Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated February 18, 2026

Featured Listing
Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties and Nearby Areas
Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, and Davie Counties and Nearby Areas
Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Nearby Areas

Recent Sales

Featured Listing: A 1907 Granite House in a Mount Airy Historic District, $699,000

607 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Garnet and Katie Fawcett House
Sale pending February 15, 2026

• $550,000 (originally $900,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,876 square feet (per county), 1.32 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1907
• Listed March 30, 2025
• Last sale: $40,000, June 1987
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District
• Note: A tax-credit restoration was completed in 2015.
  • The property consists of two lots — one on North Main, 0.27 acres, where the house is, and a gated lot around the corner on Rawley Avenue, 1.05 acres. The Rawley Avenue lot is “a former asphalt parking lot perfect for RVs, boats, or hosting events. It’s beautifully landscaped with a greenhouse, frog pond, and plenty of open space — ideal for entertaining or the avid gardener.”
  • There’s another two-story granite house next door, built in 1910 and originally owned by Garnet Fawcett’s brother George. It’s still owned by the Fawcett family.
• District NR nomination: “Two-story, L-shaped granite house of late Victorian/Colonial Revival style. High hip roof with shingled pedimented dormers. Hip-roofed attached wrap-around porch carried by paired Doric columns; an offset projecting pedimented gable marks the main entrance bay. The imposing house was built ca. 1906 by [Garnet] Fawcett [1883-1945], a banker associated with First National Bank.”
  • The nomination misspells his name as “Garnett,” as did contemporary news accounts; his gravestone has it as “Garnet.” He was born in Ontario; his family moved to Mount Airy when he was a child. His father founded the First National Bank of Mount Airy. His brother George was president of the bank when he died in 1920; Garnet succeeded him and held the position until his death in 1945. Garnet shot himself to death in his doctor’s office, despondent over a long period of poor health.
  • His death was front-page news in the Winston-Salem Journal. In keeping with journalism’s straightforward attitude about suicide at the time, the headline read, “T.G. Fawcett, Mt. Airy Man, Kills Himself.”
  • Garnet’s widow, Katie Lee Mills Fawcett (1885-1975) owned the house for the rest of her life.

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

210country

210 Country Club Drive, Greensboro

• $1.25 million
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,287 square feet (per county), 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $380
• Built in 1927
• Listed February 4, 2026
• Last sales: $860,000, March 2022; $580,000, April 2012
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with an office.
  • The initial asking price is 45 percent higher than the selling price in 2022. At $380/square foot, it’s pushing the top of the market, even for posh neighborhoods like Irving Park.
  • A Colonial Revival-style house with Cape Cod and regional Southern (the full-width front porch) features.
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1928. It was a rental until 1937, owned by Southern Real Estate Company and then by attorney Julius C. Smith.
  • The first owner-occupants were Sidney E. Pruden (1898-1944) and his wife, Helen (later Helen Ferree Pruden Hall, 1900-1993). They bought the house in 1937. Sidney died of a heart attack in 1944; Helen sold the house in 1946 and later moved to Reidsville. Sidney was the proprietor of the Greensboro Small Loan Company and was serving as the clerk of the Greensboro War Price and Rationing Board when he died.

427 Woodbrook Drive, High Point
The Alex and Adele Rankin House
Sale pending February 1, 2026

• $899,000 (originally $950,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,753 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 15, 2025
• Last sale: $460,000, January 2004
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Property includes three lots appointed with stone walls, slate walk-ways, gorgeous landscaping and a concrete pad with a basketball goal.”
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, Tudor Revival-style house is four bays wide and double-pile with a front-gabled section flanked by one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled wings.
  • “The house has a slate roof and a painted brick veneer with faux half-timbering on the second story of the main front-gabled section and in the gables and dormers of the other wings. It has eight-over-eight, wood-sash windows, grouped on the facade, with a group of three four-over-four windows at the second-floor level of the front gable. The one-light, pointed-arched batten door is sheltered by a small, front-gabled porch supported by square posts with arched braces.
  • “An inset porch on the left (south) end of the facade is supported by square posts with braces. It has faux half-timbering on the lower one-third of the wall and the upper two-thirds are enclosed with leaded glass.
  • “There is an exterior brick chimney in the left gable end of the left wing, a shed-roofed wall dormer on the right (north) wing, and two gabled wall dormers on the rear wing. There is a two-story, gable-on-hip-roofed wing extending from the rear at a slight angle.”
  • Alexander Martin Rankin Jr. (1902-1986) and Adele Wineskie Rankin (d. 1987, age 87) bought the property in 1925. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1927. They lived in the house until selling it in 1980.
  • Alex was vice president of Diamond Full Fashion Hosiery (the National Register listing and other faulty reference works show him as secretary/treasurer of Consolidated Mirror Company, which is not listed in the city directory). He later worked as a stock broker.
  • Adele was a graduate of Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee. She was a charter member and president of the High Point Junior League, charter member of the Hospital Guild and board member with the Cancer Society, Family Service and Red Cross.

401nmendenhall

401 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Hugh and Ann Wolfe House
Sale pending July 13-30, 2018
Listing withdrawn July 30, 2018
Relisted October 27, 2025
Blog post (2018) — Classic House of the Week: A Fine Example of 1920s Westerwood Elegance, $339,500

• $679,000 (originally $339,500, later 719,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,337 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1926 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed May 8, 2018
• Last sale: $295,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The price is now twice as expensive as it was when it failed to sell in 2018.
  • This is the fourth time since 2011 that the owners have tried to sell the house, which is odd in Westerwood, an especially popular neighborhood. A construction dumpster has been sitting behind the house for quite a while, so it may have received some significant attention inside.
  • Not owner occupied, longtime rental property.
  • The pictures with the new listing are of unusually poor quality. This blog post has photos from the 2018 listing, which were conspicuously poor, too.
  • The property was bought in 1920 by Dr. Hugh C. Wolfe (1892-1957). He and Ann Elizabeth Bagley Wolfe (1890-1980) were listed at the address in the 1921 city directory. Ann sold the house in 1961. Hugh served as a Navy medical officer during World War I. He was a prominent eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Greensboro for more than 40 years. He was also an officer in the Junior Order, a prominent national fraternal organization with a strongly anti-Catholic, anti-immigration history.
  • Although the Wolfes owned the house for more than 40 years, by 1940 they had moved to the newer Starmount Forest neighborhood. They converted the house into apartments, identified in the city directory as the Wolfe Apartments. The house remained divided into apartments for more than 40 years.

700magnolia

700 Magnolia Street, Greensboro

• $639,900
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,746 square feet (per county), 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $366
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 23, 2026
• Last sales: $510,000, January 2023; $199,500, April 2017
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: For sale by owner. The listing shows 2,100 square feet, 20 percent larger than county records show.
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival: Gambrel-front roof with pedimented side dormers; full-facade front porch supported by fluted Doric columns.”

8417linville

8417 Linville Road, Oak Ridge, Guilford County
The Barrow-Brown House

• $599,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,916 square feet, 6.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $313
• Built in 1920 (per county)
• Listed February 9, 2026
• Last sale: $735,000, June 2025; $700, March 1904
• Neighborhood: Oak Ridge Historic District (local)
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The property includes a garage, pond, barn and a log cabin overlooking the pond.
  • An additional 3-care tract is also available.
• Oak Ridge Historic District: The house is a “National Folk I-house form, the two-story version of the hall-and-parlor plan.”
  • The property may have been owned by the Barrow-Brown family from 1904 to 2025. It apparently was bought (the description in the deed is vague) in 1904 by Gideon H. Barrow (1871-1928) and Laura Alice Medearis Brown (1870-1952). Gideon attended the Oak Ridge Institute. He was a teacher in the Guilford County schools for several years and then became a farmer. Obituaries identified him as George H. Barrow, but his gravestone has Gideon H. Barrow.
  • Ownership passed to daughter Mary Ruth Barrow Howerton (1902-1977), then to her nephew Thomas Franklin Brown (1933-2006). The property, then consisting of 15 acres, was sold to an LLC in 2025 by the estate of Thomas’s widow, Carolyn C. Brown.

808 Northridge Street, Greensboro
The Albert and Mamie Fordham House
Dailey Renewal Retreat Bed & Breakfast
Listing removed October 27, 2025
Relisted February 17, 2026

• $559,000 (originally $569,900)
• 6 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,248 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1914
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $175,000, October 2002
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house has been a B&B for 15 years.
  • “Its simple Queen Anne/Colonial Revival-style finish includes a cross-gable-and-hip roof, a stepped-back form and cutaway bay, and a square-columned wraparound porch.” (Greensboro: An Architectural Record)
  • The original residents were Albert Eugene Fordham (1865-1939) and Mamie A. Ball Fordham (1864-1916). Albert operated a shoe store on McAdoo Avenue and later on West Market Street. By 1918, the city directory identified him as a farmer.
  • Mamie “had been prominently identified with the religious and social life of the community during her 12 years she has made this city her home,” the Greensboro Daily News said.
  • The original ownership of the house is unusual. Mamie and her sisters Geneva Caroline Ball (1855-1941) and Leonora A. “Nora” Ball (1858-1944) bought the property in 1914. The three sisters and Albert were listed on Oak Avenue, the original name of Northridge Street, in the 1915-16 city directory, the first year the street was listed.
  • Geneva and Nora became the sole owners in 1921. By 1922 Albert was no longer listed as living in Greensboro, and by 1925 the sisters were gone from the city directory as well. They apparently rented the house out before selling it in 1928.
  • Clyde S. Harward (1883-1936) and Bessie Sampson Harward (1891-1954) bought the house from the Ball sisters. Bessie sold the house in 1937. Clyde was a machinist at Greensboro Lumber Manufacturing Company and later a cabinet-maker with Oettinger Lumber Company. Greensboro: An Architectural History mistakenly shows him as the first identifiable owner of the house.
  • In 1954, Jack Newman (1916-2006) and Lois Fullington Newman (1915-1990) bought the house. Jack owned it for 39 years. He was a veteran of World War II. He worked for Western Auto Supply and later Richardson Vick. Lois was a nurse.

129state

129 S. Tate Street, Greensboro
The Jobe-Faust House
Sale pending February 16, 2026

• $484,500 (originally $510,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,620 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1917
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sales: $365,000, September 2020; $320,000, August 18, 2018
• Note: County records give 1924 as the date of the house, but the address appears. in the city directory beginning in 1917. The property was owned from 1916 to 1947 by William Sylvester Jobe (1868-1936) and Mary Elizabeth Hinshaw Jobe (1869-1947).
  • William came to Greensboro from Randolph County in 1894. He and two partners established the Acme Milling Company. Later he worked for the Greensboro Motor Car Company, where he rose from machinist to director. For the last 20 years of his life he was in the machinery business, first with E.F. Craven (“The Road Machinery Man“) and then as vice president of Carolina Tractor and Equipment Company. He also was a charter member of the Greensboro lodge of the Odd Fellows.
  • Mary was a stenographer with Joseph J. Stone and Co., printers, engravers and bookbinders. Her estate sold the house in 1947.
  • From 1950 to 1990, the house was owned by Bernice Foust (1897-1988), a saleswoman at The Corner, a retail institution at the corner of Tate Street and Walker Avenue for 60 years until its closing in 2011. Bernice owned the house for the rest of her life. She and a sister had managed the family’s Mount Vernon Springs Hotel in Chatham County after their parents died in the 1920s and then the Confederate Women’s Home in Fayetteville.

912 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn April 26, 2025
Relisted May 25, 2025

• $320,000 (originally $385,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,386 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1905 (per county, but probably about 12 years later; see note)
• Listed November 1, 2024
• Last sales: $257,500, March 2021; $185,000, May 2014; $170,000, June 2010
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Rental property. The house has been a rental for much of its history.
  • The seller is suggesting a zoning violation: “this property is currently leased by four tenants, with potential to increase cash flow by converting an existing space into a 5th bedroom.” Greensboro zoning doesn’t allow more than four unrelated persons to occupy a single-family residence, like this one. The house is one block from UNCG.
  • The house has been sold in 2010, 2014 and 2021.
  • No central air conditioning.
  • The early history of the house is complicated. City directories and property records show the original address was 910 Spring Garden. The property was bought by Annie Zilphia Wolfe Pearce (1870-1953) in 1915. 910 Spring Garden first appeared in the directory in 1917, with H.B. Pearce as the resident. His relationship to Annie is unknown. Annie and her husband, Oscar Fitzallen Pearce (1856-1948), lived across town on Percy Street in the Summit Avenue neighborhood. City directories listed other residents in 1920 and 1921.
  • Railroad engineer Willoughby Moulton Avery (1876-1934) bought the house in 1921 and continued to rent it out. Emma Cloud Sharpe Avery, his widow, sold the house in 1941.
  • From 1941 to 2010 the house was owned by Sam Bradshaw Foushee (1889-1973) and Verna Watson Foushee (1894-1989) and their descendants. Sam and Verna were the first owners to live in the house and possibly the last. Sam was a conductor on the Yadkin & Atlantic Railway.

442smendenhall

442 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

• $300,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,457 square feet, 0.2 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built circa 1920
• Listed February 19, 2026
• Last sale: $24,500, January 1979
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Gothic Revival style … Former West End Hose Company Firehouse (II): Converted to a dwelling in the early 1960s, this brick structure was originally a firehouse. Erected not long after the city acquired its corner lot in 1918, it replaced an earlier firehouse a block to the south. Pointed arches at its corner porch give it a Gothic flair.”
  • The city bought the property in 1918. The firehouse was in operation by 1921. It was sold in 1964 and converted into a rental house.
  • In 1968 the home was bought by Leon’s Maison de Paris Beauty College, located two blocks away on Tate Street. In 1979, it was bought by Leon’s renowned owner, Aileen Oldham (1918-1994), known in Greensboro as “Mrs. Leon.” She had been a young widow when she and Leon Oldham (1914-1975) married in 1966, 20 years after he founded Leon’s Beauty Salons. Mrs. Leon ran the business after he died. “A savvy businesswoman and quiet philanthropist, she was also one of the city’s most colorful personalities,” the News & Record said.
  • Aileen’s daughter Patricia “Parker” Washburn (1946-2024) retained a share of ownership in the house until her death.

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Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

627w2nd

627 W. 2nd Street, Winston-Salem
The S.E. and Maggie Johnson House

• $979,900
• 6 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,396 square feet (per county), 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $289
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 9, 2026
• Last sale: $275,000, August 2018
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing shows 4,095 square feet, 20 percent more than tax records show.
  • The listing says the third floor can serve as an apartment with kitchen, living area, bedroom, full bath, and laundry, but there doesn’t appear to be a private entrance.
• District NR nomination: “The Johnson House is a two-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival house with a hip roof with a louvered, vented cupola, which is a recent addition.
  • “The house also has a pedimented polygonal bay and a pedimented dormer with a multi-light window. The wraparound porch with Tuscan columns has been partially enclosed. Windows are paired and single one-over-one.
  • “Johnson was a clerk at J.L. Lashmit Shoes. The address of this house was 615.”

614west

614 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Ferrell-Wright-McKeithan House
Sale pending February 5, 2026

• $650,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,944 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $221
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 16, 2026
• Last sale: $325,000, June 2005
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached studio apartment.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story weatherboarded Colonial Revival house exhibits features not usually found in the West End. Of particular interest are the saltbox gable roof, the six-panel front entrance with narrow sidelights and a wooden round-arched fan over the door (giving the feel of a Palladian window), the French doors rather than windows flanking the entrance, and the front porch with pairs of slender Tuscan posts with lattice infill, Classical cornice, and pedimented entrance bay with barrel-vaulted ceiling enframing the entrance.
  • “The first owner-occupants were Jane R. and H. Luther Ferrell, 1923-1928. Luther Ferrell was an attorney with Ratcliff, Hudson and Ferrell (now Petree-Stockton).
  • “The Ferrells sold the house in 1928 to Forrest J. and Cassandra P. Wright, who owned it until 1944. Wright was vice-president of The Pilot Co.
  • “The next long-term owner-occupants were J. Harold and Hillicent H. McKeithan, whose family owned the property from 1944 to 1975. Harold HcKeithan was the resident title attorney for Prudential Insurance.
  • “Behind the house is a small two-story brick outbuilding with a pyramidal roof, of undetermined construction date. It appears to have been originally a garage with a servant’s room above, but with alterations the building now appears to be used as an apartment.”

418acadia

418 Acadia Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Emma Crews House
Listing withdrawn February 7, 2026

• $495,000 (originally $550,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,657 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sale: $40,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: In 2018, the house was donated to Preservation Forsyth, which sold it to the current owners. The house is protected by a preservation easement held by Preservation Forsyth.
• District NR nomination: “Large frame house with projecting semi-octagonal bay and modified turret roof; interior chimneys with corbelling and caps. One-story hipped-roof wrap porch supported by classical columns. 1/1 sash, metal shingle roofs. Asbestos siding [now replaced].
  • “City directories show Crews [Charles Anderson Crews, 1868-1952], a tile manufacturer and farmer, and wife Emma L. [Emma Louisa “Lula” Hall Crews, 1866-1941] here by 1921 … Crews was in the concrete pipe business, had a pipe plant on his land which extended to Freeman Street near W. Sprague, and made concrete pipes for storm sewers.
  • “Behind his house was a large barn which he built out of cement bricks, and big draft horses used to deliver the pipes when city was laying and paving streets.” The business went bankrupt during the Depression. By 1932 he was identified in the city directory as a farmer.
  • “His daughter Florence [Florence Summers Crews Miller, 1901-1998] and her husband Paul Miller lived in the house (they had also lived in #416). The barn burned in the 1940s or 1950s.” Paul Felix Miller (1898-1982) was in the sand and gravel business. One of their daughters donated the house to Preservation Forsyth in 2018.
  • “Interestingly, several architects lived in Washington Park. Hall Crews [Dennis Hall Crews, 1894-1966] grew up at 418 Acadia Avenue, studied architecture at Columbia University and joined a New York firm. He later worked for a while in [Willard] Northup’s firm, was licensed in 1923 and practiced from the house at 418 Acadia for many years.
  • “Crews designed Augsburg Lutheran Church in the West End neighborhood in 1926, and the Modern Chevrolet building in the International style in 1947. He is said to have designed Schlatter Memorial Church, a Gothic Revival style brick building completed at 236 Banner Avenue in 1920; however, this should be confirmed as Crews did not become a registered architect until 1923.”
  • Crews later moved his office to the Reynolds Building, the “Little Empire State Building.” His design for Ardmore Elementary School won an AIA North Carolina Award in 1931. He also designed homes in styles including Mid-Century Modern. Some of his work:

424esprague

424 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• $450,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,628 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1919
• Listed February 3, 2026
• Last sale: $423,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story gambrel-roof Dutch Colonial Revival with six-over-one paired, replacement windows; sidelights; porch with roof balustrade and fluted columns; shed-roof dormer, enclosed side porch; weatherboard; modillions.”
  • Zachary Taylor Bynum Jr. (1887-1969) and Katherine Doré Spach Bynum (1895-1984) were listed at the address in 1922, the first time it appeared in the city directory. Taylor was a co-owner of Southside Roller Mills and the Southside Wholesale Grocery Company. He also worked as chief clerk of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in Winston-Salem. Katherine was a 1914 graduate of Salem College. She lived on East Sprague Street for the first 86 years of her life.

1224w1st

1224 W. First Street, Winston-Salem
The Nathan and Ida Sosnik House

• $405,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,972 square feet, 0.1 acre
• Price/square foot: $205
• Year built: 1915
• Listed January 17, 2026
• Last sales: $205,000, October 2019; $123,950, December 2012
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The 2019 listing showed 3 bedrooms; the new one shows 4.
• District NR nomination: “This bungalow is typical of many of those built in the West End during the 1910s and 1920s. It is a one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling with a broad gable roof with widely overhanging braced eaves, a matching front dormer, interior end chimneys, and an engaged front porch with massive corner posts and a plain balustrade.
  • “The house was sheathed with asbestos shingles in mid-century, but this change has not significantly affected the overall architectural character of the house. A decorative low stone retaining wall borders the front yard.
  • “Real estate investor P. Oscar Leak purchased the property in 1913, and in 1917 the house was depicted on the Sanborn Map. It was rented until 1946, when Nathan E. and Ida Sosnik purchased the property for their residence. …
  • “Behind the house is a two-car brick garage with a pyramidal roof which appears to pre-date 1930.”
  • Nathan Earl Sosnik (1902-1970) was born in Russia. He and his wife, Ida (dates unknown), operated Nathan Sosnik’s Clothing Store in Winston-Salem for 57 years. Their son Simon (d. 1996) took over the business after his father’s death, and Ida sold the house to him in 1983. Simon may have owned the house for the rest of his life (the county’s online deed database shows no record Simon selling it; a 1997 deed show three unrelated people selling the house, although there’s no deed showing them acquiring it, which may suggest they were Simon’s executors).

4798 Pfaff Lane, Pfafftown, Forsyth County
The John Henry Pfaff House
Sale pending April 27 to May 29, 2025
Sale pending February 15, 2026

• $391,000 (originally $415,000, later $388,400 )
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,736 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1904 (per county property records)
• Listed March 16, 2025
• Last sales: $339,900, June 2022; $166,500, February 1997
• Note: Forsyth County Historic Landmark, qualifying for a property-tax reduction of up to 50 percent.
  • “It is a fine example of traditional, vernacular houses built in the Piedmont during the early 20th century,” the county’s description of the house says. “It is a two-story frame dwelling with an L-shaped configuration and Colonial Revival detailing. The house features a brick foundation and weatherboard siding.
  • “The gabled roof is pierced by interior brick chimneys. A one-story, gable-roof rear ell projects westward from the northwest corner of the house. The windows are two-over-two sash, and most have the original wood louvered shutters.
  • “On the front façade of the house, a shed-roof porch supported by Tuscan columns covers the three-bay façade and wraps around the projecting left front wing. The central entrance is composed of a pair of glass-and-wood paneled doors.
  • “At the southwest corner of the property stands a frame granary that was probably constructed around the same time as the house.”
  • John Henry Pfaff (1858-1949) was the great grandson of Peter Pfaff (1724-1804), the town’s namesake. After working in stores in Winston-Salem and Bethania, John Henry came home and opened a store of his own in 1891. It operated until 1972 at the corner of Yadkinville Road and Pfaff Lane.
  • “Pfaff’s store sold groceries, general merchandise, sewing machines, watches and clocks, gasoline, Goodyear tires, Ford automobile parts, and Johnson Harvester machinery, such as reapers, mowing machines, hay rakes, and plows. Highly esteemed in the community and known for his benevolent spirit and deeds, Pfaff operated his store until the mid 1940s, a few years before his death” at age 91.
  • Late in life, he was faced with choosing between two daughters, who didn’t get along, to inherit the house. Brilliantly, he left it to his sons to decide after his death. It would be interesting to know how the brothers felt about their sisters; from their Solomon-like decision, it’s impossible to tell.
  • “They had the property resurveyed, with a dividing line running through the center hall of the house. Louise received the portion of the house located north of the line, while Anna received the part south of the line.” How well the arrangement suited the sisters isn’t documented, but it lasted for 34 years, until both died in 1983.
  • The property was left to Louise’s children (Anna was unmarried). In 1988, they sold it to new owners who restored it.

1444w4th

1444 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem

• $380,000 (originally $415,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,254 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 2, 2025
• Last sales: $425,000, March 2024; $130,000, April 2023
• Neighborhood: Wachovia Highlands
• Note: Extremely few houses are listed for sale these days below the price the seller paid. For some reason, this is one.
  • Owned by an out-of-town LLC rental company. The house has been sold five times among four LLCs since 1999.

5008rural

5008 Rural Hall Road, Winston-Salem

• $350,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,314 square feet, 0.84 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 10, 2025
• Last sale: $85,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Montview-Ogburn Station
• Note: The house is set much farther back from the street than its neighbors.
  • It’s traditional to paint the ceiling of the front porch blue to evoke the sky. On this front porch, it’s the floor of the front porch that distinctively evokes the sky.
  • Southern Colonial style, combining Colonial Revival and Greek Revival. The symmetrical façade is Colonial Revival; the two-story portico with classical columns and small triangular front gable with a pediment are Greek Revival features. The simple trim and minimal ornamentation are more modest than those of 19th-century Greek Revival structures.

• In 1918 Charles Rober Ferguson (1887-1958) and Carrie Pearl Ogburn Ferguson (1884-1958) bought the property, then more than 6 acres, and owned it until their deaths in 1958. Pearl worked as secretary-treasurer of the Book & Stamp Company. She led the Pearl Ogburn Class at Oak Summit M.E. Church and was active in the Oak Summit Home Demonstration Club. Her connection to the name of the Montview-Ogburn Station neighborhood, if any, is unknown.
• Charles was born in Stokes County; he was one of 13 children in the family (Cora Mildred, Otelia, Lottie May, Roger, Walter, William, Martha Medlia, Nannie Lelia, Husie Pauline, Mattie Mahalia and Mary), 10 of whom survived infancy. Charles worked for Norfolk & Western Railroad until 1927. He was a prominent duck-pin bowler and operated a bowling alley until he retired in 1941. Around 1947, he constructed a building on the property and opened a store, Early American Furniture Company (the building no longer exists).
• Charles was reported to have long suffered from what the Winston-Salem Journal called “a nervous condition.” On February 7, 1958, he and Carrie died in a murder-suicide committed by Charles.

927apple

927 Apple Street SW, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Martha Hanes House
Listing withdrawn May 25, 2022; relisted July 27, 2023
Listing withdrawn September 21, 2023; relisted February 21, 2024
Sale pending April 26 to May 14, 2024
Listing withdrawn May 14, 2024
Relisted September 3, 2025

• $310,000 (originally $229,500, later as low as $210,000 and as high as $345,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $146
• Built in 1885
• Listed April 7, 2022
• Last sale: $142,500, February 2021
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows
  • Now either apartments or a boarding house (listing isn’t clear).
  • The house was sold in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2021. The current out-of-state owner listed it for sale again 14 months after buying it.
  • The house was next-door to the 1-acre-plus Apple Green City Farm (now a large empty lot) and is just around the corner from Carolina University (formerly Piedmont Bible Institute, 1946-2012, and Piedmont International University, 2012-20).
  • Homes on Apple Street first appear in the city directory in 1894, but without house numbers. Charles L. Hanes (1868-1900) was listed on Apple Street that year (no occupation listed). His widow, Martha Alice Binkley Hanes (1865-1948), was listed at 927 Apple in 1902, and she apparently lived there the rest of her life. Her obituary in 1948 showed her address as 927 Apple.
• District NRHP nomination: “I-house. Two story; side gable; single pile; rear ell; one-over-one replacement windows; vinyl siding; hip-roof porch; turned posts; sawn brackets.”

alamance

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties and Nearby Areas

• $850,000 (originally $900,000, later $825,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,963 square feet (per county), 2.72 acres
• Price/square foot: $214
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 19, 2024
• Last sale: $415,000, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: Beautiful Colonial Revival, but with vinyl siding and inexplicable popcorn ceilings
  • “The second floor primary bedroom — complete with an adjoining dressing area and three sets of double closets — is currently being used as an office/billiard room”
  • The listing shows 4,245 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “The architecture of the Old South Mebane Historic District represents a diversity of the styles popular throughout the Period of Significance. … Colonial Revival-style houses in the district range from simply-detailed houses with only hints of Colonial-era features to substantial formally designed Georgian Revival-style homes such as those at 607 and 618 S. Fifth Street. …
  • “This 2-story Colonial Revival-style house is of wood construction, finished in vinyl siding, with a 5-bay symmetrical façade and a centered paneled entry door with sidelights, shielded by a one-bay portico with semi-elliptical intrados and supported by simple columns. It likely has a central-passage interior plan.
  • “There are 1-story gabled wings on the side elevations, the southernmost of which appears to be an enclosed porch. The windows are 6/6, with replacement sash and exterior fixed shutters. A 2-story hip-roofed ell is on the rear. There are two interior gable-end brick chimneys and one interior brick chimney on the rear ell.”

216whunter

216 W. Hunter Street, Madison, Rockingham County
The Hunter House Bed & Breakfast
Also known as the Busick House
Listing expired September 7, 2019; relisted March 5, 2021
Listing withdrawn September 3, 2021
Relisted February 3, 2026

• $569,000 (previously listed as high as $595,000 and as low as $368,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,752 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1903
• Listed July 23, 2018
• Last sale: $365,000, August 2016
• Neighborhood: Decatur-Hunter Historic District (local)
• Note: The property includes seven fireplaces; main-level master with en-suite, 12’x11′ walk-in closet and private side yard; wrap-around front porch; large back yard with in-ground pool, hot tub, a two-car garage, two pergolas and privacy fencing.
  • The listing doesn’t market the house primarily as a B&B: “ideally suited for large families or multi-generational living … exceptional space and versatility for in-law arrangements, guest quarters, or home offices.”

511nmain

511 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Ben and Dora Rogers House

• $440,000 (originally $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,448 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1928
• Listed December 9, 2025
• Last sale: $180,000, September 2004
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes an attached two-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, Colonial Revival house, with hipped roof, is three bays wide and brick veneered. The house features a pedimented portico with fluted porch posts, and an interior brick chimney. Brick detailing includes a stretcher row cornice and water table and header row window sills. A one-story, hipped porch on the right is now enclosed.
  • Vinyl trim and soffits and replacement six-over-one sash windows have been added. A two-car garage with hipped roof and the same brick veneer is attached to the house by a now enclosed one-story porch.
  • “The house was owned by wealthy landowner Ben M. Rogers at one time. It is also said to have been a private teacherage for the nearby Graham Graded School on North Main Street.”
  • Benjamin McLeskey Rogers (1878-1969) and Dora May Carraway Rogers (1887-1978) were listed on North Main Street in the 1935 city directory, which didn’t list house numbers. It was sold by Dora’s estate. Benjamin was principal of Liberty High School and Hawfields High School. He later served as register of deeds for 12 years.

104 E. Wilson Street, Mebane, Alamance County
Sale pending April 21 to May 5, 2025
Listing withdrawn July 15, 2025
Relisted August 16, 2025

• $439,900 (originally $485,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,306 square feet (per county), 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sale: $275,000, July 2017
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: Lots of unpainted woodwork — a rare find. On the other hand, some of the windows are cheap replacements.
• District NR nomination: “This is a 2-story Craftsman-derived residence of wood, finished primarily in shiplap siding, with a front-gable roof with a 2- story side-gabled wing on the east elevation. The house has a gable-front porch, supported by battered wood posts resting on brick piers and enclosed within a plain wood balustrade with square balusters.
  • “The main entry door is enframed within sidelights and the gable ends and fascia boards are finished in square-butt wood shingles. Windows are flat-topped 1/1, with original historic sash and a three-part window. Cornice returns are present on the façade gable.”

521 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The James and Allie Ivie House
Listing withdrawn June 2, 2025; relisted June 6, 2025
Listing withdrawn January 1, 2026
Relisted January 25, 2026

• $439,000 (originally $479,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,279 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1904
• Listed December 22, 2024
• Last sale: $155,000, September 1998
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “An unusual entrance bay evocative of a three-stage tower reflects the roots of the design of this house in the Queen Anne style; the polygonal bay’s symmetrical central placement also reveals the strong influence of the Colonial Revival style.
  • “In contrast to the regular, blocky massing of the imposing two-story frame house, somewhat whimsical details characterize the entrance bay: a small window marks each of the three sides of the bay at the second story, and at the attic level a polygonal roof, repeating the shape of the bay just below, surmounts a dormer and a short, open recess resembling a balcony.
  • “On the first floor of the carefully preserved interior, large rooms with high ceilings open off of a wide center hall with a curving staircase.”
  • The house was built by Theresa Jane Jones Hopper (1839-1923), proprietor of the Hopper Hotel in downtown Leaksville, for her daughter, Allie Hopper Ivie (1875-1945), and son-in-law, James William Ivie. James operated a general merchandise store and livery stable on Washington Street with his brother, Robert Henry Ivie.
  • “The Ivies remained in the house until 1929, after which it was rental property until it was sold to Mrs. John Benton Field in 1935. She sold it in 1943 to furniture store owner Philip Wall and his wife, who remained in the house until Mr. Wall’s death in 1975.”

349wmain

349 W. Main Street, Danville, Virginia

• $425,000 (originally $489,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,668 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1909
• Listed May 22, 2025
• Last sales: $260,000, April 2007; $170,000, February 1994
• Note: The house has been described as American Picturesque and as a Queen Anne with Colonial and Classical features, including the Neoclassical Revival front porch. It was restored around 1980, retaining its dark woodwork and Mission-style dining room. It was featured on historic-home tours in 1981 and 2009.
  • It also was included in the statewide Virginia Historic Gardens Week in 2015: “The stately dwelling includes beige siding, a hipped roof with dormers, a second-story bay window and tall chimneys with decorative support braces. The current owners relocated to Danville from Atlanta, purchasing the home in 2007. The couple spent the first year refurbishing many of the rooms throughout the house.
  • “Mr. Weir is an accomplished carpenter-cabinetmaker. He made bookcases that match the dining room, complementing the room’s original beamed and coffered ceiling, Mission-style casings and dark fumed oak mantel. Original gas logs and Craftsman-style wrought andirons echo the mantel’s west-coast Craftsman style.”
  • The house was owned for more than 60 years by Fannie Fitzgerald Martin (1877-1976) and Herbert Milton Martin (1871-1943). Fannie bought the property in 1906. Property records show the house was completed in 1909; other sources show 1907. Fannie and Herbert lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • The Martins were a prominent Danville couple. Herbert “for more than fifty years was identified with the municipal and civic life of Danville ” (Danville Bee). He served on the Board of Aldermen and the city school board. He was president of Hilltop Sanitarium, a tuberculosis hospital, and served on the boards of several civic groups.
  • Herbert came to Danville to work in the tobacco business, entered the shoe business and in 1906 joined the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills for more than 30 years.
  • Fannie was an 1893 graduate of the Danville College for Young Ladies. She was an active volunteer with the Danville Red Cross for 30 years, serving as chair for 22 years. She was active with a number of organizations, including the Women’s Missionary Society and the Ladies Benevolent Society. In 1934, she was named the first female recipient of the Danville Kiwanis Club’s First Citizen Award.
  • She was the organist at Calvary United Methodist Church and served as superintendent of the kindergarten class for 72 years. She was superintendent emerita when she died at age 98. The Martins had one foster daughter, who was living with Fannie at the grand old lady’s death.

2463glencoe

2463 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• $425,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,898 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1890
• Listed October 17, 2025
• Last sale: $33,000, April 2005
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: “Detached wired storage building with shelving could function as one car garage.”
  • Glencoe Mill Village is on the Haw River just north of Burlington. Its 30-some restored houses comprise one of the most intact mill villages still standing in North Carolina. The houses themselves have been renovated and in many cases, like this one, sensitively expanded.
• District NR nomination: “The predominant house type was originally a four room, two-story structure typical of North Carolina rural housing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The front porches are two bays wide and supported by four unornamented posts. A central hallway open onto rooms to the east and west. The western rooms of houses on these two streets do not have windows on the river (west) side. Chimneys are set on the east. Upstairs there are usually two rooms, with the railing from the narrow staircase extending into the west room. Detached kitchens of brick and batten construction are set behind the houses; a typical kitchen was about 20′ by 12′. Open wells serve four houses each.
  • “A later modification of the mill housing is the kitchen, attached at the back of the east wing of most houses, forming an L. These rooms had, by 1910, largely replaced the detached kitchens, of which only a handful remain. The connected kitchens have chimneys and customarily have side porches facing the river and the mill (west). …
  • “Glencoe is associated with James H. and William E. Holt, two of the five influential sons of Edwin M. Holt, textile industry pioneer, the Holt family was a powerful factor in the development of the textile industry in Alamance County and the Piedmont, of whom it has been said, ‘What the Flemish have been to England, what the Venetians have been to southern Europe, that are the Holts to Alamance and to North Carolina.'”
  • The mill closed in 1954. The village was acquired by Preservation North Carolina in 1997. The current owner bought the house from Preservation North Carolina in 2005.

617 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
The A.J. and Ruth Ellington House
Listing withdrawn October 3, 2022; relisted August 7, 2024
Listing withdrawn March 9, 2025; relisted July 20, 2025
Sale pending February 6, 2026

• $395,000 (originally $395,000, later $495,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,791 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 23, 2022
• Last sales: $295,000, June 2021; $180,000, January 2017
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• Note: The family of Dr. A.J. Ellington (1890-1980) and Ruth Martin Norwood Ellington (1899-1988) owned the house for 68 years, 1924 to 1992. Their sons, A.J. Jr. and Robert, were doctors in obstetrics and gynecology and founded Alamance Clinic for Women.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Constructed in the late 1920s for Dr. A.J. Ellington, a local dentist, this two-story brick T-plan period house features elements derived from the Colonial Revival style. The base of the T is extended by a two-story frame wing; a brick chimney with corbelled cap rises between the two sections.
  • “A tripartite window in the left bay of the three-bay facade has an elliptical opening with keystone; a keystone is also located in the flat window opening in the right bay.
  • “The single-bay entrance porch has a shed roof supported by paired Doric columns which flank a classical entrance. A six-panel door is topped by a leaded glass semi-circular fanlight; the Doric pilasters of the surround have double capitals with a shell motif in the upper capital.
  • “Decorative brickwork accents the structure at several points. A narrow box cornice with returns is a feature of the cross gable roof.”

190 Broad Street, Milton, Caswell County

• $360,000 (originally $400,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,543 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1850
• Listed April 10, 2025
• Last sale: $25,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is now a short-term rental.
  • Listing: “Interior boasts late Federal trim attributed to the renowned Thomas Day workshop. … This home is held under protective covenants held by Preservation North Carolina with Historic Preservation Agreement in place.”
  • Restored by the current owners: “When the couple closed on the house in March 2021, it was a total disaster. Years of neglect and abandonment resulted in gaping holes in the roof and walls, allowing rainwater to flow in, steadily eroding the structural integrity of the home. …
  • “The Jones House required drastic renovation not just to repair the obvious damage, but careful historic restoration with oversight from Preservation North Carolina to ensure that the home was returned to a state as historically accurate as possible.
  • “‘It’s actually kind of frustrating that people are going to come through this house and not realize that it has been totally renovated, because all they’re going to see is original woodwork moldings and just think it’s always looked like this when, in actuality, so much of it had to be carefully put back together,’ [owner Nancy Keeler] said.” (Hyco Lake Magazine, March 2022)
• An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, p. 219: “Jones House, 1st half of 19th century. 2-story frame house with exterior end brick chimneys, of late Federal or Greek Revival vintage but considerably remodeled by the addition of bracketed eaves and an ornate Queen Anne style front porch, with an unusually fine cross-gable bargeboard.”

2079 Shady Grove Road, Providence, Caswell County
The Hodges-Carter House
Sale pending November 12-18, 2025
Sale pending November 18, 2025, to January 5, 2026
Sale pending February 15, 2026

• $345,000 (originally $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,472 square feet (per county), 11.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1840
• Listed July 7, 2025
• Last sale: $85,500 (bought in three transactions between 1989 and 1994)
• Neighborhood: Located about halfway between Providence and Pelham, about 11 1/2 miles northwest of Yanceyville. The property has a Providence mailing address.
• Note: The house is given an 1840 date in An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina. County records say 1940.
  • “1 1/2 story Federal-style house overbuilt by addition of 2-story frame house in late 19th century. Almost no original exterior fabric remains on earlier section. Later house has decorative cross gables. A log kitchen or quarters and a smokehouse, perhaps contemporary with early house, remain [as of 1979].” (An Inventory of Historic Architecture: Caswell County, North Carolina, p. 175)
  • Some of the log walls of the original house can be seen on the interior.

523 E. Main Street, Haw River, Alamance County
The Haywood Simpson House
Sale pending December 8, 2025

• $335,000 (originally $415,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,944 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 26, 2025
• Last sales: $160,000, April 2025; $162,500, April 2004
• Note: Quickie fix-and-flip job. Caveat emptor. This house needed quite a bit of work, as these photos from the last for-sale listing show.
  • The property includes an in-ground pool.
  • County records show 1910 as the date. “Alamance County Architectural Heritage,” published by the Alamance Historic Properties Commission (1980), says 1894. A later commission document, “Alamance County Architectural Inventory” (2014), says ca. 1895.
  • Alamance County Architectural Inventory: “This house was built for Mr. Haywood Simpson, one of the first merchants in Haw River who ran the mill commissary with William Anderson. He contributed part of the land for the First Christian Church.
  • “Originally a two-story, three-bay wide, single-pile house with a side gable and a ‘Triple-A’ roof form. The house has a hipped roof wraparound front porch supported by piers with slanted sides on brick stacks. A second story porch is centered over the front entry. Two interior brick chimneys are located at the rear of the house in the end bays. A rear addition was added sometime later.” The house remained in the Simpson family for 94 years.
  • Sites of Interest: Historic Haw River, North Carolina: “Haywood Simpson House, ca. 1894. Mr. Simpson and Mr. Anderson, whose home stood where the Civic Center is now, ran the company store for the Holts.”
  • Henry Haywood Simpson (1852-1919) came to Haw River as a young man and lived there the rest of his life. He and Katherine Hughes Simpson (1858-1946) had three children. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • “Mr. Simpson was a highly esteemed citizen,” The Alamance Gleaner said in his obituary. His death at age 66 was “a complete shock to his family and friends. For more than a year his health had not been good, but he had been reasonably active.”
  • The last surviving child of Henry and Katherine, Ada Grace Simpson (1892-1989), was a retired school teacher when she sold the house in 1988.

200albright

200 Albright Avenue, Graham, Alamance County
The William Long House
Listing withdrawn February 9, 2026

• $325,000 (originally $335,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,146 square feet (per county), 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 31, 2025
• Last sale: $25,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “A number of late-nineteenth century Queen-Anne-style houses stand in the district. These are generally two-story frame dwellings with a gable and wing form built by prominent townspeople. The most intact example of this style is the well-preserved Dr. William Long House at 200 Albright Avenue. Built by a local dentist and fire chief circa 1900, the three-bay house features a decorative front porch and front gabled bay wing. …
  • “The three-bay house features a gabled roof with a front gable wing with a cutaway bay with sawnwork brackets with finials, decorative gable end shingles, and a triangular vent. The house has plain siding and one-over-one sash windows with molded caps. Other features include a transomed front door and a one-story wraparound porch with original turned posts with curvilinear brackets and turned railing.”
  • Dr. William Long Jr. (1867-1954) was the state’s oldest fire chief when he died at age 87, even though he had been confined to his bed for a year. He was a founder of the fire department and served as chief for more than 40 years. He also was a dentist, served a term in the state House of Representatives in the 1930s and was the longtime chairman of the county Democratic Party. He was choir leader at Graham Presbyterian Church for 33 years. He was said to be the last person living who attended the unveiling of the Battle of Alamance monument in 1880.

270wmain

270 W. Main Street, Yanceyville, Caswell County
Sale pending January 11, 2026

• $325,000 (originally $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,624 square feet, 0.86 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1875
• Listed August 27, 2025
• Last sale: $100,000, October 1993
• Neighborhood: Yanceyville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Foursquare with Colonial Revival influence, including shutters and detailing. Hip roof with wide eaves, symmetrical facade, full-width front porch and central front door, this one painted yellow to make it jump out as a focal point.
  • The early history of the house is obscure. The first known owners were Parthenia Phillip Hodnett Page (1873-1940) and Ludolphus Brown Page (1866-1940). L.B. was a prominent farmer, He also was a great-grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Starling Gunn (1764-1852), who fired the first cannon shot at the battle of Yorktown. Both L.B. and Parthenia were prominent figures in Yanceyville. Parthenia, beset by failing health, killed herself with a shotgun at age 67. L.B. immediately fell ill and died three weeks later at age 73.
  • The property was part of a 113-acre tract that passed to their son Herman Gunn Page (1904-1979). Herman was one 12 children in the family (siblings were Lucy, John, Hubert, Carrie, Eula, Ludolphus Graham, Mary, Fred, Clyde, Wilbur and Parthenia).
  • Herman sold the house in 1955 to James Burton “Doo-Dah” Watkins (1906-1988) and Ann Maude Abell Watkins (1914-1992). James was a dairy and poultry farmer. In 1969 they passed the property to their son Jimmy A. Watkins and daughter-in-law Jo Anne Watkins, who are now selling it.

802 Lawsonville Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Listing removed December 29, 2025
Relisted January 13, 2026

• $315,000 (originally $349,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,700 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 5, 2025
• Last sale: $55,000, January 2023
• Note: A quote from C.S. Lewis is on a wall in the kitchen: “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
  • James A. “Jimmy” Walker (1863-1923) bought the property in 1900. He was “a well-known farmer” who served a term in the state Legislature. He sold the house in 1919.
  • In 1922 the house was sold to Archibald Boyd Hooper (1889-1969) and Madge Anderson Kemp Hooper (1906-1995). Archie was a plumber and later a plumbing contractor. The family owned the house for 93 years.
  • Archie and Madge had four children, including Walter McGehee Hooper (1931-2020). Walter was a friend and longtime literary executor to the British writer and theologian C.S. Lewis. Walter studied English and education at the University of North Carolina. After being impressed by a piece about God written by Lewis (“I’d never met anybody who believed that way,” he said), Walter wrote to him, and they became friends. In 1963 he visited Lewis in Oxford.
  • “Severely debilitated by osteoporosis and kidney failure, Lewis offered Hooper a job as his correspondence secretary, and Hooper spent the next few months typing out the letters that Lewis dictated in reply to the enormous volume of mail that he received from readers around the world. After Lewis’s death on November 22 of that year, Hooper made his home in Oxford … doing everything that he could to honour Lewis’s memory. After writing a biography of Lewis with Lewis’s friend and former pupil Roger Lancelyn Green, he spent some five decades collecting and editing Lewis’s juvenilia, poems, short stories, academic papers, journalism, diaries and letters. He also took up the burden of answering letters sent to Lewis by child readers of The Chronicles of Narnia who were unaware that Lewis had died.” (Wikipedia)
  • Hooper became a significant figure in his own right. “All of us who know and love the writings of C.S. Lewis owe a great debt to another figure, highly regarded in the field of Lewis scholarship but less well known to the wider world of readers: Walter Hooper. Over the course of six decades, Hooper served as literary advisor to Lewis’ estate, dedicating his life to editing, preserving, and sharing the work of C.S. Lewis. As just one example, when we pick up a volume such as God in the Dock or Selected Literary Essays—containing some of Lewis’ finest essays—we are benefiting from Walter’s work in tracking down and preserving material written for various newspapers and magazines that could otherwise easily have been lost or languished out of print. He co-authored an important early biography of Lewis. And it is from Walter’s labor of love that we have Lewis’s wisdom, wit, and insight in the Collected Letters (three volumes and nearly four thousand pages).” (Dr. Holly Ordway, Word on Fire)
  • Walter also became ordained as a priest in the Church of England and served as a chaplain at two Oxford colleges. Feeling that the church was becoming too liberal, he converted to Catholicism in 1988. Before his conversion, though, he met Pope John Paul II. “When the pope walked into the room it was as if Aslan himself had arrived,” referring to the Christ figure in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series.
  • Walter, his siblings and other descendants of Archie and Madge sold the house in 2015. Walter died in Oxford of COVID-19 in 2020.

801 N. Mebane Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• $244,900 (originally $274,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 25, 2025
• Last sale: $60,000, September 2016
• Note: One of 54 houses put up for sale at $7.8 million in 2022. They didn’t sell, or, at least, this one didn’t.
  • The house may have been built by John Rich Ireland (1841-1909) and Julia Franklin Ireland (1844-1909). It’s unclear when they bought the property; they sold it in 1902. John was a widely known veteran of the Civil War. At Chancellorville, he and two other confederate soldiers captured Brigadier General Rutherford B. Hayes, future president of the United States.

306nmaple

306 N. Maple Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Ben and Martha Farrell House

• $240,000 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, 2,164 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $111
• Built ca. 1900
• Listed December 23, 2025
• Last sales: $220,000, December 2022; $70,000, February 1993
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Odd coincidence: The original asking price in 2022 was $250,000.
• Note: County records date the house to 1910. The district National Register nomination. says circa 1900, which, considering all the evidence, seems likely.
• District NRHP nomination: “The frame I-house with center cross gable exhibits two interior brick chimneys, aluminum siding, replacement one-over-one sash windows, and a one-story porch with cross gable Craftsman base supports and turned railing. The front entrance is a multi-paned door with sidelights.
  • “The house was built for Ben Farrell [John Benjamin Farrell, 1869-1955] after his wife [Martha Wicker Farrell, 1870-1946] purchased the lot from A.L. Bain in 1900. Ben Farrell left Graham in 1901 for a year to work for the Delgado Mills at Wilmington. … [He] moved back to the house and became an expert tailor and men’s clothing salesman at Sellars Department Store in Burlington.”
  • Ben sold the lot next door to his brother Robert H. Farrell (1871-1950) in 1899. Robert built his house there around 1906 and lived in it for the rest of his life.
  • By 1912, Ben had established his own tailor shop: “J Ben Farrell – Merchant Tailor – 105 Davis St. The particular person is careful regarding their wearing apparel, and this is especially so regarding the people of Burlington, and that is one of the reasons why they have the habit of giving their orders to this establishment for the work is guaranteed and is of the latest mode in style, fit and material. Clothes are made to order for man and woman, and special attention is given to cleaning, pressing and repairing. Mr Farrell is a native of NC and one of Burlington’s business men for three years.” (Modern Progress Blue Book, February 1915)

Stokes-house

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties and Nearby Areas

607 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Garnet and Katie Fawcett House
Sale pending February 15, 2026

• $550,000 (originally $900,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,876 square feet (per county), 1.32 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1907
• Listed March 30, 2025
• Last sale: $40,000, June 1987
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District
• Note: A tax-credit restoration was completed in 2015.
  • The property consists of two lots — one on North Main, 0.27 acres, where the house is, and a gated lot around the corner on Rawley Avenue, 1.05 acres. The Rawley Avenue lot is “a former asphalt parking lot perfect for RVs, boats, or hosting events. It’s beautifully landscaped with a greenhouse, frog pond, and plenty of open space — ideal for entertaining or the avid gardener.”
  • There’s another two-story granite house next door, built in 1910 and originally owned by Garnet Fawcett’s brother George. It’s still owned by the Fawcett family.
• District NR nomination: “Two-story, L-shaped granite house of late Victorian/Colonial Revival style. High hip roof with shingled pedimented dormers. Hip-roofed attached wrap-around porch carried by paired Doric columns; an offset projecting pedimented gable marks the main entrance bay. The imposing house was built ca. 1906 by [Garnet] Fawcett [1883-1945], a banker associated with First National Bank.”
  • The nomination misspells his name as “Garnett,” as did contemporary news accounts; his gravestone has it as “Garnet.” He was born in Ontario; his family moved to Mount Airy when he was a child. His father founded the First National Bank of Mount Airy. His brother George was president of the bank when he died in 1920; Garnet succeeded him and held the position until his death in 1945. Garnet shot himself to death in his doctor’s office, despondent over a long period of poor health.
  • His death was front-page news in the Winston-Salem Journal. In keeping with journalism’s straightforward attitude about suicide at the time, the headline read, “T.G. Fawcett, Mt. Airy Man, Kills Himself.”
  • Garnet’s widow, Katie Lee Mills Fawcett (1885-1975) owned the house until her death.

639 Elk Spur Street, Elkin, Surry County
The W.G. Church House

• $388,500 (originally $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,900 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 22, 2025
• Last sales: $143,500, July 2007; $195,000, June 2007, $156,500, March 2003
• Note: The State Historic Preservation Office identifies the house with William Granville Church (1872-1935), Elkin’s police chief for 14 years until his death. Deeds refer to it as the Mary A. Church homeplace, for William’s wife, Mary Ann “Annie” Sale Church (1873-1963). In 1945, Annie sold the house to daughter Mary Emma Church Sappenfield (1908-1996) with a life estate allowing Annie to continue living there until her death. Mary Emma sold the house in 1967.

327 S. Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County
The Luther and Annie Jones House
Sale pending December 15, 2025

• $375,000 (originally $449,900)
• 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,836 square feet, 1.52 acres
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1914
• Listed December 4, 2024
• Last sales: $315,000, June 2021; $93,000, October 2019

420carolina

420 Carolina Avenue, Yadkinville, Yadkin County
Listing withdrawn December 31, 2025
Relisted January 7, 2026

• $325,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,581 square feet, 8.3 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built circa 1910
• Listed September 15, 2025
• Last sale: $47,500, December 2004
• Note: County records date the house to 1940.
  • Online listings show no pictures of the interior.
• State Historic Preservation Office: “A three-sided vestibule crowned by a pent gable projects from the center bay of this two-story three-bay dwelling. The first story is sheltered by a hip roof porch.
  • “The front block of this house appears to be a 1910s addition to an older turn-of-the-century one-story dwelling which is now the ell. There is a shed roof porch on the original front elevation of this house and another along the north side.  An enclosed porch carries across the rear of the two-story addition and along the ell.
  • “The main block has gable end chimneys and a porch supported by six Tuscan columns. Six-over-six double hung sash windows, perhaps replacements of the originals, are symmetrically arranged on the front elevation framing the center door. The house is sheathed in weatherboards. Its front elevation is sheltered by tall pines and a boxwood hedge.
  • “There are a number of outbuildings on the property [as of 1986] including a covered well, a board-and-batten crib/granary, a large building of unknown use and a storage shed.”
  • SHPO says it was the home of Solomon Lee Mackie (1863-1929) and Fannie W. Robertson Mackie (1867-1946) for about 40 years. Lee operated a tannery, which was just southwest of the house.
  • Ownership passed to their son Frank Woodhouse Mackie (1908-1987) and daughter-in-law Izetta Deete Steelman Mackie (1909-2003). Izetta worked for the Yadkin County Ration Board and later retired as the Yadkinville postmistress. Frank’s obit said he was a “wildlife protector” for 32 years before joining the State Biology Division of Wildlife. Izetta owned the house until her death. It is now being sold by one of their daughters.

2417thurmond

2417 Thurmond Road, Thurmond, Wilkes County

• $184,900 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,786 square feet, 1.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1880
• Listed October 16, 2025
• Last sales: $65,000, January 2021; 45,000, April 2010
• Note: Thurmond is in northeast Wilkes County, just over the line from Surry County to the east and quite near Stone Mountain.
  • The property includes a barn of more that 5,000 square feet.

Davidson-house

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Nearby Areas

6578us15501

6578 U.S. Highway 15-510, Chatham County
The Dr. Hackney House
Sale pending December 23, 2025

• $749,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,160 square feet, 7.0 acres
  • House: 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms; apartment: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
• Price/square foot: $347
• Built in 1870 (per county; see note)
• Listed July 27, 2025
• Last sales: $540,000, April 2021; $275,000, October 2015
• Neighborhood: Located about 6 1/2 miles northeast of Pittsboro, just north of Bynum and almost to Fearrington. The property has a Pittsboro mailing address.
• From the 2016 for-sale listing: “[T]his home was moved by the current family in the 60’s to take advantage of the pond view and modernized at that time.”
  • From current listing: “In the 1960s the Jones family brought the home to Chatham County to start a new life.”
• DigitalNC.org: “a two-story three-bay triple-A house with a centrally placed entrance framed by sidelights and flanked by slender turned porch posts, six-over-six sash windows, two brick chimneys, and a single-pile central-hallway interior.”
• Note: The listing calls the house “rich in history,” but much of the historic character has been lost. “Modernizing” has included sliding-glass doors and cheap compromises including vinyl siding and replacement windows.
  • The property includes “a remodeled barn which houses a temperature-controlled workout/project area, a workshop and a fully furnished one bedroom apartment.”
  • “Although the triple-A, I-house was a common house type built in Chatham County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many have been destroyed by fire, neglect, or demolition. … [T]he majority of the houses have undergone extensive remodeling. …
  • “The ca. 1890 Dr. Hackney House located in the Bynum vicinity on the east side of US 15/501 (0.8 miles north of the junction with SR 1525) is a two-story, triple-A, I-house with a rear one-story ell that has undergone considerable modernization. The house has vinyl siding, two modern, exterior rear chimneys, new six-over-six, double-hung, sash windows, skylights, a new rear one-story addition, and a new metal roof. There is nothing to suggest the age of this house other than its style.” (NR nomination for the Burdett Woody House, 2008)
  • It’s unknown where the house was moved from or who the original “Dr. Hackney” was. Clarence Eugene Hackney (1883-1957) and Nannie Lee Garner Hackney (1883-1967) were the last members of the family to own the house, selling it in 1963. The only known doctor in the family was their son Dr. James F. Hackney (1906-1987), who spent his career in Atlanta.
  • The buyers in 1963 were Lyle Vincent Jones (1924-2016) and Patricia E. Jones (dates unknown). Lyle was a psychologist and statistician. After serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he received his bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics and psychology at the University of Washington and a doctorate in psychology and statistics from Stanford. In 1957 he came to the University of North Carolina, where he later served as director of the Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory and as dean of the graduate school.
  • The Jones’s son sold the house in 2015.

967 Bynum Road, Chatham County
The Neal-Snipes House

• $725,000 (originally $775,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,495 square feet, 1.00 acre
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1908
• Listed May 2, 2025
• Last sale: $440,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: Bynum Historic District (NR)
• Note: Now being used as a short-term rental
  • Located 5 miles northeast of Pittsboro, just off U.S. 501 across the Haw River. The property has a Pittsboro mailing address.
• District NR nomination: “Triple-A I-house with three-bay façade; hipped front porch with turned columns, sawn brackets, and turned balustrade; weatherboard exterior; replacement one-over-one sash; brick end chimneys with corbelled caps; five-V metal roofing; and a single-story rear ell with interior corbelled brick chimney at the center of its roof ridge. Additions have been made at the west side of the rear ell and the east side of the rear corner of the two-story block.
  • “The county’s online tax and land records date the house to 1908, and deeds record the sale of this land, and the parcel immediately north to total 2 1/8 acres, from Mary and Carney Bynum to Charles W. Neal (1872-1930) in January 1906. Neal had been working as a machinist at the cotton mill in 1900. He lived in a rented house with his wife of five years, Martha Williamson, a Bynum native who had lived in the mill village with her family and worked in the mill before her marriage. According to the deed, he paid $20 outright and owed $54.37 to the Bynums in 1906.
  • “Charlie Neal’s obituary in the Chatham Record notes that he worked ‘for a number of years the efficient superintendent of the Bynum mill,’ but the 1910 federal census notes that he owned a cotton mill. …
  • “Martha and Charles Neal sold the property in 1909 to Jas. R. Durham … Durham sold the house he’d purchased from the Neals in 1910 to Lucian S. Burnette and Cara and Robert J. Moore for $625, a curiously low price.
  • “Robert Moore ran a general store near the river, on the old Chapel Hill to Pittsboro Road, for over forty years; it had been demolished by about 1960. …
  • “Charlie Snipes bought this property for $3,000 in 1921, moving from the family homestead at the ca. 1820 Federal-style Snipes House in the vicinity of Bynum so that his younger children could attend school in the village. This house remained in the Snipes family through much of the rest of the twentieth century. A 1990 plat records the subdivision of the parcel and refers to the land as the estate of Thomas L. ‘Tuck’ Snipes.”
  • Charles Alexander Snipes (1872-1954) was a teacher and farmer. He was elected to a term in the legislature in 1920 and served on the county board of education.
  • Tuck Snipes (1916-1988) worked for Odell Manufacturing Company. He was a charter member of the Bynum Ruritan club. His estate sold the house in 1990.

605 N. Asheboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Smith-Wylie House

• $615,000 (originally $650,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,694 square feet (per county), 2.7 acres
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 10, 2025
• Last sales: $321,000, August 2021; $50,500, November 2007
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• 2021 listing: The house “was restored in 2007, following local historical society guidelines and keeping several original features, including 7 fireplaces, beautiful stained glass windows, and the original ‘pie safe’. Renovated and used as a law office, this home still has much of its original residential integrity.”
• District NR nomination: “The Smith-Wylie house is a very imposing two-story, frame, Queen Anne Style residence built by Charles Phillip Smith and later occupied by his daughter, Margaret Smith Wylie.
  • “It features the irregular massed plan typical of this style. Particularly notable features are a flared, shingle-clad skirting-course separating the first and second stories; an elaborate sawn and pierced bargeboard with drop pendants; cresting and acreterion along the ridge line; and a slate roof. The one-story porch is highlighted with a polygonal, turreted pavilion at its south comer.
  • “It also has turned-and-chamfered porch posts with sawn scroll-brackets supporting a spindle frieze. The siding is weatherboard and windows are one-over- one, double-hung-wood sash. A modern concrete block foundation has been installed as underpinning.”
  • Charles Philip Smith (1856-1929) was a traveling salesman for Lindley Nurseries for 50 years. “Mr. Smith was a prominent citizen and well known throughout the state,” the Greensboro Daily News said. His wife, Mamie Ila Patterson Smith (1875-1968), was 19 years younger than Charles and died 39 years after he did. She never remarried.
  • Margaret Charlotte Smith Wylie (1903-1978) was a school teacher for 42 years. She also taught a Sunday school class for 40 years. She lived in the house until her death at age 74. Her husband, John Harris Wylie (1902-1979), was an inspector for the Randolph County Health Department and a member of the Liberty Town Council.

593cedar

539 Cedar Creek Road, Biscoe, Montgomery County

• $490,000 (originally $450,000)
• bedrooms, bathrooms, 1,878 square feet, 2.79 acres
• Price/square foot: $261
• Built in 1899
• Listed February 19, 2025
• Last sales: $95,000, May 2024; July 1937, no price recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: In the Uwharrie National Forest, about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Biscoe and 7 miles southeast of Troy.
• Note: Flipped house, caveat emptor. The renovation has stripped away the historic character of the house, inside and out.
  • The property includes a shop building with drive-through bays and office space. It’s considerably bigger than the house (2,908 square feet). Other outbuildings include a barn, garden shed and metal storage building.

212 S. Fayetteville Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Vance York House
Sale pending February 9, 2026

• $449,900 (originally $479,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,452 square feet, 2.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 23, 2025
• Last sale: $142,500, September 2012
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached three-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “ca. 1880. The Vance-York house is the only property in the district to predate the introduction of the rail road. It is as two-story, frame, I-house clad in dropped or novelty siding. It also has a lateral gable roof and centered, front-facing gable with partial returns and boxed eaves.
  • “Windows are one-over-one, double-hung sash and there is a single-leaf, paneled entry door. A one-story, hipped-roof porch extends fully across the facade and partially wraps the north elevation. Turned porch supports with sawn brackets carry its roof. There are gable-end and interior masonry chimneys.”
  • The house may have been built by Dennis Thomas Vance York (1862-1949). His father, Dennis Culberson York (1835-1912) owned about 300 acres of property, and it may have been on his father’s land that Vance built his house. Vance was a watchmaker.
  • Ownership passed to Vance’s son Col. Brower Vance York (1898-1994) of the Army. In 1950 he passed it to his sister Mary Margaret York Saunders (1905-1989).

135 Dixon Street, Asheboro, Randolph County
Sale pending December 17, 2025
No longer under contract January 29, 2026

• $439,900 (originally $439,900, later $424,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,419 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $182
• Built in 1920
• Listed December 17, 2024
• Last sale: $30,000, February 2021
• Something to ask about: The 2020 listing said the house had foundation issues.

9143nc150

9143 S. N.C. Highway 150, Linwood, Davidson County
The Lassiter-Greene House

• $405,700 (originally $415,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,693 square feet, 2.24 acres
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1912
• Listed November 16, 2025
• Last sale: 1972, tax stamps illegible on online deed; $2,200, September 1943
• Neighborhood: Near the Churchland community, 7 1/2 miles west of Linwood, about 13 miles southwest of Lexington.
• Note: The property includes a second house, built in 1952, with 2 bedrooms and one bathroom.
  • The listing says the house has been owned by the house has been in the Lassiter-Greene family for more than 100 years. Deeds indicate the original owners may have been Ira Elzia Lassiter (1872-1943) and Bessie McNair Feezor Lassiter (1876-1936). In 1943, four of their children sold the property to their brother Fred Lee Lassiter (1907-1979) and Mildred Smith Lassiter (1913-1991).
  • Ira’s death in 1943 was one of six apparently unrelated deaths in two weeks in the small Churchland community. “Old residents of the community stated today that they could not remember such a succession of deaths in a similar period hitherto,” the Salisbury Evening Post reported. “There has been no epidemic of any sort, but simply an unusual coincidence.”
  • In 1972, Fred passed ownership to nephew Hugh E. Greene (1928-2010) and Anna McNeill Greene (1934-2024). Hugh was a school teacher. Anna was an accomplished quilter and baker. The house is now being sold by one of their sons, a great-grandson of Ira and Bessie.

502 W. Allenton Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County
The Scarborough House
Listing withdrawn September 14, 2024; relisted March 25, 2025
MLS listing withdrawn October 1, 2025

• $350,000 (originally $385,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,840 square feet (per county), 3.77 acres
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1892
• Listed March 6, 2024
• Last sales: $60,000, November 2021; $45,000, November 2020
• Note: The owner is an LLC based in Charlotte, which has done a massive restoration job on it. From the 2020 listing: “The Scarborough House needs structural repairs to the rear hall floor and ceiling caused by a roof leak (recently dried-in), and porch repairs, removal of old ceiling tiles and carpeting, plus updates to the kitchen, baths, and mechanical systems.”
  • The house, outbuildings and the 3.77-acre lot are subject to preservation covenants held by the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina.
  • From the 2020 listing: The property includes five outbuildings — well house, smokehouse, barn, corn crib and 1920s garage (Frankie Scarborough was one of the first car owners in Mount Gilead). Another barn burned in 1902.
  • The original owners may have been Henry Griffin Scarborough (1853-1931) and Frances Jane Scubbins Scarborough (1855-1931). Henry was a farmer and served as a county commissioner. They were listed in the 1910 census as living on West Road, which could be West Allenton Street, Mount Gilead’s main east-west street. In 1894, Frances was the subject of an alarming report in The Charlotte Democrat:

• Frances apparently recovered from her derangement; her 12th child was born three years later. Frank Leslie Scarborough (1897-1966) was the youngest of their children, nine of whom lived to adulthood.
• The last two for-sale listings for the house report that Frankie was one of the earliest car owners in town. He attended Trinity College (probably graduating in 1919, five years before it became Duke University). Frankie was an electrical engineer. In the 1940s and ’50s, he worked in Chattanooga for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He was living in Troy when he died.
  • The house was owned by the Scarborough family until 2020, when the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina bought it for $35,000.
  • How the house looked in 2021:

3110hall

3110 Hall Road, Randolph County

• $305,000 (originally $310,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,928 square feet (per county), 7.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 13, 2026
• Last sale: $80,000, September 2009
• Neighborhood: Located about 6 1/2 miles north of Franklinville and 7 1/2 miles east of Randleman. It has a Franklinville mail address.
• Note: The property has a pond and a creek. The house is set far back from the road.
  • The house is a Southern vernacular farmhouse with its standing-seam metal roof; deep, full-width attached front porch; and utilitarian exterior chimneys. It also has deep overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails, evoking a bit of a Prairie or Craftsman look.
  • Online listings show only 1,151 square feet.
  • The original owners may have been Thomas H. Williams (1872-1943) and Mary Magalene Gwyn Williams (1867-1955). The property was part of a 116-acre tract deeded in 1956 by their children to son Robert Williams (1913-1973), who had been living in the house with Mary. He worked for Klopman Mills at the Central Falls plant in Randolph County.
  • Robert sold the property in 1971 to Worth Brower Pugh (1931-2014) and Goulda Strider Pugh (1934-2008). Worth was an Air Force veteran. He worked for Union Carbide. He sold the house in 2009.

1102967wayne

2967 Wayne White Road, Randolph County
The White-Jones House
Sale pending January 2, 2025

• $200,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,699 square feet, 2.53 acres
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 15, 2025
• Last sale: $46,000, March 1981.
• Neighborhood: Located just over the Guilford-Randolph county line, about 2 miles south of Climax and 17 miles northeast of Asheboro. The house has a Climax mailing address.
• Note: No interior pictures are included in online listings.
  • The property was owned by members of the White family from 1903 to 1981. It appears to have been part of a 25-acre tract bought in 1903 by Dr. Thomas David Tyson Sr. (1872-1957) and Alta Jane White Tyson (1876-1953). In 1904 they sold the property to Alta’s brother Pliny Earl White (1880-1932) and Margaret Stella “Maggie” Shoffner White (1885-1971). Pliny was a farmer.
  • Alta and Thomas moved to Mebane. He practiced medicine for more than 50 years, retiring at age 80. He was considered the “dean of medicine in Alamance County.”
  • In 1981 eight descendants, including Pliny and Maggie’s son Wayne Earl White (1916-1999), sold the property to Delbert Samuel Jones (1934-2022) and Barbara V. Jones (b. 1932). Delbert worked for Western Electric. Barbara, or her estate, is now selling the house.

820 spainhour

820 Spainhour Road, King, Stokes County
The Kreeger Cabin

• $140,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 884 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1850 (per county)
• Last sales: March 2017 and May 2007, prices not listed on deeds; $800,000, June 2006 (as part of a 42-acre tract).
• Neighborhood: just across the Stokes County line from Forsyth County in the town of King.
• Note: “In livable condition, the cabin would benefit from updates and repair to some lower logs, as well as landscaping efforts to soften the impact from the nearby neighborhood.”
  • Preservation North Carolina: The house “was built by Isaac and Louisa Krieger on land purchased by his parents in 1814 and has remained in the family since then. The Kriegers were among German immigrants who traveled down the Great Wagon Road in the 18th century from Pennsylvania and settled in nearby Bethania. …
  • “The cabin is built of hand-hewn logs with half-dovetailed notching set on a stone foundation. The first and second floor is arranged in a hall-and-parlor plan. Entering the cabin through split-leaf paneled doors, a small entry features the paneled staircase with turned balustrade and newel post. The living room or ‘hall’ features wood beamed ceiling and large Federal/Greek Revival-style mantel.
  • “Throughout the cabin are hand-planed wood walls and ceilings, pine floors, simple door and window surrounds, and stylish Greek Revival two-panel doors. The roof is covered by a standing seam metal roof and the roof eaves display delightful decorative brackets.”
  • Their son James Kreeger expanded the house around 1900 (by then the spelling of their name had changed).
  • “In the late 1990s, the Gentry family, descendants of the Kreegers, planned to develop the land into a new neighborhood. Their plan was to donate the old farmhouse to the fire department as a practice burn until they discovered through their tenant the original log structure within the larger house. They decided to undertake the restoration of the log portion in 1999-2000 that included repairing all but two original logs, replacing the chinking, rebuilding the fireplace, refinishing the original floors, and constructing the rear kitchen and bathroom addition. Original ax and pencil marks were carefully preserved and two mantels from the demolished sections were re-used as a display shelf in the living room and in a second-floor bedroom.”