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228 S. Fayetteville Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Gregson House

• Sold for $242,500 on December 31, 2020 (originally $274,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,424 square feet, 2.58 acres
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built in 1905
• Listed April 10, 2020
• Last sale: $240,000, June 2017
• Listing: “Featured in a major motion picture …” The Internet Movie Database lists four movies that were filmed in Liberty. If the listing refers to one of those, it’s stretching the meaning of “major.”

333 Joe Road, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $125,000 on December 31, 2020
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,302 square feet, 1 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1864
• Listed November 6, 2020
• Last sale: $75,000, April 2004
• Notes: The property includes a 30-by-40 workshop/garage and a storage building.
  • Although the house only one bathroom, it has both a shower stall and a tub with a shower.
  • “Some Windows may need sills.”

1576 Boones Cave Road, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $579,000 on December 29, 2020 (listed at $579,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,536 square feet, 100 acres
• Price/square foot: $377
• Built in 1890
• Listed May 16, 2020
• Last sale: $4,950, July 1943
• Note: The house may not remain standing for long. The buyer is a land-developer LLC based in Davidson County.
  • An odd sale: The owners accepted a full-price offer just five days after they listed the house, but the sale didn’t close for seven months.
  • Listing: “… historical site where lore says Daniel Boone lived nearby. Land in family since 1883.”
  • “Owner has never lived in home and has no idea the condition or the integrity of its components. … Currently leased to a tenant who has cattle.”
  • The property has a Lexington address but is southwest of the city, closer to Spencer than Lexington.

518 Julian Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $115,000 on December 29, 2020 (listed at $125,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,954 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $59
• Built in 1917
• Listed October 12, 2020
• Last sale: $78,000, March 2009
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: The property includes two lots with a wired storage building on the second lot.

2773 Frye Bridge Road, Davidson County (Clemmons mailing address)

• Sold for $249,900 on December 23, 2020 (originally $299,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,949 square feet, 10.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1895
• Listed June 5, 2020
• Last sale: $167,650, February 2009
• Note: County records show the house dating back to 1919 rather than 1895, with 2,949 square feet rather than 2,432 (listing) and 10.12 acres rather than 1 acre (listing).

303 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Effie M. Anderson House
Blog post — 303 S. Mendenhall Street: A 1914 Harry Barton Classic in College Hill, $449,900

• Sold for $449,900 on December 18, 2020 (listed at $449,900)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,807 square feet
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1914
• Listed October 6 2020
• Last sale: $248,000 May 2008
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: Designated as a Guilford County historic landmark
  • Designed by Harry Barton. Few architects have been as historically prominent in Greensboro and across the state as Harry Barton. For more than 20 years until his death in 1937, he designed several of the Greensboro’s most notable buildings, including the UNCG Auditorium, the Quad and others on the campus; the Guilford County Courthouse; the Cone Export and Commission Building; First Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian Church of the Covenant; and World War Memorial Stadium. 
  • Effie McLean Anderson was a widow. She bought the house in 1915, about a year after her husband died; they had been married less than four years. She had no children and never remarried. (Effie did have a step-daughter but may not have raised her. Fannie Anderson Sutton’s mother died at age 30 in 1910, when Fannie was four years old. Fannie lived to be 99, dying in 2006 at her home at Well-Spring Retirement Community.)
  • Effie owned the house until February 9, 1946; she died eight days later at the age of 61.
  • Her husband, William Irvin Anderson, died at age 35 while having his appendix taken out. He was the founder and owner of W.I. Anderson Produce at 245 E. Friendly Avenue. His building has been converted to offices but is still identifiable by the words “♦ FRUITS ♦ PRODUCE ♦” over the door facing East Friendly (click on the photo to see it bigger):

201 Leftwich Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $348,500 on December 18, 2020 (listed at $347,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,980 square feet
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 27, 2020
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Last sale: $295,000, May 2016

8020 Broad Street, Rural Hall, Forsyth County

• Sold for $253,900 on December 17, 2020 (originally $365,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,023 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1871
• Listed September 23, 2020
• Last sale: $57,500, June 1987
• Note: The listing talks about “preserving the charm and history” of the home, but it has vinyl siding and replacement windows.

527 Moir Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Trogden-Williams-Cox House

• Sold for $130,000 on December 16, 2020 (originally $139,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,348 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $39
• Built in 1880
• Listed June 11, 2020
• Last sale: $90,000, November 2018
• Note: The house apparently had been divided into two apartments: “2nd level room can be converted back into 2nd kitchen.”
  • The house is included in A Tale of Three Cities: Eden’s Heritage, A Pictorial History of Leaksville, Spray and Draper: “According to local historians, surveyor and engineer W.B. Trogden had this large two-story frame house built prior to the construction of the First Baptist Church across the street in 1886. The Queen Anne style house is characterized by its irregular composition of asymmetrical gabled wings projecting from a central hip-roofed block.”

191 Park Cattle Lane, Elkin, Surry County

• Sold for $300,000 on December 9, 2020 (originally $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,800 square feet, 17.94 acres
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 13, 2020
• Last sale: $125, June 1994
• Note: For sale by owner

903 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $427,000 on December 8, 2020 (originally $449,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,958 square feet
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1905
• Listed June 8, 2020
• Last sale: $32,000, October 1983
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: The house includes a one-bedroom basement apartment with a separate entrance and address (1302 Forsyth Street).

1107 N. Rotary Drive, High Point

• Sold for $257,550 on December 8, 2020 (originally $285,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,134 square feet
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1938
• Listed July 31, 2020
• Last sale: $239,900, October 2017

1901 Madison Avenue, Greensboro
The Frances and Frank Werner House

• Sold for $580,000 on December 7, 2020 (listed at $565,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,367 square feet
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1927
• Listed October 23, 2020
• Last sale: $355,000, February 2001
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, side-gabled, brick Colonial Revival-style house displays a modillion cornice and a stylized dentil course on its frieze, but only on the main block. These same details carry to the entry’s entablature where a cornice with modillion blocks surmounts the frieze graced with Greek fretwork. Just below, rosettes flank a festoon. To complete this classical entry, Doric pilasters frame the paneled wood door.”
  • “Windows throughout are eight-over-eight and six-over-six with those on the second floor façade notched into the frieze. A brick chimney rises from the east gable end of the main block, where it meets the lower, west gable end of a two-story, one-bay-wide, weatherboard wing. Its lower level displays casement windows above paneled aprons framed by full-height plain pilasters.”
  • “The second floor includes six-over-six and eight-over-eight windows and a modern, oversized, fixed-glass window on the gable end, suggesting that this level was added somewhat recently. A west elevation, two-story, weatherboard wing displays six-over-six windows and a west gable-end brick chimney. A small ell extends from the rear and a pair of front-gabled dormers rest on the rear roof slope.”
  • “According to the 1937 city directory, Werner was the supervisor of Juvenile Hosiery Mills.”

501 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $172,900 on December 7, 2020 (originally $179,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,694 square feet
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 30, 2020
• Last sale: $135,000, September 2019
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• Note: Renovated by current owners. An earlier renovation received the Minetree Pine Preservation Award from the Burlington Historic Preservation Commission.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story L-plan dwelling is a relatively intact example of a late nineteenth/early twentieth century traditional house form which is representative of the main period of development in this area of the district. Its hip roof extends to gable-roofed wings; the center of the ell is expanded by a projecting bay with a one-story wraparound porch and a single-bay porch above the entrance. The porches feature turned posts and balustrades.”

426 Carolina Circle, Winston-Salem
The John and Marjorie Moore House

• Sold for $565,000 on December 4, 2020 (listed at $575,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,066 square feet (per county records), 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $273
• Built in 1922
• Listed November 2, 2020
• Last sale: $476,500, August 2011
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a guest house with a full kitchen and bath.
  • John Watson Moore and Marjorie McApline Moore bought the property in 1921. John died in 1968 at age 77; Marjorie (1985-1974) sold the house in 1969. Both were born in Japan, and both were buried in Huntersville. John was the first principal of R.J. Reynolds High School and later superintendent of the city schools.

1715 Wright Avenue, Greensboro
The Esther W. Armfield House
Blog post — New Listing: 1715 Wright Avenue, A Fisher Park House in Sunset Hills (Maybe)

• Sold for $475,000 on December 4, 2020 (listed at $525,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,532 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1929
• Listed October 5, 2020
• Last sale: $364,500, June 2001
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: The house may not have been built at its present location, according to Marvin Brown in Greensboro: An Architectural Record: “It is said to have originally overlooked Fisher Park from the present site of the First Presbyterian Church. By 1930 it had been moved to this site and was occupied by Armfield, widow of newspaperman G. Will Armfield.” First Presbyterian was built in 1928. 1715 Wright Avenue is listed in the Greensboro city directory for the first time in 1930. George Williamson Armfield  (1849-1927) was actually not a journalist but an architect, actually the first licensed architect in the state. Among his works were the alumni hall at Oak Ridge Military Academy and the Harden Thomas Martin House on North Mendenhall Street, now Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast. “When North Carolina passed an architectural practice act and began the formal registration of architects, G. Will Armfield of Greensboro was granted certificate #1 on May 15, 1915,” the N.C. State University website says. “He was one of a large number of men who were certified based on having already been in practice prior to 1915. ”
  • After her husband’s death in 1927, Esther (1857-1942) bought the property from her son Hugh (1898-1992). She and, later, her daughter Minnie Myrtle Armfield (1880-1973) owned it until Minnie’s estate sold it in 1974. The Armfields had eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood.
  • Esther’s parents, Henry and Ann Wakefield, were born in England and may have been Quakers. They moved to Canada, where their nine children were born, and then to North Carolina. Along with their three youngest children, they’re buried in New Garden Friends Cemetery in Greensboro. (Esther and G. Will are in Green Hill.)

1332 W. Friendly Avenue, Greensboro
The Morton House
Blog post — New Listing: 1332 W. Friendly Avenue, A Beautiful 1918 Craftsman

• Sold for $290,000 on December 4, 2020 (listed at $290,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,016 square feet (per county records)
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1918
• Listed September 8, 2020
• Last sale: $247,500, December 2017
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace

1005 W. Westwood Avenue, High Point

• Sold for $285,000 on December 4, 2020 (listed at $280,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,232 square feet
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1933
• Listed November 2, 2020
• Last sale: $185,000, June 2016

1515 Johnsontown Road, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Sold for $850,000 on December 3, 2020 (originally $1.1 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,804 square feet, 26.82 acres
• Price/square foot: $303
• Built in 1938
• Listed June 7, 2019
• Last sale: $315,000, June 1998
• Note: The property includes a lake and a lakeside pavilion with a kitchen, full bath and masonry fireplace.
  • Previous listing: “Parisian inspired torcheres circle the lake and are found throughout the property. … 26.82 acres of pristine forest.”

1009 Ferndale Boulevard, High Point

• Sold for $365,000 on December 3, 2020 (originally $375,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,898 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1937
• Listed October 7, 2020
• Last sale: $242,000, July 1999
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Listing: The property includes an outdoor fireplace in the backyard and a detached garage with office space.

2139 Quaker Church Road, Siloam, Surry County

• Sold for $300,000 on December 2, 2020 (originally $450,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,720 square feet, 13 acres
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1924
• Listed September 27, 2019
• Last sale: $65,000, November 1989
• Note: The property includes a 40-by-60 shop with drive-through doors, an office, HVAC, loft storage and concrete floors; a barn with an airplane hanger, wash bays/pits, office, apartment with a kitchenette, full bath and garage.
  • The house has replacement windows and vinyl siding.

418 Oaklawn Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $607,000 on December 1, 2020 (originally $699,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,322 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1927
• Listed June 1, 2018
• Last sale: $129,000, March 2013
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The house was designed by Luther Lashmit.
  • The property includes a terrace, patio, waterfall fishpond, tree house and potting shed.

245 N. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem
Blog post — Feature of the Day: A Tudor Front Door

• Sold for $522,600 on December 1, 2020 (listed at $525,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,577 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 15, 2020
• Last sale: $330,000, January 2010
• Neighborhood: West Highlands

1405 Northfield Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $484,000 on December 1, 2020 (listed at $479,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,789 square feet
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1929
• Listed November 5, 2020
• Last sale: $360,000, July 2016
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace
• Note: The house was built as a rental property by J.W. Hobbs, a grocer who loved nearby at 212 Westover Terrace. After a couple changes of ownership, the house was bought in 1938 by Ira and Ethelyne Styers Shelley, who owned it for 48 years, until 1986. Ira died in 1972 at age 85; Ethelyne, in 1997 at age 90. Ira was a plumber.
  • On Hobbs’s 1926 deed, the property is identified as being on “Woodland Way, now Northfield Street” and 150 feet from that street’s intersection with West Market Boulevard, now Aberdeen Terrace.

211 Elmwood Drive, Greensboro
The Elliott R. Carver House

• Sold for $352,500 on November 29, 2020 (listed at $369,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,373 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1926
• Listed October 6, 2020
• Last sale: $24,750, July 1946
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The house was last sold to Ford D. Little in 1946. He was president of W.P. Ballard and Company of Greensboro, which sold laundry supplies and equipment. The house has been in the family ever since. The original owner, Elliott R. Carver, was an executive of Central Insurance Company and Piedmont Finance Company. He lost the house to foreclosure in 1933.

310 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $425,000 on November 23, 2020 (originally $457,700)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,404 square feet
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1931
• Listed July 24, 2020
• Last sale: $277,000, May 2006
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills

2457 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $247,000 on November 20, 2020 (listed at $248,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,654 square feet
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1885
• Listed September 17, 2020
• Last sale: $35,000, February 2002
• Note: Glencoe is a National Register historic district and one of Burlington’s local historic districts. Although it’s outside the city limits, Glencoe is within the city’s zoning jurisdiction.

1005 Johnson Street, High Point
The Alice Charles Rental House

• Sold for $226,000 on November 19, 2020 (listed at $215,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,810 square feet
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1923
• Listed September 22, 2020
• Last sale: $139,900, July 2016
• Neighborhood: Johnson Street Historic District (local), Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Replacement windows
  • NRHP district nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, front-gabled, Craftsman-style house  is three bays wide and triple-pile with one-and-a-half-story, projecting gabled bays on the left (south) and right (north) elevations. The house has a painted brick veneer on the first story that flares slightly at the bottom of the wall. It has wood shingles at the top of the walls and in the gables with deep eaves, exposed rafter tails and knee brackets in the gables. The house has replacement windows except for small, six-light, Craftsman-style windows near the front of the left elevation and flanking the chimney on the right elevation. The eight-light-over-three-panel door is sheltered by a full-width, hip-roofed porch on tapered wood posts on brick piers with an original low wood railing and a low gable over the entrance. The house was built in 1921 as a rental property by Alice Charles, wife of Commercial National Bank officer R.C. Charles.”

1115 Council Street, High Point
The Henry Grady Owens House

• Sold for $125,000 on November 19, 2020 (originally $170,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,616 square feet
• Price/square foot: $77
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 21, 2020
• Last sale: $139,500, May 2002
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is five bays wide and triple-pile with a shed-roofed wall dormer on the right (north) end of the facade. The house has a brick veneer, replacement windows, and a four-light-over-four-panel door sheltered by an arched hood on brackets. A flat-roofed screened porch projects from the right end of the facade, supported by square, full-height brick piers. There are paired windows in the gable ends and brackets under the windows in the dormer for holding a window box. The site slopes to the rear to reveal a basement-level garage. The earliest known occupant is Henry Grady Owens (teacher, High Point High School) in 1927.”

503 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $225,000 on November 16, 2020 (listed at $224,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,301 square feet
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 3, 2020
• Last sale: $138,000 September 1985
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• 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.”

8101 Kelly Ford Road, Oak Ridge, Guilford County

• Sold for $1.015 on November 12, 2020 (originally $1.125 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,554 square feet, 31.69 acres
• Price/square foot: $397
• Built in 1900
• Listed April 17, 2020
• Last sale: $307,000, August 2000
• Note: The property consists of three lots.

605 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $280,000 on November 12, 2020 (listed at $280,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,904 square feet
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1914
• Listed October 9, 2020
• Last sale: $260,000, March 2020
• Neighborhood: Westerwood

8827 N.C. Highway 109 N., Wallburg, Davidson County

• Sold for $300,000 on November 10, 2020 (originally $310,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,442 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1890 (per county records)
• Listed May 20, 2020
• Last sale: $282,000, July 2015
• Note: The property has a Winston-Salem mailing address but is located in Wallburg.

708 Fifth Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $255,000 on November 9, 2020 (listed at $249,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,448 square feet (per county records)
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1913
• Listed August 31, 2020
• Last sale: $169,000, December 2014
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District

2440 Hodges Road, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $210,000 on November 4, 2020 (originally $250,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,356 square feet, 0.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $155
• Built in 1900 (according to county property records)
• Listing date unknown
• Last sale: $45,500, June 2002
• HOA: $55/month
• Note: Restoration was completed in 2008. “The house was restored but not added onto, so new owners may add about 700 square feet of additional space.” (Preservation North Carolina)
• The restored Glencoe mill village is just north of Burlington off N.C. 62. It is a historic district administered by the City of Burlington (Glencoe is outside the city limits but within Burlington’s zoning jurisdiction)

1002 Fairmont Street, Greensboro
The Laucks-Hooke House
contract pending September 29, 2020

• Sold for $480,000 on November 3, 2020 (originally $549,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,930 square feet
• Price/square foot: $164
• Built in 1926
• Listed August 31, 2020
• Last sale: $308,000, September 2003
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The property was owned from 1924 to 1939 by John Laucks, a clerk at Vicks Chemical Company. It was bought in 1939 by Malcolm Hooke, a professor of French at the Women’s College; his books on French grammar and usage are still available (though long out of print, malheuresment). He sold the house in 1970.

742 N. Stratford Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $725,000 on October 30, 2020 (originally $774,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,242 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1932
• Listed July 31, 2020
• Last sale: $445,000, March 2018
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

628 Colonial Drive, High Point

• Sold for $339,000 on October 30, 2020 (originally $349,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,255 square feet (per county records)
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1926
• Listed August 29, 2020
• Last sale: $299,000, October 2017
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: The house was owned by the First Methodist Protestant Church of High Point from 1928 to 1969.

201 Ridgeway Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $1 million on October 29, 2020 (listed at $1.150 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,674 square feet (per county records), 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $272
• Built in 1937
• Listed August 17, 2020
• Last sale: $360,000, October 2015
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Listing: For sale by owner
  • The current owners have renovated and increased the size of the house.
  • Built on a double lot

527 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County
The Ray-Jamerson House
Blog post — The Ray-Jamerson House: An Affordable 1886 Beauty in Eden

• Sold for $217,500 on October 29, 2020 (listed at $219,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,456 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built around 1886 (see note below)
• Listed August 22, 2020
• Last sale: $32,000, September 1981
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District
• Note: “The unaltered c. 1886 Ray-Jamerson House at 527 Patrick Street is perhaps the district’s best example of the popular two-story L-shaped vernacular Queen Anne style, characterized by a cross-gable roof, deep eaves with molded box cornices, returns, plain frieze boards, roof covered with standing seam metal, and a three-sided projecting bay window. The porch has unusual turned posts and sawn spandrels in an elaborate foliate motif; it shelters the original double entrance door with two-pane transom.”(NRHP district nomination)
  • County records date the house to 1920, but the historic district’s National Register nomination puts it around 1886.
  • The property includes a detached two-car garage with a storage room upstairs.

5887 Old U.S. Highway 29, Pelham, Caswell County
Cedar Line Farm

• Sold for $10,000 on October 29, 2020 (originally $85,000, listed at $110,000 when sold)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,412 square feet, 1.88 acres
• Price/square foot: $4
• Built in 1900 (see note below)
• Listed December 31, 2019
• Last sale: If you want to try finding your way through Caswell County property records, good luck.
• Note: The property was bought by Clayton Homes, the largest manufacturer of modular houses in the nation. It is now expanding into site-built homes as well as tiny homes, college dormitories, military barracks and apartments.
  • The deed says the excise tax paid was $20. At 50 cents per thousand, that comes out to $10,000 for a property that was on the market for $110,000. The tax value of the land is $16,376.
  • The listing says the house was built in the mid-1800s; county records show 1900.
  • “Home needs major renovation. … Replacement Windows. Metal Roof. Outbuildings of No value [barn and detached garage].”
  • “Formally Doctor’s Residence. Stagecoach stopped at this location.”
  • “Land on either side available for sale.” The sellers own about 7 acres surrounding the property. As of early December 2020, they apparently haven’t sold any of those parcels.
  • Must love trains: There’s a set of tracks across the road.

1110 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Roberts-Lehman House

• Sold for $399,000 on October 27, 2020 (listed at $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,215 square feet
• Price/square foot: $124
• Built in 1917 (per county records; NRHP nomination says 1911)
• Listed September 4, 2020
• Last sale: $315,000 June 2013
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Nation Register district nomination: “The Roberts-Lehman House is one of the most distinctive of the ‘Dutch’ Colonial Revival houses in the West End. It is a large one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame dwelling with a triple-gambrel roof, The front gambrel has diamond-muntined upper sash which match the diamond-muntined sidelights and transom of the glass and wood paneled front entrance. Other details include interior end chimneys, one-over-one sash windows with wood louvered shutters, a front porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade, a high brick foundation, and a long flight of balustraded wood steps leading to the front entrance. Like other houses on the street, this one has a stone retaining wall by the sidewalk and stone front yard steps. … Hilliam J. Roberts acquired the property in 1911, and in 1912 he and his wife, Sallie, were listed in the city directory at this location. H. J, Roberts was manager of the R. G. Dunn & Co. (mercantile agency). The Roberts family remained owner-occupants until 1930. In 1935 Paul H. and Thelma Lehman purchased the house for their residence, owning it until 1979. Paul Lehman was an employee of P. H. Hanes Knitting Co.”

410 Oaklawn Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $840,000 on October 26, 2020 (listed at $849,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,604 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1927
• Listed September 9, 2020
• Last sale: $720,000, December 2013
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: Designed by Luther Lashmit

607 W. Farriss Street, High Point

• Sold for $310,000 on October 23, 2020 (originally $330,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,350 square feet
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 27, 2020
• Last sale: $252,000, September 2018
• Neighborhood: Emerywood

776 Pilot School Road, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Sold for $290,000 on October 23, 2020 (originally $383,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,992 square feet (per county records), 28.79 acres
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1876
• Listed November 22, 2019
• Last sale: Information not available online
• Note: The property includes a barn.
  • Vinyl siding
  • No central air conditioning
  • “TLC needed and sold as-is.”

609 Longview Street, Greensboro
The Robert and Mabel Byrum House

• Sold for $360,000 on October 20, 2020 (originally $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,272 square feet (per county records), 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1938
• Listed September 1, 2020
• Last sale: $296,000, May 2013
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The house was built by Robert L. Byrum (1904-1962), the city electrical inspector. It remained in the family for 46 years. His wife, Mabel (1900-1980), and then their daughter, Mabel Paige Byrum Murray (1928-2014), continued to live in the house until 1984.

310 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County

• Sold for $165,000 on October 16, 2020 (originally $179,900 and later as low as $154,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1860 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 16, 2019
• Last sale: $60,000, December 1993
• Note: Like seemingly all older homes in Stokes County, it has been subjected to vinyl siding and replacement windows.

3851 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $293,000 on October 14, 2020 (originally $349,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,320 square feet, 2,67 acres
• Price square foot: $88
• Built in 1933
• Listed April 23, 2020
• Last sale: $190,000, September 2019
• Neighborhood: Old Town
• Note: Slate roof

315 N. Maple Street, Graham, Alamance County

• Sold for $100,000 on October 9, 2020 (originally $159,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,106 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $47
• Built in 1920 (per county record; see note below)
• Listed July 14, 2019
• Last sale: $90,000, April 2019
• Listing: “Historic Home built in 1880’s & Moved to this Lot in Early 1900’s.”
  • Foreclosure, owned by lender, being sold as-is
  • The property includes an in-ground pool, detached two-car garage and storage building.

142 Hawthorne Road, Elkin, Surry County

• Sold for $265,000 on October 9, 2020 (originally $284,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,816 square feet, 1.27 acres
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1936
• Listed March 12, 2020
• Last sale: $229,900, May 2018

703 Percy Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $352,000 on October 9, 2020 (listed at $330,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,231 square feet
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1930
• Listed August 28, 2020
• Last sale: $259,000, July 2010
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District

708 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $172,000 on October 8, 2020
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,100 square feet
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1912
• Listed: Had a “For Sale By Owner” sign in the yard for some period of time during the summer
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: Originally a single-family home, it was divided into apartments decades ago.

3121 Ray T. Moore Road, Yadkinville, Yadkin County

• Sold for $475,000 on October 7, 2020 (listed at $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,959 square feet, 20 acres
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 14, 2020
• Last sale: $90,000, October 1998
• Note: The property includes a barn, organic gardens, pastures and a pond.

1207 N. Rotary Street, High Point

• Sold for $630,000 on October 6, 2020 (listed at $645,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 3,741 square feet, 1.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1926
• Listed August 13, 2020
• Last sale: $457,500, February 1997
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: Click here for video

221 E. Dalton Road, King. Stokes County
The James Robert Hutchins House

• Sold for $95,000 on October 5, 2020 (originally $159,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms,  2,834 square feet (per county records), 0.94 acre
• Price/square foot: $34
• Built in 1910
• Listed March 9, 2020
• Last sale: Not available in online records, but it appears to still be owned by the Hutchins family.
• Neighborhood: King Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: “Two-story dwelling has double-pile, central hall plan with hip roof. The double-tier front porch has turned posts, sawnwork brackets and balustrade, and an unusual front gable on hip roof. The original owner ran a sawmill near Sauratown Mountain.” (District NRHP nomination)
  • Vinyl siding

315 Corona Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Huband House

• Sold for $260,000 on October 2, 2020 (listed at $235,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,141 square feet
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 6, 2020
• Last sale: $130,000, September 2013
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos siding; front gable dormer; front gable porch with square columns on brick piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.1924 CD: Benjamin B. Huband and Misses Francis and Mary Huband, teachers.” (District NRHP nomination)

516 5th Avenue, Greensboro
The Pearce-Young House

• Sold for $305,000 on October 2, 2020 (originally $335,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,152 square feet
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 6, 2020
• Last sale: $160,000, June 2018
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District
• Note: The first occupants of the house appear to have been James and Eunice Pearce. James Robert Pearce (1840-1910) was a former Confederate soldier, justice of the peace and auctioneer. His funeral was held at the house. Eunice Roxanna Wood Pearce (1845-1918) continued to live in the house after his death, along with two of their six children, son Sherley, a bricklayer, and daughter Julia and her husband, John B. Clendenin, a linotyper for the Daily Record. By 1924 the house was in the hands of the Guilford Insurance & Realty Co., which sold it to Joseph E. and Rosalie M. Young.
  • The Youngs and then Frank and Lilly Young owned the house until 1986. Joseph Young was a machinist.  He had died and Rosalie had moved to Alaska by the time she sold the house to Frank and Lilly in 1938. Lilly’s heirs sold the house in 1986.
  • What it looked like when it was sold in 2018:

701 Arbor Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $695,000 on October 1, 2020 (listed at $669,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,248 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $214
• Built in 1927
• Listed August 20, 2020
• Last sale: $139,000, July 1984
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

922 Carolina Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Thomas-Lambert House

• Sold for $290,000 on October 1, 2020 (listed at $320,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,728 square feet
• Price/square foot: $168
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 9, 2020
• Last sale: $115,000, January 2008
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: For sale by owner
  • Rental property
  • District NRHP nomination: “This Craftsman house is a small two-story frame dwelling with a weatherboarded first story, a wood shingled second story, a street-facing gable roof with overhanging braced eaves, an offset corner porch with tapered wood posts set on brick plinths with a ramped brick balustrade, and a northeast side gable wing. Like 920 Carolina Ave. next door, this house was owned for years by the Gilmer C. Thomas family, but whether they actually resided here is uncertain. In 1946 the house was sold to Critz and H.B. Lambert, and they did occupy the house. He was a physician with the Veterans Administration. The Lamberts owned the property until 1972.”

2500 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, Guilford County

• Sold for $249,500 on October 1, 2020 (originally $595,000; foreclosure sale)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,459 square feet, 6.47 acres
• Price/square foot: $72
• Built in 1930
• Listed April 24, 2020
• Last sale: $475,000, July 2016
• Note: The property includes a recently built detached three-car garage.

1871 Pine Hall Road, Pine Hall, Stokes County

• Sold for $156,000 on October 1, 2020 (listed at $174,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,344 square feet, 2 acres
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1890
• Listed June 10, 2020
• Last sale: $35,000, October 1995
• Note: The listing talks about the home’s “original character,” but it has vinyl siding.

1815 Dalton Road, Greensboro
The A.W. Kaplan House
Blog post — 1815 Dalton Road: 98 Years, Three Owners (August 2, 2020)

• Sold for $910,000 on September 30, 2020 (listed at $924,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,454 square feet
• Price/square foot: $263
• Built in 1922
• Listed July 18, 2020
• Last sale: $750,000, July 2006
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: There have been only three owners of the property since the house was built. The Kaplan family owned it from 1916 to 1990.

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

• Sold for $365,000 on September 30, 2020 (listed at $363,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,567 square feet
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 19, 2020
• Last sale: $320,000, August 18, 2020
• Note: The property was owned from 1916 (apparently before the house was built) to 1947 by W.S. and Mary Jobe. He was a salesman; she was a stenographer with Joseph J. Stone and Co., printers, engravers and bookbinders.
  • From 1950 to 1990, the house was owned by Bernice Foust, a saleswoman at The Corner, a retail institution at the corner of Tate Street and Walker Avenue for 60 years until its closing in 2011.

384 Milling Road, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $304,500 on September 30, 2020 (listed at $299,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,164 square feet, 0.73 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1920
• Listed July 17, 2020
• Last sale: $20,000, March 1990
• Note: The property includes a salt-water swimming pool.

627 Mulberry Street, Winston-Salem
The Gable Ell House

• Sold for $256,000 on September 30, 2020 (originally $275,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,936 square feet
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1890
• Listed April 13, 2020
• Last sale: $150,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District

310 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The D. Newton and Eula Farnell House

• Sold for $628,000 on September 25, 2020 (originally $669,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,334 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $269
• Built in 1937
• Listed July 24, 2020
• Last sale: $615,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The house includes a basement suite with a small kitchen, bathroom and private entrance.
  • The property was sold in 1936 to D. Newton and Eula Farnell, who built the house. It was next sold 77 years later by the estate of their daughter Gloria Farnell Cowan. Newton Farnell was a lawyer and the 1942 president of the Greensboro Bar Association.

174 Poplar Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $196,000 on September 25, 2020 (originally $214,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,760 square feet
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1930
• Listed May 22, 2020
• Last sale: $118,000, January 2005

528 Country Club Road, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $239,000 on September 23, 2020 (originally $299,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,596 square feet
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built in 1925
• Listed February 5, 2020
• Last sale: $110,000, December 2012
• Note: The Mount Airy Country Club golf course is across the street.

312 S. Chapman Street, Greensboro
Blog post — 312 S. Chapman Street: Here’s Your Chance (Again!) (August 2, 2020)

• Sold for $500,000 on September 22, 2020 (originally $535,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,318 square feet
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1939
• Listed August 1, 2020
• Last sale: $452,500, April 2018
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: It’s a very nice house in a great neighborhood, but county records show the property having an unusually busy history:
  • It has been sold six times in the past 15 years. In the past 33 years, the house has been sold 11 times. In the previous 44 years, it had just two owners.
  • County records show 1939 as the date the house was built, but city directories show no house at the address until 1942, when it was listed as vacant. It was first listed as occupied in 1943, by the property owner, Joseph H. Johnson. Johnson owned the house for 12 years, selling it to Walter and Mabel Mueller in 1955. The Muellers owned it until 1987.

1803 Rolling Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $369,900 on September 22, 2020 (listed at $369,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,961 square feet
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 31, 2020
• Last sale: $299,000, May 2017
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills

113 Kensington Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $515,000 on September 18, 2020 (originally $460,000, later as high as $539,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,794 square feet
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 13, 2017
• Last sale: $82,500, February 1979
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: Built on a double lot

1915 Granville Road, Greensboro
Blog post — Classic House of the Week: A 1936 Mini-Mansion in Irving Park

• Sold for $685,000 on September 11, 2020 (originally listed at $839,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,613 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1936
• Listed November 17, 2017
• Last sale: $534,500, March 2003
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: Those are imported Italian shutters on either side of the front door.
  • The property includes a guest house.

620 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $250,000 on September 10, 2020 (listed at $248,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,161 square feet
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1918
• Listed August 6, 2020
• Last sale: $175,000, October 2012
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: “Another of the early twentieth century Foursquare houses on West Front Street, this well-maintained two-story frame dwelling features a hip roof and hip dormer, a two-bay facade, side-hall configuration, and bungalow-style windows. The one-story, full-facade porch supported by brick posts with heavy wooden brackets has a gable-roofed entrance bay.” Historic district NRHP nomination)

309 Tate Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $395,000 on September 9, 2020 (listed at $387,500)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 3,228 square feet
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1920
• Listed July 27, 2020
• Last sale: $105,000, May 1994
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: Originally a single-family home, it was divided into three apartments long ago.

3199 Westinghouse Road, Rural Hall, Forsyth County

• Sold for $180,000 on September 9, 2020 (originally $190,000)
• bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, 8.15 acres
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1894
• Listed August 4, 2020
• Last sale: $100,000, October 1986
• Listing: “Barn with 4 stalls and large shed roofed area on back. 4 acres of pasture. Riding ring or ATV track on back of property. Old tobacco barn and several out buildings. Blackberry bushes. Old tobacco barn and several out buildings. Creek surrounds property.”
  • Listed in property records but not mentioned in the listing: A 1,000 square-foot house, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, built in 1946, on the smaller tract. Is it still there? A Google Street View photo indicates it was in October 2016 (click for a larger view)

721 5th Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $345,000 on September 4, 2020 (listed at $349,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,581 square feet (per county records), 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1915
• Listed July 27, 2020
• Last sale: $225,000, November 2006
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District
• Note: Located across the street from Sternberger Park

425 Chestnut Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $195,000 on September 4, 2020 (originally $248,800)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,964 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot $99
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 30, 2020
• Last sale: $86,500, July 2007
• Not: The property includes a barn that look like a relatively recent addition.

3101 Old Greensboro Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $210,000 on September 2, 2020  (originally $257,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,452 square feet, 1.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $87
• Built in 1927
• Listed March 6, 2020
• Last sale: $35,000, May 2019
• Listing: The house was listed at 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms when it was for sale last year.
  • How it looked when it was sold in 2019:

811 Derby Road, Jackson Springs, Montgomery County

• Sold for $285,000 on August 31, 2020 (originally listed at $295,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,148 square feet, 63.8 acres
• Price/square foot: $133
• Built in 1772
• Listing date unavailable
• Last sale: $250,000, March 2016
• Listing: “Restoration has begun on the farmhouse. Perfect project for someone wanting to renovate and restore a historic farm.”
  • The property consists of two parcels totaling 63.8 acres, according to county records.
  • Not owner-occupied

513 Park Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $330,000 on August 28, 2020 (listed at $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, three bathrooms, 3,196 square feet
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 9, 2020
• Last sale: $4,000, July 1983
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District

305 Kemp Road West, Greensboro

• Sold for $545,000 on August 27, 2020 (listed at $525,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,756 square feet, 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $198
• Built in 1955
• Listed July 10, 2020
• Last sale: $53,000, September 1972
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: Interior by Otto Zenke

210 Isabel Street, Greensboro
The John L. Latham House

• Sold for $575,000 on August 25, 2020 (listed at $575,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,032 square feet
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 19, 2020
• Last sale: $500,000, August 2018
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The house was built by John L. Latham (1891-1950), president of Latham Cotton Company and secretary of J.E. Latham Co., which developed Latham Park and built homes in Fisher Park, including many Aladdin kit houses. John was a nephew of developer James Edwin Latham and cousin of James’s daughter May Latham Kellenberger. May’s husband, John, was a vice president of J.E. Latham Company.

1005 W. McGee Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $232,000 on August 25, 2020 (not listed for sale)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,986 square feet
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1920
• Last sale: $16,000, September 1968
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District

308 N. Chapman Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $475,000 on August 21, 2020 (listed at $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,845 square feet
• Price/square foot: $167
• Built in 1927
• Listed July 21, 2020
• Last sale: $405,000, October 2018
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: The property includes a detached studio.
  • The house overlooks Greenway Park.

215 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $375,000 on August 21, 2020 (listed at $389,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,815 square feet
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1922
• Listed July 14, 2020
• Last sale: $290,000, June 2016
• Neighborhood: Washington Park

706 Simpson Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $280,000 on August 21, 2020 (listed at $290,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,568 square feet
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1927
• Listed March 17, 2020
• Last sale: $85,000, July 1990
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: Not owner-occupied

406 S. Elam Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $250,000 on August 20, 2020 (listed at $284,750)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,608 square feet, 0.64 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1909
• Listed April 19, 2020
• Last sale: $252,957, January 2020 (foreclosure sale)
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park

420 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Fogleman-Jeffries House

• Sold for $201,000 on August 20, 2020 (listed at $215,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,378 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1916
• Listed July 2, 2020
• Last sale: $2,850, April 1905
• Listing: “House is PRICED to accomplish improvements by new owner.”
  • The property has been in the Fogleman and Jeffries family for 115 years.

342 Old Westfield Road, Pilot Mountain, Surry County

• Sold for $537,000 on August 14, 2020 (originally $625,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,321 square feet, 1.99 acres
• Price/square foot: $231
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 26, 2019
• Last sale: $115,000, October 2017
• Note: The owners of this house probably wouldn’t think of slapping wall-to-wall linoleum on all their floors, but they put up vinyl siding.
  • They may have been overly optimistic about their chances for a quick sale: The listing originally said they would review offers on October 5, 2019.

2121 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $905,000 on August 13, 2020 (listed at $915,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,372 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $268
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 5, 2020
• Last sale: $823,000, April 2018
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista

915 Olive Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $365,000 on August 13, 2020 (originally listed at $475,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,093 square feet
• Price/square foot: $174
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 9, 2019
• Last sale: $82,000, September 1988
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: Newly renovated, the house was previously used as an office.
  • An odd feature is the siting of the house on its lot at the corner of Olive Street and Bessemer Avenue. The narrow, nominally front side of the lot faces Bessemer, but the house is aligned with the long side of the lot facing Olive. As a result, it’s a much wider house than it otherwise could have been. It faces a street with less traffic and has very little backyard.

524 Church Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County
The Kivette House
Blog post — The Kivette Houses, Both Now For Sale: The Gibsonville Homes of Two Sisters Who Loved Parties and Elon (July 11, 2020)

• Sold for $153,000 on August 12, 2020 (listed at $150,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,048 square feet
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 7, 2020
• Last sale: $50,000, November 2019
• Listing: “2nd Floor waiting for some TLC – 4 Bedrooms and plumbed for potential 2 baths with guest suite.”
• Note: This property was owned by the Kivette family from 1923 to 2010. The sale came shortly after the death of Camille Kivette, the last of the Kivette sisters, lifelong supporters and benefactors of Elon University.

304 Oakwood Street, High Point

• Sold for $99,000 on August 10, 2020 (originally $115,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,582 square feet
• Price/square foot: $38
• Built in 1904
• Listed May 22, 2020
• Last sale: $115,000, July 2007
• Note: “The property used to be a Multi-Family (3 Units) and it can be turned back.”
  • No central air conditioning

1510 Cloverdale Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $237,500 on August 4, 2020 (listed at $237,500)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,236 square feet
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 20, 2020
• Last sale: $33,000, May 1974
• Neighborhood: West Highland
• Note: Rental
  • Listing: “diamond in the rough”
  • The house has a second kitchen on the second floor.

7135 Walnut Cove Road, Walkertown, Forsyth County

• Sold for $305,000 on August 3, 2020 (listed at $319,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,220 square feet, 6.02 acres
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1909
• Listed June 9, 2020
• Last sale: $204,000, November 2017
• Note: The property includes two storage buildings.

909 Johnson Street, High Point

• Sold for $260,000 on August 3, 2020 (listed at $289,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,286 square feet
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1926
• Listed December 19, 2019
• Last sale: $70,000, December 1982
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Listing: “Separate home on property originally used as Servant quarters.”

334 E. Swannanoa Avenue, Liberty, Randolph County

• Sold for $218,000 on July 31, 2020 (originally $259,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,934 square feet, 1.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $74
• Built in 1908
• Listed April 23, 2019
• Last sale: $79,900, October 15, 2018
• Note: The property includes an in-ground swimming pool, which appears to need work.
  • Aluminum siding

504 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Thomas L. Sellars House

• Sold for $315,000 on July 30, 2020 (originally $349,990)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,354 square feet, 0.92 acres
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1890
• Listed January 24, 2020
• Last sale: $230,000, May 2005
• Neighborhood: West Davis/Fountain Place Historic District
• Listing: “Interior details include molded corner blocks, paneled wainscot in the hall, paneled newel posts, turned balusters, Victorian mantels, and more. Front and back porches, balcony, garage/basement on one of the largest home sites in downtown.”

211 S. Tate Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $315,000 on July 28, 2020 (listed at $295,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,236 square feet
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1904
• Listed June 12, 2020
• Last sale: $255,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District

521 Church Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County

• Sold for $312,000 on July 28, 2020 (listed at $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,994 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square feet: $156
• Built in 1933
• Listed June 12, 2020
• Last sale: $50,000, October 2019

2447 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $250,000 on July 28, 2020 (listed at $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,714 square feet
• Price/square foot: $146
• Built in 1880
• Listed June 24, 2020
• Last sale: $190,000, August 2014
• HOA: $55/month

1100 Johnson Street, High Point
The Charles C. Barnhart House

• Sold for $200,000 on July 26, 2020 (listed at $224,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,188 square feet
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built about 1916 (see note below)
• Listed November 20, 2019
• Last sale: $194,000, November 2004
• Neighborhood: Johnson Street Historic District (local), Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The neighborhood’s National Register nomination lists the house as circa 1916. County records say 1922.
  • Not owner-occupied
  • “This two-story, truncated-hip-roofed Foursquare is two bays wide and double-pile with a one-story, projecting, canted bay on the right (south) elevation. The house has weatherboards on the first story, wood shingles on the second story and one-over-one, wood-sash windows with wood aprons at the first story. The one-light-over-two-panel door has beveled glass and is sheltered by a hip-roofed porch that extends the full-width of the facade and wraps around the right elevation. The porch is supported by tapered, square columns and there are low, pedimented gables over the front and right side entrances. There is a small round window to the left (north) of the entrance and a one-story, hip-roofed ell at the rear.” (NRHP district nomination)

716 Walker Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $387,500 on July 23, 2020 (listed at $387,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,198 square feet
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1905
• Listed June 12, 2020
• Last sale: $201,600, February 2020 (foreclosure)
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District

1228 Glade Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $542,000 on July 21, 2020 (originally $659,900)
• 4 bedrooms 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,538 square feet
• Price/square foot: $153
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 29, 2019
• Last sale: $520,000 September 2016
  • The last previous sale before that was $46,250, June 1983
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: Former home of Rence Callahan, senior partner with Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce Architects

612 Trollinger Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $261,000 on July 21, 2020 (listed at $260,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,460 square feet
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1931
• Listed June 18, 2020
• Last sale: $173,000, April 2011
• Neighborhood: West Davis/Fountain Place Historic District

6115 Salem Chapel Road, Walnut Cove, Stokes County

• Sold for $235,000 on July 21, 2020 (listed at $229,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 1,908 square feet, 2.82 cares
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 16, 2020
• Last sale: $57,000, March 2019

2007 Craven Street, Ramseur, Randolph County

• Sold for $45,055 on July 17, 2020 (listed at $44,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,528 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $29
• Built in 1890
• Listed June 22, 2020
• Last sale: $88,000, February 2018
• Note: Owned by HUD

618 S. Fifth Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $450,000 on July 16, 2020 (originally $475,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 4,004 square feet, 2.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 6, 2019
• Last sale: $415,000, May 2008
• Listing: “Mebane landmark was once featured in Southern Living Magazine.” And now it has vinyl siding.

306 S. Sunset Drive, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $413,000 on July 16, 2020 (originally $429,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,814 square feet, 0.69 acres
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built in 1924
• Listed June 4, 2020
• Last sale: $227,000, May 2004
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• Note: Replacement windows

462 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $299,000 on July 16, 2020 (originally $329,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,915 square feet
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1923
• Listed April 3, 2019
• Last sale: $277,000 December 2016
• Neighborhood: Ardmore

107 W. Academy Street, Madison, Rockingham County
The Twitchell-Gallaway House
Blog post — Historic House of the Week: The Twitchell-Gallaway House, an 1824 Federal-Greek Revival Mansion in Madison, $259,900

• Sold for $172,500 on July 16, 2020 (originally listed at $399,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,465 square feet, 0.4 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1832
• Listed September 2014
• Last sale: $155,000, March 2014
• Note: Architect was Dabney Cosby Sr. Woodwork is attributed to Thomas Day.
  • Written up on oldhouses.com and Circa (which, oddly, doesn’t mention Thomas Day)
  • Classified as a “pivotal” structure within the Academy Street National Register Historic District (a more significant classification than “contributing”).
  • One of only two antebellum brick structures in Madison.

131 E. Lexington Road, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $75,000 on July 16, 2020 (originally listed at $297,570, previously as low as $50,000, per Zillow)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,265 square feet (per county records)
• Price/square foot: $23
• Built in 1898
• Listed October 16, 2019
• Last sale: $87,000, April 2001
• Note: Listing: “previous use was office/commercial”
  • A previous listing said the upstairs and downstairs are divided into separate units.
  • Vinyl siding

1869 Gumtree Road, Winston-Salem (Northern Davidson County)

• Sold for $60,000, July 14, 2020
• Sold for $49,500, July 2, 2020
• Sold for $41,500 on October 10, 2019
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,312 square feet
• Price/square foot: $26 ($60,000)
• Built in 1901
• Last sale: $53,000, March 2002
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The property includes two lots.
  • The property has a Winston-Salem address but is in Davidson County near Wallburg.

294 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Brown House
Blog post — 294 West End Boulevard: A 1920 Craftsman Gem in Winston-Salem, $445,000

• Sold for $390,000 on July 10, 2020 (originally $445,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,713 square feet
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 13, 2020
• Last sale: $65,000, April 1984
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District

408 W. Center Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $152,000 on July 10, 2020 (listed at $162,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,482 square feet
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1939
• Listed March 16, 2020
• Last sale: $33,000, April 2017
• Neighborhood: Park Place Historic District

232 Hobson Road, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $141,000 on July 9, 2020 (originally $174,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,440 square feet, 1.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1923
• Listed April 23, 2020
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Neighborhood: Holiday Acres
• Note: The property has a Mocksville mailing address but is located well to the south, closer to Cooleemee and the community of Jerusalem.

713 Morehead Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $112,000 on July 9, 2020 (listed at $99,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,170 square feet
• Price/square foot: $52
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 17, 2020
• Last sale: $159,000, May 2007
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: Originally a single-family home, this house was converted into three apartments many years ago. At less than $100,000, it’s a great candidate to be converted back into a single-family home.
  • The 2020 selling price of the property was 30 percent lower than the price 13 years ago.
  • The property has been the site of five local-ordinance nuisance violations in the past nine years.

300 Carlile Drive, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $295,000 on July 8, 2020 (originally listed $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,208 square feet, 3.8 acres
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1865
• Listed November 19, 2019
• Last sale: $225,000, June 2017
• Note: This home was moved to this property in 2001.
  • The property is now a flower farm and photography studio.

2412 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, Guilford County
The Zack L. Whitaker House

• Sold for $295,000 on July 8, 2020 (originally $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,358 square feet, 1.08 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1898
• Listed April 29, 2019
• Last sale: $223,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: Oak Ridge Historic District
• Original listing: A “National Folk I-House style reminiscent of 17th century “hall & parlor” homes.”
  • “Col. Zack” was a teacher and administrator at Oak Ridge Military Academy for more than 50 years.
  • Most remarkable feature: The property includes a pub in a separate building:

1012 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $260,000 on July 8, 2020 (originally $279,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,829 square feet
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1929
• Listed March 3, 2020
• Last sale: $242,000, May 2016
• Neighborhood: Ardmore

1622 W. First Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $329,000 on July 6, 2020 (listed at $329,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,350 square feet
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1928
• Listed April 27, 2020
• Last sale: $145,000, December 2006
• Neighborhood: West Highlands

124 Brownstone Lane, Toast, Surry County

• Sold for $239,900 on July 1, 2020 (originally $299,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,970 square feet, 1.8 acres
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1935
• Listed January 29, 2019
• Last sale: July 1959, price not listed in online records
• Note: The property includes a second house, 127 Brownstone Lane, 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms.
  • The property also includes a detached garage and a storage building.
  • The write-up in the listing says the property is “over 2 acres,” but county records say 1.8 acres.
  • Not owner occupied