Historic Houses

Updated June 1, 2023

The most historic, notable and distinctive classic houses now for sale in the Triad

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Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County
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Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties
Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

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3125 Arnold Road, Hamptonville, Yadkin County
The Haynes-White-Wood House

  • $249,900 (originally $269,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, two tracts — 1.65 acres (3125 Arnold Road) and 1.43 acres (3131 Arnold, see note below)
  • Price/square foot: $139
  • Built in 1813
  • Listed March 7, 2023
  • Last sale: January 1922 (55 acres), price not recorded on deed
  • Something to ask about: The listing says the property includes two tracts totaling 3 acres. County records show the two tracts have different owners, both apparently including descendants of Arthur Wood, who bought the property in 1922.
  • Note: The listing claims the house was “originally built” in 1764 and “contains mantles and custom moldings with the single most important piece of Georgian woodwork surviving in Yadkin County.” It also has a mix of vinyl flooring and wall-to-wall carpeting, and much of the historic character has been renovated out of the interior.
    • From Historical Architecture of Yadkin County: “Midway up the shaft of the north chimney is the date 1813, presumably the house’s date of construction. If so, it is one of the oldest buildings in Yadkin County.”
    • “With its vertical proportions emphasized by the tall Flemish-bond chimneys, the Haynes-White-Wood House clearly demonstrates its Federal period of construction. …
    • “Despite the addition of wide aluminum siding, alterations to the porch and the addition at the rear, the house retains its overall Federal style characteristics. … Substantial remodeling of the first-floor rooms has removed or covered much of the original fabric. However, a handsome mantel in the north room frames an arched fireplace opening. It has a two-panel frieze and thin pilasters with fluted upper shafts. …
    • “The three-room upper floor is virtually unchanged [as of 1987, the publication date of the book]. The stair opens into the larger of the three rooms. Still visible are the Federal style molded window surrounds, chair rail, and six-panel raised-panel doors. An enclosed stair in one corner of the room leads to the attic. However, the most notable feature in this room, and in the house itself, is the mantel. A rather typical molded surround frames the arched fireplace opening, but it is surmounted by an impressive Georgian style cushioned frieze and deep moldings supporting a prominent matelshelf. It is the single most important piece of Georgian woodwork surviving in Yadkin County.”
    • The original owners are believed to have been the Rev. William Haynes (1764-1836) and Philadelphia Haynes (1768-1829). Records from 1812 show William owning 1,000 acres in Yadkin County. He and Philadelphia are buried in a family cemetery behind the house.
    • The next owners were their daughter Malinda (1807-1837) and husband William White (1803-1867). After Malinda’s death, her sister Mahala moved in and helped raise the three children of Malinda and William. He was a carpenter and builder, credited with building the county’s first courthouse in 1852-53 (demolished in the 1950s). Like his father-in-law, he was a sizable land owner with 600 acres by 1851. Malinda and William are buried in the family cemetery behind the house.
    • The next two owners, Elizabeth I. Haynes and then Alfred Haynes, are of unknown relationship to the earlier Haynes family and to each other.
    • In 1922, the house and 55 acres were bought by Henry Arthur Wood (1881-1970). Descendants of Arthur and Bessie Adams Wood (1911-1994) own the two properties for sale.

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

408 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro
The George and Cynthia Grimsley House
Blog post — A 1907 Greensboro Landmark: The George Grimsley House

  • $1.15 million (originally $1.295 million)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,568 square feet, 0.53 acre
  • Price/square foot: $322
  • Built in 1907
  • Listed February 23, 2023
  • Last sale: $160,000, January 1984
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park historic District (local and NR)
  • Note: Designated as a Guilford County landmark
    • The house has had only three owners
    • Designed by architect Richard Gambier, Mount Airy granite stonework by the locally prominent Andrew Schlosser.
    • “The two-story frame house features a Mount Airy Granite foundation with grapevine mortar, and includes a broad porch of Ionic columns that engaged a porte-cochere. A high, hipped roofline is pierced by hipped dormer windows and tall corbelled chimneys. Key features of the interior include sidelights and a transom of beveled leaded glass, [and] a bay window….” (Preservation Greensboro)
  • District NR nomination: “Queen Anne/Col Rev. Large boxy hip-roofed house w/projecting bays; fluted Corinthian columns at porch that wraps around to porte cochere; Corinthian capitals at cornerboard.”
    • The original owners were George Adonijah Grimsley (1862-1935) and Cynthia Dunn Tull Grimsley (1858-1947). Few people associated with Greensboro have had a greater impact on the city and North Carolina than Grimsley.
    • The son of a farmer, Grimsley was a native of Greene County. He graduated from Peabody Normal College in Nashville, Tennessee (now Vanderbilt University’s college of education). At age 20, he established Tarboro’s first graded school and served as its superintendent.
    • Eight years later, in 1890, Grimsley was hired as superintendent of Greensboro’s two public schools. He proposed that governance of school be moved from the city aldermen to a school board, which was created in 1893. His ideas on teaching students “to think and to give expression to their thoughts, and at the same time giving them a taste of the best literature” brought wide recognition. In 1899, the school system established its first high school, now named for Grimsley.
    • Grimsley’s emphasis on literature led him to believe in the necessity of libraries in both schools and communities. In 1897 Grimsley and colleagues drafted a bill for state Sen. Alfred Moore Scales to introduce allowing for the establishment and funding of public libraries in the state (one of his partners in the effort was Annie Petty, the first trained librarian in the state). The bill was passed, and the Greensboro Public Library opened in 1902 with 1,490 books bought with funds raised by school children and their parents. “Many of them denied themselves candy and gum and contributed their pin money to the library,” Grimsley said of his students.
    • Grimsley was also a big believer in insurance. In 1901, while still superintendent of schools, he organized Security Life and Annuity Company. He left the school system in 1902 and worked full time in insurance. Five years later, he helped create the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company in Raleigh. Security Life and Jefferson Standard merged in 1912, keeping the latter’s name and headquarters. A year later the firm moved to Greensboro and named Grimsley president. He held the position until 1919, when he left to establish a new company, Security Life and Trust. That company, too, was a success.
    • Insurance broker Fielding Lewis Fry (1892-1961) and Fanny Williams Fry (1895-1983) bought the house in 1937 and owned it until 1984. Fielding served as mayor of Greensboro, 1947 to 1949. He was also chairman of Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell’s Inlet, S.C., the first public sculpture garden in America and “the floral jewel of South Carolina’s coast.”
    • The house was bought in 1984 by hotel executive Alan F. Strong and Prudence Fraley Strong (1938-2020). Prudence was from Statesville and graduated from Duke University. She originally was a high school teacher and later worked as a real estate agent.

914 N.C. Highway 150, Greensboro
Listing removed November 20, 2022; relisted April 10, 2023
Sale pending April 28, 2023

  • $799,000 (originally $895,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,464 square feet, 7.71 acres
  • Price/square foot: $324
  • Built in 1910 (per county)
  • Listed May 1, 2022
  • Last sale: $230,000, August 1998
  • Note: The property includes an in-ground saltwater pool, log cabin, 5-plus acres of horse pastures, a barn with a two-car garage and a shed.
    • The listing gives a 1908 date for the house.
    • Listing: “historic charm,” “meticulous craftsmanship” and “impeccably updated — using top of the line materials & suppliers,” but also cheap vinyl replacement windows.

1000 Fairmont Street, Greensboro
The Langley-Mackenzie House

  • $757,500
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,030 square feet, 0.25 acre
  • Price/square foot: $373
  • Built in 1931 (per county, but probably earlier)
  • Listed May 3, 2023
  • Last sale: $375,000, May 2022
  • Neighborhood: Westerwood
  • Note: Renovations are expected to be completed in May.
    • The 2022 listing showed 3 bedrooms and 1/12 bathrooms.
    • The original owners were Philip G. Langley and Grace T. Langley. They bought the property in 1923, and the address appeared in the city directory in 1924. They sold the house in 1944. Philip was the co-proprietor of Langley Sales Company, a wholesaler of heating equipment. His partner was Cordes P. Langley. No other digital records relating to the Langleys appear to be available except for a patent issued to Philip in 1927. He and Christen Christensen of Chicago were awarded a patent for an electric switch, the lengthy explanation of which is here.
    • In 1970, the house was bought by Dr. David MacKenzie (1927-2008) and Patricia W. Mackenzie. Patricia sold the house in 2022. David was a history professor at UNCG from 1969 to 2000 (then professor emeritus), specializing in Russian and European history with a particular interest in Serbia. He was elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his works on Serbian history.
    • He served with the Counter Intelligence Corps in Germany in 1946. He received the UNCG research excellence award in 1993 and the Southern Council Slavic Studies research award in 1994. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was an organizer of the Greensboro Table Tennis Club. He was fluent in Russian, Serbian, German and French.

2608 Market Street, Greensboro
The Juanita and Arthur Ownbey House

  • $695,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,652 square feet, 0.52 acre
  • Price/square foot: $262
  • Built in 1937
  • Listed May 30, 2023
  • Last sale: $157,000, December 1987
  • Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
  • Note: The listing says the house was designed by the renowned Charles Hartmann.
    • The original owners were Dr. Arthur Dennis Ownbey Sr. (1895-1958) and Juanita Sue Shepard Ownbey (1895-1980). Dr. Ownbey, a physician, had his office in what is now the library of the house.
    • Newspaper reports indicate the family’s name was often misspelled, as it was in the National Register nomination quoted below.
  • District NR nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, hip-roofed, brick, Colonial Revival-style house displays a variety of brick patterns including soldier course bands and rows of stretcher brick that project slightly forward from the wall and corbel at the building’s corners. Brick color also varies from gray to a variety of shades of red and reddish-orange.
    • “A front-gable portico with fluted square posts and pilasters shelters the paneled wood door with multi-light sidelights and a multi-light transom. Windows are six-over-six and a brick chimney rises from the west end of the two-story block.
    • Identical one-story, flat-roofed wings occupy the east and west elevations. Both are wood and feature a three-part entry with an eight-light door with wood panels below topped by a two-light transom and framed by four-light and wood-paneled sidelights with a single transom above.
    • “Fluted pilasters like those at the entry frame the façade bay and mark the wings’ corners. A wood balustrade tops each wing.
    • “A one-story, brick, hip-roofed ell and a two-story, brick, hip-roofed ell are located on the rear elevation. A wood deck spans the rear elevation.
    • “The Owenbys bought the property in March 1937 and first appear at this address in the 1938 city directory. He was a physician. The house remained under ownership of the Owenby heirs until 1984.”

304 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
The Alex and Henrietta Forsythe House
Listing withdrawn May 16, 2022
Relisted February 3, 2023

  • $689,900 (originally $729,900)
  • 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,834 square feet, 0.20 acre
  • Price/square foot: $376
  • Built in 1921
  • Listed April 7, 2022
  • Last sale: $429,000, December 2021
  • Neighborhood: Westerwood
  • Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with a second floor.
    • Wildly expensive for the neighborhood: 10 comparable houses sold in Westerwood in 2022; the highest price was $245 per square foot.
    • The address first appears in the city directory in 1924, when the house was listed as vacant. It was sold three times that year. Alexander C. “Sandy” Forsyth (1869-1940) bought the house in November 1924. He and his wife, Henrietta Clapp Forsyth (1871-1945), owned it until 1944. Sandy, a native of Canada, was a traveling salesman.

310 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn April 2023
Relisted May 10, 2023

  • $650,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,532 square feet, 0.28 acre
  • Price/square foot: $257
  • Built in 1915
  • Listed March 22, 2023
  • Last sale: $430,000, May 2022
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
  • Note: Currently a high-end rental. This is one of three houses the owners put on the market on the same day.
  • Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Gambrel-roof; stone-veneered first floor, shingled above; projecting front porch with trellis, supported by stone piers; shed dormer across front.”
    • The original owners were Jesse Graham Bradshaw (1883-1928) and Pattie Clendenin Bradshaw (1884-1932), who bought the property in 1919 from the James E. Latham Company, the area’s developer. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1920. Bradshaw was in real estate. The Bradshaws sold the house in 1922. They bought and operated the Moore’s Spring Resort in Stokes County. Unfortunately, the hotel burned in 1925. Jesse’s cause of death in 1928 was listed as “cerebral apoplexy,” presumably a stroke.
    • David N. Gilbert and Connie H. Gilbert bought the house from the Bradshaws. David was co-proprietor of Mullen & Gilbert, cotton brokers. They owned the house until 1944.

726 S. Elam Avenue, Greensboro

  • $614,900
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,405 square feet, 0.28 acre
  • Price/square foot: $256
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed May 22, 2023
  • Last sale: $225,000, January 2022
  • Neighborhood: Lindley Park
  • Note: Caveat emptor — fix-and-flip money grab, with the usual cheap compromises. For a price like this, a buyer should expect better than vinyl floors, replacement windows and vinyl siding.
    • The house is at the corner of Elam Avenue and Sherwood Street. Early deeds show the streets were originally named Thornburg Avenue and Lake Street, respectively. Numbers on the street originally began with the 100 block at Spring Garden Street (they now begin at Market Street). This house was originally 201 Elam.
    • It first appears in the city directory (as 201 Elam) in the 1907-08 edition. Early deed holders for the property weren’t listed as living on Elam Avenue, suggesting wither it was a rental house for its first 25 years.
    • The first owner-occupant of the house appears to have been Dennis Bissell Rogers (1900-1997), who bought it in 1925. He was identified as a clerk and later as a traveling salesman and an employee of Western Union. His 1941 draft registration shows him living with his mother at the house, which by then was 726 S. Elam. From 1943-45, he was listed as being with the U.S. Army, although his his grave maker indicates he served in the Coast Guard. He sold the house in 1948.

701 N. Greene Street, Greensboro
The Emma and Florence Monroe House

  • $575,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 3,026 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $190
  • Built in 1912 (per county, but probably earlier; see note)
  • Listed April 17, 2023
  • Last sale: $389,500, February 2023
  • Note: The house was built at 705 N. Greene Street, and it’s still there for now. The Preservation Greensboro Development Fund, a local builder and First Presbyterian Church worked together and found a buyer who will move the house from its current location to 701 N. Greene to save it from demolition. It will sit at the corner of Greene Street and Fisher Avenue, facing Greene.
    • The home will be placed on a new foundation, and a one-bedroom basement apartment will be roughed in. The apartment will have nine-foot ceilings and be about 1,320 square feet.
    • The home will be part of a condo association with the four-unit apartment building at 208 Fisher Avenue, right behind the home’s new location.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival Foursquare. Simply finished, hip-roofed house with front hipped dormers, plain cornerboards and friezeboards, and round-columned front porch.”
    • Ownership of the land can be traced back to Captain Basil Fisher, the original developer of Fisher Park. After his death it passed through several hands until it was sold to sisters Emma and Florence Monroe in 1912.
    • The house was built between 1914 and 1915. Emma Jane Monroe (1860-1950) lived to age 90 and had no formal occupation listed in city directories. Florence Estelle Monroe (1874-1968) lived to the age of 94. She was a stenographer and notary for area law firms, and she was active in the N.C. Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. She served as local president in 1923 and as state vice president and historian. The house remained in their names until they died.

917 Walker Avenue, Greensboro

  • $545,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,294 square feet, 0.25 acre
  • Price/square foot: $238
  • Built in 1880 (per county, possibly later; see note)
  • Listed March 22, 2023
  • Last sale: $280,000, November 2019
  • Note: Currently a high-end rental. This is one of three houses the owners put on the market on the same day.
  • District NR nomination: “Queen Anne I-house, Residence, 1895-99, Adolphus D. Jones owner, piano dealership”
    • The earliest recorded residents were Joseph E. Blanchard (1841-1898) and Caroline L. “Carrie” Pruden Blanchard (1856-1937) in 1896. They moved to Greensboro that year from their native Northampton County. Joseph’s occupation was listed in the city directory as “repairer clocks, etc.” He had risen to the rank of sergeant in the Confederate army and was a Mason.
    • Joseph was “a quiet, unassuming, whole-souled christian, ever ready in sickness or trouble to land a helping hand,” his obituary said.
    • By 1899, widowed Carrie was listed as a seamstress, living just down the street at 1006 Walker Avenue. Also at that address was Henry Blanchard, probably one of their five children, identified as a newspaper carrier for the Greensboro Record.
    • In 1899, Adolphus D. Jones was listed as the owner of the house. He was co-proprietor of Jones & Cox, which sold pianos and organs. Three other residents were listed as boarders — Julia A. Jones, widow of Alexander or L. Jones (listed differently in different year, relationship to Adolphus unknown); Donald H. Cox, Adolphus’s business partner; and Clifton E. Cox, a salesman for the firm.
    • By 1901, Nellie M. Jones, Adolphus’s wife, was added to the household; Donald and Clifton were no longer listed in the city directory; and the firm’s name had been changed to A.D. Jones & Company. By 1905, the family had moved to 5th Avenue in the Dunleath neighborhood.
    • The house, like much of College Hill, fell into severe disrepair by the 1980s. The neighborhood was designated as a redevelopment area by the city, and this was one of many College Hill houses that were condemned and resold to owners who agreed to restore them.

608 Park Avenue, Greensboro

  • $545,000
  • Bedrooms and bathrooms not specified; house has been divided into four apartments; 2,776 square feet; 0.16 acre
  • Price/square foot: $196
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed May 8, 2023
  • Last sale: $140,000, May 2021
  • Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
  • Note: This would be the property’s third sale in five years.
  • District NR nomination: “Craftsman gable-end, Residence, 1920-25”
    • Eugene Andrews (1874-1940) and Nellie Creel Andrews (dates unknown) bought the property in 1921, and it was listed in the city directory for the first time in 1922. They sold it in 1923 to Eugene’s son Bune Derwood Andrews (1986-1944), an embalmer (his mother was Emma Uleacy Fox Andrews, 1877-1905).
    • Bune owned the house until 1940. He may have divided the house right away. The 1923 city directory shows three residents, none of them the new owner. It apparently has remained divided into apartments ever since.

205 Elmwood Drive, Greensboro
Sale pending March 22, 2023

  • $469,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, 2,475 square feet, 0.26 acre
  • Price/square foot: $189
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed March 21, 2023
  • Last sale: $60,000, June 1975
  • Neighborhood: Irving Park
  • Note: The first owners of the house were Samuel Jasper Marley (1885-1962) and Ida Windham Marley (1888-1956). They lived on St. Andrews Road and apparently used this house as a rental property. The address first appears in the city directory in 1927 and 1928, listed as vacant both years, then the next two years with different residents.
    • Samuel was president of Greensboro Realty and Lumber Company. Ida was vice president. The Depression hit them hard. They lost the house on St. Andrews to foreclosure in 1930 and then this one in 1931. They lost their business around the same time. Samuel became a traveling salesman and then an insurance agent. By 1940 they were living in Charlotte, and Samuel was sales manger for a real estate company. By 1950 he had his own firm again, Marley Realty Company.

211 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn April 20, 2023
Relisted May 10, 2023

  • $439,000
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,649 square feet, 0.18 acre
  • Price/square foot: $266
  • Built in 1931 (per county, but probably earlier; see note)
  • Listed March 22, 2023
  • Last sale: $430,000, May 2022
  • Neighborhood: Westerwood
  • Note: This is one of three houses the owners put on the market on the same day.
    • The address appears in the city directory from 1922. The house was originally owned as a rental by David N. Gilbert, a cotton broker. He owned it from 1922 to 1944.

913 Magnolia Street, Greensboro

  • $425,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,736 square feet, 0.10 acre
  • Price/square foot: $245
  • Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
  • Listed May 25, 2023
  • Last sale: $235,000, September 2018
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
  • District NR nomination: “Gambrel roof with shed dormers across front and rear; brick-veneered first story, stuccoed above”
    • The house was originally owned by Alice Farish Vantory (1884-1973), a widow; Eleanor Virginia Farish Williamson (1875-1962), apparently her sister; and Lynn Banks Willliamson (1872-1940), Eleanor’s husband. They bought the property in 1923 and rented it to Pricie Reid, one of Alice and Eleanor’s sisters.
    • The house was listed in the city directory for the first time in 1924 with Nancy Pricie Farish Reid (1889-1977) and James William Berry Reid (1886-1962) as residents. James was a salesman. Pricie bought the house in 1929 and owned it until 1938.
    • In 1954 the house was sold to Douglas W. Copeland Sr. (1895-1964) and Mary Lee Wood Copeland (1924-2006). Douglas was the manager of the Scoville Manufacturing Company, which made snap fasteners.
    • Before their marriage, Mary worked for Scoville, too. She later served as parish administrator for Holy Trinity Church. She was a founding officer of the Greensboro Preservation Society, now Preservation Greensboro; a founding member of the Fisher Park Neighborhood Association; and for more than 40 years a member of the Weatherspoon Art Museum. She served on the Greensboro Zoning Commission for six years, including two years as its chair. Mary sold the house in 2012.

513 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Eli and Minnie Craven House
Listing withdrawn January 22, 2023; relisted February 23, 2023
Sale pending May 10, 2023

  • $422,500
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,085 square feet, 0.19 acre
  • Price/square foot: $212
  • Built in 1921
  • Listed November 11, 2022
  • Last sale: $262,000, June 2006
  • Neighborhood: Westerwood
  • Note: The original owners of this foursquare were Eli Franklin Craven, “the Road Machinery Man,” and Minnie Miranda Phipps Craven. The long-lived Eli (1875-1964) and Minnie (1882-1973) bought the house in 1922 and lived in it for the rest of their lives, 42 years for Eli and 51 for Minnie.
  • Eli’s ad in the 1923 city directory:

229 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The E. Wray Farlow House
Sale pending May 21, 2023

  • $389,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,037 square feet, 0.31 acre
  • Price/square foot: $191
  • Built in 1924
  • Listed May 18, 2023
  • Last sale: $232,000, May 2002
  • Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District
  • Note: The listing refers to the house as “this charmer.”
    • Little remains of the original design or materials of this house. The historic district nomination suggests that the alteration occurred around 1990.
  • District NR nomination: “This two-story, front-gabled house has been altered significantly and may be an enlargement of a Period Cottage.
    • “The house is a single-bay wide and double-pile with a two-story, side-gabled wing on the left (east) elevation that is flush with the facade. The house has a painted brick veneer on the first story with vinyl siding at the second-floor level and vinyl shingles on the entrance bay.
    • “It has replacement windows and the replacement door is sheltered by a small, front-gabled porch on slender columns.
    • “There is a one-story, shed-roofed section at the rear (south).
    • “The earliest known occupant is E. Wray Farlow (Ideal Body Shop; vice-president, Farlow Insurance & Realty Company) in 1928.”

706 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro
The Nettie Coad House

  • $275,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,034 square feet, 0.18 acre
  • Price/square foot: $135
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed May 9, 2023
  • Last sale: $100,000, July 2022
  • Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
  • Note: Caveat emptor — fix-and-flip job
    • “Fully updated” with disrespect for the historic character of the house — vinyl siding, vinyl floors, replacement windows.
    • The early history of the house is unclear. The 600 block of Asheboro Street, its original name, must have been renumbered at some point; 605 Asheboro Street doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1959, when it was identified as a grocery store. None of the owners in county records appear to have lived in the 600 block of the street, so it was likely a rental property for decades.
    • The house was owned by the Asheboro Street Baptist Church, a block away, from 1955-1965.
    • It was condemned and in 1984 was sold by the Redevelopment Commission to Nettie Mae Lewis Coad (1936-2012) in 1984. Her heirs sold it in 2015.
  • “Mama Nettie” was born in Anderson, South Carolina. She graduated from Dudley High School and Guilford Technical Community College. She worked for Sears for 23 years, starting out as a packer in the catalog distribution center and retiring as an assistant manager. She and her husband, Willie Rufus Coad Jr. (1934-2003), were married for 49 years and had three children, all sons.
    • Nettie found her calling as an inspirational and influential social activist and anti-racist community organizer. She is listed along with Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Rosa Parks among 12 “Pearls of Inspiration” by the Black Pearls Society, a national political organization of Black women.
    • In more than 30 years as a community activist, her accomplishments included serving as a founding member and executive director of The Partnership Project, an anti-racism educational, organizing and support group; co-founding the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative, Ole Asheboro Street Neighborhood Association and St. Paul Baptist Church; bringing The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond to Greensboro; and co-chairing the Guilford County Democratic Party and serving as a delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
    • Nettie was particularly active in the field of health disparities. She was a longtime community partner with the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and co-author of several academic papers. She gave presentations to numerous professional conferences, speaking before the American Public Health Association several times, the National Institutes of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Lecture Series, and the N.C. Society for Public Health Education, among others.
    • Her many awards and honors included the Sojourner Truth Award from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, the Outstanding Service Award from the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation and the Levi Coffin Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Field of Human Relations and Human Rights from the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. The city converted a former school into apartments at 503 Martin Luther King and renamed it the Nettie Coad Apartments (more here).
    • “I have seen both good transformation and destruction in my neighborhood. I think we must understand what is dividing us and the underlining causes of neighborhood destruction before we can redirect and rebuild. My passion for preserving Ole Asheboro comes from a drive to have those in power understand these dynamics and apply equity in decisions making. I feel rich, and to me, rich is to be understood and feel safe in a city where everyone is cared for and respected. I care so much about Ole Asheboro because it is a historical neighborhood that should be preserved and because I care about all of our city.”
    • How the house looked in January 2023:

2406 Hubbard Street, Greensboro
Sale pending May 11, 2023

  • $250,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,516 square feet, acre
  • Price/square foot: $165
  • Built in 1922
  • Listed May 5, 2023
  • Last sale: $121,500, March 2017
  • Neighborhood: Cone Mill
  • Note: Originally built as mill housing by Cone Mills, first sold to a private owner in 1974.

500 Sunset Drive, High Point
The Emmett A. Edwards House

  • $250,000 (originally $275,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,258 square feet, 0.20 acre
  • Price/square foot: $111
  • Built in 1918
  • Listed April 6, 2023
  • Last sale: $20,000, March 1986
  • Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
  • Note: Needs at least quite a bit of interior cosmetic work.
    • The house has an attached two-car garage.
    • The property includes a gazebo and storage buildings.
  • District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Craftsman-style bungalow is three bays wide and triple-pile. The house has vinyl siding and trim, four-over-one, Craftsman-style, wood-sash windows and replacement picture windows flanking the door.
    • “The shed-roofed porch extends the full width of the facade and wraps around the left (east) elevation; it is supported by tapered wood posts on stuccoed piers and the right end has been enclosed with vinyl siding and windows. There are knee brackets in the gabled and on the gabled front dormer.
    • “A shed-roofed rear ell connects to a gabled wing that then connects to a shed-roofed garage.
    • “The house appears on the 1924 Sanborn map; however, the earliest known occupant is Emmett A. Edwards (grocer) in 1925.”

503 Chestnut Drive, High Point

  • $129,900
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.17 acre
  • Price/square foot: $91
  • Built in 1927
  • Listed May 3, 2023
  • Last sale: $59,450, March 2016
  • Note: The address is first listed in the city directory in 1928 with Mrs. Scovia Poston (1880-1972) listed as the resident. She was identified as the widow of Arris E. Poston (1869-1913).

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

2405 Elizabeth Avenue, Winston-Salem

  • $699,900
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,651 square feet, 0.25 acre
  • Price/square foot: $192
  • Built in 1930 (per county, but probably a bit earlier; see note)
  • Listed June 4, 2023
  • Last sale: $475,000, January 2020
  • Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
  • District NR nomination: “Dutch Colonial Revival. One and a half story; gambrel roof; wide, shed-roof dormer; vinyl siding; six-over-six, double-hung sash; front-gable entry porch; Tuscan columns; fanlight; enclosed side porch.
    • “1928 CD: Elmer and Fannie Houlthouser, conductor on Southern Railway.”

2005 Colonial Place, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 29, 2023

  • $675,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,634 square feet, 0.34 acre
  • Price/square foot: $256
  • Built in 1929
  • Listed May 26, 2023
  • Last sale: $287,000, January 2000
  • Neighborhood: Buena Vista
  • Note: The property includes a detached garage with electricity and HVAC.

1531 Overbrook Avenue, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 2, 2023

  • $549,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,345 square feet (per county), 0.24 acre
  • Price/square foot: $234
  • Built in 1927
  • Listed May 9, 2023
  • Last sale: $65,000, July 1976
  • Neighborhood: West Highlands
  • Note: The listing shows 2,780 square feet.
    • The first documented residents were Robert N. White and Louise B. White, who were listed in the 1929 city directory at 826 Overbrook, apparently the home’s original address (the address had not previously been listed). They had bought the property in 1928. Robert was the assistant paymaster at R.J. Reynolds.

602 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Archie and Georgia Heggie House

  • $489,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,265 square feet, 0.19 acre
  • Price/square foot: $216
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed May 19, 2023
  • Last sale: $172,000, July 2017
  • Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
  • Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • District NR nomination: “Foursquare. Two story; hip-roof; hip-roof dormer; asbestos shingle siding; eight-over-one, Craftsman-style windows; wrap around porch; replacement columns; stone retaining wall.
    • “1924 CD: Archie and Georgia Heggie, a machinist at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”

923 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 21, 2023

  • $485,000 (originally $495,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,464 square feet, 0.20 acre
  • Price/square foot: $331
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed May 2, 2023
  • Last sale: $210,000, June 2022
  • Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
  • District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; side gable; vinyl siding; six-over-one, double-hung sash; gable-roof entry porch with arched opening; replacement columns; shed-roof side porch; blind sunburst fanlight.”
    • The first identified residents were Thomas Hardin Jewett (1897-1972) and Sara Rawlings Jewett (1897-1981) in 1928. Hardin was a court reporter and lawyer.

3316 Konnoak Drive, Winston-Salem
The Paul and Alice Johnson House
Sale pending May 19, 2023

  • $434,900
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,849 square feet, 1.14 acres
  • Price/square foot: $153
  • Built in 1951
  • Listed May 13, 2023
  • Last sale: $250,000, May 2016
  • Note: The listing refers to the home’s “MCM character”; this house isn’t even remotely Mid-Century Modern.
    • The home’s original owners were Paul R. Johnson (1920-2003) and Alice Mae Chapman Johnson (1926-2016), who owned it for 61 years. Paul worked with his father and brothers at T.E. Johnson & Sons, a real estate and insurance firm. His father and brother Thomas Jr. also lived on Konnoak Drive. Alice sold the property in 2012.

639 S. Poplar Street, Winston-Salem
The Tesh House
Sale pending March 16 to April 4, 2023
Listing withdrawn April 4, 2023; relisted May 19, 2023
Sale pending May 30, 2023

  • $349,900
  • Bedrooms and bathrooms not specified; house is divided into four apartments; 2,806 square feet, 0.35 acre
  • Price/square foot: $125
  • Built in 1926 (per county,but probably some decades earlier)
  • Listed March 10, 2023
  • Last sale: $108,000, December 2012
  • Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
  • Listing: “The building consists of two 1 Bedroom units and two studios.”
    • The property consists of two lots.
    • The West Salem nomination for the National Register lists the house as ca. 1885. The first city directory listing addresses on Poplar Street in Salem was the 1902-3 edition, which had Lewis Andrew Tesh (1847-1923) and Millie Jane Baker Tesh (1848-1917) as residents. Louis was identified as a farmer. He was still listed at the address in 1922. From 1923-31, their son Samuel Lee Tesh (1876-1936) was listed there.
  • District NR nomination: “I-house. Two story; side gable; rear, shed-roof ell; two-over-two and four-over-four double-hung sash; vinyl siding; hip-roof porch; Tuscan columns.
  • “House appears on 1917 Sanborn map as a one-story dwelling.”

1124 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Miller-Hancock House
Listing withdrawn June 23, 2022; relisted July 12, 2022
Listing withdrawn March 1, 2023; relisted March 7, 2023
Listing withdrawn (again!), April 2023 (specific date unknown)

  • $290,000 (see note below)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,545 square feet (per county), 0.22 acre
  • Price/square foot: $114
  • Built in 1911
  • Listed May 20, 2022
  • Last sale: $151,500, July 2007
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • Note: The owner has been trying to sell the house, off and on, since 2010 at prices ranging from $149,000 to $400,000. According to Zillow, he has never accepted an offer.
    • Rental property
    • District NRHP nomination: “This Colonial Revival cottage is a one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame house with a clipped gable roof.
      • “It features a hipped front dormer, a glass and wood paneled entrance with sidelights, a facade porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade, steep wooden steps to the porch, and a high brick porch foundation with large south-facing windows.
      • “Like many of the houses on the street, it has a stone retaining wall bordering the front yard and stone front steps.
      • “Mary Eva Miller purchased the property in 1910, and the 1917 Sanborn map shows that the house had been built by that time. The 1918 city directory — the first to cover this area of West End Blvd. — lists Paul L. Miller, a contractor, and his wife, Eva, as residing at this location.
      • “They occupied the house through 1935 and sold it to Thomas W. and Alice B. Hancock in 1941.” The Hancocks occupied the house at least until 1975. By 1986 the house was a rental. The family retained ownership of the property until July 2007.

235 E. Monmouth Street, Winston-Salem

  • $245,000 (originally $249,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,050 square feet, 0.12 acre
  • Price/square foot: $120
  • Built in 1913
  • Listed April 18, 2023
  • Last sale: $115,000, January 2023
  • Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District
  • Note: Currently divided as a duplex.
    • Bought in January by someone in Ohio who put it into a company that invests people’s IRAs in “alternative assets such as real estate, private equity, precious metals, cryptocurrency, and more.”
  • District NR nomination: “One-and-a-half-story Dutch Colonial Revival house with front-facing gambrel roof; one-over-one replacement windows; vinyl siding; new boxed columns; transom; turned post on side porch; hip-roof dormers on side elevations. Appears on 1917 Sanborn Map.”

415 W. 25th Street, Winston-Salem

  • $225,900
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, acre
  • Price/square foot: $126
  • Built in 1931
  • Listed May 31, 0223
  • Last sale: $100,000, August 1991

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

405 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County

  • $750,000
  • Originally a single-family home, now divided into six studio apartments, 3,427 square feet, 0.39 acre
  • Price/square foot: $219
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed May 4, 2023
  • Last sale: $105,000, September 2020
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
  • Note: No central air conditioning
    • Even by the standards of today’s “real estate investors,” this is an attempted money-grab of remarkable scale.
  • District NR nomination: “This late Victorian, two-story frame dwelling was moved to this site from its original location on West Front Street in the early 1920s. It has served for many years as a multi-family dwelling, first as a boarding house and more recently as apartments.
    • “The structure features a high hip roof extending to clipped gables with simple bargeboards over projecting front and side bays. The sides of the one-story wraparound porch have been closed in, leaving a two-bay porch with a tapered post on brick pier and a simple balustrade leading to double-leaf glazed door.”

1595 Power Line Road, Elon, Alamance County

  • $425,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,746 square feet, 1.51 acres
  • Price/square foot: $155
  • Built in 1933
  • Listed May 26, 2023
  • Last sale: August 2003, price not recorded on deed
  • Note: Brick foursquare with a porte-cochere.
    • The property was formerly known as 238 N.C. Highway 87. The property (and the driveway) extends from Power Line Road to N.C. 87. The address was changed when the mailbox was moved from one side of the property to the other.

3743E Bellemont Mount Hermon Road, Alamance, Alamance County
Contract pending January 25 to May 4, 2021
Listing withdrawn May 4, 2021; relisted May 23, 2023
Sale pending May 29, 2023

  • $425,000 (originally $325,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,520 (per county records) square feet, 4.69 acres
  • Price/square foot: $127
  • Built in 1919
  • Listed September 27, 2020
  • Last sale: $150,000, January 2011
  • Note: Was for sale by owner in 2021
    • The listing gives the size of the house as 2,754 square feet.
    • The property has a Burlington mailing address but is located southwest of the city near the community of Alamance.
    • For some reason, there are two addresses on Bellemont Mount Hermon Road with the number 3743. The other is 3743C.

605 W. Holt Street, Mebane, Alamance County
The Andrew and Badie Whitted House

  • $415,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,730 square feet, 0.54 acre
  • Price/square foot: $240
  • Built in 1912
  • Listed May 11, 2023
  • Last sale: $40,000, November 2020
  • Note: The listing says “no expense spared,” but it has vinyl siding, replacement windows and instead of tongue-and-groove flooring, they used deck boards on the front porch.
    • The house was owned from 1912 to 1975 by Andrew H. Whitted (ca. 1874-1965) and Arah Badie Moore Whitted (1889-1964) and their heirs. Andrew was a store owner for 40 years. Badie was born in Columbus County and taught school in Durham before marrying Andrew.

717 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
Sale pending September 15 to November 11, 2022
Sale pending December 31, 2022, to February 21, 2023
Sale pending April 20, 2023

  • $310,000 (originally $315,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,156 square feet, 0.39 acre
  • Price/square foot: $98
  • Built in 1931
  • Listed September 3, 2022
  • Last sale: May 2022, price not recorded on deed (it was most likely donated; see note below)
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • Listing: “Property needs TLC”
    • The current owner is the Church of the Redeemer, an Anglican parish in Greensboro.
    • Previously, the property had been owned by the family of Roger Gant Sr. (1887-1960) for 102 years. Gant was a son of John Q. Gant, founder of still-thriving Glen Raven Mills (established 1880 as Altamahaw Cotton Mills). Roger became president of Glen Raven when his father died in 1930, serving until he died in 1960.
    • Roger bought the property in 1920. He lived at 1016 W. Davis Street; 717 was occupied by one of his brothers, Russell Gant (1893-1978). The Russell Gant Company was a wholesaler of yarn.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story mid-1930s brick-veneered house has a gambrel roof, three-bay facade, engaged porch with square posts, wide shed dormer, and two-story frame rear addition. The distinguishing feature of this Period House is the very shallow arch between each of the porch posts.” No owners or residents of the property are listed.

521 Cameron Street, Burlington, Alamance County

  • $280,000 (originally $300,000)
  • 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,646 square feet, 0.22 acre
  • Price/square foot: $106
  • Built in 1950
  • Listed May 11, 2023
  • Last sale: $180,000, January 2021
  • This takes some nerve: The listing says it’s “located in the heart of the historic district.” According to the State Historic Preservation Office, it’s not in a historic district at all (click the map to see it larger).
  • Note: County records show the date of the house as 1950, though it looks considerably older.

433 N. Logan Street, Burlington, Alamance County

  • $280,000
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,745 square feet, 0.50 acre
  • Price/square foot: $160
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed November 19, 2022
  • Last sale: $110,000, May 2022
  • Note: The aggressive color scheme, including the painted masonry (always a bad idea), is all new.
    • Something you don’t see every day: There’s a wall-mounted drinking fountain in what looks to be a small mud room.
    • How the house looked before its 2022 renovation:

826 Green Street, Danville, Virginia

  • $279,900
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,304 square feet, 0.20 acre
  • Price/square foot: $121
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed May 12, 2023
  • Last sale: $150,000, April 2013
  • Neighborhood: Danville Historic District (local and NR)
  • Note: The property is across the street from Doyle Thomas Park.
  • District NR nomination: “The Danville Historic District boasts perhaps the finest and most concentrated collection of Victorian and Edwardian residential architecture in the Commonwealth. Lining Main Street and adjacent side streets is a splendid assemblage of the full range of architectural styles from the Ante-Bellum era to World War I.
    • “The District is particularly rich in distinguished examples of the post-Civil War styles such as the High Victorian Italianate, the High Victorian Gothic, French Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Eastlake, Queen Anne and Beaux Arts; styles in which good examples are generally rare in the South.
    • “The existence of these impressive dwellings can be explained by the fact that Danville remained unusually prosperous throughout the late nineteenth century. While most of Virginia was suffering an economic depression brought on by the War and Reconstruction, Danville was thriving from its tobacco trade and other industries.”

512 S. Ireland Street, Burlington, Alamance County

  • $187,500
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,222 square feet, 0.21 acre
  • Price/square foot: $153
  • Built in 1950
  • Listed April 19, 2023
  • Last sale: $19,000, July 2015
  • Note: For sale by owner
    • The large building behind the house appears to be on an adjoining property.

527 Barnes Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending June 5 to July 2, 2022
Listing withdrawn July 2, 2022; relisted August 3, 2022
Sale pending October 17-31, 2022
Sale pending November 10-18, 2022
Sale pending April 15, 2023

  • $164,500 (originally $194,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,032 square feet, 0.45 acre
  • Price/square foot: $81
  • Built in 1909
  • Listed May 30, 2022
  • Last sale: $30,000, November 1995
  • Note: Cheaply renovated with vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows

1007 N. Scales Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending March 15, 2023

  • $140,000
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,076 square feet, 0.17 acre
  • Price/square foot: $46
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed March 9, 2023
  • Last sale: $50,000, September 1994

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

3007 Riverside Drive, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Sparger House
Listing withdrawn March 29, 2023
Sale pending April 3, 2023

  • $469,000 (originally $479,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,486 square feet, 6.1 acres
  • Price/square foot: $189
  • Built in 1864
  • Listed September 27, 2022
  • Last sale: $61,000, July 1981
  • Note: The property includes a pond and creek, a three-stall horse barn with tack room and spring house, and a detached garage with a full bath and an office.
    • Located north of Mount Airy on N.C. Highway 104 near the Salem community and the White Sulphur Springs community, a 19th century resort.
    • The State Historic Preservation Office’s map of historic sites shows this property as “Sparger House,” but offers no other details. An 1862 deed shows a property being bought by William Simpson Sparger (1833-1915). The description of the property is vague, but it appears at least to be in the same general area. The deed indicates it was adjacent to another property owned by either William or another member of the Sparger family.
    • William was a grandson of Johan Wolfensbarger (17454-1840), the first member of the family to move to Surry County (Johan later changed his name to John W. Sparger).
    • William was a farmer, according to census records, and apparently had many friends. A report on his death in The Charlotte Observer said, “An immense crowd of relatives and friends accompanied the remains to the place of interment. Mr. Sparger was the last of the old Sparger generation in the state, and his friends were numbered by the score. He was 82 years of age and highly esteemed by everybody.”
    • The house is near the site of the Smith & Sparger Tobacco Factory. Background on the locally prominent family is here and here.

137 Taylor Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Eugene Smith House

  • $425,900 (originally $429,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,226 square feet, lot size not reported in county property records
  • Price/square foot: $132
  • Built in 1886
  • Listed March 19, 2023
  • Last sale: $390,000, March 2022
  • Neighborhood: Lebanon Hills Historic District (NR)
  • Note: From 2018 (and until quite recently), the Vermeer Bed & Breakfast
  • District NR nomination: “Beveled wood-shingle sheathing lends visual interest to this two-story Shingle Style-influenced Queen Anne house, believed to date to 1886, although a date around 1890 or in the 1890s seems more likely given the style of the house and patterns of development in Mount Airy.
    • “The shingle sheathing covers the second story, which flares very slightly over the top of the first story (a Shingle Style feature); novelty weatherboard siding covers the first; and the roof gables are clad with fishscale wood shingles or a combination of novelty siding and beaded tongue-and-groove boards. The gables are decorated with sawnwork in a variety of patterns, mostly spoked arc compositions but in one rear gable consisting of slats with rounded and drilled ends.
    • “The front gabled wing ends in a shallowly angled bay window. The one-story shed-roofed front porch has square wood posts and balusters. Other exterior features include a brick foundation, interior brick chimneys with corbeled caps, and replacement windows.
    • “The modified center-passage-plan interior has a stair with turned balusters and an elaborately molded square newel post with a finial at the base (the upstairs newels are less ornate but also have finials). Mantels combine sawn brackets, spindlework, reeding, and chamfering in various combination, and most fireplaces have tiled hearths and surrounds in various colors and ornate cast iron coal grates.
    • The house was the longtime home of Eugene Gray Smith (1888-1974), the brother of Katherine Smith Reynolds, wife of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds. Eugene and Katherine were natives of Mount Airy. In the 1920s and ’30s, he was identified as a cashier at First National Bank. From at least the late ’40s, he was listed as a farmer.
    • A 1920 deed shows Eugene acquiring the property from his father. City directories for 1928 and 1949 show that he and Leonita Yates Smith (1898-1974) were living at 134 Taylor, the address for this property on the 1922 Sanborn map. They were still listed there in 1966. Their three children sold the house in 1977.

512 Country Club Road, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Prather-Fowler House
Sale pending May 13, 2023

  • $362,500
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,040 square feet, 0.72 acre
  • Price/square foot: $178
  • Built in 1935
  • Listed April 28, 2023
  • Last sale: $82,750, November 1994
  • Neighborhood: Country Club Estates Historic District (NR)
  • Note: Located across the street from the Mount Airy Country Club
    • A small creek runs along the back of the lot.
  • District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half Dutch Colonial Revival house of novelty vinyl-sided frame construction with an asphalt-shingled side-gambrel roof.
    • “Long shed dormers extend across the front and rear roof planes. The front entry has sidelights, a wood panel door, and replacement classical columns. The porch roof is supported at the house wall by original decorative wood brackets.
    • “On the north end is a one-story porch with slender replacement classical columns in groups of twos and threes and turned balusters. Other features include a brick foundation, an exterior brick chimney on the north end, and a modern rear deck.
    • “The driveway leading to an exposed basement garage is flanked by a retaining wall that gives the front yard a terraced appearance.
    • “According to Billee Prather Miller, the daughter of Country Club Estates developer Joseph William Prather [1891-1956] and his wife, Gertrude Prather [1894-1980], this house was built as her parents’ first residence in the subdivision. The Prathers later moved to the house at 528 Country Club.”
    • Marshall Cornelius Foster (1894-1956) and Lucy James Barker Fowler (1895-1985) owned the house in the early 1950s. Marshall was a tobacconist. After his death, Lucy had a house built next door at 515 Country Club Road and lived there.
    • Dr. Richard D. Jackson (1919-2009) and Julia Anderon Jackson (1920-2011) bought the house from Julia. Richard was a surgeon who came to Mount Airy when Northern Hospital opened. A wing of the hospital is named in his honor. He was a native of Erie, Pennsylvania. His father was a doctor, as were two of their three sons and a granddaughter.
    • Julia was originally from Edgefield, South Carolina. She was a graduate of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was honored as the school’s best all-around athlete. She worked as a swimming instructor in Erie, where she met Richard, and as a high school teacher and in life insurance sales. Two of her three brothers were doctors.

329 W. Pine Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Robert Hines House

  • $349,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,859 square feet, lot size not listed in county records
  • Price/square foot: $122
  • Built in 1900 (per county; see note)
  • Listed March 22, 2023
  • Last sale: $55,000, November 1986
  • Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
  • Note: The district NR nomination shows the date of the house as ca. 1890.
    • The owner is listed as living in Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • District NR nomination: “Good examples of the Italianate style are scattered throughout the district and include … the Robert Hines House at 329 West
    Pine Street …
    • “Late 19th century two-story, L-shaped frame house of Italianate style with bracketed eaves, paneled corner posts, paneled window surrounds with bulls-eye corner blocks and wooden awning-like window hood molds.
    • “Believed to have been built for the Robert Hines family.” The Rev. Robert Bentley Hines (1856-1905) suffered a stroke and died while conducting a service in Iredell County. “He was a business man and was not engaged in regular ministerial work, but was a local minister of the Methodist Church and gave much assistance to pastors in protracted meetings,” The Charlotte Observer reported. His widow, Louella Hines (1860-1944), was listed at 180 W. Pine Street in 1914, which is most likely this house.
    • “A later owner, Buck Moore, replaced the original one story porch with a full height monumental portico with oversized paneled posts and intricate sawnwork brackets.” Matthew Dalton “Buck” Moore (1961-1939) was an oil dealer and “a well-known local resident,” his obituary in the Mount Airy News said. He and his wife, Myrtle Virginia Speer Moore (1860-1938), lived in the home until they died.
    • “A handsome wrought iron fence and second story balcony were added by a later owner, Mrs. Llewellyn.”

3125 Arnold Road, Hamptonville, Yadkin County
The Haynes-White-Wood House

  • $249,900 (originally $269,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, two tracts — 1.65 acres (3125 Arnold Road) and 1.43 acres (3131 Arnold, see note below)
  • Price/square foot: $139
  • Built in 1813
  • Listed March 7, 2023
  • Last sale: January 1922 (55 acres), price not recorded on deed
  • Something to ask about: The listing says the property includes two tracts totaling 3 acres. County records show the two tracts have different owners, both apparently including descendants of Arthur Wood, who bought the property in 1922.
  • Note: The listing claims the house was “originally built” in 1764 and “contains mantles and custom moldings with the single most important piece of Georgian woodwork surviving in Yadkin County.” It also has a mix of vinyl flooring and wall-to-wall carpeting, and much of the historic character has been renovated out of the interior.
    • From Historical Architecture of Yadkin County: “Midway up the shaft of the north chimney is the date 1813, presumably the house’s date of construction. If so, it is one of the oldest buildings in Yadkin County.”
    • “With its vertical proportions emphasized by the tall Flemish-bond chimneys, the Haynes-White-Wood House clearly demonstrates its Federal period of construction. …
    • “Despite the addition of wide aluminum siding, alterations to the porch and the addition at the rear, the house retains its overall Federal style characteristics. … Substantial remodeling of the first-floor rooms has removed or covered much of the original fabric. However, a handsome mantel in the north room frames an arched fireplace opening. It has a two-panel frieze and thin pilasters with fluted upper shafts. …
    • “The three-room upper floor is virtually unchanged [as of 1987, the publication date of the book]. The stair opens into the larger of the three rooms. Still visible are the Federal style molded window surrounds, chair rail, and six-panel raised-panel doors. An enclosed stair in one corner of the room leads to the attic. However, the most notable feature in this room, and in the house itself, is the mantel. A rather typical molded surround frames the arched fireplace opening, but it is surmounted by an impressive Georgian style cushioned frieze and deep moldings supporting a prominent matelshelf. It is the single most important piece of Georgian woodwork surviving in Yadkin County.”
    • The original owners are believed to have been the Rev. William Haynes (1764-1836) and Philadelphia Haynes (1768-1829). Records from 1812 show William owning 1,000 acres in Yadkin County. He and Philadelphia are buried in a family cemetery behind the house.
    • The next owners were their daughter Malinda (1807-1837) and husband William White (1803-1867). After Malinda’s death, her sister Mahala moved in and helped raise the three children of Malinda and William. He was a carpenter and builder, credited with building the county’s first courthouse in 1852-53 (demolished in the 1950s). Like his father-in-law, he was a sizable land owner with 600 acres by 1851. Malinda and William are buried in the family cemetery behind the house.
    • The next two owners, Elizabeth I. Haynes and then Alfred Haynes, are of unknown relationship to the earlier Haynes family and to each other.
    • In 1922, the house and 55 acres were bought by Henry Arthur Wood (1881-1970). Descendants of Arthur and Bessie Adams Wood (1911-1994) own the two properties for sale.

304 W. Main Street, East Bend, Yadkin County
Sale pending December 11, 2022, to January 5, 2023
Sale pending May 9, 2023
No longer under contract May 30, 2023

  • $169,900 (originally $199,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,982 square feet, 0.90 acre
  • Price/square foot: $86
  • Built in 1890
  • Listed September 26, 2022
  • Last sale: $62,500, August 2022

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Chatham Counties

326 E. Main Street, Troy, Montgomery County
The Robert Terrell Poole House
Sale pending April 21, 2023

  • $389,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,159 square feet, 0.94 acre
  • Price/square foot: $123
  • Built in 1905
  • Listed April 5, 2023
  • Last sale: $95,000, April 2019
  • Listing: “After 4 years of renovations, this 1905 Queen Anne with all the signature gingerbread, fancy fretwork, working transoms, original hardware has been brought back to life.”
    • The home’s sale in 2019 was its first since it was built.
    • The 2019 listing said the original gingerbread, fretwork, transoms and hardware on doors and windows were intact and that the interior featured a cantilevered staircase, decorative wooden ceilings and a lion head/lion paw mantle.
    • Robert Terrell Poole (1875-1940) was a lawyer and state legislator. He lived his entire life in Montgomery County. He served two terms in the state House. His wife, Bess Pulliam Poole (1884-1964) gave the house to two of their daughters in 1951. In 2019, the daughters’ heirs sold the house for restoration.

600 Westside Drive, Lexington, Davidson County
Sale pending May 14, 2023

  • $325,000
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,200 square feet, 0.36 acre
  • Price/square foot: $102
  • Built in 1922
  • Listed May 13, 2023
  • Last sale: $40,000, June 2014
  • Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
  • Note: The house includes an attached apartment that could be an in-law/guest suite with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, a kitchen and breakfast nook, and living room.
  • District NR nomination: “Two-story side-gable-roofed Colonial Revival with a full-height portico supported by square posts; 4/1 sash, brick end chimney, one-story wing with large picture window on east side, rear shed addition, vinyl siding on façade, weatherboards on other elevations.
    • “This house may encompass an earlier dwelling, as 1923, 1929 and 1948 Sanborn maps show a one-story house at this location. The one-story house and the current dwelling share a similar footprint and the same position on the lot. Based on Sanborn maps and the design of the current full-height porch, the house was expanded after 1948, probably during the 1950s.”
    • The original owners were J. Graham Hege (1887-1949) and Edith Estelle Pugh Hege (1887-1963), who bought the property in 1921. Graham was a furniture dealer. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1925.
    • “The house probably reached its current configuration when the Richardson family lived here. The Richardsons rented the house in the late 1940s and owned it by 1954.”
    • Reuben Clarke Richardson (1891-1991) was a machinist with Barbet Mills. He was married to Betty Bean Richardson (1895-1985).

904 E. Sunrise Avenue, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Johnson-Fulp House
Sale pending May 13, 2023

  • $300,000
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 2,491 square feet, 1.18 acres
  • Price/square foot: $120
  • Built in 1907
  • Listed April 17, 2023
  • Last sale: $6,750, October 1960
  • Note: The property apparently has been in the Johnson-Fulp family since it was built. The address was originally 904 Welborn Street. The first owners appear to have been Ira Thomas Johnson (1876-1929) and Lina Armintia “Minnie” Briles Johnson (1882-1949). Ira was a farmer.
    • Ownership passed to their eldest daughter, Clyde Jane Johnson May (1899-1986), and her husband, William Jennings Bryan May (1896-1954). Clyde Jane was the first of 12 children born to Ira and Minnie (the others being Maggie, Thomas, Charles, Mary, Gilmer, Walter, Ira Edward, Joseph, Frank, William Paul, and Sally Dorcas). All but poor Gilmer lived to adulthood. William was the owner of the W.M. May Coal Company. Clyde’s brother William Paul Johnson lived in the house; Clyde and William lived elsewhere in Thomasville.
    • A court-ordered sale of the property was held in 1960, but the house stayed in the family. The buyers were Clyde and William’s daughter Mary Elizabeth “Mib” May Fulp (1926-2017), and Charles Johnson Fulp (1928-2022). Their children are now selling the property.
    • Mib graduated from Thomasville High School and in 1947 from the Women’s College with a degree in mathematics. She was a high-school math teacher for 33 years and an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an association of female educators. Charles was veteran of the Army and a graduate of High Point College. He was a partner in the accounting firm of Bowman, Blue, Fulp and Craven and later Fulp & Associates.

119 E. Naomi Street, Randleman, Randolph County

  • $284,900
  • Bedrooms and bathrooms, not specified; house has been converted into three apartments; 2,714 square feet, 1.3 acres
  • Price/square foot: $105
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed April 28, 2023
  • Last sale: $155,000, April 2018
  • Note: Out-of-state owner

411 Fairview Drive, Lexington
Sale pending May 26, 2023

  • $230,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,896 square feet, 0.23 acre
  • Price/square foot: $121
  • Built in 1937
  • Listed May 11, 2023
  • Last sale: $130,000, June 2019
  • Note: The property has a circular driveway.

205 N. Fayetteville Street, Liberty, Randolph County

  • $225,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,247 square feet, 0.32 acre
  • Price/square foot: $100
  • Built in 1880
  • Listed May 24, 2023
  • Last sale: $141,500, March 2023
  • Note: A two-month fix-and-flip — caveat emptor — with the expectable vinyl flooring, windows and siding.

2214 Gant Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

  • $159,000
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,752 square feet, 0.46 acre
  • Price/square foot: $91
  • Built in 1940
  • Listed May 17, 2023
  • Last sale: $84,500, February 2022

334 E. Swannanoa Avenue, Liberty, Randolph County

  • Auction scheduled for Wednesday June 7, 2023, 1 p.m., Randolph County Courthouse
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,934 square feet, 1.17 acre
  • Built in 1908
  • Last sale: $218,000, July 2020
  • Note: The house was owned from 2018 to 2020 by a house-flipping company, which bought it out of foreclosure.