Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated March 23, 2023

These historic homes are on farms or other properties with substantial acreage.

Guilford County
Forsyth County
Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties
Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties
Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

Recent Sales
2022 Sales

Guilford County

136-140 N.C. Highway 62 W., Guilford County

• $1.25 million
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,913 square feet, 21.55 acres
• Price/square foot: $653
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 15, 2023
• Last sale: February 2001, price not recorded on deed (see note below)
• Note: Listed on Zillow as “Undisclosed Address”
  • The property has a Randleman mailing address but is in southern Guilford County just east of U.S. 220/Interstate 73.
  • The property was owned from 1951 to 1965 by Gregory D. Ivy (1904-1985) and Naomi W. Ivy (1902-1989). Gregory Ivy was a Modernist painter and in 1935 founded the art department at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, now UNC Greensboro. He also was one of the founders of what is now the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG.
  • Something strange here: The deed for the last sale is dated February 1, 2001, but the register’s office stamp on the document records the date of filing as February 21, 2002.

7410 Spoon Road, Guilford County

• $450,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,775 square feet, 11.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1989
• Listed February 21, 2023
• Last sale: The property hasn’t been sold since the house was built.
• Note: Geodesic dome with attached geodesic garage with loft.
  • The property includes a detached outbuilding described as a “garage/shop.”
  • The property has a Liberty mailing address but is in southeast Guilford County near Kimesville, Alamance and Julian.

6507 Frieden Church Road, Guilford County

• $140,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,613 square feet, 11.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $87
• 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.

Forsyth County

4701 Rolling Hill Drive, Tobaccoville, Forsyth County
Sale pending January 30 to February 2, 2023
Sale pending March 23, 2023

• $549,000 (originally $559,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,807 square feet, 8.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1991
• Listed January 5, 2023
• Last sale: $365,000, February 2020
• Note: A rare recently built Queen Anne
  • Located about a mile and a half west of the village of Tobaccoville

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

2522 Reid School Road, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending August 13, 2022; no update since then

• $950,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 63 acres
• Price/square foot: $528
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 22, 2022
• Last sale: July 1986, price unknown
• Note: There are two houses on the property. The other is an 1,800 square foot ranch built in 1947.
  • Listing: “Price does not reflect house values or any guarantees of square footage or any components of the two houses.”
  • “City water and sewer available nearby”
  • The property includes at least six outbuildings.
  • Located partly within Reidsville’s city limits

8587 Lindley Mill Road, Snow Camp, Alamance County
Sale pending March 11, 2023

• $675,000 (originally $975,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,852 square feet, 42 acres
• Price/square foot: $364
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 17, 2022
• Last sale: 1909 or earlier, price unknown
• Note: The house may have been built by farmer Amos Julius Richardson (1854-1938). In 1909 ownership passed to two of his children, eight-year-old Arthur Wilbert Richardson (1901-1983) and Daisy Richardson (1884-1971). Arthur’s son Ralph Gray Richardson (1933-2021) inherited the farm in 1983. It is being sold by his heirs.
  • Ralph was a graduate of Eli Whitney High School and Burlington Business College. He was a cattle and chicken farmer and also worked at Western Electric and the UNC-Chapel Hill public safety department. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War.
  • Located 7 miles southeast of Snow Camp and 6 miles southwest of Eli Whitney

2563 Pike Road, Alamance County

• $550,000 (originally $630,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,382 square feet, 49.92 acres
• Price/square foot: $398
• Built in 1935
• Listed January 20, 2023
• Last sale: $365,000, October 2008
• Note: The property has a Liberty mailing address but is located in southwestern Alamance County.
  • The property includes two-acre pond, 30 acres of pasture, and three outbuildings — a three-stall tool shed, a seven-stall horse barn with a large upstairs area and a former milk house with hardwood floors.

• $499,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,790 square feet, 73.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $279
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 12, 2022
• Last sale: July 1986, price not recorded on property card
• Note: Located 12 miles east of Reidsville
• Note: “Old family farm house waiting for your imagination and creativity. Multiple barns/ shelters”
  • Photo from Google Street View, February 2023

5732 N.C. Highway 49, Mebane, Alamance County

• $400,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,430 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $280
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 2, 2023
• Last sale: Can’t be found in online county records
• Listing: “needs renovation to be lived in”
  • “ready to be renewed and restored … This home was built in 1910 and is still standing. … The well and septic for the home are existing. Home has electric connections … “
  • Located 7 miles north of Mebane

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

652 Johnson Ridge Road, Elkin, Surry County
Relisted March 15 as vacant land, so the house may have been torn down.

• $450,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,456 square feet, 19.83 acres
• Price/square foot: $309
• Built in 1925
• Listed December 13, 2022
• Last sale: Four tracts bought in separate transactions between 1925 and 1948, prices not recorded on all deeds
• Note: The property includes a barn and another outbuilding.

1749 Phillips Road, Sandy Ridge, Stokes County
Sale pending January 17, 2023

• $425,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,533 square feet, 38 acres
• Price/square foot: $277
• Built in 1942
• Listed November 11, 2022
• Last sale: Listing says the property is being sold “for the first time in 200 years.”
  • Located 5 1/2 miles south of Sandy Ridge and 6 miles northeast of Danbury

1135 Daisy Creek Farm Road, Westfield, Stokes County
Sale pending March 10, 2023

• $400,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,176 square feet, 57.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $340
• Built in 1937
• Listed August 15, 2022
• Last sale: $42,000, April 1984
• Listing: The house “hasn’t been lived in for years and definitely needs love and work.”
  • “Heated finished sq.ft. is calculated by living area not all rooms have baseboard heaters. Multiple barns on property in great shape, spring head feeds creek in the meadow behind the house. No septic records found. Locked gated entrance”
  • The farm is located well to the northeast of Westfield, north of the Johnstown community.

• $369,900 (originally $525,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,251 square feet, 45.60 acres
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 18, 2022
• Last sale: $
• Listing: “… needs TLC to restore its original majestic and stately beauty.”
  • The property has a Mount Airy mailing address but is 11 miles northeast of town, almost to the state line north of Mount Herman.

515 Jake Shoaf Road, Davidson County

• $1 million
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,547 square feet, 43.36 acres
• Price/square foot: $393
• Built in 1800
• Listed January 3, 2023
• Last sale: The listing says the property has been in the Hyatt-Oman family since the 1600s.
• Note: The property includes a barn and other outbuildings. A creek runs through the property.
  • The property has a Lexington mailing address but is located north of the city east of Welcome and west of Thomasville.
  • Previous owners include Kermit Cline Oman Sr. (1914-2001) and Kermit Cline Oman Jr. (1943-2012). Both owned City Shoe Shop in Thomasville. William Jr. also was a veteran of 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army.

7655 Ferguson Road, Liberty, Randolph County

• $529,000 (originally $558,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,450 square feet, 8.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $365
• Built in 1920
• Listed December 25, 2022
• Last sale: $125,000, January 2001
• Note: The property includes a six-stall barn with tack room, water and electricity; three fenced-in pastures; a riding ring with lights; paddocks; and a pond.
  • Located just off N.C. 49, 6 miles southwest of Liberty and 4 miles northeast of Ramseur.