Piedmont Historic Homes

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• Sold for $454,900 on May 23, 2023 (originally $469,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,902 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1938
• Listed April 13, 2023
• Last sale: $399,000, January 2022
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Sales hype: “the showcase of the street … a rare find in FAB Neighborhood!”

• Sold for $431,500 on May 22, 2023 (listed at $394,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,696 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 20, 2023
• Last sale: $295,000, February 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached one-car garage.
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; side gable; brick; six-over-six, replacement sash; gable-roof entry porch; paired, square posts; side porch; belt course; soldier course lintels.”

• Sold for $349,900 on May 22, 2023 (originally $349,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,056 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1945
• Listed April 19, 2023
• Last sale: $265,500, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Dave’s Mountain
• Note: The property includes a gazebo and a detached garage.

• Sold for $420,000 on May 18 (originally $479,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,905 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1923
• Listed March 16, 2023
• Last sale: $299,000, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District
• District NR nomination: “A variation of the Colonial Revival style, Dutch Colonial Revival, is unusually common in Ardmore with close to fifty examples. … [An] unusually large example is the Bowen House (c.1923, 462 Lockland Ave.). It features weatherboard siding, pressed tin shingle roof, shed-roof dormer sheathed in wood shingles, and a hip-roof porch with square posts. …
  • “Gambrel roof; two story … weatherboard; eight-over-one, Craftsman-style windows; hip-roof porch; square posts; shingled gable ends; lunette windows in gable ends.
  • The house was built by the notably long-lived Jesse Gray Bowen (1882-1976), who died at age 93, and Mabel Douglas Bowen (1891-2001), who lived to be 109. They were still living in the house in 1963, 40 years later.
  • Jesse founded Jesse G. Bowen & Company downtown (1902 and 1918 are given by various sources as the date). It sold pianos, player-pianos and organs. He later took their son, Jesse Jr., as his partner. Jesse Jr. was sole owner when he died in August 1976 at age 62.
  • When Jesse Sr. established the business, his older brother, Robert Jordan Bowen (1869-1959), operated a company called Bowen Piano Company in Winston-Salem.
  • Jesse G. Bowen Music Company in 1961 on West 5th Street (Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection):

• Sold for $200,000 on May 18, 2023 (listed at $200,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,021 square feet, 1.27 acres
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1921
• Listed March 23, 2023
• Last sale: $144,000, December 2015

• Sold for $149,500 on May 18, 2023 (originally $164,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,288 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $65
• Built in 1908
• Listed December 5, 2022
• Last sale: $129,000, September 2022
• Listing: “Needs minor renovation.”

• Sold for $400,000 on May 17, 2023 (listed at $379,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,320 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 30, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Across the street from Christ Moravian Church
• District NR nomination: “Gable Ell House. Two story; vinyl siding; one-over-one replacement windows; sidelights and transom (replacements); hip-roof porch; replacement posts. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”
  • The first recorded residents were Jacob F. Essie and Phoebe Essie in the 1902 city directory. Jacob was a carpenter for Fogle Brothers builders, which built Christ Moravian Church.

• Sold for $625,000 on May 16, 2023 (originally $975,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,852 square feet, 42 acres
• Price/square foot: $337
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 17, 2022
• Last sale: 1909 or earlier, price unknown
• Note: The house may have been built by farmer Amos Julius Richardson (1854-1938). In 1909 ownership passed to two of his children, eight-year-old Arthur Wilbert Richardson (1901-1983) and Daisy Richardson (1884-1971). Arthur’s son Ralph Gray Richardson (1933-2021) inherited the farm in 1983. It is being sold by his heirs.
  • Ralph was a graduate of Eli Whitney High School and Burlington Business College. He was a cattle and chicken farmer and also worked at Western Electric and the UNC-Chapel Hill public safety department. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War.
  • Located 7 miles southeast of Snow Camp and 6 miles southwest of Eli Whitney

• Sold for $430,000 on May 12, 2023 (originally $490,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,396 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1924
• Listed February 4, 2023
• Last sale: $275,000, August 2022
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner, an LLC
  • Fix and flip (caveat emptor)
  • Replacement windows, vinyl siding
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, gambrel-roofed, Dutch Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with full-width, shed-roofed dormers on the facade and rear elevations. The house has vinyl siding and eight-over-one, wood-sash windows, generally paired.
  • “The multi-panel door has five-light-over-one-panel sidelights and is sheltered by a full-width, hip-roofed porch supported by grouped slender columns. The porch has a low projecting gable over the entrance.
  • “A one-story, flat-roofed wing extends across the rear (north) and right (east) elevations. It has vinyl siding and a low wood railing along the roofline.
  • “The earliest known occupant is John H. Grubb (traveling salesman) in 1927.”
  • From 1948 to 1990 the house was owned by Dr. Lemuel Underwood Creech (1914-1972), a physician, and Lorraine Humphrey Creech (dates unknown).

• Sold for $365,000 on May 2, 2023 (originally $385,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,198 square feet (per county), 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $166
• Built in 1910
• Listed March 9, 2023
• Last sale: $220,000, November 2020
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house was honored with the Minetree Pyne Preservation award from the Burlington Historic Resources Commission (year unknown).
• District NRHP nomination: “This is one of several late nineteenth/early twentieth century houses in traditional forms contributing to the character of the neighborhood along West Front Street.
  • “The main section of the house is a two-story frame structure built on a central-hall, single-pile plan topped by a side gable roof. An unusual short gable-roofed attic dormer pierces the roof’s front slope. The three-bay facade is spanned by a one-story porch with bungalow-style supports.”

• Sold for $556,663 on May 1, 2023 (listed at $534,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,146 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $259
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 31, 2020
• Last sold: $450,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “This simple Tudor Revival house is a one-and-a-half-story stuccoed dwelling with multiple front and side gables, slightly projecting second story bays on the south side, grouped windows, and a corner engaged porch (now enclosed) beneath the sweeping north slope of the front gable.”
  • The original owners appear to have been Benjamin Franklin Huntley Jr. (1900-1962) and Elizabeth Bailey Royall Huntley (1897-1978). He was working his way up the corporate ladder in the companies of his father, one of Winston-Salem’s more prominent businessmen and president of B.F. Huntley Furniture, Huntley-Hill-Stockton of Winston-Salem and Greensboro, and Winston-Salem Hotel Company. Junior was Senior’s only son (he had five sisters). He later established his own firm, B.F. Huntley Associates, manufacturers agents. By 1926 he and Elizabeth were living elsewhere.
  • NRHP nomination: “Various owners through the years used this house as rental property, but between 1954 and 1985 Clifton K. and Cordie H. Hauser owned the house and occupied it for some, if not all, of those years.”
  • Clifton Kermit “Kip” Hauser (1901-1973) was a department manager at Hull-Dobbs, a Ford car and truck dealer. Cordie Irene Money Hauser (1905-1985) was the youngest of nine children, all of whom survived to adulthood (sisters Daisy, Esther, Minnie and Myrtle, and brothers Buret, Ralph, Raymond and Spurgeon). Like her husband, she was a native of Forsyth County.

• Sold for $100,000 on May 1, 2023 (originally $129,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms, 2,247 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 14, 2022
• Last sale: $95,000, October 2019
• Note: Rental property with cheap “improvements” (vinyl siding, replacement windows and “luxury” plastic flooring)
  • The house needs some serious cosmetic work on the interior.

• Sold on April 28, 2023, price not listed on deed (listed at $635,000)
  • The seller was the executor of a will; the buyers appear to be the children of the deceased man.
• 3 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 2,155 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $295
• Built in 1974 (see note)
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $200,000, March 1991
• Neighborhood: Old Salem Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house is a faithful reconstruction of the 1824 house built by silversmith Traugott Leinbach, using handmade brick, Hendricks tile for the roof, copper gutters, antique hardware and locksets, handmade lighting fixtures, antique mantels and millwork.
  • The property includes a detached guesthouse/office of about 300 square feet with a full bathroom.
• District NR nomination: “The Traugott Leinbach House was reconstructed in 1974 by Thomas Gray, who had previously restored the Christman House, Lot 74, 500 Salt Street.
  • The Leinbach house is built against the sidewalk and has a picket fence surrounding the lot. The house is a one and one-half story Flemish bond brick building with side gable roof (ceramic tile) with flush ends and a kick at the eave. The box cornice has bed molding and a plain frieze board.
  • “The house has interior end chimneys with corbelled caps and is on a high stuccoed foundation. It was the last house in Salem to be constructed in the Flemish bond.
  • Built as a house/shop configuration, the façade has five bays with two entries. The centered entry to the residence is a six panel door with a fanlight; the shop entry is also a six panel door. Each door has a stone door sill at a brick and stucco arched stoop with a flight of stone steps off the north ends of each, down to the sidewalk.
  • “Window sash is nine-over-six with six-over-six sash on the second floor at the gable ends and flanked by vertical two-light attic casements. Windows are hung with three panel shutters and are evenly spaced.
  • “A shed roof addition is across the rear and partially enclosed (weatherboard). The enclosed portion has a reconstructed masonry bake oven with stucco and a brick chimney.
  • “The open porch has chamfered posts with arch decoration and simple balustrade. There is a full story cellar, with grade level access at the rear due to the sloping lot. Window sash at the cellar is six-over-six with single leaf shutters.
  • “The plans for the house were presented by Traugott Leinbach in October 1823 and construction was completed in 1824. Leinbach had apprenticed to renowned silversmith John Vogler (Lot 64, 700 S. Main Street) and became even more accomplished in hollow ware than his teacher.
  • “In 1854 Leinbach, silversmith and watchmaker, constructed a three-story addition to the north side of his house. His interests were many, including, galvanic battery operations and Daguerreotype photography.
  • “In 1860, Leinbach moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the house and lot were turned over to son Felix. … Outbuildings recorded on the 1885 Sanborn Insurance maps included a kitchen and large shed; the attached bake oven is noted as well.”
  • By 1912, the house had been demolished. Four houses were built on the lot; they’ve all been removed.

• Sold for $255,000 on April 26, 2023 (listed at $255,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,380 square feet, 2.05 acres
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1896
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: $134,000, September 2015
• Neighborhood: Fraternity Heights

• Sold for $125,000 on April 24, 2023 (listed at $149,900)
• 1 bedroom, 1 1/2 bathroom, 2,000 square feet, 0.1 acre
• Price/square foot: $62
• Built in 1927
• Listed December 21, 2022
• Last sale: $55,000, September 2013
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: Former commercial building, has a kitchen and separate breakfast area.
  • The property includes a deck and a two-car driveway.
  • Little information on the property’s history appears to exist online. Between 1959 and 1963 (and perhaps before and after those years), it was the photography studio of Joseph Michael Dalton (1915-1972). Joseph and his wife, Minnie Boaz Leath Dalton (1914-1975), were listed as living in the building as well. It was the only photography studio in Mayodan (although there was another in Madison).
  • The photo above was added after the listing had been posted. The original photo of the building:

• Sold for $390,000 on April 19, 2023 (originally $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,428 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1936
• Listed September 1, 2022
• Last sale: $265,000, June 2019
• Neighborhood: Central Heights neighborhood

• Sold for $490,000 on April 18, 2023 (listed at $525,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,874 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1939 (per county, but probably a bit later)
• Listed March 1, 2023
• Last sale: $110,000, July 1977
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has had only two owners.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, and exterior brick chimney on the left (east) elevation and an interior brick chimney on the right elevation.
  • “The house has eight-over-twelve, wood-sash windows on the first story, eight-over-eight windows on the second story, and a tall cornice. The six-panel door has a single-light transom and is inset slightly in a paneled surround with a molded lintel on the facade.
  • “There is a one-story, side-gabled wing on the right (west) elevation with weatherboards. A one-story sunporch on the left elevation has a flared, hipped metal roof.”
  • Owen and Margaret Reese bought the property in 1941 and were listed at the address in 1942, the first year it appeared in the city directory. Robert Owen Reese (1896-1970) was born in Northampton County. By 1925 he had joined the law firm of Roberson, Haworth and Reese (which still exists, billing itself as High Point’s oldest law firm). Margaret McNeal Reese (1895-1995) sold the house in 1977 to the current owners.

• Sold for $1.05 million on April 13, 2023 (originally $1.2 million)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,944 square feet, 1.26 acres
• Price/square foot: $266
• The depot was built in 1880; it was moved to the current location in 1980.
• Listed January 13, 2023
• Last sale: $579,000, July 2020
• HOA: $469/year
• Note: The depot was moved 23 miles from Mayo, Virginia.
  • The property includes 480 feet of shoreline on Hyco Lake, a dock with dock house and boat slip, a two-car garage and raised garden beds. It’s just across the county line from Caswell County.
  • The few pictures of the interior suggest little of the original depot remains inside the house.

• Sold for $795,000 on April 5, 2023 (listed at $795,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,570 square feet (per county), 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $309
• Built in 1929
• Listed March 1, 2023
• Last sale: $723,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house wasn’t listed publicly when it was sold in 2022, and it was listed on MLS this time with an offer already accepted (“for comp purposes only”).
• District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, gambrel-roofed, weatherboard Dutch Colonial-Revival-style dwelling features a front-gabled, vaulted soffit, bracketed hood over a paneled wood and multi-light front door.
  • “Four-light sidelights and a blind sunburst fanlight frame the door. A concrete patio with a brick foundation spans the façade.
  • “Windows are primarily replacement twelve-over-one and replacement casement-type. A brick chimney occupies the south elevation.
  • “A one-story, flat- or slightly-hip-roofed ell occupies the south end of the rear elevation, while a longer post-1966 gabled ell extends from the north end of the rear. A shed dormer spans the rear elevation.
  • “The Hams bought the parcel in May 1926 and built the house soon thereafter.” Wilbur L. Ham was the proprietor of Greensboro Auto Inn, a garage on Commerce Place.
  • They sold the house in 1931 to Carrie Baach Lindau (1875-1969). It belonged to the Lindau family for 38 years. Although only Carrie’s name was on the deed, it was the home for Carrie and her husband, Solomon Julius Lindau (1872-1942), a salesman. He was a brother of Bertha Lindau Cone, wife of Moses Cone, one of the most significant figures in Greensboro’s history.
  • In 1946, Carrie passed ownership of the house to their daughter, Miriam Charlotte Lindau (1900-1987). By the time Carrie died 23 years later, she and Miriam were living at 1101 N. Elm Street. Miriam was a dietician. Miriam sold the house in 1969.

• Sold for $300,000 on March 31, 2023 (listed at $295,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,525 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $119
• Built in 1934
• Listed February 8, 2023
• Last sale: $78,000, December 1992
• Note: Divided into two apartments
• District NR nomination: “Two-story brick house with one-story frame wing along west elevation. Simple Colonial Revival detail.”

• Sold for $334,000 on March 30, 2023 (listed at $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,494 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1850 (per county)
• Listed January 20, 2023
• Last sale: July 1986, price unknown
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District (NRHP), Old Post Road Historic District (local)
• Note: The listing gives the date of the house as 1860. the district’s National Register nomination puts it at circa 1860.
• District NRHP nomination: “Believed to be one of the oldest houses surviving in the district, this two-story frame residence has changed hands more than most of the pivotal houses, and its original location was some one hundred yards to the south on the present site of the Hugh Reid Scott [House].
  • “The first occupant is said to have been Richard H. Wray, a later postmaster of Reidsville, although supporting documentation has not been found. The first recorded owner was John Rainey, a farmer, who was followed by Colonel John R. Webster (1845-1909), publisher of Webster’s Dollar Weekly, and later by Hugh Reid Scott, as well as several others.
  • “These changing ownerships have resulted in alterations to the house, although the exterior of the front section remains relatively intact in its late 19th century appearance. This two-story single-pile section is topped by a low hipped roof of standing seam tin with deep bracketed eaves and a paneled frieze, relating it to more elaborate Italianate houses in the district.
  • “The three-bay facade is spanned by a one-story Eastlake-style porch with central two-tier pedimented pavillion. Ornamentation includes a spindled frieze, turned and bracketed posts, spindle balusters, and sawn gable ornament on the porch and paneled cornerboards.
  • “Windows are six over six sash in simple surrounds, and the brick chimneys rise in an interior end location.
  • “A one-story, two-room ell was added across the rear early in the 20th century; a more recent one-story addition rests on brick piers.”
  • The Colonel started Webster’s Dollar Weekly in 1875. At some point in the 1880s, it was renamed Webster’s Weekly. It was published until 1916.

• Sold for $682,000 on March 29, 2023 (listed at $629,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,638 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $259
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 23, 2023
• Last sale: $227,000, April 1992
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The first recorded residents were three sisters — Susannah Katherine Maxwell (1874-1952); Josephine Lillias Maxwell (1888-1967), a notary and secretary at a law firm; and Ruth Valeria Maxwell (1890-1948), a secretary for a brokerage firm. They had lived separately prior to 1929. The house was foreclosed upon and sat vacant for three years in the late 1930s.

525 Jersey Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Emma J, Lasley House

• Sold for $195,000 on March 29, 2023
• Sold for $160,000 on March 29, 2023
  • Both sales were to LLCs
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,892 square feet, 0.16 acre
  Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1920
• Not publicly listed for sale
• Last sale: $51,500, July 1983
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “The Lasley House is a straightforward Colonial Revival house with a hint of the Craftsman style.
  • “It is a two-story weatherboarded frame dwelling with a gable roof, overhanging eaves with large block brackets, paired six-over-one sash windows, and a front porch with Tuscan columns, a plain balustrade, and a pedimented entrance bay which repeats the block brackets of the main roof.
  • “In 1921 Mrs, Emma J, Lasley purchased the property, and by 1924 she (widow of James Lasley) was listed at this location, along with Glenn, J. Archie, James W., Matthew I., Hollie, Nannie, Ruby 0., and Wesley Lasley. The house was owned by the Lasley family until 1947.”
  • Emma’s son Josephus lived next door at 521 Jersey Avenue.

2401 Urban Street, Winston-Salem
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• Sold for $64,500 on March 23, 2023 (originally $144,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,104 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $31
• Built in 1900 (possibly later; see note)
• Listed July 18, 2022
• Last sale: $76,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Belview, Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: Urban Street doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1915.
  • The property has been sold seven times in this century.
  • This property’s original address was 201 Urban Street.
  • The store was operated by I.L. Campbell in 1915; J.B. Whitley, 1916-22; Daisy M. Williamson, 1923-37; William B. Wicker, 1938; James T. Lawrence, 1939-1959; and others later. It was a grocery store through at least 1963.
• District NRHP nomination: “Another prominent building in the Belview area of the district is a rare example of a two-story store/house combination located at 2401 Urban Street. … Although altered with vinyl siding, the building is a rare example of a frame commercial building in the district.”
  • “Two-story; hip roof; vinyl siding; recessed entry; upper level porch; one-over-one windows. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

• Sold for $355,000 on March 22, 2023 (originally $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,122 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1926
• Listed January 20, 2023
• Last sale: $310,000, September 2021
• Listing: “elegant Georgian style home built by Honorable Superior Court Judge and Legislator Hubert E. Olive.” City directories show him at the address as late at 1964.
  • Hubert Ethridge Olive Sr. (1895-1972) was the son of a farmer, born in Randleman. He served in Army during World War I, seeing combat in France as a first lieutenant in a field artillery unit. After the ear, he graduated from Mars Hill College, where he played football for four years, and Wake Forest, where he received his law degree.
  • He practiced in Lexington, where held his first judgeship in the town’s lower court. Olive was elected to the state House in 1933 and became an ally of Clyde Hoey, who was elected governor in 1936. Hoey named Olive to the Superior Court bench in 1937. He served for 18 years. He also chaired the state Board of Elections for two years.
  • “A spectacular personality in the courtroom, Olive had a powerful, resonant voice, a great abundance of thick white hair, and a massive six-foot frame (he wore a size fourteen shoe),” his biography on NCpedia says. “Under his judgeship, court was held in a dignified, authoritative manner without any impudence or horseplay.”
  • He ran for governor in 1952, declaring his platform “progressive” (whatever that meant in North Carolina in 1952), but lost in the Democratic primary to William B. Umstead. Olive was a longtime member of the Wake Forest College board of trustees. In 1956 he chaired the fund-raising campaign to raise $7.5 million to match the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation’s gift to move the college to Winston-Salem. He taught Sunday school at Lexington’s First Baptist Church for 40 years and “was considered one of the most competent, willing, and scholarly laymen of his day.”

• Sold for $187,000 on March 21, 2023 (listed at $199,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,523 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1921
• Listed February 27, 2023
• Last sale: $1,650, February 1954
• Neighborhood: Glenwood
• Note: The address first appears in the city directory in 1924 with James Murphy McIntyre (1859-1947) and Effie Jane Turner McIntyre (1876-1939) listed as residents. James was a native of Ireland and worked as a carpenter. They lost the house to foreclosure in 1936 but were able to stay in it until their daughter Harriet bought it in 1938. Harriet sold the house in 1940.
• In 1954, the house was bought by William K. Oden Jr. (1929-2021). Bill Jr. was treasurer of Buffalo Rock Inc., a soft-drink company; Bill Sr. was president. It was located at 804 W. Lee Street, now the home of the Oden Brewing Company. Bill Jr. owned the house until 2002.

407 W. Mountain Street, Kernersville, Forsyth County

• Sold for $245,000 on March 15, 2023
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,977 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price square foot: $124
• Built in 1923
• Not listed public for sale
• Last sale: $166,000, April 2005

• Sold for $388,000 on March 15, 2023 (listed at $395,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,347 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 27, 2023
• Last sale: $225,000, June 2018
• Neighborhood: Old South Mebane Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a garden pond, a workshop and a carport.
• District NR nomination: “This is a 2-story Queen Anne-style vinyl-clad house of wood construction with a hipped roof with an interior chimney and projecting side, rear, and front gabled roofs of standing-seam metal and circular vents in the gable ends with incised floral motifs.
  • “The house exhibits a centered entry and a shed-roofed front porch supported by battered wood posts resting on brick piers. Flat-windows, with both large multi-light fixed original sash on the first floor of the façade and replacement windows. A 1-story rear gabled ell is present.”

339 W. Main Street, Elkin, Surry County

• Sold for $325,000 on March 15, 2023 (originally listed at $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,782 square feet, 1.0 acre
• Built in 1910
• Price/square foot: $182
• Listed December 27, 2022
• Last sale: $155,000, January 2000
• Neighborhood: Surry Avenue

1705 Ralee Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $243,000 on March 13, 2023 (originally $279,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,744 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 13, 2021
• Last sale: $160,000, November 2018
• Listing: “Barn was renovated into a home around 2000.”

• Sold for $208,000 on March 10, 2023 (listed at $194,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,616 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1927
• Listed February 9, 2023
• Last sale: $120,000, October 2008
• Note: Lovely house, unfortunately it has replacement windows and vinyl siding.

• Sold or $373,000 on March 9, 2023 (listed at $399,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,650 square feet, 3.61 acres
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1865
• Listed January 1, 2023
• Last sale: December 1970, price not recorded on deed

• Sold for $425,500 on March 8, 2023 (listed at $399,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,088 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1926
• Listed February 3, 2023
• Last sale: $89,500, May 1984
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes the home’s original two-car brick garage.
• District NR nomination: “The Efird House is a simple but stately two-story frame Colonial Revival house with a gable roof, weatherboard siding, paired sash windows, and a north side porch with slender Tuscan columns.
  • “The paneled entrance with sidelights and broad fanlight transom is sheltered by a pedimented Classical porch with Tuscan columns and a vaulted ceiling. The house has a stone retaining wall and steep stone steps to the terraced yard.
  • “Oscar O. Efird, an attorney and judge, and his wife, Frances, purchased the property in 1922 and were first listed in the city directory at this location in 1925. The Efirds owned the house until 1974.”
  • The Honorable Judge Oscar Ogburn Efird (1892-1974) was born in Winston and graduated from Roanoke College, class of 1912; Princeton, where he received a master’s degree; and Harvard, where he earned his law degree in 1919.
  • “At age 35, he was named judge of Forsyth County court and received seven two-years commissions from subsequent governors of North Carolina,” the Roanoke College website says. “He was the youngest judge of comparable jurisdiction in the state.”
  • The judge served as president of the Isaak Walton League and the North Carolina Skeet Shooting Association and was active in the Sons of the American Revolution and Rotary. He received the Roanoke College Medal in 1970 “for his life of productiveness and significance, as well as his distinctive service and professional achievements.”
  • Frances Kathrina Susan Koiner Efird (1892-1967) was born in Roanoke. She and Oscar were married in 1920.

• Sold for $180,000 on March 6, 2023 (listed at $189,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,705 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $67
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 21, 2022
• Last sale: $78,000, November 2004
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic ?District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “I-house. Two-story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; one-over-one windows; gable returns; diamond attic vent; hip-roof porch; turned posts. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

• Sold for $985,000 on March 3, 2023 (listed at $970,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,632 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1926
• Listed February 3, 2023
• Last sale: $860,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The original owners appear to have been Jerry Lee Hester (1876-1949) and Elizabeth Pearl Stipe Hester (1886-1969). They were listed at the address in 1928, the first year the city directory listed Stratford Road, and lived there until at least 1949, when Jerry died. He was a shoe salesman.

• Sold for $309,000 on March 2, 2023 (originally $325,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,388 square feet (per county), 0.64 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1930
• Listed July 26, 2022
• Last sale: $82,500, July 1998
• Note: The listing shows 2,601 square feet.
  • Listing: “Loaded with so much character.” That’s true, but it also has cheap replacement windows and vinyl siding.
  • A previous listing showed 3 bedrooms. This one says, “It’s a 5-bedroom home, currently set up and utilized as a 3-bedroom home, with bdrm 4 & 5 being used as other style of rooms that fit current seller needs.”
  • The property includes an 18 foot-by-18 foot outdoor kitchen in the backyard.

507 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $750,000 on March 1, 2023
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,394 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $221
• Built in 1921
• Not listed publicly for sale.
• Last sale: $200,000, February 2006
• Neighborhood: Westerwood

• Sold for $365,000 on March 1, 2023 (listed at $369,000)
  • The deed was signed March 1 but wasn’t filed until April 5.
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,474 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $105
• Built in 1871
• Listing date unknown
• Last sale: $120,000, December 2016
• Neighborhood: Troy Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Now a well-reviewed B&B
  • One of five structures in the tiny Troy Residential Historic District
• District NR nomination: “A notable example of Queen Anne architecture in Troy is the two-and-a-half-story Wade-Arscott House, a rambling frame residence that is enlivened by widely spaced windows, a one-story wraparound porch supported by square posts and enclosed by plain balustrades, a cylindrical, weatherboarded and shingled tower capped by a helmet roof at the southwest corner of the structure, and a peaked gable dormer incorporating a recessed balcony.
  • “Two entrances afford access to the house: from Main Street, steps lead to a central bay containing a four-panel door framed by paneled sidelights and a three-section transom; on the south side, similar steps rise from the driveway to the porch where a glazed upper-panel door opens into a narrow stair hall.
  • “Windows contain two-over-two sash within simple frames, but the upper story of the tower is enlivened by small-paned curved sash containing colored glass inserts. A heavy cornice surrounds the house and the gabled roofs are covered with asphalt shingles. A large central chimney rises through the roof ridge, while a secondary flue marks the location of the kitchen in the rear wing.
  • “Inside, the house appears to have two separate construction dates. Marks in the floors and walls of the North section indicate that the two-story house originally contained two rooms, with four Greek Revival-style mantels, two-panel doors and a staircase in the Northeast corner of the North room.
  • “According to Richter’s Montgomery County Heritage, this portion was built in 1871 for Christopher Columbus Wade (1837-1915), Judge of Probate, and his wife, Sarah Margaret DeBerry (1845-1920).
  • “In the 1890s he enlarged the structure by removing the walls and stairs in the old section, and extending the house to the south with a wraparound porch, cylindrical tower, and a new entrance and staircase opening to the South porch.”
  • C.C. Wade (1837-1915) enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 at age 24, soon contracted bronchitis and was invalided out eight months later. He and Sarah were married in 1866. He became the county clerk of court in 1868, serving for 21 years. In 1904 he was elected state House; he declined to seek re-election, “preferring the quiet of his home and attention to his farming and business interests,” The Asheboro Courier related in a wonderfully laudatory obituary. The newspaper called him “an able, wise, prudent member, always carefully guarding the public good. Few members have served in the general assembly in our memory who ranked higher.
  • “His wisdom and sound judgment appealed to all, and his advice was often sought and always followed. His long experience and knowledge of men and public affairs peculiarly fitted him for the position.”
  • In 1930, 10 years after Sarah’s death, the house was sold by the administrator of C.C.’s estate for $8,015 in a public auction. The estate may have been a complicated one; parties to the sale included at least seven descendants, three other individuals and, perhaps reflecting diverse business interests on C.C.’s part, the American Exchange Bank of Greensboro, Stylebuilt Garments Company, Process Trim Hat Company, Flo Frocks Inc., and G.W. Allen & Son.
  • The property was purchased in 1946 by Lloyd Arscott (1901-1967), owner of a local office supply business, and his wife, Millie Blake (1906-1996). Their children sold the house 51 years later for $88,000.
  • After that, the house may have fallen on hard times. It was sold for $37,000 in 2003 and $21,000 in 2004. It apparently was restored before selling for $120,000 in 2016.

• Sold for $180,000 on February 24, 2023 (originally $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,350 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $77
• Built in 1890
• Listed July 1, 2022
• Last sale: $200,000, September 2016
• Neighborhood: Academy Street Historic District
• Listing: “Zoned for business and/or residential use.” County tax records describe it as an office building.
• District NRHP nomination: “Two-story frame T-shaped house with two tall interior brick chimneys.
  • “Distinguishing features are a two-story, three-sided bay in projecting gabled wing of facade, richly carved pendant brackets all along the roofline, and classical details, including Tuscan porch columns and molded architraves topped by boxed heads above doors and windows.
  • “Thomas Ruffin Pratt (1856-1937), prominent local civic and business leader, had the house built during the 1890s. The current [as of 1980] owner is Pratt’s grandson.”
  • Thomas and Maybud Julia Pratt (1861-1932) had at least four children. Ownership of the house apparently passed to the eldest, Annie Pearl Pratt Van Noppen (1886-1968). Her husband, John James Van Noppen II (1871-1919), was a first-generation Dutch American and a dentist in Spray. He died in the Spanish Flu pandemic.
  • Annie was a teacher and contributed articles to Madison’s newspaper, The Messenger, including a series on historic homes along the Dan River in Rockingham County. After John’s death at age 47, she never remarried and outlived him by 49 years.
  • From Thomas’s findagrave.com listing: “Thomas and his brother, Charles Benton Pratt, operated a general merchandise store located in the south half of the Carter-Moir Hardware Store.
  • “The two-story building that housed their general merchandise store is located in the Leaksville Commercial Historic District and is included in the National Register of Historic Places. It is a two-story brick building built in the 1880’s and noted for its decorative brickwork. The building may also have housed the Bank of Leaksville, chartered in 1889.
  • “In the 1890’s Thomas built a two-story T-shaped house at 101 W. Academy Street noted for richly carved brackets and classical details. Thomas also sold insurance. His other business pursuits included a brick manufacturing plant and a mortuary.
  • “He served as a Rockingham County Commissioner and was involved in the infamous story of Rockingham County’s ‘Bridge to Nowhere‘, a bridge built in 1929 across the Dan River with no approaches or connecting roads. Thomas was the chairman of the Rockingham County [Board of Commissioners] when the contract was approved for building the bridge. That resulted in a lengthy and famous lawsuit between the county and the builders, Luten Bridge Company.”
  • In an entertaining academic legal paper, the Luten Bridge/Mebane Bridge case is recounted as “a remarkable story, one that arose within a heated tax revolt pitting the county’s farmers against its most celebrated industrialist. Much more than a crisp illustration of the duty to mitigate, Rockingham County v. The Luten Bridge Co. offers a window into a southern community’s struggles with a divided social order, the introduction of wealth into local politics, and a changing economy.”

433 Boone Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Ray-McCallum House

• Sold for $248,000 on February 17, 2023 (originally $280,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,938 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1900
• Listed November 1, 2022
• Last sale: $60,100, August 2018
• Neighborhood: Highlands, Boone Road Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Several good examples of the ornate, full-blown Queen Anne style appear in the district. These include the Ray-McCallum House at 433 Boone Road, which features a variety of decorative exterior woodwork including sawn brackets with bullseyes, drop pendants, curved raking boards with bosses, tall paneled and dentilled lintels above the main elevation’s windows, turned posts and balusters and sawn foliate spandrels at the front porch.”
  • “Like the Morehead-Sweaney-Stone House next door, this house was constructed by Spray Water Power and Land Company around the turn of the century for the use of its mill officials; its decorative elements, however, more emphatically evoke the nineteenth century in their expression of the Queen Anne style.
  • “Sawn brackets with bull’s eye and drop pendants appear at the base of the gable surmounting the front polygonal bay, and the gable features curved raking boards with bosses and a pointed arched surround at the small attic window. The front porch is typical of the period with its turned posts and balusters and sawn foliate spandrels.
  • “Another distinctive feature of the property are the tall panelled and dentilled lintels above the six windows of the front wing.
  • “The earliest known occupants of the house were R.P. Ray and his family, who lived here during the first decade of this century; Ray operated the Spray Mercantile.
  • “Later, Dr. A. Herman Stone lived here a short while with his mother and sister before moving to the Morehead-Sweaney-Stone House.
  • “The Stones were succeeded by Mr. and Mrs. Numa H. McCollum, who remained here until their natural deaths, both on the same day, in the early 1960s.”

• Sold for $392,000 on February 13, 2023 (originally $449,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,787 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1915
• Listed November 6, 2022
• Last sale: $300,000, July 2022
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NRHP)
• Note: Bought in July by one of those “We Buy Houses” outfits (“Are You Looking For A Fast As-Is Cash Sale Without The Hassles?”) for well below the prevailing price in the neighborhood. After some degree of work, the house is listed at 50 percent more than the July price but is still described in the listing as a “fix and flip or rental” property.
  • Renovated in 1994 by Win and Ann Milam, who restored several properties in the historic district as well as the nearby Double Oaks mansion, listed on the National Register.
  • The house first appeared in the city directory in 1917 with Timothy C. Ward and Dora Ward as residents. They bought the property that year and apparently built the house. Timothy was the state manager of the Toledo Safe Company.
  • In 1922 the Wards sold the house to William Brown Little (1874-1943) and Grace Darling Dry Little (1892-1992). William was a district manger for Southern Bell.
  • The house remained in the Little family for 71 years, being sold after Grace’s death at age 100 by their only child, Laura Grace Little Truitt (1924-2018).

• Sold for $361,000 on February 10, 2023 (listed at $399,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,227 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $162
• Built in 1922
• Listed January 7, 2023
• Last sale: $212,500, June 2018
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; twelve-over-one windows; hip-roof entry porch with roof balustrade; paired, Tuscan columns; side porch with roof balustrade; modillions; solider course watertable.”

• Sold for $149,500 on February 9, 2023 (originally $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,767 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably later; see note)
• Listed July 7, 2022
• Last sale: $42,500, August 1999
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside/Central Terrace Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “One-and-a-half-story side-gable Craftsman Bungalow with shed-roof dormer; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; gable-roof porch with square posts.”
  • The address wasn’t listed in the city directory until 1929. Robert Lee Culp (1880-1944) and Eula Pearl Tate Culp (1878-1963) were listed as residents. Robert was a carpenter.

• Sold for $178,000 on February 7, 2023 (originally $220,000, later $250,000)
• Duplex, total of 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,860 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $62
• Built in 1914
• Listed July 19, 2022
• Last sale: $105,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District (NRHP)
• Listing: “Home has been mostly remodeled …. Just a few finishing touches needed to make it move-in ready! No permits were pulled for renovation.”
• District NRHP nomination: “frame Queen Anne with wooden shingle accents in gables and as bands on three-sided bay at north side of house; projecting three-sided end bay on main facade capped by attic pediment; wide front porch extends to porte cochere. Approximately 3,000 square feet.
  • “Frazier managed Frazier Piano Company in High Point.”

• Sold for $188,500 on January 25, 2023 (originally $210,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,599 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1928
• Listed November 11, 2022
• Last sale: $47,500, January 2022

712 Brookstown Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles Beck House

• Sold for $515,000 on January 20, 2023
• 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4,110 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1892 (per county; see note)
• Apparently not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $250,000, July 2013
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: The district’s National Register nomination dates the house as ca. 1904.
  • Bought by an LLC. The last three previous owners were LLC’s as well.
• District NR nomination: “The Beck House is a hip roof, two-story, Queen Anne house clad in weatherboard with gabled projections with shingles in the gable ends.
  • “The house has a wraparound porch with a rounded corner, spindlework frieze and turned posts.
  • “The double leaf entry has a transom. Windows are one-over-one. This house is connected to 716 by a hyphen.
  • “Charles Beck was a salesman with Norfleet Hardware Co.”

• Sold for $210,000 on January 18, 2023 (listed at $235,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,789 square feet, 5.61 acres
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1906
• Listed November 10, 2022
• Last sale: $91,000, October 1995
• Listing: “The wide plank real hardwood floors are from this properties’ saw mill”
  • “It has a brand new $30k steel beam foundation”
  • The house has a Clemmons mailing address but is just south of the Davidson-Forsyth county line, about four miles south of Clemmons.

• Sold for $355,000 on January 13, 2023 (listed at $375,000)
• 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,951 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• Built in 1910
• Listed November 16, 2022
• Last sale: $126,000, December 2012
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The first known owners of the house were James Free and Cynthia Tulbert Brendle, the parents of nine children. The oldest, Annie Laurie, married William Nathan Minish, whose family lived at 321 Gwyn Avenue.
  • “Metal worker Paul Eidson lived here after the Brendles, and for many years the house has been owned by the Claude Eldridge family.
  • “The two-story frame dwelling, now vinyl-sided, has a hipped roof, two-over-two sash windows, a three-bay facade, and a wraparound porch with turned posts, sawnwork brackets, and a replacement or added balustrade. Most of the south side of the porch has been enclosed.”