  • Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NRHP)

906 W. Market Street, Unit B1, Greensboro

  • Sold for $151,000 on March 30, 2023 (listed at $150,000)
  • 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,011 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $149
  • Built in 1929
  • Listed March 10, 2023
  • Last sale: $130,500, April 2022
  • HOA: $300/month
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local)

165 Virginia Street, Suite 203, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $234,900 on March 10, 2023 (originally $239,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,400 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $168
  • Built in 1893
  • Listed January 31, 2023
  • Last sale: $149,000, February 2019
  • HOA: $225/month
  • Note: Condo in Renfro Mills, National Register building
    • The listing says is the only two-floor unit in the building.
    • Part of the building dates to the 1890s. It was originally a tobacco-industry building known as the R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House.
  • NRHP nomination: “Renfro Mill — initially the R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House — is an excellent surviving example of the form of building typically used by the tobacco industry in Piedmont North Carolina for both factories and leaf houses during the late nineteenth century. These buildings, becoming increasingly rare, tend to be three-to-five story rectangular brick structures with stepped parapet gable ends, segmental-arched windows, and often decorative brickwork on the facade.
    • Renfro Mill is also a prime example of the adaptation of a building from one industrial use to another. When small tobacco companies failed during the first two decades of the twentieth century because they could not compete with the big tobacco conglomerates, many of their buildings were taken over by other burgeoning industries. These buildings offered both good space and quality construction. In 1921 Renfro Mill, a new sock-making company, took over the former tobacco leaf house whose large open spaces served well the manufacturing needs of the company.
    • “Shortly after World War II, Renfro’s success demanded that it greatly expand its space. The additions to the original factory, still intact, specifically addressed the needs of the manufacturing processes used in the apparel industry. Renfro occupied its Willow Street plant until 1997. The Renfro company has been significant in the local economy for much of the twentieth century. When Renfro began manufacturing socks in 1921, it was the first real hosiery operation in Mount Airy.
    • “By the late 1990s, Renfro had become the nations’s largest sock manufacturer. Today, Mount Airy is a sock manufacturing center and the apparel industry as a whole is the largest branch of industry in town. Renfro Mill’s period of significance extends from ca. 1893 to 1947. It encompasses the building’s ca. 1893 date of construction as a tobacco leaf house, the date (1921) when the Renfro company, a sock manufacturer, purchased the building, and the date (1946-47) when the building was more than doubled in size so that all the company’s sock manufacturing processes could be consolidated in one location.”

801 W. McGee Street, Unit 2
National Register of Historic Places

  • Sold for $166,000 on March 3, 2023 (listed at $155,000)
  • 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 612 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $271
  • Built in 1905
  • Listed February 14, 2023
  • Last sale: $139,000, June 2021
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: Condo in Wafco Mills, former grain mill

165 Virginia Street, Suite 206, Mount Airy, Surry County
National Register of Historic Places

  • Sold for $243,000 on February 24, 2023 (listed at $249,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,350 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $180
  • Built in 1893
  • Listed January 3, 2023
  • Last sale: $139,000, April 2018
  • HOA: $225/month
  • Note: Condo in Renfro Mills, National Register building
    • Part of the building dates to the 1890s. It was originally a tobacco-industry building known as the R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House.
  • NRHP nomination: “Renfro Mill — initially the R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House — is an excellent surviving example of the form of building typically used by the tobacco industry in Piedmont North Carolina for both factories and leaf houses during the late nineteenth century. These buildings, becoming increasingly rare, tend to be three-to-five story rectangular brick structures with stepped parapet gable ends, segmental-arched windows, and often decorative brickwork on the facade.
    • Renfro Mill is also a prime example of the adaptation of a building from one industrial use to another. When small tobacco companies failed during the first two decades of the twentieth century because they could not compete with the big tobacco conglomerates, many of their buildings were taken over by other burgeoning industries. These buildings offered both good space and quality construction. In 1921 Renfro Mill, a new sock-making company, took over the former tobacco leaf house whose large open spaces served well the manufacturing needs of the company.
    • “Shortly after World War II, Renfro’s success demanded that it greatly expand its space. The additions to the original factory, still intact, specifically addressed the needs of the manufacturing processes used in the apparel industry. Renfro occupied its Willow Street plant until 1997. The Renfro company has been significant in the local economy for much of the twentieth century. When Renfro began manufacturing socks in 1921, it was the first real hosiery operation in Mount Airy.
    • “By the late 1990s, Renfro had become the nations’s largest sock manufacturer. Today, Mount Airy is a sock manufacturing center and the apparel industry as a whole is the largest branch of industry in town. Renfro Mill’s period of significance extends from ca. 1893 to 1947. It encompasses the building’s ca. 1893 date of construction as a tobacco leaf house, the date (1921) when the Renfro company, a sock manufacturer, purchased the building, and the date (1946-47) when the building was more than doubled in size so that all the company’s sock manufacturing processes could be consolidated in one location.”

238 Willow Street, Unit 201, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $245,000 on February 20, 2023 (originally $319,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,188 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $206
  • Buildings in the complex date back as far as 1888; it’s not clear when this building went up, but it appears to be from the 20th century.
  • Listed July 29, 2022
  • Last sale: $182,000, December 2017
  • HOA: $250/month
  • Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NRHP)
  • Note: Condo in Spencer’s Mill, a former apparel manufacturing complex in downtown Mount Airy.
  • District NRHP nomination: “In 1926, J.H. Crossingham moved to Mount Airy from the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania, where his father had established the Crossingham Knitting Mill in 1889 to produce ‘Dr.
    Spencer’s’ union suits. In Mount Airy, on July 8, 1926, the young Crossingham joined with W.E. Lindsey, John Banner, and F.L. Hatcher in establishing the Mount Airy Knitting Company. … J.H. Crossingham Jr. later became president, chairman of the board, and chief operating officer.
    • “Although the company initially manufactured union suits and other forms of underwear, this use evolved in the late 1940s. Seeing the opportunity presented by the baby boom after World War II, the company began to produce, almost exclusively, infants’ and children’s wear.
    • “In 1962, the company changed its name to Spencer’s Incorporated of Mount Airy, N.C., in honor of the ‘Dr. Spencer’s’ underwear the company had produced in its early days. For more than three quarters of a century, it prospered, with numerous expansions … until it became one of the largest and most respected producers of infants’ and children’s wear in the United States. The company that started in 1926 with only twelve employees grew to have some 2,000 employees, in Surry County alone, by the late 1980s. It closed in 2007.”

828 N. Elm Street, Apartment A4, Greensboro

  • Sold for $160,000 on February 7, 2023 (listed at $155,700)
  • 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 992 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $161
  • Built in 1924
  • Listed January 16, 2023
  • Last sale: $89,000, September 2006
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NRHP)
  • HOA: $276
  • Note: Condo in the Cannon Court apartments
  • District NRHP nomination: “The 1920s saw the introduction to the district of significant buildings other than houses, most notably apartment buildings, two churches, and a synagogue. Reflecting the rapid growth of the city during the decade, the middle-class nature of much of the neighborhood, and the suburb’s location near downtown and many white collar jobs, more apartment buildings were built in Fisher Park than in any other neighborhood in the city.
  • “Generally three-story, brick, Colonial Revival style buildings, they were raised on or near North Elm street and Bessemer and Fisher avenues, the district’s three major thoroughfares. They include the Cannon Court Apartments at 828 North Elm Street and the Vance, Shirley, and Fairfax Apartments at the northeast corner of Magnolia Street.”

705 N. Main Street, No. 1, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $510,000 on January 30, 2023 (listed at $525,000)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,522 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $335
  • Built in 1913
  • Listed January 5, 2023
  • Last sale: $395,000, June 2022
  • Neighborhood: Downtown North Historic District
  • Note: A “winding staircase leads up to a private roof area that can be a roof top deck.”
    • The entrance is at the back of the building, accessible from the street via an alley. The front of the building (the alley is on the right side of the building:
  • District NRHP nomination: “Tire exterior of this two-story brick building is almost completely intact. It features shop windows across the first story headed by a prism-glass transom and a horizontal, brick-outlined panel. Six sash window carry across the second story, above which is a central lozenge flanked by brick panels. A shaped parapet caps the facade. City directories reveal that the building, indicated on the 1950 Sanborn map as a store, had multiple uses through the years.”
    • The address is first listed in the city directory in 1913 as the site of John A. Smith’s blacksmith shop. More recently, the storefront has been the home of the Alegria Shoe Shop, now located on Hanes Mall Boulevard; Lillybee LLC, which designed and produced “gameday gear for gals”; and Sockwell Socks.

828 N. Elm Street, Apartment C2, Greensboro

  • Sold for $112,000 on January 4, 2023 (listed at $112,000)
  • 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 561 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $200
  • Built in 1924
  • Listed December 7, 2022
  • Last sale: $46,500, July 2003
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NRHP)
  • HOA: $218
  • Note: Condo in the Cannon Court apartments
  • District NRHP nomination: “The 1920s saw the introduction to the district of significant buildings other than houses, most notably apartment buildings, two churches, and a synagogue. Reflecting the rapid growth of the city during the decade, the middle-class nature of much of the neighborhood, and the suburb’s location near downtown and many white collar jobs, more apartment buildings were built in Fisher Park than in any other neighborhood in the city.
  • “Generally three-story, brick, Colonial Revival style buildings, they were raised on or near North Elm street and Bessemer and Fisher avenues, the district’s three major thoroughfares. They include the Cannon Court Apartments at 828 North Elm Street and the Vance, Shirley, and Fairfax Apartments at the northeast corner of Magnolia Street.”