Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated December 18, 2025

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

• $699,000 (originally $900,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,876 square feet (per county), 1.32 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $243
• 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

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404 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The Barnet and Esther Saslow House

• $1.9 million (originally $2.1 million)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,487 square feet (per county), 0.84 acre
• Price/square foot: $545
• Built in 1936
• Listed September 17, 2025
• Last sale: $520,000, september 1987
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: On a square-foot basis, this is a very ambitious price, though one historic house in Irving Park has sold at that level this year.
  • Designed by Greensboro architect William C. Holleyman, Jr. (1893-1939). He came from New York as an associate of Charles C. Hartmann, one of Greensboro’s major architects of the period. Holleyman mainly designed homes, but he also designed the Science Building at the Woman’s College.
• The district’s NR nomination calls it “a two-story brick dwelling of French Eclectic design. It features a slate-covered hipped roof, half-timbered detailing [now painted over and almost invisible], segmental-arched windows, and a recessed front entrance with a French door and a segmental-arched transom.
  • “A two-story wing projects from the east side of the house and is connected to a one-story garage, while on the west side of the house is one-story shed-roofed wing. A garden stretches behind the house. Barnet Saslow, the first known owner, was president of Saslow’s Inc., dealers in credit jewelry, diamonds, and silverware.”

• Barnet George Saslow (1894-1978) came to Greensboro from Raleigh in 1922 and opened his store. He and Esther Cohen Saslow (1897-1982) bought the house in 1938 and were listed there in the city directory that year, the first time the address had been listed. They sold the house in 1970.
• Saslow’s Jewelers still exists with 14 stores in North Carolina and Virginia, all in smaller cities. By 1975 Saslow’s had added a second Greensboro store at Four Seasons mall and eventually closed the downtown location. The mall location is now closed as well, a victim of the 2008 recession.

2105 Rolling Road, Greensboro
Sale pending November 12, 2025

• $1.05 million (originally $1.175 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,867 square feet (per listing; see note), 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $272
• Built in 1925 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed August 13, 2025
• Last sale: $352,500, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records show 2,830 square feet. The listing says the house has been significantly expended.
  • Until 1926 the property was held as collateral for a loan to A.K. Moore Realty, making it unlikely to have had a house on it. The neighborhood’s National Register nomination shows 1928 as the date of the house. The address first appears in the city directory in 1929 with Francis M. O’Brien and Myrtle O’Brien as the residents. They bought the house in January 1929. Francis was manager of Clauss Shear Company, a cutlery manufacturer and dealer. They sold the house in 1930.
  • After a foreclosure and another sale, the house was bought in 1938 by Aaron Leon Hyman (1892-1964) and Gertrude Vogel Hyman (1896-1979). Aaron was manager of Hyman’s Furniture Company. He was a merchant in Greensboro for more than 50 years. Gertrude sold the house in 1969.
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, side-gabled, wire-cut-brick Colonial Revival-style house displays molded brackets at its cornice. A flat-roofed portico topped by a metal balustrade and supported by fluted posts shelters the paneled wood door with multi-light sidelights with a wood panel below.
  • “Windows are eight-over-eight and six-over six and topped by soldier-course lintels. First floor façade windows, which are paired, are also crowned by a cast concrete keystone.
  • “An exterior brick chimney rises from the east gable end and through the roof of the one-story, side-gabled, brick sunporch.”

427 Woodbrook Drive, High Point
The Alex and Adele Rankin House

• $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.

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209 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
The Edward and Elizabeth Wills House
Listing withdrawn December 1, 2025; relisted December 5, 2025
Sale pending December 17, 2025

• $795,000 (originally $875,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,412 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 29, 2025
• Last sales: $ $679,900, June 2021; $230,000, July 1996
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes an in-ground pool, an amenity rarely found in historic districts (the 2021 listing said it was a saltwater pool), also a freshwater spa and a koi pond.
  • The listing calls Fisher Park “Greensboro’s oldest neighborhood.” It’s not. College Hill is the city’s oldest neighborhood. It’s always a good idea to deal with real-estate agents who actually know what they’re talking about.
• District NR nomination: “Col Rev foursquare, 1920-25, E.S. Wills, Pres., Wills Book Stationary Co; VP, Gboro Real Estate Bd, Sec/trs, Matheson-Wills Real Estate Co”
  • Edward Swain Wills (1874-1947) and Elizabeth Crawford Wills (1888-1978) were listed at the address in 1924, the first year it appeared in the city directory. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1934 but were able to buy a house in Westerwood just a few months later. When Edward died, they were living at 309 McIver Street, a location that is now part of the Sullivan Science Building at UNC Greensboro.
  • Edward started Wills Book & Stationery downtown in 1904 after working for the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad. It survived well into the ’90s, then located at Four Seasons mall. The company also had at least one store out of town for many years, in Raleigh at the North Hills Shopping Center. He operated his real estate business from 1917 to 1943, in partnership with Junius Matheson, former professor of education at the N.C. College for Women, until Matheson’s death in 1929.
  • Edward was a charter member of Grace Methodist Church and served as choir director for 30 years. He was a 27-year member of the local Red Cross board.

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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

• $719,000 (originally $339,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,337 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $308
• 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.

1013 Johnson Street, High Point
The Dalton-Bell-Cameron House
Sale pending April 24-29, 2025
Listing withdrawn July 29, 2025; relisted August 1, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 2, 2025
Relisted October 3, 2025

• $625,000 (originally $695,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,613 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1913
• Listed April 17, 2025
• Last sales: $436,000, January 2020; $302,500, March 2008
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: 2019 High Point Designers’ Showhouse (more here)
  • Twice damaged by fire, the interior has been entirely rebuilt.
  • Described as the earliest documented Craftsman home in High Point.
  • Aspire magazine: “Born in Greensboro in 1884, Carter Dalton had deep roots in High Point, North Carolina. His grandfather was founder of the first Presbyterian Church in 1859, and his father was an early partner in the Snow Lumber Co., one of High Point’s first industries.
  • “Carter Dalton continued his family’s tradition of community involvement as a lawyer, starting practice around 1913. In August of that year, Dalton purchased a lot in the new Johnson Street development and soon after married Mary Drew Land.
  • “The home the Daltons decided to build was quite progressive for High Point in 1914. Other homes built in town at the time were more traditional, with Colonial or Victorian influences.
  • “The Daltons’ home, by contrast, was quite exotic with influences from Asia and Europe. The home featured a base of Mount Airy granite and was covered with naturally stained clapboards and wood shingles. The home’s exposed rather ends and structural brackets demonstrated Japanese architectural traditions. Inside, features included handcrafted tiles around the fireplace and intricate patterned wood floors.”
  • Carter and Mary sold the house in 1951 to James Wilkins Trew (1899-1972) and Ethel Irene Angevine Trew (1898-1970). Their daughter Mary Jane Trew Bell (1922-1993) and son-in-law Harris Neill Bell (1917-2010) were listed as the residents in 1951 and bought the house from them in 1953. They sold it in 1957. Harris had served as a bombardier on 60 flights over Japan in World War II. He was senior vice president of Jiffy Packaging Company was a founder of the Winter-Bell Company, a paper converting company in High Point.
  • Robert Bruce Cameron (dates unknown) and Mattie Pauline “Polly” Brown Cameron (1908-2012, died at age 103) bought the house in 1957 and owned it for 27 years. Robert was a textiles salesman. Polly attended Agnes Scott College and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
  • After the Camerons sold it, “the Carter Dalton house sat derelict and was threatened with demolition throughout the 1990’s before being purchased by ambitious preservationist Mary Powell Young in 1996. Extensive restorations were completed in 1998, and today the Carter Dalton House once again stands as a jewel of the Johnson Street Historic District.” (Aspire)

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208 S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro
The Chloe and Frederick Sarles House
Sale pending November 25, 2025

• $609,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,698 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $359
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 8, 2025
• Last sales: $230,000, March 2014; $85,000, July 1993
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • Online listings show 2,377 square feet, an unusually wide 40 percent discrepancy from property tax records.
  • Replacement windows. For such an uncommonly high price for the neighborhood, a buyer should expect better.
• District NR nomination: “The one-story, four-bay, side-gabled with returns, brick Period Cottage displays two front-facing, slightly projecting gables with returns and fanlights. The north gable shelters a northeast corner porch with two large arched openings supported by brick posts and a solid brick balustrade.
  • “A decorative band of soldier-course brick set in a basketweave pattern extends along the frieze on the visible elevations. Stucco sheathes the side gable ends. A brick chimney rises from the interior, just behind the roof ridge. Windows are six-over-six vinyl replacements. A gabled ell extends from the rear. Aerial photo shows an outbuilding, but it is not visible from the right-of-way.
  • “The first occupant appears at this address in the 1929 city directory. It remained a rental until June 1936 when the Sarles purchased the house. According to the 1937 city directory, he was the state manager of Inter-Ocean Casualty Company. The house remained under ownership of Sarles heirs until 1993.”
  • Frederick William Sarles (1895-1965) and Chloe Belle Sarles (1907-1993) bought the house after a foreclosure. Born in Colorado, Fred was a World War I veteran. He worked for Inter-Ocean Casualty for 36 years. Chloe was born in Iowa. She was volunteer with the Red Cross and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Bookmarkers Club and served as president of the Presbyterian Women at First Presbyterian Church.

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129 S. Tate Street, Greensboro
The Jobe-Faust House

• $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.

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615 Joyner Street, Greensboro
Sale pending February 2-19, 2025
Listing withdrawn February 19, 2025; relisted April 23, 2025
Sale pending August 1-5, 2025
Sale pending August 11 to September 11, 2025
Listing withdrawn September 12, 2025; relisted October 3, 2025
Sale pending December 8, 2025

• $399,900 (originally $425,000, later $450,000)
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not specified (probably 3 and 3), 2,037 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1908
• Listed January 24, 2025
• Last sale: $305,500, September 2023
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Single-family home divided into three apartments.
  • The property is under a Notice of Violation from the city for the installation of vinyl windows without a certificate of appropriateness (vinyl windows typically are not allowed in Greensboro’s historic districts). The violation goes with the property, not the owner, so if the seller doesn’t resolve it, the next owner will be on the hook for it.
• National Register nomination: “L-plan, Residence, 1909-12”
  • The property was bought in 1905 by John Townsend Hunt (1862-1933) and Margaret S. “Minnie” Stockton Hunt (1868-1953). John was a contractor, in business with his brother William and cousin Pall Martin Hunt, who grew up in their home after his father died in the Civil War. The address first appears in the 1909 city directory. John and Margaret used it as a rental property and lived nearby at 603 Walker Avenue.
  • John had nine siblings, and College Hill was home to five of them in 1909. William lived at 610 Walker Avenue. Brother Joseph lived a couple blocks away at 408 Tate Street. Their widowed mother, Sarah Jane Baker Hunt, lived with brother Henry and sisters Jenny and Lila at 401 Tate Street.
  • John and Minnie sold the house in 1915 to Henry E. Sadler (1891-1967) and Annie Matlock Sadler (1893-1965). Harry was a steam fitter and later a salesman for The Motor Company, an appliance dealer. He also served as captain of the nearby West End Hose Company. They were the first owner-occupants of the house. In 1922 the house was sold twice and was listed as vacant for two years. In 1924 it was bought by Wiley Arnold Sykes (1884-1967) and Gertrude Harts Sykes (1890-1978), who owned it for 43 years. Wiley was a buyer for Bray Brothers, a bond broker. Gertrude sold the house in 1967. It was divided into apartments by 1973.

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

• $360,000 (originally $385,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,386 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $151
• 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.

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Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

1365 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem

• $719,900 (originally $789,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,341 square feet (per county), 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $308
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 8, 2025
• Last sale: $352,000, April 2025
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: Flip job with a very quick turnover and a wildly higher price. On a price per square foot basis, this was the most expensive historic house in Winston-Salem now for sale, as of its listing date.
  • The listing goes on and on about the high-end renovation, but for this kind of money a buyer should expect restored windows, not cheap replacements. Caveat emptor.
  • The original owner was Jane Van Hoy Nading Fleenor (1917-1986). She received the property in 1940 from her parents, Henry Arthur Nading Sr. (1873-1955) and M. Louise Montgomery Nading (1893-1982), and built the house soon after. Jane was a graduate of Salem College and taught in the Forsyth County schools. Her husband, Wiley O’Dell Fleenor (1910-1992) was secretary of the YMCA and administrator at Camp Hanes. He later worked in the insurance business. Their children sold the house in 1990.

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157 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Jeff and Mattie King House
Sale pending December 12, 2025

• $639,000 (originally $665,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,272 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $281
• Built in 1921 (per county, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed October 14, 2025
• Last sales: $350,000, January 2025; $6,000, August 1976
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Flipped house, caveat emptor.
  • The house first appeared in the city directory in 1925. The West End nomination for the National Register puts the date as circa 1927.
• District NR nomination: “The King House is a straightforward, two-story frame, four-square house tied to the architectural character of the district by its scale, use of materials, and simple Craftsman detailing. The weatherboarded dwelling is characterized by a low pyramidal roof with widely overhanging bracketed eaves, paired bungalow windows, and a front porch with tapered wood posts on brick plinths and a heavy plain balustrade. First owner-occupant Jeff D. King was a tobacco buyer.”
  • Jefferson Davis King (1861-1930) and Mattie Martha Snipes King (1865-1931) were listed at the home’s original address, 143 West End, in 1925. Jeff was remembered in his obituary as “one of the best known tobacco men of the Carolinas.”
  • The house was bought in 1964 by Cleo Sexton Robertson (1909-1991). It remained in her family for 61 years. She passed ownership to her son Carlton Dennis Morgan in 1976 with a life estate allowing her to continue living there. Cleo may have had a relatively complicated married life. She had two sons who had different last names, neither of which was Robertson. She was a widow by the time she bought the house.
  • Carlton sold the house in 2025.

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1102 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem
Sale pending November 11, 2025

• $569,900
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,654 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 13, 2025
• Last sale: $352,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; eyebrow dormers with fanlights; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; segmental arch at porch entry; brick piers; porte-cochere; sidelights; paired brackets; one-story wing/sunporch.”

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418 Acadia Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Emma Crews House

• $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:

631 Summit Street, Winton-Salem
The Adams-Hines House
Sale pending April 28 to May 14, 2025
Listing withdrawn June 26, 2025; relisted September 29, 2025
Sale pending November 12, 2025

• $495,000 (originally $515,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,997 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1911
• Listed April 4, 2025
• Last sales: $335,000, May 2024; $148,000, June 1996
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Listed for sale exactly one year after the last sale closed.
• District NR nomination: “The Adams-Hines House is a simple, two-story frame, Colonial Revival dwelling with a hip roof, left front projecting bay with pedimented gable, and a hip-roofed front porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade. The house is nearly identical to 623 Summit St.. During mid-century it was covered with asbestos shingles, but its form and simple detailing still make a positive contribution to the architecture of the street and neighborhood.
  • “A variety of occupants were listed in the city directories at this location between 1912 and 1918, but in 1918 Jesse J. and Fannie Adams and Harvey H. and Julia Adams Hines were residing here. The Adams-Hines family owned the house until 1959.”

708manly

708 Manly Street, Winston-Salem
Sale pending November 14, 2025

• $475,000 (originally $495,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,668 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built 1925
• Listed October 9, 2025
• Last sale: $21,000, May 1969
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house is unusually secluded from the street, perched on a cliff overlooking West End Boulevard. It has views of the boulevard shops, which sit below the property.
  • Air conditioning upstairs only.
• District NR nomination: “Largely hidden from street view, this unusual Craftsman style dwelling is located back from Manly St. and on the edge of the cliff above West End Blvd. The two-story house has a granite first story, a wood shingled second story, a gable roof with widely overhanging eaves, and an off-center gable end granite chimney. The north side yard is granite terraced, and a massive granite retaining wall borders the yard along the cliff above West End Blvd.
  • “In 1983 a one-story addition was built to the northeast corner of the house, but this has not destroyed the significant overall character of the house.”
  • The nomination says that the house was the first one built on the Manly Street hill and that it was originally owned by businessman Frank S. Vernay, who owned several lots on the street. However, Vernay was never listed as living in the house; he was shown half a block away at 651 Summit Street from at least 1915 to 1922.
  • “According to local tradition, prior to the development of Manly St. for houses, the area was called the Granite Hill Quarries, and granite was blasted out of the hill (thus the cliff) for use in building roads in Forsyth County.
  • “This house was depicted on the 1917 Sanborn map. In 1918 George Stockton purchased the property, and it became the residence of George and Nettie Stockton. The house remained in Stockton family ownership until 1948. Subsequently, it changed ownership several times until it was purchased by the present owner-occupants, the Clifton Matthews family, in 1969.”
  • George Stockton (1877-1933) was a traveling salesman.
  • Roy Clifton Matthews Jr. and Anna H. Matthews bought the house in 1969. Both taught at the School of the Arts. Anna taught diction and vocal performance. Clifton was a member of the piano faculty for more than 43 years. An endowed professorship has been established in his honor. He is a pianist who has performed widely in Europe, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and received the Casella Prize from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He conducted an international masterclass for 24 years at the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion, Switzerland.

1100w4th

1100 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem
The Maslin-Tudor-Martin House
Sale pending November 12, 2025

• $465,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,435 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 10, 2025
• Last sale: $121,000, August 1985
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Designed by the prominent London-born architect C. Gilbert Humphreys.
• District NR nomination: “While the Colonial Revival continued, the formality of that style began to give way to the informality of the Craftsman style–with the Colonial Revival the second of the two most frequently expressed architectural styles in the West End. Many houses reflected the influence of both styles, such as … the ca. 1917 Maslin-Tudor-Martin House …”
  • Thomas Maslin (1874-1954) and Martha Murfree Maney Maslin (1881-1958) were listed at the address in 1918 after living at 1105 W. 4th for several years. Martha was born in Nashville. She graduated from Vanderbilt University and was said to be just the second woman in the country ever invited to join Phi Beta Kappa (founded in 1776). She worked with Thomas as vice president of the Phoenix Company, an insurance agency.
  • Thomas was born in Baltimore. He worked for Wachovia bank for 15 years before joining George H. Maslin, possibly his uncle, as an organizer of Merchants Bank & Trust. Thomas succeeded George as president in 1917. Thomas was secretary-treasurer of a variety of other enterprises, including the Auditorium Theatre Company, Elks Home & Auditorium, Roland Park Company (real estate) and United Guano Company (Thomas Jr. later worked for a number of fertilizer companies). The bank failed in 1926. Nine years later, Thomas established the Phoenix Company. He was president of the firm when he died at age 79. Thomas was elected to the city Board of Aldermen and served on the city board of health and school board.
  • In 1923, the Maslins moved to Country Club Road. In 1924, George Carter Tudor (1876-1934) and Bessie Hanes Tudor (1882-1950) were listed at 1100 W. 4th. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. George was the general agent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. His agency had become one of the biggest in the state when he died of a heart attack at age 58. He also was an organizer and vice president of the First National Bank of Winston-Salem and a director of the North Carolina Railroad Company.
  • Like the Maslins, the Tudors lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Bessie’s estate sold the house to Ernest Rudolph Martin (1886-1966) and Kathryn McNulty Martin (1896-1971). Ernest was a piano tuner. Kathryn owned and operated McNulty’s Florist. Their daughter, Miriam Ernestine Martin Bradford (1917-2001), and son-in-law, Robert Philman Bradford (1915-1985), were living with Kathryn when she died. They sold the house in 1978.

4798 Pfaff Lane, Pfafftown, Forsyth County
The John Henry Pfaff House
Sale pending April 27, 2025
No longer under contract May 29, 2025

• $393,500 (originally $415,000, later $388,400 )
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,736 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $144
• 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

• $320,000 (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: $150
• 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.”

7655 Salem Chapel Road, Forsyth County
Listing withdrawn August 11, 2025
Relisted August 25, 2025

• $305,999 (originally $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,536 square feet, 0.94 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 12, 2024
• Last sale: $40,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Located in northeastern Forsyth County, about 3.2 miles south of Walnut Cove off U.S. 311 (Walnut Cove Road). The property has a Walnut Cove mailing address but is just across the county line in Forsyth.
• Note: The property was bought in 1925 by William Thomas Smither (1890-1969) and Minnie Gray Marshall Smither (1893-1970). Thomas joined R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in 1906 and moved to Winston-Salem in 1907. He was the company’s advertising manager from 1937 until he retired in 1957. He was a director of the company from 1946. Minnie chaired the first Forsyth County Christmas Seals campaign for tuberculosis in 1941 and was active in the effort for the rest of her life. She also was an active Red Cross volunteer. They lived in a notable home in Winston-Salem.
  • Their daughter Lucy Gray Smither Drake took ownership after Minnie’s death. Like her parents, she lived in Winston-Salem. Her estate sold the house in 1996.

4968 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn February 12, 2025; relisted June 24, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 28, 2025; relisted November 6, 2025
Sale pending November 16, 2025

• $265,000 (originally $329,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,925 square feet, 2.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1911
• Listed October 17, 2024
• Last sales: $105,000, April 2020; $60,000, October 2017; $86,000, June 1996
• Neighborhood: Winding Ridge

alamance

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties and Nearby Areas

1117wdavis

1117 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Bjerk-Wade House
Sale pending November 30, 2025

• $595,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,606 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1924
• Listed November 28, 2025
• Last sale: $327,000, October 2014
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place (outside of historic district)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with 400+ square feet of partially finished space above.
  • The house may have been built by Robert H. Whitehead, who owned many properties in the area and lived at 500 W. Davis. Houses in the 1100 block weren’t numbered until years later, making early identification difficult. Whitehead was president of Standard Realty and Security Company, Central Home Builders Association and Victory Hosiery Mills; vice president of First Savings Bank; and secretary-treasurer of Whitehead Hosiery Mills.
  • Whitehead sold the house in 1930 to Edward M. Bjerk (1895-1947) and Mary Ella Boone Bjerk (1895-1984). Edward was born in Norway. He had served in the merchant marine in World War I. He was co-owner of The Home Bakery (“Our famous Quality bread is cleanest and best”). Mary was born in Alamance County. She was a charter member and president of the Burlington Senior Citizens Club.
  • The Bjerks sold the house in 1940 to Herbert Wills Wade (1897-1977) and Thelma Allene Amick Wade (1898-1994). Herbert served as an Army corporal in World War I. He was director of purchasing for Kayser-Roth Corporation. He was a member of the American Legion, the 40-and-8 and the Alamance Executive Club. Allene studied voice and piano at Elon College. She was a piano teacher and church soloist. They sold the house in 1954.

1217 Aycock Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
Sale pending November 28, 2025

• $595,000 (originally $674,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,944 square feet (per county), 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 2, 2025
• Last sale: $177,000, October 1997
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: Originally for sale by owner
  • The early history of the house is unclear. The property was bought in 1928 by Lowell Irvin Young (1885-1973) and Maude Shoffner Young (dates unknown) from Alamance Insurance and Realty Company. The deed includes the property’s covenants, suggesting there was no house on it. The city directory didn’t list house numbers on Aycock until years later. The Youngs weren’t listed on Aycock until 1935. Irvin was vice president and treasurer of SYW Hosiery Mills.
  • The Youngs sold the house in 1938 to Isaac Rosenbloom (1897-1989) and Hattie Graves Aldridge Rosenbloom (1903-1981). Isaac sold it in 1981. They were the proprietors of a menswear store downtown, Rosenbloom’s.

283 S. N.C. Highway 62, Yanceyville, Caswell County
Listing withdrawn February 5, 2022; relisted February 7, 2022
Listing withdrawn April 11, 2022; relisted April 12, 2022
Listing withdrawn Fall 2022 (exact date uncertain); relisted July 11, 2024
Listing withdrawn November 22, 2024
Relisted May 21, 2025

• $579,900 (originally $629,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,025 square feet, 2.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1921 (per county; see note)
• Listed April 14, 2021
• Last sale: $133,000, May 2003
• Note: The property includes a guest house, 688 square feet.
  • The house is immediately south of Bartlett Yancey High School.
  • The listing says the house was built in 1889.
  • Listing: “USB outlets in every room!!”
  • Pervious listings have identified the property as 283 S. N.C. Highway 62. Now it’s 283 & 249 S. Highway 62.

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

• $450,000 (originally $485,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,306 square feet (per county), 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• 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

• $439,900 (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.”

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

• $410,000 (originally $395,000, later $495,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,791 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• 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.”

2079 Shady Grove Road, Providence, Caswell County
The Hodges-Carter House
Sale pending November 12-18, 2025
Sale pending November 18, 2025

• $395,000 (originally $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,472 square feet (per county), 11.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $160
• 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

• $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

• $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

• $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.

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

• $699,000 (originally $900,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,876 square feet (per county), 1.32 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $243
• 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

• $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

• $250,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,786 square feet, 1.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $140
• 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

• $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.

298 E. Salisbury Street, Pittsboro, Chatham County
The Thomas Hackney House
Listing withdrawn December 31, 2024; relisted February 26, 2025
Listing withdrawn August 30, 2025
Relisted September 6, 2025

• $590,000 (originally $700,000, later $580,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,033 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $290
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 22, 2024
• Last sale: 1984, price not recorded on deed
• The Architectural History of Chatham County, North Carolina: The home is believed to have built by contractor Bennett Nooe for his chief carpenter, Thomas Hackney. It’s “representative of the late nineteenth-century triple-A style,” with “a modestly classical theme.”
  • “Nooe’s touch is found in the distinctively tall four-over-four sash windows. These windows provide a contrast to the low pitch of the gable roof.”
  • “Current owners, Deborah and Pete Hinton, rescued the house in 1984 from certain demise.”

212 S. Fayetteville Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Vance York House

• $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

• $424,900 (originally $439,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,419 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $176
• 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.

572 Bombay Road, Denton, Davidson County
Sale pending June 13 to October 16, 2025
Listing withdrawn October 16, 2025; relisted October 31, 2025
Sale pending November 19, 2025

• $350,000 (originally $400,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 2,124 square feet (per county; see note), 1.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built in 1919
• Listed January 4, 2025
• Last sale: February 1966, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: On the eastern edge of town.
• Note: Originally for sale by owner
  • The listing shows 3,850 square feet. County records show 2,124 heated square feet and 2,642 unheated for a total of 4,766.
  • The house was purchased in 1964 by Dwight Eugene “Tinker” Snider (1932-2021) and Aveline Richardson Snider (d. 2023). They moved it to its present location, which they bought in 1966. Dwight was one of 12 children. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and worked in a remarkable number of trades, including sawmill worker, welder, fabricator, steel rigger, crane operator and maintenance worker. He opened the Denton Ready Mix concrete plant and operated Snider Construction & Repair. He also worked for 30 years as an owner-operator trucker. Although he had to drop out of school after the seventh grade to help support his family, he gained his GED at age 56. The house is being sold by Aveline’s estate.

2967wayne

2967 Wayne White Road, Randolph County
The White-Jones House

• $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.

119 Cotton Grove Road, Lexington, Davidson County
Sale pending November 19, 2025

• $185,000 (originally $249,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,772 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1902
• Listed December 17, 2024
• Last sales: $18,000, August 2020; $7,000, November 2016
• This is a weird one: “The house was totally updated by a flipper but was never listed or sold, so was taken back by the investor. The current owner has never lived in the house and makes no representation on the quality or condition of the improvements.”
  • The house had been gutted by a previous owner when the flipper bought it, so the historic character of the interior has been lost.