Piedmont Historic Homes

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18 E. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The T.E. Johnson House

• Sold for $308,000 on December 30, 2021 (originally $375,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,141 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 28, 2021
• Last sale: $190,000, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Hipped-roof frame house, three bays wide with central entrance. Permastone on front facade, aluminum siding on others, replacement one-bay gable-front porch on ‘wrought iron’ posts [now replaced with wooded columns]. Johnson (wife Lizzie) was a salesman in 1915, later became a solicitor with C.E. Johnson Realty Company, and by 1923 was manager of the rental department, The Insurance Service Company.”

1000 N.C. Highway 61, Whitsett, Guilford County

• Sold for $268,000 on December 29, 2021 (listed at $269,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,144 square feet, 1.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 22, 2021
• Last sale: $75,000, October 1993
• Notes: Vinyl siding
  • The proerty includes a wired storage building with a loft.

304 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $429,000 on December 28, 2021 (listed at $398,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,834 square feet
• Price/square foot: $234
• Built in 1921
• Listed October 28, 2021
• Last sale: $60,000, November 1982
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Listing: “needs some updating and is being sold as is … central AC upstairs only.”

150 Piedmont Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Rufus and Stella Johnson House

• Sold for $389,900 on December 22, 2021 (originally $399,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,180 square feet
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1912
• Listed October 21, 2021
• Last sale: $138,000, August 1993
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This transitional late Victorian-Colonial Revival house is identical to 154 Piedmont Ave. next door, and although not elaborate, they make one of the most striking pair of houses in the West End.
  • “This two-story, two-bay wide, weatherboarded house has a steep hip roof with left front and left side pedimented cross gables corresponding with the front and side projecting bays.
  • “Other features include shuttered windows with diamond-muntined upper sash and a hip-roofed porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade.
  • “Rufus E. Johnson, manager of the sales department of RJR Tobacco Co., purchased the property in 1912, and the following year he was listed with his wife, Stella, at this location in the city directory. After her husband’s death, Stella Johnson continued to occupy the house until at least 1965 and sold the property in 1973.”

901 Melrose Street, Winston-Salem
The David and Virginia Wilcox House

• Sold for $349,900 on December 22, 2021 (originally $325,000, later $315,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,503 square feet
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1928 (per county records)
• Listed September 7, 2019
• Last sale: $135,000, November 1999
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• Note: Ardmore’s National Register nomination dates the house to ca. 1925.
  • The first residents appear to have been the Rev. David Henry Wilcox Sr. (1878-1943) and Virginia Floyd Goff Wilcox (1988-1962) in 1925. He was the pastor of First Baptist Church.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman. Two story; side gable; stucco; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof entry porch; classical replacement columns; shed-roof bay; side porch.”

404 W. Center Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $285,000 on December 22, 2021 (originally $350,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,218 square feet
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1915
• Listed July 22, 2021
• Last sale: $77,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “One-and-one-half-story weatherboarded Craftsman bungalow with a side-gable roof and a large gabled dormer on the front roof slope flanked by two smaller gabled dormers; wraparound porch engaged on the front and supported by square posts on brick piers spanned by a wood railing, 12/1 sash, interior brick chimneys, false half-timbering above the tops of the windows in the gable ends, exposed rafter ends, triangular eave brackets.
  • “This house does not appear on the 1923 Sanborn map and later Sanborn maps did not cover this block. The 1925-26 city directory did not cover this block. The earliest city directory reference for this address occurs in 1937 when Silas M. and Elsie B. Everhart occupied the house. Mr. Everhart was a foreman with the Lexington Telephone Company.”

3766 U.S. Highway 220, Madison, Rockingham County
The Stokesdale Depot
Blog post — An 1898 Train Depot Goes Up for Auction in Madison This Saturday (September 26, 2019)

• Sold for $199,900 on December 22, 2021 (originally $250,000, later as low as $189,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,612 square feet (per county), 1.93 acres
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1898
• Listed October 7, 2015 (for sale off and on since then)
• Last sale: $170,000, May 2003
• Note: The Depot was relocated in 1977 and converted into a private home.
  • The house has a working elevator.
  • The listing shows the home as 2,458 square feet; an earlier listing said 2,132. County property records show 1,612.

28 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The George F. Turley House

• Sold for $425,000 on December 20, 2021 (listed at $429,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,564 square feet
• Price/square foot: $166
• Built in 1921
• Listed July 30, 2021
• Last sale: $265,000, November 2010
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Gambrel-roofed frame house with large four-bay shed dormers creating a full second story.
  • “Three bays with central entrance, paired 6/6 windows; entrance porch created by one-bay portico on classical columns.
  • “One-story flat roofed porch with classical columns on east side elevation, rear enclosed. Two stuccoed interior chimneys. Aluminum siding.”
  • George Frederick Turley (1867-1945) was general superintendent of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. He and Minnie Lucretia “Minnie Lou” Miller Turley were married in 1891.
  • From findagrave.com: “George F. Turley spent his early life in Hagerstown, MD where he began his life-long career in the railroad business. He was promoted & transferred to Shenandoah and Roanoke in VA and to Portsmouth, OH. He came to Winston-Salem in 1921 and was with the W-S Southbound Railway as general superintendent until he retired in 1943 [at age 75].
  • “He was a member of the Freemasons including the Shriners, a member & past president of the Kiwanis Club, former member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a member and steward of Centenary United Methodist Church.”

610 Westside Drive,Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $110,000 on December 18, 2021 (listed at $105,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,759 square feet
• Price/square foot: $40
• Built in 1923
• Listed June 29, 2021
• Last sale: $42,000, September 2017
• Neighborhood: Rosemary Park
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • Caveat emptor: The pictures with the listing suggest the house is in relatively good shape cosmetically, but it’s priced like a broken-down wreck.

1133 N. Main Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Knox Johnstone House

• Sold for $595,000 on December 17, 2021 (listed at $585,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,764 square feet, 3.54 acres
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1929
• Listed November 4, 2021
• Last sale: $248,000, November 2002
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Five-bay, double-pile Colonial Revival style house set on large, wooded lot; side gable slate roof with end chimneys; one-story, gabled wings at either end (south wing is screened porch); pedimented Colonial Revival entrance; six-over-nine sash windows with louvered blinds; erected by D. G. Grubbs for Knox Johnstone (1900-1971), president of Bank of Davie, officer of Hanes Chair and Table Company, member of NC House; designed by Northup & O’Brien, architects, of Winston-Salem.”

524 Church Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County
The Kivette House

• Sold for $350,000 on December 17, 2021 (originally $360,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,270 square feet, 0.9 acre
• Price/square foot: $154
• Built in 1923
• Listed September 30, 2021
• Last sale: $349,900, June 30, 2021 (originally $359,000)
• Note: Square footage numbers for this house vary widely. When the house was sold last year, the listing said 2,048. This time, it says 2,270. County records show 2,617.
  • The house was built by Pearlee Lassiter Kivette, who sold lumber and coal and is said to have been the first millionaire in Gibsonville.
  • It was owned by the Kivette family for 87 years, 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. Click here for more about the Kivettes and their houses.

476 Bringle Ferry Road, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $320,000 on December 17, 2021 (listed at $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,257 square feet, 1 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 30, 2021
• Last sale: $164,000, December 2013
• Neighborhood: Healing Springs
• Note: The property includes a barn/shed.

7702 Summerfield Road, Summerfield, Guilford County
The Noah Webster Ogburn House

• Sold for $170,000 on December 17, 2021 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,440 square feet, 3.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1896
• Listed September 29, 2021
• Last sale: June 1955, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Summerfield Historic District
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • District NRHP nomination: “This triple-A, I-house with a one-story rear ell that seems to be original to the house is built on a brick foundation with brick single-shoulder chimneys. The frame house is now covered with vinyl siding and has vinyl shutters at each of the two-over-two windows as well as on either side of the front door.
  • “A brick front stoop replaced what was once was a hipped front porch with a center gable, according to a documentary photo.
  • “The rear ell has a covered porch along the south side that has been enclosed on the east end. The roofing material is a pressed metal shingle.
  • “The house is a center-hall plan with the dining room and kitchen in the ell. The center hall has a dog-leg staircase with a massive turned newel post.
  • “There is a stone wall across the front of this property with grapevine mortar that is also thought to have been built by either the WPA or CCC, according to Audrey Tucker, the next-door neighbor.”

1220 Glade Street NW, Winston-Salem
The Thompson-Liipfert House

• Sold for $727,500 on December 16, 2021 (listed at $739,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,297 square feet
• Price/square foot: $221
• Built in 1908
• Listed October 29, 2021
• Last sale: $525,000, April 2016
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The most impressive of the prominent houses on the Glade St. hill, the Thompson-Liipfert House is a large two-story frame dwelling with a weatherboarded first story and a decorative asbestos-shingled second story … .
• “The hipped and gabled roof has boldly projecting eaves with paired brackets and a paneled frieze, and the front gabled dormer boasts a Palladian window. Fenestration includes eight-over-one sash windows and a French door front entrance with sidelights and transom.
• “The handsome wrap-around porch features Roman Doric columns, a plain balustrade, a slightly projecting entrance bay, and a center bay balustraded upper deck.
• “The house was designed by prominent local architect C. Gilbert Humphries.
• “Like the other houses in this row, the Thompson-Liipfert House has a steep terraced front lawn and a stone retaining wall. A monumental flight of granite steps adjacent to the house leads from Glade St. to the alley on the northeast side.
• “Mrs. Marion C. Thompson, widow of William H., was the original owner. She listed the property for taxes in 1915 and by 1918 was listed at this location in the city directory.
• “In 1937 Bailey and Mary Liipfert listed the property for taxes, and they occupied the house until selling it in 1967. Liipfert was a judge and later associate counsel for RJR Tobacco Co.”

2000 Farmington Road, Farmington, Davie County
The Walker-Hendricks House

• Sold for $200,000 on December 16, 2021 (originally $239,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,000 square feet, 2.83 acres
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built in 1913
• Listed July 31, 2021
• Last sale: $120,000, October 1999
• Neighborhood: Farmington Historic District
• Listing: The property includes a barn converted into a shop, two large fenced areas, a chicken coup, other outbuildings and a garden area.
  • “Home is being Sold AS is. Call today to add some TLC …”
  • District NRHP nomination: “This frame I-house retains its overall form, but has been altered by the replacement of the original two-over-two sash with one-over-one sash, the removal of the standing-seam metal roof and the installation of asphalt shingles, and the application of vinyl siding over the original weatherboards since 1985.
  • “The windows flanking the front door are paired. A one-story shed room and a one-story gabled ell with a shed-roofed addition at the east end extend from the rear (east) elevation. A brick end chimney on the north elevation and an interior chimney at the ell’s center serve the house. Both chimney stacks have been reconstructed.
  • “William F. Walker (1859-1942), known as Frank, purchased 1.96 acres from Charles A. and Maggie M. Hartman on August 22, 1907 for $350.00. The acreage was north of Lonnie Horne’s store and south of the Hartmans’ farm. Mr. Walker soon constructed the house at what is now 2000 Farmington Road, as Davie County property record cards state that the dwelling was completed in 1913.
  • “The 1920 Federal Census enumerates sixty-one-year-old William F. Walker at this location (between the Lonnie Horne and John James households). At that time, Mr. Walker’s household consisted of his wife Emma C. and their children Evola (19), Kenneth P. (16), and Mildred F. (8). …
  • “The disposition of the Farmington Road house after the Walkers moved to Forsyth County is unclear. According to long-time local resident John Caudle, the Hendricks family occupied this dwelling during the 1930s and early 1940s.”

132 Park Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Marion and Marcus Allen House

• Sold for $430,000 on December 4, 2021 (not listed publically for sale)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,740 square feet
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1930 (per county; probably earlier, see note)
• Last sale: $379,000, June 2018
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• Note: Across the street from Washington Park
  • District NRHP nomination: “Stuccoed side-gabled house with weatherboarded dormer. Large round stuccoed columns possibly influenced by the work of Charles Barton Keen.
  • “The Allens were living here by 1920. Marcus was a mechanic with Flynt-Steven Auto Company, later with Ruse and White; Marion was photographer who died by 1921; his widow Mamie remained at the house.”

509 Maple Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Oscar and Della Sides House

• Sold for $244,900 on December 14, 2021 (listed at $244,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,024 square feet, 0.49 acre
• Price/square foot: $81
• Built in 1924
• Listed November 17, 2021
• Last sale: $25,000, May 1980
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Residential Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Oscar David Sides, who with his wife, Della Marshall Sides, had this substantial two-story brick house built on its high hilltop overlooking the downtown, was a proprietor of the Sides Mill and Ice Company which produced ‘Sides’ water ground bolted white corn meal.’
  • The mill, which stood a few blocks away near the intersection of the railroad and Independence Boulevard, received water from Lovills Creek via a mill race. In 1939 Sides built the Sides woolen mill on South Street for the manufacture of blankets and yarn.
  • “There is uncertainty about the date of construction for his house. A November 20, 1919, notice of his and Della’s marriage stated that the newlyweds would commence housekeeping in ‘a new house built by Mr. Sides,’ however the house at 509 Maple does not appear on the 1922 Sanborn map and first appears on the 1929 map. Perhaps the 1919 reference is to an earlier house at another location, or the Sanborn maps are wrong.
  • “The two-story house has the popular boxy Foursquare form of the era, although it has a center passage and symmetrical three-bay façade. It stands on a granite foundation and has granite window sills and lintels.
  • “Granite also forms the railing of the one-story wraparound porch on the front and north sides, which has tapered square wood columns and gables in line with the front and north side entries.
  • “Other features include asphalt roofing, a hipped dormer with wood shingle sheathing and two three-pane wood sash windows, interior brick chimneys, sidelights around the front entry, and replacement windows.
  • “Granite retaining walls run along the sidewalks on the north and east sides (the house occupied a corner lot at the intersection of Maple and Merritt streets), with granite steps at the ends of walkways to the porch. The address was formerly 102 Merritt or 111 Maple.”
  • The original garage still stands on the property: “Garage of brick-veneered frame construction with a composite-shingled front-gable roof, a granite lintel over the single garage bay, and chevron-pattern beaded tongue-and-groove hinged garage doors.”
  • An artificial pond dating to about 1950 is not mentioned in the listing, but it appears to have still existed as late as the time of the district NRHP nomination’s writing around 2018: “Large rectangular fishpond of poured concrete construction. When Della Sides was wheelchair-bound as an older woman, Oscar built the fishpond so she could continue her life’s passion of fishing. The pond has evidence for a corner enclosure where the young fish were raised (the enclosure may have had mesh walls now missing) and has an abutting earth-filled trough where Della could dig worms to bait her hooks. Oscar had water trucked up the hill to fill the pond.
  • “Below the pond is a grassy terrace associated with a former tennis court which Oscar built for his daughter. Oscar did not understand that players had to go outside the lines to play and consequently made the court too small.”

507 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Barefoot-Tate House

• Sold for $310,000 on December 8, 2021 (listed at $285,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,915 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1922
• Listed November 5, 2021
• Last sale: $282,500, April 2018
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, five-bay, frame Colonial Revival house with three gabled dormers features scalloped cornice brackets, a semi-circular front portico supported by Doric columns, an exterior end brick chimney, and a one-story side porch, apparently enclosed at a later time. Vinyl siding and replacement nine-over-one sash windows have been added.
  • “The house was built for Dr. J.J. Barefoot, a local physician, in 1920. The house was designed by Aladdin Homes, a mail-order firm, and shipped in parts by freight from Wilmington and assembled on the site. Later the house became the property of Allen D. Tate, Sr., an executive of White’s Mill and mayor of Graham in 1953 to 1955.”

510 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Houston-Godwin House

• Sold for $330,000 on December 6, 2021 (listed at $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,020 square feet
• Price/square foot: $163
• Built in 1924 (per county but apparently built by 1921)
• Listed November 2, 2021
• Last sale: $14,000, June 1958
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The listing refers to the house as a “fixer upper,” but it’s not priced like one.
  • The first owners appear to have been Julius E. Short (1885-1969) and his wife, Maude Myrtle Hunter Short (1888-1973). They were listed in the 1921 city directory, the first year the 400 block of North Mendenhall appeared (the address was originally 410 N. Mendenhall). Julius was a clerk.
  • From 1922 to 1924, the house was owned by the Rev. Herbert Russell Clem (1878-1949) and his wife, Bessie Holt Clem (1879-1973). He was pastor of First Christian Church.
  • Addie Viola Houston (1879-1948) bought the house in 1924 and owned it until 1947. She was a home demonstration agent for the Agricultural Extension Service. She worked for the extension service from 1919 until at least 1943, the last year she was listed in the city directory. In 1948 she died at her sister’s home in Salisbury after a long illness.
  • In 1958, Minnie Louise Craven Godwin (1907-1996) bought the house. Oddly, the name of her husband, Harvey S. Godwin, doesn’t appear on the deed. Harvey (1898-1983) was president of Greensboro Farm Equipment Company. In 1990 Louise turned ownership of the house (and of 512 N. Mendenhall, which she also owned) over to her daughters, who are now selling it.

1618 U.S. 311 S., Fulp, Stokes County

• Sold for $269,900 on December 6, 2021 (listed at $269,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,027 square feet, 3.32 acres
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1886
• Listed October 25, 2021
• Last sale: $220,000, October 2017
• Note: The house has a Walnut Cover mailing address, but it’s well to the south in the Fulp community.
  • The property includes a barn and a two-car detached garage.

1102 Johnson Street, High Point
The Cicero C. Swain House

• Sold for $253,000 on December 1, 2021
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,843 square feet
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1914
• Apparently not listed on MLS
• Last sale: $53,500, March 2015
• Neighborhood: Johnson Street Historic District (local), Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story house features elements of both the Shingle and Craftsman styles. It has a two-story, front-gabled, roof with steeply-pitched, shed-roofed sections on each side, similar to a gambrel roof, but with the rooflines not continuous.
  • “The house is three bays wide and double-pile with weatherboards on the first story, wood shingles on the second story, and one-over-one, wood-sash windows.
  • “There is a replacement door in the center bay with a one-story, projecting canted bay in the left (north) bay.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed porch extends the full-width of the facade and wraps around the right (south) elevation, terminating at a two-story, gabled wing projecting from the right elevation.
  • “The porch is supported by full-height, shingled wood piers with a low, shingled knee wall.
  • “There are four windows in the front gable and a pair of three-over-one, Craftsman-style windows in a gabled dormer on the left elevation.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Cicero C. Swain (wholesale dry goods) in 1913.”

1106 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $169,900 on December 1, 2021 (originally $204,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,935 square feet
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1926
• Listed February 1, 2021
• Last sale: $145,000, January 2018
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hills Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Two-story Craftsman Foursquare of novelty vinyl-sided frame construction with a composite-shingled hip roof.
  • “The one-story front porch has square wood posts on brick pedestals and wraps around the southeast side to form a porte cochere supported by steel poles.
  • “An exterior brick chimney on the southeast side has an asymmetrical stepped shoulder and there is also an interior brick chimney.
  • “Other features include paired triangular brackets, a parged brick foundation, and replacement windows.
  • “A granite retaining wall extends along the south side of the driveway. The front lawn has been replaced with gravel.”

4318 Gumtree Road, Davidson County

• Sold for $240,000 on November 30, 2021 (listed at $220,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,729 square feet, 0.77 acre
• Price/square foot: $139
• Year built: 1860
• Listed October 15, 2021
• Last sale: $35,000, January 1997
• Note: The house has a Winston-Salem mailing address.
  • Replacement windows

1710 Lomond Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $205,000 on November 30, 2021 (originally $279,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,556 square feet, 0.3 acre
• Price/square foot: $80
• Built in 1905
• Listed May 13, 2021
• Last sale: $25,000, September 2012
• Neighborhood: Centerville Historic District
• Note: Duplex, originally a single-family house. The listing’s description isn’t clear about the number of bedrooms and bathrooms in each unit.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Two-story hip-roof Late Victorian house with gable peak; single pile front section; large, two-story rear ell; vinyl siding; wraparound hipped porch; turned posts; one-over-one replacement windows. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

1602 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro

• Sold for $110,000 on November 30, 2021 (listed at $110,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,951 square feet
• Price/square foot: $56
• Built in 1907
• Listed November 8, 2021
• Last sale: $135,500, May 2006
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: Out-of-state owner

1302 Cagle Loop Road, Seagrove, Randolph County

518 W. Parkway Avenue, High Point
The Arthur R. Harrison House I

• Sold for $329,950 on November 22, 2021 (originally $398,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,460 square feet
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1930 (per county, or earlier)
• Listed June 7, 2021
• Last sale: $145,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-and-a-half-story, front-gabled, Craftsman-style house is two bays wide and triple-pile.It has vinyl siding, nine-over-one, wood-sash windows, grouped on the facade, and a group of three four-over-four, wood-sash windows in the gable.
  • “The fifteen-light French door has five-light sidelights and is sheltered by a front-gabled roof on large knee brackets.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed wing projects from the left (west) elevation and an uncovered terrace extends across the entrance bay and left wing. The house has exposed purlins and heavy wood windowsills with wood brackets. A concrete retaining wall extends along the sidewalk and driveway on the left side of the house.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Arthur R. Harrison (engineer, Southern Railway) in 1921.”

111 W. Bessemer Street, Greensboro
The Baxter and Gertrude Sellars House

• Sold for $610,000 on November 18, 2021 (originally $675,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,541 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1932
• Listed August 20, 2021
• Last sale: $400,000, April 2004
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: Designed by Charles C. Hartmann
  • The original owners were Baxter Scales Sellars (1888-1959) and his wife, Gertrude Frazier Sellars (1889-1959). Baxter was vice president of the Greene Street Drug Company and a department manager for Cone Export & Commission Company. They bought the house in 1932 and lived there until they died in 1959. For several years they spent the winter in Fort Lauderdale; Gertrude was active with the West Palm Beach Garden Club. They died in Fort Lauderdale on the same day, tragically (but also a bit romantically).

311-313 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $334,000 on November 18, 2021 (listed at $349,900)
• Duplex, total (per county) of 7 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and two half bathrooms, 3,150 square feet
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1918
• Listed August 13, 2021
• Last sale: $155,000, September 2001
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District
• Note: “This is a two-story, side gable, brick duplex with small roof gables over paired, second floor windows. Windows are six-over-six.
  • “The full-width porch has a flat roof and a lattice balustrade and frieze. A large brick chimney is located in the center of the front roof slope.
  • “The earliest occupants were Joseph P. Campbell, a chief dispatcher with Winston-Salem South Bound Railroad, and his wife, Marvel; and Herbert F. Carroll and his wife, Jean. Carroll was an assistant division manager at Va-Caro Chemical Company.”

910 Ellett Avenue, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $251,000 on November 18, 2021 (originally $240,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,790 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $90
• Built in 1921
• Listed August 14, 2021
• Last sale: $78,000, March 2021
• Note: How it looked when it was sold in February:

707 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro
The Ulysses and Cora Hedrick House

• Sold for $155,000 on November 18, 2021 (listed at $155,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,975 square feet
• Price/square foot: $78
• Built in 1925 (possibly a year or two later)
• Listed September 7, 2021
• Last sale: $74,400, August 2019
• Note: The original owners were the prodigiously long-lived Ulysses Arthur Hedrick (1886-1981) and Cora Snider Hedrick (1885-1987). Ulysses was a postal clerk and later a postal supervisor. They bought the property in 1925, but the address wasn’t listed in the city directory until 1927. By 1940, they had moved to Scott Avenue in Lindley Park but continued to own the house until 1944. They lived on Scott Avenue until their deaths more than 40 years later.

• Sold for $125,000 on November 17, 2021 (originally $292,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,341 square feet, 1.15 acres
• Price/square foot: $37
• Built in 1926
• Listed July 29, 2021
• Last sale: $75,000, July 1985
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District
• Note: The listing says the home has had only two owners.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Several Mediterranean Revival-style residences are located in the district. The circa 1920 William W. and Sadie L. Woodruff House at 300 West Second Avenue is a classic example of the style. The two-story brick building has a green tile hip roof with a bracketed cornice, an entry framed by sidelights and a fanlight, a gabled entry porch supported by Tuscan columns, a screened side porch, and a front terrace with brick posts spanned by a wood balustrade.”
  • “The house appears on the 1923 Sanborn map and was occupied by William W. and Sadie L. Woodruff in 1925-26. Mr. Woodruff owned Woodruff’s Shoe Store.”

4606 E. State Highway 150, Browns Summit, Guilford County
The Prince E. Taylor Sr. House
Blog post — 4606 N.C. Highway 150 East: An African American Blacksmith’s 1913 Home to be Auctioned

• Sold for $138,470 on November 16, 2021
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,224 square feet, 1.15 acres
• Price/square foot: $62
• Built in 1913
• Listed October 17, 2021
• Last sale: $115,000, September 2005
• Note: Prince E. Taylor Sr. (1865-1953) bought the property in 1904 from Cesar and Jeannette Cone. He paid $164. Taylor owned the property until his death.
  • His obituary in the Greensboro Daily News: “Veteran Blacksmith Claimed By Death: Prince E. Taylor, 87 year-old Brown Summit Negro blacksmith, died Friday at his home following a short illness. The elderly blacksmith had worked at his trade for more than 50 years. He continued to work until the last day of 1952 and became ill on New Year’s Eve. He is survived by four daughters, two sisters and three grandchildren. Funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Locust Grove Baptist Church…Burial will be in the church cemetery.”
  • It’s unclear who inherited the house, but daughter Annie Taylor Buffaloe (1899-1992) inherited it in 1983. She sold it in 1987.

1916 Oak Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $133,000 on November 16, 2017 (listed at $150,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,968 square feet
• Price/square foot: $68
• Built in 1915
• Listed September 1, 2021
• Last sale: $112,000, September 2017
• Neighborhood: Piedmont Hills
• Note: The house faces Oak Street at the corner of Oak and Coliseum Boulevard.
  • Out-of-state owners

2396 Flat Swamp Road, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $121,500 on November 15, 2021 (listed at $125,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,025 square feet, 3.66 acres
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 22, 2021
• Last sale: $42,500, August 1990
• Note: Aluminum siding
  • No central air conditioning
  • It’s hard to see how a house this big could have only 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, but that’s what it says.

48 Hunt Road, Milton, Caswell County
The Hunt House

• Sold for $403,500 on November 12, 2021 (originally $439,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,970 square feet, 5 acres
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1850
• Listed September 26, 2020
• Last sale: $72,000, October 2017
• Note: The listing attributes detailing in the house to Thomas Day. The property includes two barns and two other outbuildings.
  • County property records are difficult to decipher, but they appear to show the house with 3,394 square feet.

1702 Penny Road, High Point

• Sold for $225,500 on November 12, 2021 (originally $250,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,208 square feet, 1.14 acres
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1857
• Listed June 25, 2021
• Last sale: November 1962, no price recorded on deed

700 Hendrix Street, High Point

• Sold for $185,000 on November 11, 2021 (originally $199,000)
• 9 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,294 square feet, 0.4 acre
• Price/square foot: $81
• Built in 1904
• Listed April 5, 2021
• Last sale: $112,000, May 2007
• Note: Rental property

1621 S. College Park Drive, Greensboro
The Herman and Mary Parker House

• Sold for $521,250 on November 8, 2021 (listed at $525,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,231 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1924 (per county records, but probably a bit later; see note)
• Listed October 9, 2021
• Last sale: $89,000, August 1983
• Neighborhood: College Park
• Note: Located at the corner of College Park and Mayflower drives.
  • The house doesn’t appear to have been built until 1926 or 1927. The property changed hands five times between December 1924 and September 1926, and the address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1927. By that time it was owned by Dr. Herman R. Parker (died ca. 1974), a physician, and his wife, Mary Dare Towe Parker (1902-1999). The house was owned by the Parkers from 1926 until 1984.
  • The Parkers had a son, Dick (Herman Richard Jr., 1940-2019). He served in the Navy in Vietnam and achieved the rank of lieutenant commander. He took over his father’s medical practice in 1971 and established Parkway Internal Medicine 10 years later.

611 Bellemeade Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $279,000 on November 3, 2021 (originally $298,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,878 square feet
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1921
• Listed November 2, 2020
• Last sale: $200,000, May 2010
• Neighborhood: Cedar Street
• Note: Rental property

3095 Hall Road, Franklinville, Randolph County

• Sold for $316,000 on November 2, 2021 (originally $315,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,707 square feet, 6.05 acres
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1896
• Listed September 12, 2021
• Last sale: $175,000, July 2020
• Note: The half bath is in the laundry room.
  • Replacement windows and vinyl siding
  • The property includes two spring-fed ponds and a 40×32 barn with a large loft and electricity.
  • Listing: “400 +/-Square feet Upstairs has two bedrooms & ceiling heights are less than 7′ & both bedrooms have walk-in closets in the hallway. Upstairs square footage is included in total square footage.”
  • “Grapes planted by driveway are Mourvedre – a French red wine grape.”

333 E. Sprague Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $243,000 on November 2, 2021 (listed at $249,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,274 square feet
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1915
• Listed September 15, 2021
• Last sale: $164,000, November 2006
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside, Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Two-story Queen Anne with pyramidal roof and gabled ells; weatherboard siding; decorative shingles in gable ends; polygonal bays; porch and porte-cochere with Tuscan columns; one-over-one windows. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

511 Boone Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Knight House

• Sold for $200,000 on October 29, 2021 (listed at $200,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,919 square feet
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1919 (per NRHP, probably correct) or 1930 (county records)
• Listed September 9, 2021
• Last sale: $37,500, February 1990
• Neighborhood: Boone Road Historic District, Leaksville
• Note: “Another excellent intact example of a Foursquare style dwelling, this two-and-one-half story house was constructed in 1919 for a Mr. Knight who moved to Leaksville from Ridgeway; by the late 1920s it was occupied by garage operator T.A. Williams.
  • “The unaltered two-bay wide, double-pile house is covered with a hip roof from which a hip-roof dormer projects.
  • “The house is notable for a latticed first-floor window on the north (side) elevation; the upper second-story window sashes featuring numerous small panes around a single large pane; multi-pane sidelights flanking the main entrance; and for the handsome random course stone retaining wall which defines the front yard.”

873 Prospect Church Road, Caswell County

• Sold for $222,000 on October 28, 2021 (originally $250,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,789 square feet, 10.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $124
• Built in 1850
• Listed July 17, 2021
• Last sale: June 2005, part of a larger piece of land sold for $261,000
• Note: The property has a Mebane mailing address but is in Caswell County between Anderson and Prospect Hill.
  • The property includes a pond, barns, chicken coop, implement sheds and open pasture.

880 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Lillian Walker House

• Sold for $384,500 on October 27, 2021 (listed at $384,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,046 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1923
• Listed September 20, 2021
• Last sale: $385,000 on September 2, 2021 (listed at $359,000)
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• Note: The house was listed 18 days after the owner bought it (for $26,000 above the asking price).
  • District NRHP nomination: “Dutch Colonial Revival. One and a half story; gambrel roof; wide, shed-roof dormer; weatherboard siding; six-over-one, double-hung sash; front-gable entry porch with arched opening; classical columns; fanlight. 1930 [city directory]: Robert and Lillian Walker, an optometrist.”

529 W. Allenton Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County
Mount Gilead Waterworks Plant
Blog post — Home of the Week: The 1932 Mount Gilead Waterworks Plant, $169,000

• Sold for $157,500 on October 26, 2021 (originally $169,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 1,443 square feet, 1 acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 1, 2021
• Last sale: $23,000, April 2014
• Note: The building was converted into a residence in 2015.
  • The building was constructed in 1932 by the Works Progress Administration.
  • The property includes a goldfish tank and a catfish tank.
  • The Mount Gilead Waterworks Plant is under protective covenants held by Preservation North Carolina. Contact Dawn Williams via email or 919-832-3652 x221 to request a copy.
  • Video tour

817 N. Eugene Street, Greensboro
The Walter and Maymie Trulove House

• Sold for $360,000 on October 25, 2021 (listed at $375,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,392 square feet
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1937 (per county records)
• Listed September 29, 2021
• Last sale: $41,000, October 1975
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NRHP and local)
• Note: Doesn’t appear to be owner-occupied
  • The address didn’t appear in the city directory until 1939. The original owners were Walter Elmer Trulove (1895-1956) and Maymie Fryar Trulove (1896-1987). Walter was one of the proprietors of Banner-Tulove, a wholesale grocer, and vice president of The Mutual Store Company, which dealt in general merchandise. Walter and Maymie bought the property in 1938 and lived there until they sold the house in 1950.
  • In 1975 attorney Howard Dunwoody Cole bought the house and has owned it for the last 46 years.

427 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Ray O. Browning House

• Sold for $355,000 on October 22, 2021 (listed at $335,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,481 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1926
• Listed September 11, 2021
• Last sale: $180,000, February 2010
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “One of several houses built by Roy O. Browning, who was prominent in the city’s business and civic affairs, this 1924 structure incorporates many features of the enduring twentieth-century Colonial Revival style. Built on a symmetrical two-story plan with central hallway and hip roof, it has one-story side wings which further emphasize its Colonial antecedents.
  • “The frame construction is clad with wide German siding, and the projecting central portico with gable roof and paired fluted posts frames the main entrance with its eight-paned sidelights and simple surround.”
  • Around the time he bought the house, Roy Oscar Browning (1885-1967) was first vice president of the Hood System Industrial Bank and life insurance department manager for Alamance Insurance and Real Estate. He later became president of the local Hood System bank and a general agent for Pilot Life. He served as president of the Kiwanis Club, and in 1935 he headed a local fund-raising campaign for Elon College. He was married to Flossie Burke Browning (1887-1965).

2214 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem
The John and Hattie Jeffreys House

• Sold for $615,000 on October 21, 2021 (listed at $600,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,087 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $295
• Built in 1926
• Listed September 2, 2021
• Last sale: $440,000,May 2016
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: John Francis Jeffreys (1872-1930) bought the property in 1924 and apparently built the house soon after. He was the district sales manager for Richmond Engineering Company. After his death from a heart attack at age 58, his wife, Hattie, and son, James Jr., appear to have left Winston-Salem. John Jr. (1912-1984) grew up to become a bank examiner and died at age 72 in Louisville, Kentucky. No further trace can be found of Hattie in records online.

3295 E. Holly Grove Road, Lexington, Davidson County

146 Jess Cross Road, Davidson County

• Sold for $276,500 on October 21, 2021 (listed at $295,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,596 square feet, 1 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1906
• Listed August 26, 2021
• Last sale: $67,000, November 2019
• Note: The house has a Lexington mailing address but is well to the south near High Rock Lake.

2790 Old N.C. Highway 87, Elon, Alamance County
The Dr. Talbert Kernodle House

• Sold for $143,000 on October 21, 2021 (listed at $136,119)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,816 square feet, 1.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $51
• Built in 1890
• Listed August 24, 2021
• Last sale: $9,250, October 1962
• Neighborhood: Hub Town
• Listing: “This property is under court ordered auction and all bids placed must be on listing brokers website, where the bidder can register and find the complete court ordered terms and conditions. The listing price is the tax value.”
  • Alamance County Architectural Inventory: “Located in what is known as Hub Town, area between Ossipee and Altamahaw, the house was built in 1900 by Dr. Talbert Kernodle. In 1911, Dr. Charlie Kernodle purchased the house. The house is two-stories, side gabled with a center gable portico. There are seven marble fireplaces with three unusual chimneys.”

3690 Day Road, Walkertown, Forsyth County

• Sold for $340,000 on October 20, 2021 (listed at $335,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,584 square feet, 6.11 acres
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 7, 2021
• Last sale: $195,000, March 2016
• Note: The property includes a barn.

208 Leftwich Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $390,000 on October 19, 2021 (listed at $450,000)
• Originally a single-family residence, divided into two units with a third in a detached guest house. All have two bedrooms; no numbers of bathrooms are specified. County records appear to show 3,277 square feet in the house and 919 square feet in the guest house.
• Price/square foot: $93
• Built in 1938
• Listed July 1, 2021
• Last sale: $132,500, January 1998
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Listing: No central air conditioning
  • “Unit 1 and 2 can be de converted and turned into a single family home.”

857 Lawsonville Road, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $165,000 on October 19, 2021 (originally $199,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,770 square feet, 6.32 acres
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 11, 2021
• Last sale: $50,000, February 1997
• Note: The property includes a pond and about 800 feet of creek running through and along the property.

602 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
The Oscar S. Chandler House

• Sold for $350,000 on October 18, 2021 (listed at $350,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,295 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $106
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 7, 2021
• Last sale: $290,000, October 1999
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Said to have been built by R.O. Browning in the early 1920s, this house was purchased by Oscar S. Chandler, founder of Acme Feed Mills, Inc. in 1930, after several other owners and occupants, including Carter D. Holt.
  • “It was completely remodeled within ten years of its construction and has had several additions since on both sides and the rear. The main section of the house is a two-story frame structure with side gable roof and two-bay facade.
  • “The trabeated entrance in the right bay is framed by a one-story projecting portico with combination shed and pedimented gable roof, dentil course, and slender square columns and pilasters.
  • “A one-and-one-half-story wing on the north side of the house has a gable-roofed wall dormer and a paved single-shoulder exterior end chimney while the south features a polygonal bay.”

1440 Longtown Road, Boonville, Yadkin County

• Sold for $235,000 on October 18, 2021 (listed at $229,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,345 square feet, 1.83 acres
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1966
• Listed August 13, 2021
• Last sale: $137,500, May 2021
• Note: It’s a ’60s brick ranch, but it’s worth looking at for how it integrates the carport into the design of the house. So many carports are afterthoughts, tacked on, cheaply built and not a visual asset. Mid-Century Modern houses tend to incorporate them well into the overall design, but its unusual to see one so well designed in a brick ranch.

504 Piedmont Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The R.T. Burton House

615 Joyner Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $235,000 on October 15, 2021 (listed at $275,000)
• Single-family house divided into three 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartments, 2,037 square feet
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1908
• Listed August 30, 2021
• Last sale: $170,000, February 2009
• Note: No central air conditioning
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District

12 Jones Avenue, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Sold for $185,000 on October 14, 2021 (listed at $205,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,920 square feet, 0.95 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1916
• Listed July 29, 2021
• Last sale: $124,000, February 2015
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District

121 E. Naomi Street, Randleman, Randolph County

• Sold for $259,900 on October 12, 2021 (listed at $259,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,669 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 23, 2021
• Last sale: $230,000, April 2020
• Note: The historic character of the house has been eroded by vinyl siding and replacement windows.

606 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
The Solomon Levin House

212 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County

• Sold for $264,000 on October 5, 2021 (listed at $280,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,466 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 14, 2021
• Last sale: $87,623, February 2019

1116 Hill Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $402,000 on October 1, 2021 (listed at $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,349 square feet
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1927
• Listed August 19, 2021
• Last sale: $266,000, November 2002
• Neighborhood: Latham Park

1225 N. Main Street, Kernersville, Forsyth County

213 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $476,000 on September 30, 2021 (listed at $495,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,625 square feet
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 20, 2021
• Last sale: $205,000, August 1998
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: Decades of neglect by landlords left the house in such deteriorated condition it was bought by the city Redevelopment Commission in 1985 as part of the revitalization effort in College Hill. Win and Anne Milam bought the house from the city and restored it. The Milams restored at least two other houses on South Mendenhall Street in the 1980s and early 90s.

713 Simpson Street, Greensboro

209 McIntyre Lane, Troy, Montgomery County

• Sold for $550,000 on September 24, 2021 (originally $550,000 but listed at $375,000 when it sold)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,391 square feet, 100 acres (see note below)
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1933 (see note below)
• Listed December 15, 2020
• Last sale: Not available online
• Note: The property includes a guest bungalow with one bedroom and one bathroom.
  • The listing says the property is 100 acres. The county GIS map shows 209 McIntyre Lane with 81 acres. The same owners have an adjacent 31-acre property; there’s no indication that all or part of that property is included in the sale.
  • The county GIS shows the home’s date as 1933. The tax office’s property card shows 1945.

210 W. 3rd Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County
The Hubert and Annie Oliver House

• Sold for $310,000 on September 24, 2021 (listed at $310,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,144 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1926
• Listed July 30, 2021
• Last sale: $190,000
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District
• Note: “Two-and-one-half-story brick Colonial Revival with a side-gable roof and a gabled entry porch with grouped Tuscan columns and pilasters; 6/6 sash, arched windows in gable ends, entry with sidelights, flat-roofed sun porch on east elevation, brick end chimney.
  • “The house appears on the 1929 Sanborn map and was occupied by Hubert E. and Annie Olive in 1937. Mr. Olive was a lawyer.”
  • The Honorable Mr. Oliver served as a member of the Legislature and Superior Court judge.

921 N. Eugene Street, Greensboro
The Julius and Lila Smith House

• Sold for $285,000 on September 24, 2021 (originally $325,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,601 square feet
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 17, 2021
• Last sale: $212,500, July 2013
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The property first appeared in the city directory in 1923 with the Smiths as residents. They owned the property from 1923 to 1938. Julius Clarence Smith (1889-1968) was a partner in the law firm of Brooks, Hines & Smith. He was originally from Greenville County, S.C. Lila Keith Smith (1890-1954) was a native of Wilmington. Their son, Julius Clarence Smith III (1922-2002) also was a lawyer. He retired as a senior partner with the Smith, Moore firm, now the local office of Fox Rothschild.

622 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The A. L. Davis House

• Sold for $445,000 on September 22, 2021 (originally $479,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,540 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in ca. 1902 (see note)
• Listed July 7, 2021
• Last sale: $272,000, April 2017
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• Note: County records show the date as 1950; it would have be a remarkably old-fashioned house to have been built in 1950.
  • District NRHP nomination: “A. L. Davis, an officer of First National Bank in Burlington, purchased the property on which this house stands in 1901, and it seems likely that the large, frame Colonial Revival structure with its central hall, double-pile plan of two stories was built shortly thereafter.
  • “Its most distinguishing feature is the double-tier portico projecting from the center of the three-bay facade. Massive square paneled columns frame the entrance with its transom and sidelights and support a stuccoed pedimented gable with a small leaded glass window.
  • “A high hip roof extends to pedimented gables on each side of the house, and a one-story porch with shed roof on square posts spans the facade.”

611 Colonial Drive, High Point
The John V. Thompson House

• Sold for $395,000 on September 22, 2021 (originally $335,000 and as low as $320,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,673 square feet
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built in 1926
• Listed June 19, 2020
• Last sale: $190,500, April 2006
• Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, clipped-side-gabled, Tudor Revival-style house is four bays wide and double-pile with a projecting front-gabled wing on the right (west) end of the facade, a front-gabled wall dormer on the left (east) end, and a segmental-arched wall dormer in the center.
  • “The house has a brick veneer, eight-light casement windows on the first story with two-light transoms on the facade. Second-floor windows are four-over-one on the facade and six-over-one on the side elevations.”
  • “The batten door is centered on the facade and is sheltered by an inset porch on square, full-height brick piers with Tudor-arch spans.
  • “An uncovered brick terrace extends to the left of the entrance bay. An entrance on the right elevation is sheltered by a gabled roof on knee brackets.
  • “There is a one-story rear ell with a modern deck behind it.”
  • “The earliest known occupant is John V. Thompson (secretary/treasurer/general manager, Colonial Furniture Company) in 1929.”

614 S. Broad Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The L. Earle Kirkman House

• Sold for $195,000 on September 20, 2021 (listed at $199,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,563 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $76
• Built in 1912 (per county) or earlier (see note below)
• Listed August 4, 2021
• Last Sale: $84,500, March 1994
• Neighborhood: South Broad-East Fifth Streets Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “19th century 2-story frame house that underwent a major remodeling in the Colonial Revival style in the late 1920s. During the remodelling, the original wraparound porch and windows were replaced and the walls were brick-veneered.
  • “The hip-roofed, 3-bay wide house has a pedimented front stoop, 6/1 paired and single sash windows, and a 1-story open porch on the east side an a 1-story sunroom on the west side.
  • “The house was in the L. Earle Kirkman family from 1919 to 1962. Kirkman was secretary-treasurer of Kirkman Plumbing and Heating Co.”

1503 Wiltshire Street, High Point

• Sold for $195,000 on September 17, 2021 (listed at $189,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,871 square feet
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1933
• Listed July 15, 2021
• Last sale: $70,000, December 1986
• Note: Spanish Eclectic, a style not very common in the Triad

806 N.C. Highway 61, Whitsett, Guilford County
The Dick-Bradsher House

• Sold for $293,000 on September 16, 2021 (originally $315,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,645 square feet, 0.87 acre
• Price/square foot: $111
• Built in 1895
• Listed July 21, 2021
• Last sale: $145,000, January 2021
• Note: If the 1895 date is accurate, the house probably was built by A.W. Lindsay, who bought the property in January 1895 from J.C. Welch (Deed Book 95, Page 771). It was adjacent to property belonging to the Fairview Institute (later the Whitsett Institute), a boarding school and junior college. The deed includes this hand-drawn map:

• There is no identifiable deed showing Lindsay selling the property. The next identifiable deed is dated 1897, when neighbors Cyrus A. and Anna B. Wharton sold the property to Pandora A. Wharton Dick (their familial relationship, if any, is unknown). That deed states that the Whartons bought the property in 1895 from neighbor Levinia (per the deed) Foust, citing Deed Book 95, Page 771, which, as noted above, actually shows Lindsay’s purchase of the property from Welch. There may be deeds moving the property from Lindsay to Foust and Foust to the Whartons, but finding them among two years worth of hand-written deeds, not listed in strictly chronological order, would be a pretty tedious challenge, if they do exist.
  • It is documented that Pandora (1845-1925) and her daughters owned the house for 57 years. Dora left the house to daughter Katie Anne Dick (1878-1953), who bequeathed it to her sister, Alice J. Dick Rollins (1882-1954).
  • Henry Alex Bradsher Sr. (1907-1978) and his wife, Carolyn Spencer Ingle Bradsher (1916-1986), bought the house from Alice in 1953. After Henry’s death, Carolyn owned the house until she died.

174 W. Poplar Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $245,000 on September 16, 2021 (listed at $249,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,760 square feet
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1930
• Listed July 22, 2021
• Last sale: $196,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hills Historic District
• District National Register nomination: “A swooping asymmetrical front-gable roof is the defining feature of this two-story Tudor Revival house, which is frame with a textured stucco finish. The swooping part of the roof engages a corner entry porch with segmental-arched openings.
  • “Above is a picturesque segmental-arched casement window; other windows are six-over-one wood sash with a few one-over-one replacement sashes.
  • “At the top of the front and side gables is false half-timbering with cruck (curved) members. Other features include an exterior chimney with sloped shoulders on the east side, asphalt-shingle roofing, a wood panel front door, a modern shed-roofed back porch, and a wall along the east lot line with a granite pillar at the sidewalk.”

331-337 Frank Short Road, Mocksville, Davie County

• Sold for $275,000 on September 15, 2021 (listed at $255,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,494 square feet, 19.52 acres
• Price/square foot: $184
• Built in 1912
• Listed June 9, 2021
• Last sale: 337 Frank Short: $75,000, May 1987; 331 Frank Short: $1,000, June 1994
• Note: The property consists of two lots — 331, 8.62 acres on the street, and 337, 10.9 acres behind 331.
  • The property includes a barn with four stalls, a tack room and an attached shed. A fenced pasture is in front of the house.
  • Something to ask about: “Property includes fenced 9 acre hay field with mobile home lot in corner. Owner is working to evict the tenant in the mobile home and plans to have the single wide removed.”

708 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Samuel Lampell House

• Sold for $405,000 on September 14, 2021 (listed at $435,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,130 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 18, 2021
• Last sale: $379,500, September 2003
• Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Dutch Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with full-width, shed-roofed dormers on the facade and rear (north) elevations.
  • “It has a brick veneer, exterior brick chimney in the left (west) gable, and six-over-one, wood-sash windows, paired on the first-floor facade. The six-panel door is sheltered by a small, front-gabled porch supported by slender columns.
  • “One-story, side-gabled wings project from the right (east) and left elevations, each with fiber-cement siding and vinyl casement windows.
  • “The left wing was originally an open, screened porch. A two-story, gabled ell at the left rear (northwest) also has fiber-cement siding and vinyl windows.
  • “A low stone wall extends along the driveway on the left side of the house.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Samuel Lampell (Worth’s) in 1930.” He was the proprietor of Worth’s, a “ladies’ ready-to-wear and millinery” shop at 117 N. Main Street.

820 Wharton Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $250,000 on September 13, 2021 (listed at $239,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,446 square feet (per county)
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 30, 2021
• Last sale: $121,000, November 2009
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The house is in the National Register district for Fisher Park, but the local historic district doesn’t include Wharton Street. The address first appears in the city directory in 1923 with Walter and Margaret Lashley as occupants. Walter was an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance.
  • After several changes of ownership, George Deeb Gabriel Sr. bought the house in 1944. He lived on Cypress Street in Dunleath and rented the house out. Gabriel (1916-1988) was the owner of Gabriel Food Center. His heirs sold the house in 1990.

714 Dover Road, Greensboro
The Alexander and Libby Hattaway House

• Sold for $720,000 on September 9, 2021 (listed at $720,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,542 square feet
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 22, 2021
• Last sale: $390,000, December 1997
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The Irving Park Company sold the property to Alexander Clovis Hattaway Sr. (1893-1969) and Libby Johnson Hattaway (1900-1999) in 1928. The Hattaways lost the house to foreclosure in 1932 but continued to live there and were able to buy it back in 1934. Libby sold the house in 1994.
  • Alex was a native of Georgia; Libby was born in New Orleans. Alex and Ralph L. Hattaway operated Hattaway-Jordan Seed Company on S. Davie Street at Sycamore Street, now February 1 Place.
  • Later, Alex, Libby and Ira Hattaway operated Hattaway’s Seed Store at 224 S. Greene Street, a location that’s now part of the city-county government complex. Alex’s familial relationships with Ralph (1904-1991) and Ira, about whom nothing else can be found, are unknown, although Ralph was listed as president of Hattaway-Jordan and Alex was general manager.

212 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Maynard House

• Sold for $342,000 on September 9, 2021 (listed at $339,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,798 square feet
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 15, 2021
• Last sale: $282,500, October 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This plain but handsome two-story, two-bay wide, pebbledash house has a hip roof, twelve-over-one sash windows with louvered wood shutters, a bay window on either side (the one on the north side added ca. 1979), and a hip-roofed front porch with paneled posts and a plain balustrade.
  • “The house was originally located at 506 Second St., where its longest association was with the Maynard family, whose various members occupied it from at least 1925 to 1950.
  • “When threatened with demolition by encroaching commercial development, the house was moved to its present site in 1978, where it once again complements and is complemented by its surroundings.”

726 S. Broad Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $175,000 on September 9, 2021 (listed at $189,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,632 square feet
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1913
• Listed July 12, 2021
• Last sale: $50,000, September 2006
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• Note: Rental property
  • No central air conditioning
  • District NRHP nomination: “I-house. Two story; side gable; single pile; rear ell; asbestos shingle siding; two-over-two, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; metal posts.”

656 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Dutch Castle

• Sold for $285,000 on September 8, 2021 (originally listed at $269,900)
• 4 bathrooms, 3,467 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1930
• Listed September 21, 2017
• Last sale: $181,500, July 2015
• Listing: “This building has seen many uses over its history, recently utilized as professional office space and retail. Possible office, retail, specialty shop or maybe a wine tasting room.”
  • For sale by owner

614 Eldorado Street, Troy, Montgomery County

880 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Lillian Walker House

• Sold for $385,000 on September 2, 2021 (listed at $359,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,046 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 22, 2021
• Last sale: $225,000, June 2017
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• District NRHP nomination: “Dutch Colonial Revival. One and a half story; gambrel roof; wide, shed-roof dormer; weatherboard siding; six-over-one, double-hung sash; front-gable entry porch with arched opening; classical columns; fanlight. 1930 [city directory]: Robert and Lillian Walker, an optometrist.”

2411 Hubbard Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $220,000 on September 2, 2021 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,516 square feet (per county records)
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1922
• Listed July 1, 2021
• Last sale: $137,000, November 2019
• Neighborhood: Cone Mill
• Note: Built by Cone Mill, sold in 1974
  • The solar roof panels have been added since it as sold in 2019.
  • The listing shows 2,121 square feet, more than a third larger than county records show.
  • How it looked in 2019:

712 Dover Road, Greensboro
The White-Snyder House

• Sold for $727,000 on September 1, 2021 (listed at $745,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,745 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $194
• Built in 1928
• Listed May 20, 2021
• Last sale: $30,800, June 1966
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: It’s unclear who actually built the house, but it does appear to have been built by 1928. Shortly after it was built, it became property of its first identifiable owner, Pilot Life Insurance Company. In March 1929 Pilot Life sold it to the Irving Park Company, which sold it the same day to Southern Real Estate Company.
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1930; it appears to have been a rental property until it was bought in 1934 by Moses Andrew White (1892-1966) and Wilhelmina Margret Sawyer White (1900-1983). They owned the house for 32 years. He was an Army lieutenant in World War I and by 1934 was superintendent of agencies for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance.
  • After her husband’s death, Wilhelmina sold the house in 1966 to William David Snyder Jr. (1926-2015) and Ann Pender Snyder. Born in Monroe, Bill was an engineering graduate of N.C. State University and served as a combat engineer in the Korean War. In 1954, he and Ann moved to Greensboro, and he founded the Snyder Insurance Agency. Bill was a founder of the Greensboro Opera Company, president of the Greensboro History Museum and loved vintage cars. He owned a 1948 Rolls Royce, British green. In 2012, they passed the property to one of their daughters and her husband, who are now selling it, 55 years after her parents bought it.

215 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County

• Sold for $205,000 on September 1, 2021 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,365 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $87
• Built in 1912
• Listed July 6, 2021
• Last sale: June 1939, no price recorded on deed
• Note: The address is erroneously listed in county property records as 215 Summitt Street.
  • The lot runs all the way through the block to High Street.

212 E. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $525,000 on August 31, 2021 (listed at $529,000)
• Duplex, total of 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,163 square feet
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1917
• Listed May 1, 2021
• Last sale: $105,000, November 2018
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The house has been a duplex since at least 1926.
  • The house was owned for 60 years, from 1958 to 2018, by Robert Chumbley McCaskey (1927-2018), a draftsman and salesman for Thompson Dental.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Gable-end bungalow with engaged porch, triangular knee-braces, front bay, gabled front dormer.”

204 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro

• Sold for $460,000 on August 31, 2021
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,854 square feet (per county records)
• Price/square foot: $248
• Built in 1923
• Apparently wasn’t listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $306,000, June 2001
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The Zillow listing reporting the sale shows 2,206 square feet.

1809 Runnymede Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $615,000 on August 30, 2021 (originally $595,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,427 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1930
• Listed July 30, 2021
• Last sale: $510,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Listing: “Sellers Requesting Highest & Best By Monday, August 2nd at Noon”
  • The property includes a guesthouse.

305 Oakwood Street, High Point
The Charles S. Welborn House

• Sold for $205,000 on August 30, 2021 (listed at $225,000)
• 4 apartments, see note below in re bedrooms and bathrooms, 3,758 square feet, 0.3 acre
• Price/square foot: $55
• Built in 1902
• Listed June 29, 2021
• Last sale: $107,000, July 1994
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District
• Note: This house could be a great candidate for restoration on a street with great but mostly unrealized potential.
  • No central air conditioning.
  • No interior photos are included in the listing.
  • Originally a single-family home, it has been divided into four apartments. The listing says one has 2 bedrooms; no other descriptions are given. County records show 5 bedrooms but only 2 bathrooms.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Imposing Colonial Revival style house with Queen Anne influences; frame with later asbestos shingles, spacious wrap front porch with second story hip-roofed balcony; glass panel front door with oversize side lights; bay windows; steep hip roof with gable. Approximately 4,000 square feet. Welborn [1872-1966] owned a highly successful furniture retail store with his brother [David Nerius] Welborn [1876-1925].”

308 S. Joyner Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County

• Sold for $60,200 on August 27, 2021 (originally $80,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,379 square feet
• Price/square foot: $44
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 16, 2021
• Last sale: $3,850, July 1962
• Note: Edward Roesallars Gerringer Sr. (1895-1973) and his wife, Florence Virginia Younger Gerringer (1898-1997), bought the property from Cone Mills in 1962. No deeds indicate to whom the ownership passed, but it’s apparently being sold by the estate Edward Jr. (1927-2021), the last living child of the eight born to Edward Sr. and Florence. Edward Jr. was a Navy veteran and retired employee of the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department.

180 Center Street, Cooleemee, Davie County

• Sold for $155,000 on August 24, 2021 (originally $153,000, later $163,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,422 square feet, 0.60 acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 11, 2021
• Last sale: $50,000, January 2019

742 Stratford Road NW, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $785,000 on August 23, 2021 (originally $829,800)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,242 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $242
• Built in 1932
• Listed June 11, 2021
• Last sale: $725,000, November 2020
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a guest cottage with one bathroom connected to the two-car garage.
  • What the house looked like when it was sold in November 2020:

1289 Union Cross Road, Kernersville, Forsyth County

• Sold for $295,000 on August 23, 2021 (listed at $339,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,169 square feet, 1.76 acres
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 2, 2021
• Last sale: $130,000, June 2014
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage, a barn with three bays and two other outbuildings.

115 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
The Lacy H. Sellars House

• Sold for $675,000 on August 20, 2021 (apparently wasn’t listed on MLS)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,121 square feet
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1920
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: The property was bought in two pieces by Lacy H. Sellars in 1914 and 1920. The 1920 tract had been owned by Ceasar and Jeannette Cone, who sold the property to First Presbyterian Church in 1903. First Presbyterian passed it on to North Elm Presbyterian Church in 1914. The North Elm Street church sold it to Lacy Hughes Sellars (1875-1943).
  • In 1920 Sellars was the secretary of the Cone Export & Commission Company. Later he worked as vice president of Adamson Cadillac Company. He died in 1943, followed shortly after by his wife, Evelyn Powell Sellars (1890-1944).

1020 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Long Apartments (now a single-family residence)

• Sold for $440,000 on August 20, 2021 (listed at $429,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,515 square feet
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 22, 2021
• Last sale: $216,500, June 2003
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story frame Craftsman house is simple in detail but dramatic in its form. The weatherboarded house has a gable roof which sweeps low in front (making the rear look chopped off) to cover an engaged porch and a porch end room. A large shed dormer interrupts the front slope, lessening its frontal impact.
  • “The porch features plain stuccoed columns, and the two entrances are composed of double-leaf French doors. Like many others, this house has stone front steps and retaining wall.
  • “Dr. V.M. Long and his wife, Hannah, acquired the property in 1919, but they never lived here. Their residence was next door, at 1024 West End Blvd. (#515). In 1921 this building was listed in the city directory as three apartments. It remained in Long family ownership until 1980.”

207 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The William and Lucy Neal House

• Sold for $358,000 on August 20, 2021 (listed at $369,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,224 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1922
• Listed July 14, 2021
• Last sale: $215,000, March 2016
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: William Watt Neal (1881-1931) and Lucy Belle Vance Neal (1884-1969) were the original owners, moving from a house they owned at 928 Walker Avenue. Will was a clerk with the Railway Mail Service. After his death at age 49, Lucy lived in the house until 1965.
  • Greensboro College owned the house from 1965 to 1978. For about 20 years beginning in 1994, the house was owned by college benefactors Ruth and Jack Campbell, who provided it to the college as a residence for students engaging in community service.

323 Franklin Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The A.E. Smith House

• Sold for $300,000 on August 19, 2021 (listed at $325,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,060 square feet (per county records), 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $74
• Built in 1896
• Listed May 27, 2021
• Last sale: $98,000, December 1993
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District
• Note: Located across the street from the Spencer’s Mill condos
  • The for-sale listing shows the square footage as only 3,776 ($86/square foot).
  • The date of the house is given as 1896 in county records and as 1905 in the district’s National Register nomination.
  • The address originally was 168 Franklin Street.
  • The house that previously stood on the property was moved to 409 Franklin Street when this house was built.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Large, intact, two-and-one-half story frame late Victorian style house with Doric columned wrap-around porch with corner bell-roofed pavilion, high hip roof with shed-roofed dormer, projecting polygonal bay with pedimented gable, decorative sawn brackets supporting the eaves, one-over-one windows, and double-leaf glass and oak main entrance.
  • “The house was constructed about 1905 by A.E. Smith, head of the National Furniture Company and co-owner of the Hadley-Smith Tobacco Factory.”
  • The house was in the Smith family for 91 years. Alfred Edgar Smith (1862-1929) passed ownership to his son, James Raymond Smith (1895-1987). J. Raymond ultimately served as president of National Furniture and lived in the house until at least 1982. The house was sold by his sons after his death at age 91. His son Raymond Alfred Smith (1924-1995) also was an executive with National Furniture and served as first president of both the Mount Airy United Fund and Mount Airy Rotary Club.

3160 Tobaccoville Road, Tobaccoville, Forsyth County

• Sold for $547,290 on August 18, 2021 (originally $629,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,238 square feet, 26.35 acres
• Price/square foot: $169
• Built in 1882
• Listed April 27, 2021
• Last sale: $478,000, November 2003
• Listing: The property borders Barker Creek. It includes fenced pasture land, a barn, a pond and a 30-by-40 metal outbuilding with electricity.

725 Miller Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $335,000 on August 18, 2021 (originally $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,091 square feet
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 14, 2021
• Last sale: $149,000, August 1996
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• District NRHP nomination: “Period Cottage. One and a half story; steeply-pitched front gable with catslide line; stucco; side, shed-roof dormers; front-gable entry pavilion; broken pediment door surround; facade chimney; eight-over-eight, replacement windows; oculus window over door; side porch.”

610 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Lewis-Stone House

• Sold for $257,000 on August 18, 2021 (listed at $269,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,620 square feet (per county)
• Price/square foot: $159
• Built in 1918
• Listed July 7, 2021
• Last sale: $235,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Listing: “Being sold ‘as is’ … handyman special. Cash sale or private financing only. … Hardwood floors and many period details from the 1920’s make this home a diamond in the rough. Finish it off with your own personal touch.”
  • Lorena Belle Hollowell Lewis (1874-1951) bought the property for $1,000 in 1913. Her husband, Victor Charles Lewis (1875-1940), wasn’t on the deed, though he had been added by the time they sold the house in 1925. He operated a grocery store half a block away at 902 Spring Garden Street.
  • In 1950, Dearing Fauntleroy Stone (1884-1954) bought the property, and it remained in his family for 44 years. He was a trainman with Southern Railway. Ownership passed to his wife, Alma Jordan Stone (1891-1974), when he died. Their three children owned the house from 1974 until they died. A grandson, Dearing F. Stone III, was the last family member to own it, selling the house in 1994.

3428 Courtney Church Road, Courtney, Yadkin County

• Sold for $190,000 on August 18, 2021 (originally $159,900, later $205,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,119 square feet, 1.64 acres
• Price/square foot: $90
• Built in 1893
• Listed November 15, 2019
• Last sale: 1984, no further information available online
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage and storage building, both with electricity.
  • The property has a Yadkinville mailing address but is well south of town.

3941 Cates Loop, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $335,000 on August 17, 2021 (listed at $389,000)
  • An online auction had been scheduled. If it was held, it didn’t result in a sale.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 24.88 acres
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 7, 2021
• Last sale: May 1922, price not available.
• Note: The property has a Burlington mailing address but is located north of Haw River in the Pleasant Grove community.

124 Clabber Mountain Lane, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $275,000 on August 17, 2021 (listed at $299,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,840 square feet, 1.9 acres
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1922
• Listed June 21, 2021
• Last sale: $145,000, September 2017

719 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Walters House

• Sold for $217,000 on August 17, 2021 (listed at $227,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,958 square feet, 1.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1869
• Listed January 31, 2021
• Last sale: 1937
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This large frame house, one of a number of important Italianate houses surviving in the district, is said to have been built built about 1880 for Captain Archibald E. Walters (1843-1920), a Virginia native and Civil War veteran, and his wife Mary E. Walters (1845-1914), by her father R. P. Richardson, Sr. They had married in 1868 and apparently lived in Virginia for a number of years. It is believed that Richardson had earlier built the adjacent house to the south for another daughter, Margaret Isabella, who was married to Col. A.J. Boyd.”
  • “Mrs. Walters willed the house to her son E.R. Walters, who sold it in 1937 to optometrist William T. Ferneyhough, Sr., who died in 1970. After being rented for a number of years, the house is now [1986] occupied by W. T. Ferneyhough, Jr.” The house is still in the Ferneyhough family.
  • “Standing far back from the street on a large lot with mature magnolia and oak trees, the two-story frame house features an irregular plan, which narrows from north to south, under a low hipped roof pierced by tall brick chimneys with rusticated stone caps.
  • “Two-story semi-hexagonal bays project from the north elevation and north projecting bay of the three-bay facade.
  • “A one-story porch with two-tier, pedimented gable entrance bay shelters the right two bays and continues on the south elevation, where it has been enclosed. The porch is supported by chamfered posts and has turned baluster railings.
  • “Windows are two over two sash in round-and segmentally-arched openings with label moldings above on most windows. The architrave has a paneled frieze with sawn brackets. One-story wings extend to the rear of the house. Since 1978, the house has been sheathed in aluminum siding.”

528 S. Hamilton Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• Sold for $186,000 on August 17, 2021 (listed at $188,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,963 square feet
• Price/square foot: $95
• Built in 1922
• Listed: May 26, 2021
• Last sale: $50,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District
• NRHP district nomination on 526 and 528 S. Hamilton: “These nearly identical houses are intact, carefully detailed examples of the basic one-and-one-half story bungalow. Both houses have shed dormers, exterior sheathing of weatherboards on the first story and shingles on the second, engaged full-facade porches with slender columns on brick piers, and interior chimneys with exposed faces in each gable end.”
  • Replacement windows
  • How it looked when it was sold in February:

1392 S. Friendship Road, Stokes County

• Sold for $450,000 on August 16, 2021 (listed at $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,437 square feet, 67.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $185
• Built in 1890
• Listed March 9, 2021
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Listing: “… beautiful views of the Sauratown Mountains. Stream on the north property line and Town Fork Creek along the west boundary.”
  • The property has a Germanton address but is to the northeast in Stokes County near the communities of Mountain View and Neatman.
  • Vinyl siding

638 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Carl H. Laun House

• Sold for $430,000 on July 13, 2021 (originally listed at $500,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,556 square feet
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1923
• Listed February 26, 2021
• Last sale: $124,000, January 2018
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Listing: “… redone from the basement to the attic,” including vinyl siding and replacement windows.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled house is three bays wide and double-pile with steeply-pitched gables and a nearly full-width, shed-roofed dormer across the facade. The house has vinyl siding over original weatherboards … [The] door is located in a steeply-pitched, front-gabled entrance bay and has a classical surround with fluted pilasters and a pair of windows in the gable over the entrance. There is a one-story, hip-roofed wing on the right (east) elevation and a two-story, side-gabled wing on the left (west) elevation with a stone veneer and bay window at the first-floor level. The earliest known occupant is C.H. Laun (controller, Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company) in 1929.”

317 Woodbine Court, Greensboro
The Eva and James Wells House

• Sold for $425,000 on August 12, 2021 (originally $450,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, 2,020 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $210
• Built in 1936
• Listed June 5, 2021
• Last sale: $235,000, January 2021 (price for two properties, separate prices not specified)
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story, five-bay, side-gabled, brick Colonial Revival-style dwelling displays a heavily molded cornice and a classical entrance with pilasters and a multi-light transom framing the paneled wood door.
  • “Windows are six-over-six, including those in the three, front-gabled, synthetic-sided dormers resting on the front roof slope. A brick chimney occupies the north end of the main block and extends through the roof of the one-story, side-gabled, synthetic-sided porch with arched openings that have been fitted with large expanses of glass windows and doors.
  • “A one-story, side-gabled, brick wing occupies the south elevation. Its south gable end is sheathed in synthetic siding.
  • “The Wells bought the property in March 1936 and appear in the city directory for that year. He was a traveling salesman. Wells heirs sold the property in 1970.”
  • The renovation may have included clear-cutting the front yard. 2014 photo from Google Street View:

2536 Spero Road, Randleman, Randolph County

• Sold for $185,000 on August 12, 2021 (originally $225,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,090 square feet, 1 acre
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 25, 2021
• Last sale: $116,000, August 2005
• Note: The property includes a one-bedroom, one-bathroom studio of 550-plus square feet.

618 N. Greensboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County

• Sold for $175,000 on August 12, 2021 (listed at $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1,193 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1890
• Listed March 5, 2021
• Last sale: $123,500, May 2019
• Listing: Two of the bathrooms are “partially renovated.”
  • The property includes a wired outbuilding.
  • The rear elevation is dominated by an apparent addition with no windows.

1406 W. Cornwallis Drive, Greensboro
The Holt-Young-Squires House

• Sold for $425,000 on August 11, 2021 (listed at $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,408 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 1 ,2021
• Last sale: $362,500, May 2017
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: Deeds from the 1920s and ’30s identify this part of Irving Park as “Hillcrest” or “Joseph W. Holt subdivision.”
  • By 1926 Lucile and Joseph Holt owned 14 lots in the neighborhood, including what is now 1406 W. Cornwallis. They were listed in the city directory as living around the corner on Dellwood Drive. Joseph was president of Greensboro Building and Loan Association.
  • County records date the house to 1928, but it doesn’t appear in the city directory until about 10 years later. As early as 1933, though, John P. Young Jr. was listed at a home with no number on Cornwallis at Dellwood Drive. He and his wife, Annette, bought the property in 1938. He was the loss prevention manager at Dixie Fire Insurance Co. of Greensboro. The house’s address was originally 1129 W. Cornwallis.
  • In 1939, the Youngs sold the house to a colleague of John’s, Jules Percy Howard Squires, and his wife, Martha Andrews Sykes Squires. Jules was the cashier at Dixie Fire Insurance. They owned the house for 59 years, selling it in 1998, two years before they each died, five months apart, after 66 years of marriage.

1004 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem
The T.E. and Hazel Swain House

• Sold for $415,000 on August 11, 2021 (listed at $399,999)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,065 square feet
• Price/square foot: $201
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 26, 2021
• Last sale: $332,500, November 2015
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof entry porch; slender classical columns; side porch and porte-cochere have battered posts on brick piers.”
  • The first recorded occupants were T.E. Swain and Miss Hazel D. Swain in 1931. Hazel was a clerk at the Happy Family Shoe Store.

4831 Lake Jeanette Road, Greensboro
The McNairy House

• Sold for $415,000 on August 6, 2021 (originally $445,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,300 square feet, 1.91 acres
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1902
• Listed April 12, 2021
• Last sale: $285,000, August 2002
• Note: The house originally was the centerpiece of the huge McNairy farm, which included the area around Lake Jeanette Road and Bass Chapel Road. The house and its surrounding 1.91 acres remained in the McNairy family until 1996.
  • Francis and Mary Boyd McNairy moved to North Carolina from Pennsylvania in 1761. They bought land on Horsepen Creek; 20 years later it was part of the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Their house was used as a hospital after the battle; prominent local minister, educator and ardent revolutionary David Caldwell provided emergency medical treatment (he also was a self-taught physician). The home was dismantled in 1967 and reassembled at the Greensboro Historical Museum, where it still stands.
  • In the 19th century, all but one of the McNairs followed Francis and Mary’s son John to Tennessee (John took along his buddy Andrew Jackson — yeah, him — then a Guilford County lawyer).
  • James McNairy (born 1809), a lawyer, remained. “A large landowner like his father, he served as a justice of the peace, as well as a member of the state legislature,” according to Tim Cole of the Greensboro Public Library.
  • At the turn of the 20th century, James’s descendants included brothers John and James McNairy, who built a schoolhouse for their children on the property. With the help of the Preservation Greensboro Development Fund, the current owners recently sold that building, and it was relocated.

4303 Princeton Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $325,000 on August 5, 2021 (listed at $275,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 0.59 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1925
• Listed July 5, 2021
• Last sale: December 2012, no price recorded on deed (bought from HUD after foreclosure)
• Neighborhood: Highland Park
• Note: The property is located next to a park.

605 N. Asheboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County

• Sold for $321,000 on August 4, 2021 (listed at $325,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,658 square feet, 2.7 acres
• Price/square foot: $121
• Built in 1900
• Listed April 23, 2021
• Last sale: $50,500, November 2007
• Listing: The house “was restored in 2007, following local historical society guidelines and keeping several original features, including 7 fireplaces, beautiful stained glass windows, and the original ‘pie safe’. Renovated and used as a law office, this home still has much of its original residential integrity.”
  • The house is set far back from the street on a corner lot, just north of the business district. A railroad track is across the street.

726 N. Stratford Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $860,000 on August 3, 2021 (listed at $885,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,833 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1926
• Listed June 2, 2021
• Last sale: $633,000, February 2014
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a a granite patio, fish pond, storage building and “basketball/sport pad.”

1011 Center Church Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Johns Manor House (also known as the Johns-Osborne House)

• Sold for $366,500 on August 3, 2021 (originally $390,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,970 square feet, 2.55 acres
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built in 1840 (sometimes listed as 1850)
• Listed June 18, 2019
• Last sale: $20,000, December 2009
• Note: Designated as a historic landmark by the Eden Historic Preservation Commission
  • Listing: “Built between 1840 and 1850 by Dr. Anthony Johns, one of the first physicians in Leaksville.”
  • The property has been used as an event center “but can be a grand private residence.”
  • City ordinance designating the house as a historic landmark: “The original house was a large brick, one-room-deep, two-story structure with a rear two-story ell. … The main house was enlarged in the late 19th or early 20th century with a two-story addition behind the original structure. In the mid-20th century, a one-story wing over a basement was added on the rear and east side of the main house. A wide two-story portico with square columns was also added sometime in the 20th century, giving the home a ‘Mount Vernon’ style appearance.”

2544 Ossipee Front Street, Ossipee, Alamance County

• Sold for $135,000 on July 30, 2021 (originally $150,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,397 square feet
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1903
• Listed March 16, 2021
• Last sale: $97,000, June 2018
• Note: The house has an Elon mailing address, but it’s not in Elon (and it’s not in Altamahaw, either. It’s in Ossipee.)
  • Aluminum siding and replacement windows

2580 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $585,000 on July 29, 2021 (originally $685,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,943 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1948
• Listed May 20, 2021
• Last sale: $285,000, May 2017
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes an outdoor kitchen, an herb wall and raised garden beds with a built-in irrigation system.

205 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Roland T. Holton House

• Sold for $266,000 on July 29, 2021 (originally $289,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,377 square feet
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 3, 2021
• Last sale: $75,000, July 2011
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, stuccoed, Spanish Mission-style house has a stuccoed exterior, a flat roof behind a shaped parapet with a continuous, tiled pent roof around the entire building. The house is three bays wide and double-pile with paired, arched, fifteen-light French doors on the first story, each pair with a decorative metal railing, and paired nine-over-nine, wood-sash windows on the second story with window boxes on the facade.
  • “The arched, batten door has nine small lights and is accessed by an uncovered brick terrace with decorative metal railing. There is a single arched window centered over the entrance, an ogee-arched parapet on the facade, and an exterior, stuccoed chimney on the left (east) elevation. A one-story, flat-roofed enclosed porch projects from the right (west) elevation with deep eaves and exposed rafter tails.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Roland T. Holton (vice-president/assistant manager, Continental Furniture Company) in 1928.”

327 W. Main Street, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Sold for $209,900 on July 28, 2021 (listed at $209,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,465 square feet
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 15, 2021
• Last sale: $10,000, April 2002
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Local Historic District
• Listing: “Home has been totally updated!” … losing much of its historic character in the process (vinyl siding, wall-to-wall carpet, new floors, likely replacement windows).

427 N. Main Street, Graham, Alamance County
The Carl and Mable Longest House

• Sold for $252,000 on July 27, 2021 (listed at $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,317 square feet
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1937
• Listed June 17, 2021
• Last sale: $170,000, November 2017
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District
• Note: County records date the house to 1937. The neighborhood’s National Register nomination puts it in the 1940s.
  • District NRHP nomination: “The one-and-a-half story, four-bay French Normandy Revival style dwelling features a dark reddish brown brick veneer, a steeply pitched hip roof, a round witches cap entrance turret, segmental arched door openings, glazed and paneled doors, and decorative eave brackets.
  • “Other elements include jack arches over the doors and a stretcher row water table course. Fenestration includes tripartite one-over-one sash windows and six-over-six sash in the turret.
  • “Carl Longest, a major in the army and a salesman, had the house built in the 1940s. Carl’s wife, Mable, was a school teacher.”

427 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $390,000 on July 23, 2021 (listed at $374,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,186 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $178
• Built in 1921
• Listed June 10, 2021
• Last sale: $315,000 June 2019
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; side gable; wood shingle sheathing; nine-over-nine windows; gable entry porch with molded gable returns; Tuscan columns; fanlight; side porch; paneled shutters with tree motif cut-out.”

122 N. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Edward B. Ware House

• Sold for $143,000 on July 23, 2021 (listed at $139,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,088 square feet
• Price/square foot: $68
• Built in 1932 (see note below)
• Listed June 4, 2021
• Last sale: $62,500, July 2019
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District
• Note: County records date the house to 1932, but the National Register nomination for the historic district says 1914 to 1922.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story frame, single-pile house is clad in drop siding and topped by a hip roof with a central hip dormer. Paired 5 over 1 windows flank the sidelighted entrance on the three-bay facade, which is spanned by a one-story porch with square posts on brick piers. A one-story ell extends to the rear of the house. Built between 1914 and 1922, the house was occupied in 1929 by salesman Edward B. Ware.”

501 Lindsey Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
William N. Womack House

• Sold for $139,900 on July 23, 2021 (listed at $139,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,948 square feet
• Price/square foot: $47
• Built in 1914 (see note below)
• Listed June 4, 2021
• Last sale: $37,500, September 2014
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District
• Note: County records show the date of the house as 1914; the city’s historic walking tour guide says 1900.
  • Reidsville historic walking tour guide: “Colonial Revival with unusual mansard roof, 1900”
  • William Nathaniel Womack (1959-1907) was a tobacco dealer.

909 Glenwood Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $115,000 on July 23, 2021 (listed at $119,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,360 square feet
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1928
• Listed June 2, 2021
• Last sale: $85,000, June 2003
• Neighborhood: Glenwood
• Note: For sale by owner
  • Rental property
  • The house was a rental property until 1938, when it was bought by the Rev. Paul Thomas Osborne (1911-1996) and his wife, Mary Myrick Osborne (1912-2002). They were married for 66 years. He was a minister of the Evangelical Friends Church for 42 years. They owned the house until 1954.
  • From 1954 to 1964, the house was owned by the First Pentecostal Holiness Church.

113 Kensington Road, Greensboro
The Hassie and John Markham House

• Sold for $565,000 on July 21, 2021 (listed at $565,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,794 square feet, 0.4 acre
• Price/square foot: $202
• Built in 1925 (per county records)
• Listed June 4, 2021
• Last sale: $515,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
• Note: Double lot
  • The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • County records show the house’s date as 1925, but the National-Register nomination for Sunset Hills suggests 1928.
  • The house has had only three owners. The current owners had it for about nine months before putting it up for sale.
  • District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, truncated hip-roofed, brick, Colonial Revival-style dwelling displays a bracketed cornice. A classical portico supported by fluted Doric columns and pilasters is centered on the facade. The flat-roofed portico is topped by a turned balustrade with short, bold, square, corner balusters and graced with molded brackets.
  • The brick porch floor extends the width of the façade and wraps around to the north elevation where a porch with a crowning balustrade is situated. The balustrade displays the same corner posts, but simple square balusters. This porch, like the front portico, has curved brackets along its cornices and fluted columns and pilasters for support, except at the northwest (front) corner where a brick post supports the post.
  • “A one-story wing on the south elevation has the same crowning balustrade as the north porch, as well as the molded brackets on its cornice. It is enclosed with six-over-one windows. Windows elsewhere on the house are eight-over-one.
  • “The Markhams bought the property in December 1927 and likely built the house soon thereafter. He was a structural engineer. The family owned the house until 1980.”
  • John Wellington Markham Sr. (1884-1935) died barely seven years after buying the house. Hassie D. Whitley Markham (1896-1987) continued to live in the house. She sold it in 1979.
  • Robert and Carolyn Clendenin bought the house from Hassie. Robert Amos Clendenin (1932-2016) was a longtime teacher and principal in the Greensboro and Guilford County schools. He served as principal at Bessemer High School, Bessemer Junior High, Aycock Middle School and for more than 20 years principal at Page High School. Carolyn Reid Clendenin (1937-1999) was a music teacher and choral director in the local school systems. Their son, Carter Clendenin, inherited the house from his father and owned it until 2020. He’s a lieutenant with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department.

311 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The John and Elizabeth Edmunds House

• Sold for $442,000 on July 20, 2021 (originally $425,000, later $449,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,492 square feet
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1908
• Listed May 15, 2021
• Last sale: $275,000, July 2015
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• Note: The listing shows 2,819 square feet.
  • John R. Edmunds (1864-1938) was a civil engineer. He and his wife, Elizabeth O’Connell Edmunds (1871-1958), bought the property in 1909, and it remained in their family for 52 years. After his death, Elizabeth and their daughter Mary Nash Edmunds (1910-1993) continued to live in the house. Mary spent her career as a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service. She sold the house in 1961 and moved across the street to an apartment at 320 South Mendenhall.
  • Carl G. Pemberton Jr. (1929-1996) and his wife, Ruby Wood Pemberton (1927-1982), bought the house from Mary and owned it until 1996. They divided the house into two apartments, initially sharing it with Carl’s widowed mother, Zelda.
  • By the time Carl died, the house had deteriorated so severely it was bought by the city Redevelopment Commission and was sold to Lane and Joy Herndon for restoration.

421 Boone Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The McCollum-Truslow House

• Sold for $300,000 on July 20, 2021 (listed at $300,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,300 square feet, 0.96 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 26, 2021
• Last sale: $118,500, March 1998
• Neighborhood: Boone Road Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “In contrast to the ornamented and asymmetrical Queen Anne style is the boxy, two-story Foursquare style, popular in North Carolina’s urban neighborhoods during the first decades of the twentieth century. This simple, spacious style is well represented in the Boone Road district in the McCollum-Truslow House at 421 Boone Road. The house exhibits the characteristic cubical form topped with a hip roof, attic dormer, and deep overhanging eaves. Its spacious classically inspired wrap-around porch with Tuscan columns and a pedimented entrance bay has been partially enclosed as a sun room.”
  • “Marshall Field Co. built the house for mill official W.G. McCollum in the early 1920s. Later, it was the home of Mr. Truslow, another mill official.”

212 W. Colonial Drive, Thomasville, Davidson County

• Sold for $250,000 on July 20, 2021 (listed at $245,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,776 square feet, 0.77 acre
• Price/square foot: $66
• Built in 1936
• Listed June 8, 2021
• Last sale: $31,000, April 2007
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Local Historic District

2007 Craven Street, Ramseur, Randolph County

• Sold for $120,000 on July 19, 2021 (listed at $115,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,483 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $81
• Built in 1890
• Listed June 1, 2020
• Last sale: $45,055, July 2020
• Note: Original floors are covered or replaced by carpeting and “luxury vinyl.”

2382 W. Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road, Snow Camp, Alamance County
Shagbark Hickory Farm

• Sold for $465,000 on July 17, 2021 (listed at $500,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,701 square feet (per county), 25.10 acres
• Price/square foot: $273
• Built in 1800
• Listed May 19, 2021
• Last sale: $80,000, August 2005
• Note: Online listings show the square footage as 1,012, which is obviously wrong.
  • The property includes two paddocks, a barn with five stalls and electricity, and a natural spring.
  • Some of the current residents:

2200 Elizabeth Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Gladys Smithdeal House

• Sold for $405,000 on July 15, 2021 (listed at $399,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,709 square feet
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 9, 2021
• Last sale: $19,250, April 1966
• Neighborhood: Ardmore
• Note: The house was sold to the current owners by Ardmore Baptist Church. The deed is dated April 1, 1966, but the listing says the house has been in the family since 1955.
  • The finished basement contains a kitchen and full bathroom.
  • The property includes an attached two-car carport and storage shed.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip-roof; eyebrow dormer; vinyl siding; twelve-over-one replacement windows and original, leaded transom over single light windows; flat-roof entry portico; paneled, square columns; porte-cochere; sidelights and transom; pilasters at entry; false beams; square, bay windows with original decorative shingle roofs.
  • “1925 [city directory]: Charles and Gladys Smithdeal, Smithdeal Realty. C.C. and John Smithdeal were involved in the early development of the Ardmore neighborhood.
  • “Ardmore Methodist Church held its first service in this house.”

1204 Brookstown Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Spencer House

• Sold for $820,000 on July 14, 2021 (listed at $795,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,250 square feet
• Price/square foot: $252
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 11, 2021
• Last sale: $190,000, April 2013
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The Spencer House is an elegant Colonial Revival dwelling with some detailing very similar to that found at 1208 Brookstown Ave. next door.
  • “The two-story weatherboarded frame house has a truncated hip roof with overhanging eaves, a central gabled dormer with a Palladian window and objets trouves work, and smaller flanking hipped dormers.
  • “The central entrance with sidelights and transom is echoed by the sidelighted doorway to the second floor deck.
  • “The house has a wrap-around porch with a slightly projecting entrance bay, Tuscan columns, a full entablature, and a plain balustrade with central ‘star’ panels.
  • “An ironwork fire stair has been attached to the southeast side of the house in recent years, but it does not hide any of the original detailing and could be easily removed.
  • “Although the house was depicted on the 1912 Sanborn Map, the first tax listing was not until 1917 with M.K. Spencer. The 1920 city directory lists Dr. William O. and Mary K. Spencer at this location. The Spencers owned the house until 1967.”
  • Dr. William Oliver Spencer was a physician and surgeon and president of Spencer Sanitarium. He was born in Davie County. Mary Graves Miles Kerr Spencer (1875-1965) was born in Yanceyville. One of her brothers was U.S. Rep. John Hosea Kerr, who served from 1923-1953.

1013 Barnes Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $165,000 on July 12, 2021 (listed at $165,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 3,058 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $54
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 22, 2021
• Last sale: $107,500, November 2002
• Note: The property includes a pool, pool house and hot tub.

2315 Hubbard Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $155,000 on July 12, 2021 (listed at $155,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,508 square feet
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 2, 2021
• Last sale: $5,000, October 1973
• Neighborhood: Cone Mill
• Note: Cone Mills built the house and sold it in 1973.

5541 Ammons Road, East Bend, Yadkin County

• Sold for $625,000 on July 9, 2021 (listed at $625,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,383 square feet, 31.87 acres
• Price/square foot: $262
• Built in 1883
• Listed May 20, 2021
• Last sale: $155,000, April 1993
• Note: The property includes an in-ground pool; seven outbuildings including a carport, workshops, studio, wine cellar, tack room and “party barn!”; fenced pastures; wooded paths.

417 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Dr. Thomas M. Stanton House

• Sold fr $500,000 on July 9, 2021 (listed at $529,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,993 square feet
• Price/square foot: $167
• Built in 1926
• Listed June 9, 2021
• Last sale: $300,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Tudor Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a two-story, front-gabled projecting wing on the left (east) end of the facade and a shed-roofed dormer on the right(west) end of the facade.
• “The house has a brick veneer, an irregular-coursed slate roof, and weatherboards on the shed-roofed dormer. It has grouped wood casement windows and the two-light batten door is sheltered by a small flat roof on wood brackets. An entrance on the left elevation is sheltered by a small flat-roofed porch supported by decorative metal posts on brick piers.
• “There is an exterior end brick chimney in the right gable and a two-story, hip-roofed ell at the right rear (southwest) with a one-story, gabled wing beyond it. A low brick wall extends along the driveway on the east side of the house.
• “The earliest known occupant is Dr. Thomas M. Stanton in 1928.”

417 N. 3rd Street, Mebane, Alamance County

• Sold for $360,000 on July 9, 2021 (listed at $349,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,122 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1919
• Listed June 6, 2021
• Last sale: $260,000, June 2019
• Listing: “Separate guest suite/accessory building is 416 additional square feet w/water and electric.”

8602 Park Springs Road, Ruffin, Caswell County

• Sold for $270,000 on July 9, 2021 (listed at $295,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,804 square feet, 5.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 8, 2021
• Last sale: $220,000, March 2012
• Note: The listing says the house has its original roof.
  • The property includes a garage/workshop large enough to house four vehicles or a boat, a pottery shack/hunting cabin, corn crib/ chicken coop, two-tiered deck and tractor shed.