Piedmont Historic Homes

Recent Sales

• Sold for $180,000 on December 19, 2023 (auction)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1922
• Last sale: $108,500, August 1993
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival … Gable-end house marked by plain friezeboards, cornerboards, and cornice returns, and triangular pedimented dormers and portico.”
  • The original owners were John Joseph Lindsay (1888-1981) and Lucille Parker Lindsay (1888-1951). John was born in Northern Ireland. He was an auditor for the Ellis, Stone department store and a founder of Lindsay, Squires & Everett Certified Public Accountants. He was a charter member of St. Benedict Catholic Church. He sold the house in 1953.
  • The house was sold six times between 1969 and 1979.

• Sold for $805,000 on December 13, 2023 (originally $1.295 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,568 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $226
• Built in 1907
• Listed February 23, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, January 1984
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Designated as a Guilford County landmark
  • The house has had only three owners
  • Designed by architect Richard Gambier, Mount Airy granite stonework by the locally prominent Andrew Schlosser.
  • “The two-story frame house features a Mount Airy Granite foundation with grapevine mortar, and includes a broad porch of Ionic columns that engaged a porte-cochere. A high, hipped roofline is pierced by hipped dormer windows and tall corbelled chimneys. Key features of the interior include sidelights and a transom of beveled leaded glass, [and] a bay window….” (Preservation Greensboro)

• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne/Col Rev. Large boxy hip-roofed house w/projecting bays; fluted Corinthian columns at porch that wraps around to porte cochere; Corinthian capitals at cornerboard.”
  • The original owners were George Adonijah Grimsley (1862-1935) and Cynthia Dunn Tull Grimsley (1858-1947). Few people associated with Greensboro have had a greater impact on the city and North Carolina than Grimsley.
  • The son of a farmer, Grimsley was a native of Greene County. He graduated from Peabody Normal College in Nashville, Tennessee (now Vanderbilt University’s college of education). At age 20, he established Tarboro’s first graded school and served as its superintendent.
  • Eight years later, in 1890, Grimsley was hired as superintendent of Greensboro’s two public schools. He proposed that governance of school be moved from the city aldermen to a school board, which was created in 1893. His ideas on teaching students “to think and to give expression to their thoughts, and at the same time giving them a taste of the best literature” brought wide recognition. In 1899, the school system established its first high school, now named for Grimsley.
  • Grimsley’s emphasis on literature led him to believe in the necessity of libraries in both schools and communities. In 1897 Grimsley and colleagues drafted a bill for state Sen. Alfred Moore Scales to introduce allowing for the establishment and funding of public libraries in the state (one of his partners in the effort was Annie Petty, the first trained librarian in the state). The bill was passed, and the Greensboro Public Library opened in 1902 with 1,490 books bought with funds raised by school children and their parents. “Many of them denied themselves candy and gum and contributed their pin money to the library,” Grimsley said of his students.
  • Grimsley was also a big believer in insurance. In 1901, while still superintendent of schools, he organized Security Life and Annuity Company. He left the school system in 1902 and worked full time in insurance. Five years later, he helped create the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company in Raleigh. Security Life and Jefferson Standard merged in 1912, keeping the latter’s name and headquarters. A year later the firm moved to Greensboro and named Grimsley president. He held the position until 1919, when he left to establish a new company, Security Life and Trust. That company, too, was a success.
  • Insurance broker Fielding Lewis Fry (1892-1961) and Fanny Williams Fry (1895-1983) bought the house in 1937 and owned it until 1984. Fielding served as mayor of Greensboro, 1947 to 1949. He was also chairman of Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell’s Inlet, S.C., the first public sculpture garden in America and “the floral jewel of South Carolina’s coast.”
  • The house was bought in 1984 by hotel executive Alan F. Strong and Prudence Fraley Strong (1938-2020). Prudence was from Statesville and graduated from Duke University. She originally was a high school teacher and later worked as a real estate agent.

• Sold for $400,000 on December 8, 2023 (listed at $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,353 (per county) square feet, 3.39 acres
• Price/square foot: $170
• Built in 1896
• Listed September 14, 2023
• Last sale: Unknown, the property has been in the Smith family since at least 1942.
• Note: The property has a Siler City address but is about 5 miles northeast of the town.
  • Listing: “MLS rules deduct square footage from the total 2,766 SF. Additional 16.7 acres available (different seller). Renovated enough for immediate move-in but can still add your own touch. Possible wedding venue.”
  • The property was bought in 1942 by Frank Adam Smith Sr. (1896-1990) and Addie Gladys Teague Smith (1898-1982). Frank was a native of Chatham County and a farmer. Gladys, also a Chatham County native, was the youngest of 12 children and outlived all but one of them.

• Sold for $200,000 on December 7, 2023 (originally $265,000)
  • Sold to an LLC in Elkin
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,552 square feet, 2.62 acres
• Price/square foot: $78
• Built in 1870
• Listed October 5, 2023
• Last sale: $1,800, April 1927 (115 acres)
• Note: The property has a storage building and a block pump house.
  • “Two Monitor heat units on main serve as heat source for entire house. Generac generator remains. Sold AS-IS. Propane tanks leased. Neighboring farmer has some crops planted along edges of this parcel. Crops will remain until harvested.”
  • The listing says fiber optic internet service is available.
  • The property has a Harmony mailing address but is about 3.7 miles northeast of town in northeastern Iredell County.
  • The property was bought in 1927 by Roid Coston Grose (1896-1998) and Ethel May Joyner Grose (1901-1986). It has been in the Grose family ever since. Roid was an Army veteran of World War I. He worked as a dairy farmer. He lived in the house for 71 years before dying at home at the age of 101.

300 Cox Avenue, Thomasville, Davidson County
The John and Flora Clodfelter House

• Sold for $167,500 on December 6, 2023 (originally $210,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,346 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1916
• Listed October 11, 2023
• Last sale: $165,000, August 2020
• Note: “Some items need attention.”
  • The property comes with a VA assumable loan with an interest rate of 2.875%. “Qualified buyer must be approved by lender and also make up difference in offer price through second mortgage or cash.”
  • The original owners may have been John William Clodfelter (1874-1930) and Flora Jane Anderson Clodfelter (1872-1957), who were listed at the residence in 1928. They passed the house on to their children; daughter Rena Clodfelter Myers (1908-2000) sold it in 1994.
  • John was a furniture finisher. Flora continued to live in the house after his death. She was eventually joined by their daughter Vira Viola Clodfelter (1896-1990). a school teacher, and son John William “Jack” Clodfelter Jr. (1912-1990), an employee of Thrift Motor Company. By 1994, ownership had been passed on to Rena, the last surviving of their six children.

• Sold for $180,000 on December 6, 2023 (listed at $175,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,948 square feet
• Price/square foot: $61
• Built in 1914 (see note below)
• Listed June 4, 2021
• Last sale: $139,900, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• 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 (1859-1907) was a tobacco dealer. He was married to Anna Judith Wray Womack (1862-1949).
• District NR nomination: “A low stone retaining wall extends along the Lindsey and Irvin street sides of the corner lot on which leaf tobacco dealer William N. Womack built his very unusual two-story Colonial Revival house, soon after his 1900 purchase of the tract …
  • “Exhibiting an extremely complex plan, the house has a quantity of one- and two-story sections, projecting bays, ells and additions. The main impact of the house is that of a double-pile gambrel-roofed block facing Lindsey Street, with a slightly projecting pedimented bay and bay window on the west elevation, and two-story hipped roof wings on the rear and east elevations.
  • “All of the various roof sections are sheathed in standing seam tin. Embellishments include a small palladian window in the front gambrel end which projects beyond the wall surface below and is sheathed with wood shingles.
  • “A one-story porch with Tuscan columns and a simple balustrade follows the angles of the stepped facade and continues along the east elevation. On the first floor of the gambrel block is a large tripartite window with an elliptical stained glass transom. The body of the house has been covered with light brown asbestos siding [now removed].”

• Sold for $515,000 on November 29, 2023 (listed at $499,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,854 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $180
• Built in 1900 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed October 12, 2023
• Last sale: $351,000, April 2023
• Neighborhood: Southside, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes “a detached 2 car rear entry garage w/a heated bonus room w/half bath.”
  • Beginning in the 1990s, the turn-of-the-century Southside neighborhood was transformed from a decaying mess into a model of “new urbanism” neighborhood redevelopment, recognized by awards from the American Planning Association, U.S. EPA Smart Growth program and the Sierra Club.
• District NR nomination: The original residents were William Miller Adams (1867-1923) and Fannie Smith Adams (1893-1973). They were living in the house in 1907, the first year the address was listed in the city directory. They bought the house in 1912 from G.H. Smith (dates unknown). William was a master plumber and proprietor of W.M. Adams Plumbing and Heating. Fannie sold the house in 1945.
  • The Greensboro Redevelopment Commission bought the house in 1999 for $55,000. After being restored by a contractor, it was bought by a homeowner in 2003 for $231,000.

• Sold for $205,000 on November 29, 2023 (listed at $199,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,375 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $86
• Built ca. 1894
• Listed October 18, 2023
• Last sale: $128,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Yanceyville Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records give a date of 1920, but the National Register nomination says Baz built the house “for his bride,” whom he married in 1894.
• District NR nomination: “The Barzillai Graves House, located on the south side of West Main Street, was built by a young county sheriff Barzillai Shuford Graves for his bride. The structure is a picturesque two-story frame building with an Italianate bracketed cornice and porches with handsome coupled Corinthian columns.”
  • Barzillai Shuford Graves (1854-1942) was at least the fourth Caswell County resident with his distinctive name, following Rev. Barzillai Graves (1759-1827); his son, Barzillai Graves Jr. (1790-1818); and Junior’s nephew Barzillai Graves (1820-1903), who census records indicate was probably Brazillai Shuford Graves’s grandfather.
  • Hailed as “Caswell County’s grand old man” at his death, Brazillai was elected sheriff at age 20. He served several terms and later served as clerk of court and a member of the county board of commissioners. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention that nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. His name “had been prominently connected with political, religious and civic activities in this section for almost 70 years,” the Greensboro Daily News said in his obituary.
  • Baz’s wife was Malvina F. Graves Graves (1870-1955). She was the daughter of Judge Jesse Franklin Graves of Mount Airy. A graduate of Saint Mary’s College in Raleigh, she was a music teacher. Like her husband, she was active in civic affairs, organizing the first chapter of the American Red Cross in Caswell County. After Baz’s death, she moved to Hendersonville to live with their daughter.

• Sold for $185,000 on November 29, 2023 (originally $200,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,310 square feet (see note), 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $141 (see note)
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 3, 2023
• Last sale: $50,000, July 2013
• Something to ask about: The listing shows 1,310 square feet, but the house looks far larger. County records show 3,564 square feet — 1,310 heated and 2,254 non-heated. Those numbers may be outdated. The listing doesn’t say anything about two-thirds of the house being unheated, but it does list only 1,310 square feet (unheated areas of a house are typically not included in square footage).

• Sold for $285,000 on November 28, 2023 (originally $315,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,968 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $145
• Built in 1915
• Listed July 7, 2023
• Last sale: $133,000, November 2021
• Neighborhood: Piedmont Heights
• Note: Located at the corner of Oak Street and Coliseum Boulevard, facing Oak Street and directly across Coliseum Boulevard from the Greensboro Coliseum parking lot.

• Sold for $475,000 on November 20, 2023 (listed at $465,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 2,378 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1921
• Listed October 19, 2023
• Last sale: $395,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage and a garden shed.
  • District NRPH nomination: “This two-story, hip-roofed, Craftsman-style house is three-bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, flared eaves, and exposed rafter tails and purlins. The house has four-over-one, Craftsman-style, wood-sash windows with three three-light casement windows in the hip-roofed dormers on the facade and side elevations.
  • “On the first-floor facade are two,one-story, hip-roofed, projecting bays, each with a picture windows topped by two replacement, four-light sashes. The six-panel door has six-light, Craftsman-style sidelights and is sheltered by a gently-curved, front-gabled porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed screened porch on the left (west) elevation is supported by tapered, square columns and has an original wood railing. It extends beyond the rear (north) elevation as a porte-cochere.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Joseph H. Packer (Packer Photo Company) in 1925.”
  • Joseph Henry Grenvil Packer (1883-1939) and Dora Edith Ward Packer (1883-1963) were the original owners. Joseph was born in Woodstock, Ontario. He was a commercial photographer. By 1938 they had sold the house.
  • In 1966, Warren Strupe Lackey (1931-2017) and Elizabeth Martin Lackey (1936-2021) bought the house and owned it for 46 years. Strupe was a graduate of Guilford College and a veteran of the Coast Guard. He was a prominent independent sales representative in the furniture industry for more than 40 years. He was a founder of American Bank & Trust in High Point, which was bought by BB&T. They sold the house in 2012.

• Sold for $560,000 on November 17, 2023 (listed at $549,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,382 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $235
• Built in 1927
• Listed October 12, 2023
• Last sale: $285,500, June 2015
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: R.J. Reynolds High School is across the street.
  • The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • The original residents appear to have been Julius Eldridge (1873-1957) and Julia Matilda Stockton Eldridge (1883-1965), who were listed in 1926 on Hawthorne Road, before house numbers were listed for the street, and in 1928 at the home’s original address, 1416 N. Hawthorne. Julius was vice-president of O’Hanlon-Watson Drug Company. They disappeared from the city directory from 1936 to 1940, renting out the house before returning from 1941 to 1945.
  • By 1947, Calvin Graves Jr. (1909-1977) and Julia Benton Pendergraph Graves (1912-1982) owned the house. Calvin was born in Mount Airy; Julia was from Portsmouth, Virginia. She came to Winston-Salem to attend Salem College.
  • Calvin was modestly listed as a lawyer but had a more high-profile career in politics. He served as city attorney before joining the Marines during World War II. When he returned, he managed a successful congressional campaign and served three terms in the state Senate. He turned down a likely opportunity to run for lieutenant governor in the 1950s to return to lawyering and serving as a political advisor in Winston-Salem.
  • In 1960 the Graves sold the house to William Jesse Bott and Genevieve Bott. They owned it for 51 years. William (1918-1996) was born in East Palestine, Ohio. He was a retired Army major who came to Winston-Salem to work as an engineer for AT&T. Genevieve (1918-2010) was a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Immaculata College. She taught high-school chemistry and worked for Gage Laboratories during World War II. Later, she taught reading at Our Lady of Mercy School.

• Sold for $295,000 on November 17, 2023 (listed at $289,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,577 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $187
• Built in 1933 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed November 10, 2023
• Last sale: $87,000, August 1994
• Neighborhood: College Park
• Note: The address was first listed in the city directory in 1926 with Dewey Madison Morris (1898-1937) and Addie R. Morris (1902-1992) as residents. Dewey had come to Greensboro in 1920 from Spray, where he worked for Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills. He was city auditor and chief of the Accounting Department until 1926, after which he organized the State Industrial Bank and served as vice-president and cashier until 1931. He later headed the district office of Hogart Manufacturing Company. At the age of 38, he died on a trip to Raleigh “of what the coroner reported apparently was an attack of acute indigestion.”
• Dewey and Addie had lost the house to foreclosure in 1932. In 1936 Conrad Bryan Haynes (1896-1976) and Mary Belle Smith Haynes (1903-1992) bought the house and owned it for the rest of their lives. Haynes was a salesman for Rabb-Smith Company, a store that sold appliances, radios, sporting goods, toys and games.
• Mary’s heir sold the house in 1994 to the current owner.

• Sold for $194,481 on November 14, 2023 (auction)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,152 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $90
• Built in 1915 (per county, put probably a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed July 10, 2022
• Last sale: $38,000, February 1980
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Notes from the 2022 listing: The house clearly needs work on the interior. The low price also may be attributable to the condition of the kitchen and bathrooms (which aren’t shown in the listing) and the air conditioning, which is provided by central air, a heat pump, an attic fan and window units.
  • Oddly, the historic district’s NRHP nomination doesn’t mention the house.
  • The first owner was William Vance Forbis (1879-1950). William bought the property from the Summit Avenue Building Company in 1912. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1913. The house remained in his family until 1960. William was a furniture salesman. Ownership passed to his wife, Espie Blanche Shepherd Forbis (1987-1954) upon his death and then to their son Lynn V. Forbis (1917-1966), who sold the house in 1960.

• Sold for $595,000 on November 13, 2023 (listed at $595,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,009 square feet, 0.73 acre (three lots)
• Price/square foot: $296
• Built in 1932
• Listed October 13, 2023
• Last sale: June 1937, $500 plus the remaining amount on a mortgage held by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
• Neighborhood: Emerywood West
• Note: The property includes a fountain and pond.
  • The original owners were John N. Bready and Margaret Bready (dates unknown for both). John was an IRS agent.
  • They sold the house in 1937 to Robert Mayne Bundy Sr. (1903-1972) and Minnie Blanche York Bundy (1903-1988), and it has remained in their family ever since.
  • Robert was vice president of Adams-Millis Corp. and a director of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers. During World War II, he served on the War Production Board in Washington.
  • Blanche attended Salem College and worked for Adams-Millis and Denny Veneer Company. 
  • Robert and Blanche passed ownership of the house to their son, Robert Jr. (1932-2023). He was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He also worked for Adams Millis Corp., of which he became president. He played on the tennis team at Chapel Hill and won the High Point City Tennis Championship in 1950. He was a member of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church and was a soloist in the choir. Bob served as president of High Point Country Club twice. He outlived all three of his wives.

• Sold for $250,000 on November 13, 2023 (listed at $284,900)
• Bedrooms and bathrooms, not specified; house has been converted into three apartments; 2,714 square feet, 1.3 acres
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 28, 2023
• Last sale: $155,000, April 2018
• Note: Out-of-state owner

• Sold for $160,000 on November 10, 2023 (listed at $150,000)
  • The buyer is an LLC in Rhode Island.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,684 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $95
• Built in 1927
• Listed October 18, 2023
• Last sale: $39,900, November 1985
• Note: The original owners were Neale Summers Stirewalt (1882-1962) and Evelyn Fraser Stirewalt (1894-1990). Neale was a physician and a veteran of World War I. In addition to his private practice, he served as medical director for Jefferson-Standard and Pilot Life insurance companies.
  • Evelyn was a special agent for Jefferson-Standard and later served as supervisor of garden, canning and lunchroom projects for the Works Progress Administration. Evelyn sold the house in 1974.

• Sold for $385,000 on November 6, 2023 (originally $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,736 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $222
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed May 25, 2023
• Last sale: $235,000, September 2018
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Gambrel roof with shed dormers across front and rear; brick-veneered first story, stuccoed above”
  • The house was originally owned by Alice Farish Vantory (1884-1973), a widow; Eleanor Virginia Farish Williamson (1875-1962), apparently her sister; and Lynn Banks Willliamson (1872-1940), Eleanor’s husband. They bought the property in 1923 and rented it to Pricie Reid, one of Alice and Eleanor’s sisters.
  • The house was listed in the city directory for the first time in 1924 with Nancy Pricie Farish Reid (1889-1977) and James William Berry Reid (1886-1962) as residents. James was a salesman. Pricie bought the house in 1929 and owned it until 1938.
  • In 1954 the house was sold to Douglas W. Copeland Sr. (1895-1964) and Mary Lee Wood Copeland (1924-2006). Douglas was the manager of the Scoville Manufacturing Company, which made snap fasteners.
  • Before their marriage, Mary worked for Scoville, too. She later served as parish administrator for Holy Trinity Church. She was a founding officer of the Greensboro Preservation Society, now Preservation Greensboro; a founding member of the Fisher Park Neighborhood Association; and for more than 40 years a member of the Weatherspoon Art Museum. She served on the Greensboro Zoning Commission for six years, including two years as its chair. Mary sold the house in 2012.

• Sold for $605,000 on November 3, 2023 (listed at $589,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,727 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $222
• Built in 1924 (per county, though probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed October 6, 2023
• Last sale: $467,000, May 2013
• Neighborhood: West Highlands
• Note: A previous listing said the house sits on the highest point in Winston-Salem.
  • The house has had only three owners.
  • The house includes a two-car basement garage. It also has two laundry rooms, one in the basement and one on the second floor.
  • The property includes “a brick structure perfect for a studio/office space.”
  • The property doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1930, when it was listed under its original address, 951 Hyde Avenue.
  • The original owners were John Hill Wharton (1887-1969) and Jessie Cleveland Stafford Wharton (1887-1986). John was salesman for Reynolds Tobacco and later a division manger for Brown & Williamson.
  • Cleve was an alumna of Salem College and worked as a school teacher in Oklahoma, western North Carolina and Winston-Salem. They owned the house until their deaths. They also owned a farm in Davie County.

• Sold for $410,000 on November 3, 2023 (originally $434,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,849 square feet, 1.14 acres
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1951
• Listed May 13, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, May 2016
• Note: The listing refers to the home’s “MCM character”; this house isn’t even remotely Mid-Century Modern.
  • The home’s original owners were Paul R. Johnson (1920-2003) and Alice Mae Chapman Johnson (1926-2016), who owned it for 61 years. Paul worked with his father and brothers at T.E. Johnson & Sons, a real estate and insurance firm. His father and brother Thomas Jr. also lived on Konnoak Drive. Alice sold the property in 2012.

• Sold for $161,000 on November 2, 2023 (listed at $149,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,936 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1940 (per county, probably at least a couple years earlier)
• Listed October 21, 2023
• Last sale: $122,000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: East Winston-Salem near 14th Street Park
• Note: The first homeowners were James Vance Penn (1887-1957) and Flavella Carter Penn (1891-1974). James was a porter for W.T. Vogler & Son, jewelers, watchmakers and silversmiths. They were first listed at the address in 1938; Flavella was listed as late as 1963.

• Sold for $699,000 on October 31, 2023 (originally listed at $714,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,474 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1916
• Listed September 22, 2023
• Last sale: $455,000, May 2013
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing shows only 3,979 square feet.
• Listing: “Carriage house sold ‘as is’.”
• District NR nomination: “Simple refinement characterizes this two-story frame Colonial Revival dwelling, which in scale, material, and detail is similar to many houses of the period in the West End.
  • “It has a truncated hip roof with pedimented dormers, a modillioned cornice, and a front porch with a matching cornice, groups of two or three Tuscan columns set on stuccoed brick plinths, a plain balustrade, and a pedimented entrance bay. The ca. 1970s aluminum siding does not overly detract from the character of the house.
  • “Behind the house is a former servants’ house and garage which is shared with 633 Summit St. [This detail may have changed since the nomination was written in 1986.]
  • “Samuel D. Hancock, president of Hancock Grocery, purchased the property in 1914 and built the house immediately thereafter. Since Hancock sold the house in 1934, it has had numerous owners.”
  • The nomination’s description of the carriage house, which may or may not still be accurate: “Behind the house, and between [633 Summit St.] and 641 Summit St., stands a two-story Flemish bond brick structure with a hipped roof and segmental-arched windows and garage openings. According to the present owner, this building is and always has been a shared outbuilding for the houses on either side of it. Originally servants’ quarters and a three-bay garage, the building is now used as apartments. According to the Sanborn Maps, it was erected between 1917 and 1924.”

• Sold for $582,500 on October 16, 2023 (originally $614,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,405 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $242
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 22, 2023
• Last sale: $225,000, January 2022
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: Caveat emptor — fix-and-flip money grab. For a price like this, a buyer should expect better than vinyl floors, replacement windows and vinyl siding.
  • The house is at the corner of Elam Avenue and Sherwood Street. Early deeds show the streets were originally named Thornburg Avenue and Lake Street, respectively. Numbers on the street originally began with the 100 block at Spring Garden Street (they now begin at Market Street). This house was originally 201 Elam.
  • It first appears in the city directory (as 201 Elam Avenue) in the 1907-08 edition. Early deed holders for the property weren’t listed as living on Elam Avenue, suggesting it was a rental house for its first 25 years.
  • The first owner-occupant of the house appears to have been Dennis Bissell Rogers (1900-1997), who bought it in 1925. He was identified as a clerk and later as a traveling salesman and an employee of Western Union. His 1941 draft registration shows him living with his mother at the house, which by then was 726 S. Elam. From 1943-45, he was listed as being with the U.S. Army, although his his grave maker indicates he served in the Coast Guard. He sold the house in 1948.

• Sold for $305,000 on October 13, 2023 (listed at $310,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,078 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1907
• Listed August 24, 2023
• Last sale: $100,000, October 2019
• Neighborhood: Johnson Street Historic District (local), Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, hip-roofed house is three bays wide and double-pile with a hip-roofed front dormer. The house has aluminum siding, one-over-one, wood-sash windows, and a replacement door.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed porch extends nearly the full width of the facade and is supported by tapered, square columns. The house has two interior corbelled brick chimneys. .. [T]he house was constructed by the Independent Insurance and Investment Company.”
  • The earliest known owner was Mollie Sherrod Baker (1863-1942), listed in the 1916 city directory, the first year the address was included (the original address was 310 Johnson). She owned the house until around 1921.

• Sold for $225,900 on October 12, 2023 (listed at $225,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built in 1931
• Listed May 31, 0223
• Last sale: $100,000, August 1991

• Sold for $270,000 on October 5, 2023 (listed at $275,000)
  • The sale closed seven days after the house was listed for sale.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,619 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $167
• Built in 1912 (per district NR nomination)
• Listed September 28, 2023
• Last sale: $177,000, August 2018
• Neighborhood: Johnson Street Historic District (local), Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
  • County records give the date as 1922.
• District NR nomination: “The only example of Prairie-style architecture in the district, this two-story, hip-roofed house has very deep eaves that emphasize the horizontality of the house. It has a pebbledash veneer, single-light casement windows, and an interior chimney near the ridge the shallow-pitched roof.
  • “There are six-light-over-two-panel doors on each end of the facade, each recessed slightly with the deep eaves sheltering them. A pair of one-light French doors centered on the facade access a one-story, hip-roofed porch supported by pebbledash-covered posts with a knee wall that extends the entire perimeter of the porch making it only accessible from the interior of the house.
  • “The first story is slightly larger than the second and is sheltered by a series of hipped-roofs where it extends beyond the second story. There is a one-story, hip-roofed wing at the rear (west).”
  • The house was built in 1912 for Dallas Bancroft Zollicoffer Jr. (1887-1926) and Lenoir McMillan Zollicoffer (1888-1912). Lenoir died at age 23 shortly after moving into the house. Dallas was an attorney originally from Northampton County. He married Robah Kunn Bencini (1893-1959) in 1914. In 1915 he was named captain of the High Point Military Company.
  • They were listed at a new address in 1916 and moved to Greensboro in 1917. By 1920 they were divorced, and Dallas had moved to El Paso, Texas, where he was in the real estate and oil business, and then to Mexico City. He remarried in 1920 and died at age 39 in 1925. Robah also remarried in 1920. Although her husband died in 1934, she never married again.

• Sold for $207,000 on October 3, 2023 (listed at $199,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,281 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1896
• Listed July 11, 2023
• Last sale: July 1986, price unknown

• Sold for $310,000 on September 29, 2023 (listed at $298,000, originally $199,500)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,256 square feet, 1.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1890
• Listed May 21, 2019
• Last sale: $157,500, October 2005
• Note: The lot extends back all the way through the block to the next street (Cherry Street).

• Sold for $475,000 on September 28, 2023 (listed at $489,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,180 square feet, 1.47 acres
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1850
• Listed August 17, 2023
• Last sale: Land, March 1950, price not recorded on deed; house, mid-1990s, price and exact date unknown (see note).
• Architectural Inventory of Alamance County: “This house is a two-story, Italianate I-house with a ‘Triple-A’ roof line. Relatively unaltered, the house is three-bay wide, single-pile with a one-story rear-ell.
  • “The house has a full-height projecting center front gable bay, paired by drop pendant brackets at the eaves, returns in the gable ends large six-over-six windows [now, regrettably, one-over-one replacements] with unusual curved surrounds and a hip roof porch carried by pairs and triples of chamfered posts on brick plinths.
  • “The long rear ell may have been an earlier c. 1850 Italianate dwelling, remodeled and joined to the later Italianate house.”
  • The Architectural Inventory states that “the house was owned by the Quackenbush family from before the Civil War up until the 1990s.” Ownership can be traced online back to David Vance Quackenbush (1886-1962) and Lelia Ruth Dark Quackenbush (1888-1986). David was the proprietor of Graham Lumber Company.
  • Census records indicate he was born in Chatham County, where his father apparently lived his entire life, so he didn’t inherit or buy the house from his father, William Jacob Quackenbush. Deeds show David buying three properties from a possible relative, W.B. Quackenbush, in 1916 and 1918 (as well as at least 15 properties from other owners around the same time). Identifying the exact locations is essentially impossible because the deeds’ obsolete descriptions of the properties reference adjoining property owners and long-gone stones and other markers rather than street names and addresses. The county’s online database of deeds doesn’t appear to document ownership of the house (or any other property in Alamance) by members of the Quackenbush family in the 19th century.
  • The home’s original address was 1205 S. Main Street in Graham. “In October 1996 it was moved 3 1/2 miles to its current location, just off N.C. 54 north of the village of Swepsonville,” the Architectural Inventory says. That survey gives the original location as “on West Moore Street,” but a 1994 document from the State Historic Preservation Office shows it as 1205 S. Main, now the location of South Graham Medical Center. That letter references an upcoming road project, the construction of which may have prompted the moving of the house two years later.
  • The buyers of the house in 1996 presumably were Jerry Mack Cox (1944-2015) and Susan Coble Cox, who owned the property at 1100 Reatkin Lane to which the house was moved. Jerry’s parents, Kindred Mack Cox (1908-1984) and Clara Bivins Cox (1913-1993), had bought the land in 1950, and it has remained in the family ever since.
  • The 1994 letter asserts the opinion of the State Historical Preservation Office that the house was eligible for the National Register (it most likely wouldn’t be eligible now because it has been moved). That view wasn’t shared by the Federal Highway Administration, which, presumably, was keen to see the house torn down. The preservation office did note that the house had undergone significant changes, including the loss of two interior chimneys and the replacement of the front porch.
  • The document also includes the self-contradictory statement that, as of 1994, the house retained both “its original wood siding” and the “highly unusual — one-of-a-kind in Alamance County — curved window surrounds.” If the house had wood siding, how could the brick window surrounds been visible? And if the siding was original, why would those surrounds even have been created, only to be immediately covered?
  • The house, though, did have wood siding at some point. The Architectural Inventory, published in 2014, has an undated photo that shows the house with wood siding, painted white.

2835 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem
The Frank and Kate Dalton House

• Sold for $1.1 million on September 19, 2023
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,470 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $317
• Built in 1935
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $331,500, February 1996
• Neighborhood: Westview
• Note: Designed by William Roy Wallace
  • The original owners were Frank Ellington Dalton (1889-1960) and Kathryn Thomas Dalton (1899-1995). They were listed on Country Club Road (then Rural Delivery Route 2) in 1936; house numbers for the street weren’t listed in the city directory for many years. He was a clerk at R.J. Reynolds and later was paymaster for the company. The house was sold to the current owners by Frank and Kate’s daughter and son-in-law in 1996 after Kate’s death, the only time the house has been sold since it was built.

• Sold for $221,000 on September 19, 2023 (listed at $239,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,422 square feet, 1.61 acres
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1908
• Listed August 16, 2023
• Last sale: $1,500, December 1977
• Note: No information on this address can be found searching online county property records or its GIS system (the same appears to be true for other addresses on East Main Street in Boonville). If you zoom in on Boonville on the GIS map, however, the address does appear, and clicking on it provides limited information on the property.

• Sold for $490,000 on September 15, 2023 (originally $535,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,860 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1900 (per county, but probably a bit later)
• Listed August 5, 2023
• Last sale: $356,000, June 2020
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until the 1909-10 edition.
• District NR nomination: “This frame dwelling features a stepped-backfront facade, multiple pedimented gables, and a cutaway side bay. Above its wraparound porch is a central balcony. It was built for Dr. Moseley about 1908.”
  • Charles West Moseley (1865-1942) and Fannie Ogburn McKnight Moseley (1861-1925) were listed at the address from 1909 to 1914 and after that at 438 S. Mendenhall Street. Charles was a physician.
  • Lucy V. Washington bought the house in 1926 and lived in it until 1944. She was a widow; no additional information about her or her husband, W.T. Washington, appears to be available online.
  • Greensboro College, located a block away, owned the house from 1968-75. The college sold it to a landlord who let it deteriorate to such an extent that the city Redevelopment Commission bought it in 1986 and sold it to a homeowner who committed to restoring it.

• Sold for $610,000 on September 13, 2023 (originally $630,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,416 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $252
• Built circa 1940
• Listed June 28, 2023
• Last sale: $334,000, December 2018
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park, but just outside the historic district (the boundary runs between 1003 Carolina and the house next door on the left, 200 W. Bessemer Street.).
• Something you don’t see every day: One of the bedrooms has a Murphy bed (I think this must be it).
• Note: County records give the date as 1936, but he address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1940, when sisters Katherine Banner Parker (1889-1973) and Ora Virginia Parker (1892-1967) were listed as residents. They had bought the property in 1938. Kate was identified as a deputy collector with the IRS. Ora was a stenographer for a medical practice. Kate’s heirs sold the house in 1975.
  • In 1984 the house was bought by Henry Christian Zenke II (1917-2000) and Virginia Ford Zenke (1924-2019) of the renowned Otto Kenke Inc. interior design group. It was sold in 2018 by their children. It’s not clear who lived there, since Henry and Virginia were famous for living and working downtown in the 19th-century neighborhood around Blandwood, the National Historic Landmark and home of Gov. John Motley Morehead. The neighborhood’s grand houses that survived into the 1960s were mostly bulldozed to build the Brutalist local government complex.
  • Henry and Otto were brothers, born in New York City. Virginia was from Norfolk. From the News & Record in 2002: “Otto, Henry and Virginia Zenke and a group of talented designers constituted Otto Zenke Inc., which from 1950 until the early 1980s worked magic inside the most expensive homes in Greensboro and all along the East Coast.
  • “Back then, homeowners only had to say ‘Zenke’ when asked who was doing their interiors. No extra explanation was necessary … The Greensboro Country Club always summoned the Zenkes for design work. When the first Greensboro City Club opened in the old First Union Plaza Building (now the Self-Help Center), the Zenke firm designed the lobby and dining room to resemble English drawing rooms. Rubber heir Raymond Firestone hired Otto Zenke to do his home in Southern Pines. The firm also did work at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. …
  • “When Blandwood was threatened with demolition in the 1960s, Virginia and Henry Zenke and others began a movement that saved and restored the house, now designated a National Historic Landmark. Out of that effort arose the Greensboro Preservation Society (now Preservation Greensboro Inc.), with the Zenkes as key figures. …
  • “Virginia and Henry Zenke fought numerous battles, many of which they lost, to save downtown homes. One loss was Bellemeade, built in 1867 … It was torn down for a Kroger supermarket in the 1950s and now is the proposed site for a downtown baseball stadium. After Bellemeade, a pre-Civil War estate known as Dunleath, on Chestnut Street on the edge of downtown, came tumbling down. Troops had camped on its spacious grounds in the last days of the Civil War.
  • “Zenke still agonizes over those old places and the demolition of James Turner Morehead’s 19th-century house. Otto Zenke had lovingly restored it as a home and studio at 215 S. Eugene St. after he and Henry left their design studio at Morrison-Neese Furniture Co. in downtown Greensboro to start their own firm. The site is now a governmental center parking lot.”

• Sold for $226,000 on September 11, 2023 (originally $230,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,896 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $119
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 11, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, June 2019
• Note: The property has a circular driveway.

• Sold for $405,000 on September 7, 2023 (originally $445,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,880 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1922
• Listed July 7, 2023
• Last sale: $134,000, October 1989
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “one bedroom creatively repurposed as a luxurious walk-in closet.”
• District NR nomination: “Gable-end bungalow with square columns at front porch, shed roof dormer across front.”
• The original owners were Fletcher Neal Southard (1892-1935) and Derona Thomas Southard (1897-1978). They bought the house in 1921 from builder Kyle C. Benbow. Fletcher was a salesman for Gate City Motor Company, the local dealer for Studebaker and Cole automobiles and Firestone tires. Derona rented the house out after Fletcher’s early death at age 43 but continued to own it until 1960.

• Sold for $281,000 on September 6, 2023 (listed at $280,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,300 square feet, 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1905 (per listing)
• Listed July 20, 2023
• Last sale: $100,000, January 2022
• Note: The property has a Denton mailing address but is 7 miles southwest of town near High Rock Dam and Tuckertown Reservoir.
  • The property includes a barn.
  • County property records give the date of the house as 1950, which looks like a typo.

• Sold for $400,000 on September 5, 2023 (listed at $400,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,024 square feet, 4.81 acres
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1888
• Listed July 7, 2023
• Last sale: The property may have been in the Philips family since the house was built.
• Listing: “A 36 by 20 foot two story structure which used to be the Dalton Store is also on the property. This building is standing but is in disrepair and is not safe to enter.”
  • The house has a Pinnacle mailing address. It’s about 2 1/2 miles southeast of the town.
  • The original owners may have been Dr. Matthew Dalton Phillips (1851-1925) and Margaret Melissa Dalton Phillips (1862-1947).
  • Matthew was a native of Stokes County and graduate of Wake Forest College, class of 1871. He studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and New York University. Returning to Stokes County, “he practiced scientific medicine for forty years,” according to an entertaining entry on the WFU website. He was still practicing when he died of pneumonia at age 74.
  • “The family believes he caught a chill from crossing a stream in wintry weather while making his regular rounds. Once asked why he continued to practice medicine in the tiny village of Dalton, Phillips replied, ‘I am needed here.'”
  • Matthew and his older brother John Yewell Phillips (1846-1919) were classmates at Wake Forest. The university says John was the last ex-Confederate soldier to graduate from the college. He became a lawyer and state legislator.
  • Margaret’s father, David Nicholas Dalton (1826-1895), came to the town of Little Yadkin in Stokes County from neighboring Rockingham County. It was halfway between Salem and Mount Airy. He built a tobacco factory and owned more than 2,000 acres at one point. The town was renamed Dalton’s Depot when the Cape Fear & Yadkin railroad came through, later shortened to Dalton. (Source)

1302 Cagle Loop Road, Seagrove, Randolph County

• Sold for $284,000 on September 5, 2023
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,620 square feet, 1.35 acres
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1906
• Not publicly listed for sale
• Last sale: $90,000 on November 30, 2021
• Neighborhood: Whynot
• Note: The property includes a two-floor, detached workshop.

523 Westover Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $1.05 million on September 1, 2023
• 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 2,996 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $350
• Built in 1940
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $869,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The house was first listed in the city directory in 1940 with John Foy Allison (1907-1955) and Ruby Huggins Allison (1907-1998) as residents. John was the owner of United Auto Services. Ruby sold the house in 1996.

• Sold for $134,900 on August 29, 2023 (originally $194,900)
  • The seller accepted five offers that fell through before closing on the sixth accepted offer.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,032 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $66
• Built in 1909
• Listed May 30, 2022
• Last sale: $30,000, November 1995
• Note: Cheaply renovated with vinyl siding and vinyl replacement windows

• Sold for $725,000 on August 28, 2023 (listed at $745,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,522 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1940
• Listed July 18, 2023
• Last sale: $467,450, January 2003
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The property was originally part of a farm called Kirkwood, owned by David A. Kirkpatrick (1870-1939) and Effie Fenner Kirkpatrick (1872-1947). Irving Park was built adjacent to the Kirkwood. They sold this lot and five others to the city in 1935.
  • “He was a pioneer brick manufacturer in Greensboro and Reidsville and returned to live on his farm a number of years ago after retiring from the brick-making business,” the Greensboro Daily News reported in his obituary.
  • Eugene P. Thornton and Elizabeth P. Thornton (dates unknown for both) bought the property from the city in 1939 and by 1941 were listed in the city directory at the address. The directory identified him as “v-pres,” but didn’t list an employer. They sold the house in 1944.
  • After a couple ownership changes, the house was bought in 1954 by Thomas Allison Hunter Jr. (1908-1997) and Dorothy Klutz Hunter (1912-1987), who owned the house for 33 years. Thomas was a purchasing agent and later director of purchasing for Burlington Mills, where he worked for 35 years. They sold the house in 1987, just a few months before Dorothy died.

• Sold for $463,000 on August 24, 2023 (listed at $485,000)
  • Sold to a buyer in Winston-Salem
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,698 square feet, 8.95 acres
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1917
• Listed July 7, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, December 2009 (part of a three-property sale)
• Note: The property includes an outdoor kitchen, fruit trees, a stream, a wired workshop and a detached carport.
  • The house has a Madison mailing address but is about five miles east of town.
  • Until recently, the property was part of a much larger tract that included 326 and 328 Tobacco Road, also now for sale. The two properties were divided so recently there’s no separate property tax card for this one in the county tax system.
  • The property is just a couple miles up the road from Intelligence, or Intelligence Crossroads, the wonderfully named community at State Road 2308/Bald Hill Loop and Bailey Road. The name came about 100 years ago when the community was the home of Rockingham County’s first modern public school.

• Sold for $280,000 on August 22, 2023 (see note below)
  • The buyer is an LLC based in Utah.
  • The house was sold about four months after the listing was withdrawn.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,545 square feet (per county), 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1911
• Listed May 20, 2022
• Last sale: $151,500, July 2007
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District
• Note: The owner had been trying to sell the house, off and on, since 2010 at prices ranging from $149,000 to $400,000. According to Zillow, he had never before accepted an offer.
  • Rental property
  • District NRHP nomination: “This Colonial Revival cottage is a one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame house with a clipped gable roof.
    • “It features a hipped front dormer, a glass and wood paneled entrance with sidelights, a facade porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade, steep wooden steps to the porch, and a high brick porch foundation with large south-facing windows.
    • “Like many of the houses on the street, it has a stone retaining wall bordering the front yard and stone front steps.
    • “Mary Eva Miller purchased the property in 1910, and the 1917 Sanborn map shows that the house had been built by that time. The 1918 city directory — the first to cover this area of West End Blvd. — lists Paul L. Miller, a contractor, and his wife, Eva, as residing at this location.
    • “They occupied the house through 1935 and sold it to Thomas W. and Alice B. Hancock in 1941.” The Hancocks occupied the house at least until 1975. By 1986 the house was a rental. The family retained ownership of the property until July 2007.

• Sold for $450,000 on August 17, 2023 (listed at $430,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,564 square feet, 0.4 acre
• Price/square foot: $176
• Built in 1926
• Listed July 7, 2023
• Last sale: $238,500, March 2011
• Neighborhood: Surry Avenue
• Note: The property includes a two-car carport and one-car garage.

• Sold for $427,500 on August 17, 2023 (listed at $465,000)
• 8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,716 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1897
• Listed July 19, 2023
• Last sale: $145,500, May 2006
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Single-family home divided into four apartments.
  • No central air conditioning
  • Now owned by an LLC in Chapel Hill
• District NR nomination: “Two story; side gable; weatherboard; eight-over-one, Craftsman-style windows; shed-roof dormer; shed-roof porch with wrap-around under upper level on northwest corner; square posts on brick piers; large, rear ell.
  • “1917 Sanborn map shows two-story dwelling with narrow end facing street set back on the lot away from street.
  • “1951 Sanborn map shows current configuration except it does not indicate a second floor over the northwest comer of the wrap-around porch.”
  • The 1894-95 city directory lists grocer Francis Wesley Pfaff (1845-1915) as living on West Street (no house number). The 1902-03 directory shows 812 West Street as the home of Frank; his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Miller Pfaff (1840-1917); John E. Pfaff, possibly one of Frank’s brothers; and Frank’s son and daughter-in-law, Samuel Alonzo Pfaff (1872-1942) and Mary Ann Wilson Pfaff (1868-1959).
  • Samuel had a varied and prosperous career, being remembered in his obituary as a “prominent businessman and church leader.” He was working as a carpenter with Fogle Brothers builders in 1903. From 1904 to 1911 he was a grocer and also served as a Salem town commissioner. From 1912 to 1915, he was a carpenter again, this time with Orinoco Supply Company, which sold building materials.
  • In 1916 he went into business for himself as co-proprietor of the Carolina Vulvanizing Company. It was later renamed Pfaff’s Inc. as it became a major retailer of auto glass, plate glass and window glass; paint; and wallpaper. He operated the company until his death in 1942. Mary continued to live in the house until around 1956.

• Sold for $305,000 on August 16, 2023 (originally $349,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,701 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 17, 2023
• Last sale: $207,000, December 2019
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has been sold four times in the last 11 years.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Tudor Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a two-story, projecting, front-gabled wing on the left (west) end of the facade.
  • “The house has a brick veneer with brick laid in herringbone and basketweave patterns on the second-floor facade. It has faux half-timbering with stucco in the gables.
  • “The house has four-over-four and six-over-six, wood-sash windows, generally grouped, and the batten door is located in a shed-roofed bay to the right of the projecting gabled wing. There is a side-gabled porch on the right (east) elevation that is supported by square, full-height brick piers.
  • “The earliest known occupant is Edward C. Harville (superintendent, Commonwealth Hosiery Mills Inc.) in 1933.”
  • Edward Cleveland Harville (1887-1970) and Idyl Ferree Slack Harville (1896-1985) owned the house by 1933, the first year the address was listed in the city directory. Idyl sold the house 40 years later.
  • This was the boyhood home of Charles Edward Harville (1918-2002). Charlie Harville was a Triad sportscaster on WFMY-TV in Greensboro and WGHP-TV in High Point from 1949 to 1988. He began broadcasting minor league baseball in 1938, was a play-by-play broadcaster for ACC basketball and football, and hosted “Racing Roundup,” a NASCAR-focused radio program. He’s a member of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

• Sold for $350,000 on August 14, 2023 (listed at $359,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,442 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1890 (per county records)
• Listed June 15, 2023
• Last sale: $300,000, November 2020
• Note: The property has a Winston-Salem mailing address but is located in Wallburg.

2450 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

• Sold for $315,000 on August 10, 2023 (originally $250,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,744 square feet (per county), 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 1885
• Listed: March 9, 2021
• Last sale: $250,000, March 5, 2019
• Neighborhood: Glencoe Mill Village Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing shows 1,809 square feet.
  • The house was sold on March 5, 2021; listed for sale again March 9, 2021; and withdrawn two weeks later.
• District NR nomination: “The Glencoe Historic District is located on the east bank of Haw River about three miles north of Burlington in Alamance County. It is a typical but remarkably well-preserved example of nineteenth century industrial villages that once flourished in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. …
  • “The predominant house type was originally a four room, two-story structure typical of North Carolina rural housing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The front porches are two bays wide and supported by four unornamented posts. A central hallway open onto rooms to the east and west. The western rooms of houses on these two streets do not have windows on the river (west) side. Chimneys are set on the east. Upstairs there are usually two rooms, with the railing from the narrow staircase extending into the west room. …
  • “A later modification of the mill housing is the kitchen, attached at the back of the east wing of most houses, forming an L. These rooms had, by 1910, largely replaced the detached kitchens, of which only a handful remain. The connected kitchens have chimneys and customarily have side porches facing the river and the mill (west).”

• Sold for $585,000 on August 9, 2023 (originally $695,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,652 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $221
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 30, 2023
• Last sale: $157,000, December 1987
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing says the house was designed by the renowned Charles Hartmann.
  • The original owners were Dr. Arthur Dennis Ownbey Sr. (1895-1958) and Juanita Sue Shepard Ownbey (1895-1980). Dr. Ownbey, a physician, had his office in what is now the library of the house.
  • Newspaper reports indicate the family’s name was often misspelled, as it was in the National Register nomination quoted below.
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, hip-roofed, brick, Colonial Revival-style house displays a variety of brick patterns including soldier course bands and rows of stretcher brick that project slightly forward from the wall and corbel at the building’s corners. Brick color also varies from gray to a variety of shades of red and reddish-orange.
  • “A front-gable portico with fluted square posts and pilasters shelters the paneled wood door with multi-light sidelights and a multi-light transom. Windows are six-over-six and a brick chimney rises from the west end of the two-story block.
  • Identical one-story, flat-roofed wings occupy the east and west elevations. Both are wood and feature a three-part entry with an eight-light door with wood panels below topped by a two-light transom and framed by four-light and wood-paneled sidelights with a single transom above.
  • “Fluted pilasters like those at the entry frame the façade bay and mark the wings’ corners. A wood balustrade tops each wing.
  • “A one-story, brick, hip-roofed ell and a two-story, brick, hip-roofed ell are located on the rear elevation. A wood deck spans the rear elevation.
  • “The Owenbys bought the property in March 1937 and first appear at this address in the 1938 city directory. He was a physician. The house remained under ownership of the Owenby heirs until 1984.”

• Sold for $415,000 on August 9, 2023 (listed at $415,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,730 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $240
• Built in 1912
• Listed May 11, 2023
• Last sale: $40,000, November 2020
• Note: The listing says “no expense spared,” but it has vinyl siding, replacement windows and instead of tongue-and-groove flooring, they used deck boards on the front porch.
  • The house was owned from 1912 to 1975 by Andrew H. Whitted (ca. 1874-1965) and Arah Badie Moore Whitted (1889-1964) and their heirs. Andrew was a store owner for 40 years. Badie was born in Columbus County and taught school in Durham before marrying Andrew.

• Sold for $380,000 on August 8, 2023 (listed at $395,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 3 half-bathrooms, 3,360 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 9, 2023
• Last sale: $267,000, May 2019
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NR)
• Note: Much of the historic character has been stripped away — vinyl windows and siding, plank boards on the porch. The 2019 listing said all the interior walls were torn out and replaced in a 1996 renovation.
• District NR nomination: “The two-story one-room-deep form, side-gable roof, and symmetrical three-bay façade of this frame house suggest it dates to the end of the nineteenth century, as do the sidelights and transom that frame the front entry.
  • “The one-story wraparound porch on the front and south gable end, though an early or original feature, has modern screening and supports. The front entry has a transom, sidelights, and a wood panel door.
  • “The foundation is granite and the parged interior chimneys are probably brick.
  • “Other features include a two-story rear wing, novelty vinyl siding, modern metal roofing, and replacement windows including a Palladian arrangement in the center of the second story. A low granite retaining wall extends along the sidewalk.
  • “G.C. Welch lived here in 1913, followed by James W. Barker in 1949.” George Calvin Welch (1852-1927) was vice president of the Bank of Mount Airy and a member of the Board of Aldermen. He also operated a dry-good store on South Main Street and was co-proprietor of Welch & Mitchell, retail and wholesale general merchandise store on North Main Street.
  • By 1928, the house was listed as vacant. William Joseph Jones (1882-1955) and Annie Jane Marshall Jones (1881-1970) lived in the house in 1931. He was a mechanic with the Carolina Button Corporation. James Wesley Barker (1884-1966) and Maude Ethel Rule Barker (1888-1857) were listed as residents in 1949. He was manager of The Canteen, a restaurant at 45 S. Main Street.

• Sold for $320,000 on August 7, 2023 (listed at $339,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,760 square feet
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 21, 2023
• Last sales: $288,500, September 2022
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hills Historic District
• Note: The house has been sold three times in three years and seven times in the last 24 years — September 2022, September 2021, September 2020, 2010, 2005, 2003 and 1999.
• 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.”

• Sold for $269,500 on August 7, 2023 (listed at $279,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,304 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 12, 2023
• Last sale: $150,000, April 2013
• Neighborhood: Danville Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property is across the street from Doyle Thomas Park.
• District NR nomination: “The Danville Historic District boasts perhaps the finest and most concentrated collection of Victorian and Edwardian residential architecture in the Commonwealth. Lining Main Street and adjacent side streets is a splendid assemblage of the full range of architectural styles from the Ante-Bellum era to World War I.
  • “The District is particularly rich in distinguished examples of the post-Civil War styles such as the High Victorian Italianate, the High Victorian Gothic, French Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Eastlake, Queen Anne and Beaux Arts; styles in which good examples are generally rare in the South.
  • “The existence of these impressive dwellings can be explained by the fact that Danville remained unusually prosperous throughout the late nineteenth century. While most of Virginia was suffering an economic depression brought on by the War and Reconstruction, Danville was thriving from its tobacco trade and other industries.”

• Sold for $260,000 on August 3, 2023 (originally $300,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,646 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1950
• Listed May 11, 2023
• Last sale: $180,000, January 2021
• This takes some nerve: The listing says it’s “located in the heart of the historic district.” According to the State Historic Preservation Office, it’s not in a historic district at all (click the map to see it larger).

• Note: County records show the date of the house as 1950, though it looks older.

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

• Sold for $225,000 on July 31, 2023 (listed at $225,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,538 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $146
• Built in 1913 (per county, but probably earlier; see note)
• Listed July 8, 2023
• Last sale: $45,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: Flipped house with “lots of upgrades,” many regrettable (replacement windows, in particular).
  • The address first appears in the city directory in the 1907-08 edition. The earliest owners are unknown. Different residents are listed each year for more than 10 years, suggesting it may have been a rental house.
  • After at least five changes of ownership in between 1920 and 1945, the house was bought in 1945 by James Albert Yourse (1890-1964) and Ollie Lowe Yourse (1893-1984). James had served as a corporal in an engineering battalion in World War I and worked as a janitor. The Yourses and their descendants owned the house for 52 years.

• Sold for $564,900 on July 25, 2023 (listed at $564,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,388 square feet, 1.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $237
• Built in 1885
• Listed June 9, 2023
• Last sale: $185,000, August 2022
• Note: I cringe every time I see the words “FULLY RENOVATED,” and this house shows why. It was in desperate shape when it was sold (as documented here), though the inside wasn’t as bad as the exterior. But the LLC that bought it has completely stripped it of its historic character. They made all the cheap, expedient compromises that house-flippers love — vinyl floors, replacement windows, painted brick. They also replaced the classical columns with plain wooden posts and turned the home, exterior and interior, into the kind of bland, open-floor plan, cookie-cutter house that you can find in any new subdevelopment. Everything that gave this house its character has been stripped away. The house was saved, but it lost everything that made it worth saving.
  • How it looked in 2019. Despite the nightmarish vegetation, it appeared to still be occupied, amazingly enough.

• Sold for $205,000 on July 17, 2023 (listed at $187,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,562 square feet, 2.0 acres
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1937
• Listed June 5, 2023
• Last sale: $97,500, June 2019
• Note: The house has a Reidsville address, but its rear property line appears to be the Wentworth city limits line.
  • Reidsville Quarry Lake is across the street.

• Sold for $285,000 on July 26, 2023 (originally $300,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 2,491 square feet, 1.18 acres
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1907
• Listed April 17, 2023
• Last sale: $6,750, October 1960
• Note: The property apparently has been in the Johnson-Fulp family since it was built. The address was originally 904 Welborn Street. The first owners appear to have been Ira Thomas Johnson (1876-1929) and Lina Armintia “Minnie” Briles Johnson (1882-1949). Ira was a farmer.
  • Ownership passed to their eldest daughter, Clyde Jane Johnson May (1899-1986), and her husband, William Jennings Bryan May (1896-1954). Clyde Jane was the first of 12 children born to Ira and Minnie (the others being Maggie, Thomas, Charles, Mary, Gilmer, Walter, Ira Edward, Joseph, Frank, William Paul, and Sally Dorcas). All but poor Gilmer lived to adulthood. William was the owner of the W.M. May Coal Company. Clyde’s brother William Paul Johnson lived in the house; Clyde and William lived elsewhere in Thomasville.
  • A court-ordered sale of the property was held in 1960, but the house stayed in the family. The buyers were Clyde and William’s daughter Mary Elizabeth “Mib” May Fulp (1926-2017), and Charles Johnson Fulp (1928-2022). Their children are now selling the property.
  • Mib graduated from Thomasville High School and in 1947 from the Women’s College with a degree in mathematics. She was a high-school math teacher for 33 years and an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an association of female educators. Charles was veteran of the Army and a graduate of High Point College. He was a partner in the accounting firm of Bowman, Blue, Fulp and Craven and later Fulp & Associates.

• Sold for $369,900 on July 25, 2023 (listed at $369,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,246 square feet, 1.01 acres
• Price/square foot: $165
• Built in 1905
• Listed June 7, 2023
• Last sale: $310,000, May 2021
• Note: The property has an outbuilding described in the listing as a “potters shed.”
  • The road was called Bethania-Mount Tabor Road in a 1978 deed.
  • The house was owned from around 1958 to 1978 by Russell Melvin Posey (1892-1978) and Ruby Wiklins Posey (1903-1971). Russell was a clerk at a grocery store-service station.

• Sold for $310,000 on July 20, 2023 (listed at $389,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,159 square feet, 0.94 acre
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1905
• Listed April 5, 2023
• Last sale: $95,000, April 2019
• Listing: “After 4 years of renovations, this 1905 Queen Anne with all the signature gingerbread, fancy fretwork, working transoms, original hardware has been brought back to life.”
  • The home’s sale in 2019 was its first since it was built.
  • The 2019 listing said the original gingerbread, fretwork, transoms and hardware on doors and windows were intact and that the interior featured a cantilevered staircase, decorative wooden ceilings and a lion head/lion paw mantle.
  • Robert Terrell Poole (1875-1940) was a lawyer and state legislator. He lived his entire life in Montgomery County. He served two terms in the state House. His wife, Bess Pulliam Poole (1884-1964) gave the house to two of their daughters in 1951. In 2019, the daughters’ heirs sold the house for restoration.

• Sold for $128,000 on July 21, 2023 (listed at $128,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 896 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $143
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 21, 2023
• Last sale: $40,000, October 2022
• Note: Quick fix-and-flip, caveat emptor.
  • Originally a neighborhood grocery store, most of the historic character has been stripped away and replaced with vinyl (siding, floor, windows).
  • It’s now a short-term rental and is being sold fully furnished.

• Sold for $287,000 on July 17, 2023 (listed at $295,000)
  • Sold to an LLC based in Greensboro
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,812 square feet, 0.29 acre
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 31, 2023
• Last sale: $82,000, October 1992
• Neighborhood: Lindley Park
• Note: The property has a second house, built on the back property line. The listing suggests it would need renovation to be habitable. County tax records indicate it has 750 square feet but provide no other information about it.
  • The price accounting for the two houses’ total square footage is $115/square foot.
  • The original owner was Lillian Murphy Crowell (1901-1958), who bought 14 properties, including at least six in Lindley Park, between 1926 and 1931. She and her husband, William Jones Crowell (1869-1957), were listed at the address in the 1928 city directory, the first year Masonic Drive was listed. It was the only address on the street. William was a concrete contractor.
  • They sold the house in 1930 to Henry Wilden Cockfield (1892-1949) and Marveign Ernestine Johnson Cockfield (1900-1992). Henry was president of Cockfield Tent & Awning Company; Marveign was secretary-treasurer. Their office was nearby at 1700 Spring Garden Street, which now has been the home of The Corner Bar for more than 30 years. They owned the house until Marveign died in 1992.

• Sold for $424,900 on July 21, 2023 (originally $429,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,226 square feet, lot size not reported in county property records
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1886
• Listed March 19, 2023
• Last sale: $390,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: From 2018 (and until quite recently), the Vermeer Bed & Breakfast
• District NR nomination: “Beveled wood-shingle sheathing lends visual interest to this two-story Shingle Style-influenced Queen Anne house, believed to date to 1886, although a date around 1890 or in the 1890s seems more likely given the style of the house and patterns of development in Mount Airy.
  • “The shingle sheathing covers the second story, which flares very slightly over the top of the first story (a Shingle Style feature); novelty weatherboard siding covers the first; and the roof gables are clad with fishscale wood shingles or a combination of novelty siding and beaded tongue-and-groove boards. The gables are decorated with sawnwork in a variety of patterns, mostly spoked arc compositions but in one rear gable consisting of slats with rounded and drilled ends.
  • “The front gabled wing ends in a shallowly angled bay window. The one-story shed-roofed front porch has square wood posts and balusters. Other exterior features include a brick foundation, interior brick chimneys with corbeled caps, and replacement windows.
  • “The modified center-passage-plan interior has a stair with turned balusters and an elaborately molded square newel post with a finial at the base (the upstairs newels are less ornate but also have finials). Mantels combine sawn brackets, spindlework, reeding, and chamfering in various combination, and most fireplaces have tiled hearths and surrounds in various colors and ornate cast iron coal grates.
  • The house was the longtime home of Eugene Gray Smith (1888-1974), the brother of Katherine Smith Reynolds, wife of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds. Eugene and Katherine were natives of Mount Airy. In the 1920s and ’30s, he was identified as a cashier at First National Bank. From at least the late ’40s, he was listed as a farmer.
  • A 1920 deed shows Eugene acquiring the property from his father. City directories for 1928 and 1949 show that he and Leonita Yates Smith (1898-1974) were living at 134 Taylor, the address for this property on the 1922 Sanborn map. They were still listed there in 1966. Their three children sold the house in 1977.

• Sold for $435,000 on July 20, 2023 (listed at $435,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1935
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $215,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: Quick fix-and-flip — caveat emptor.
  • The listing includes “luxury living,” “unparalleled craftsmanship,” “exceptional,” “spacious,” “state-of-the-art,” “spa-like,” effortless,” “perfect,” “secluded,” “tranquility and privacy,” “abundance,” “the lap of luxury” and “perfect” (again).
  • In 1968 the house was bought by Donald E. Johnson (1934/35-2021) and Sylvia Smith Johnson (1936-1980). Their son sold it in 2022. Donald was a manager at Glen Raven Mills. “A passionate fan of the Duke Blue Devils, Atlanta Braves and NASCAR, he was also the Fast Pitch Softball Batting Champion in 1953,” his obituary said.

219 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Kilby A. Page House III

• Sold for $1.293 million on July 14, 2023
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,078 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $420
• Built in 1928
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $195,000, April 2022
• Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
• 2022 listing: “… a blank slate ready for renovations”
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, side-gabled, Tudor Revival-style house has a wide, asymmetrical, front-gabled projecting bay with a prominent brick chimney centered in the gable and faux half-timbering at the second-floor level.
• “The house has a brick veneer, eight-light casement windows, and faux half-timbering in the gables. The arched six-light-over-two-panel door is located on the left (east) end of the projecting bay, under a catslide roof. It is inset slightly in a brick surround.
• “There is a small, shed-roofed dormer to the left of the front-gabled bay and a one-story, side-gabled wing on the left elevation.
• “A one-story, shed-roofed porch on the right (west) end of the facade is supported by square posts with diagonal braces. A one-story, shed-roofed wing on the right elevation has faux half-timbering in the gable and an entrance on the right elevation.
• “The earliest known occupant is Kilby A. Page (salesman) in 1928.”

• Sold for $164,250 on July 14, 2023 (originally $199,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,982 square feet, 0.90 acre
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1890
• Listed September 26, 2022
• Last sale: $62,500, August 2022

200 Aberdeen Terrace, Greensboro

• Sold for $500,000 on July 13, 2023
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,963 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $255
• Built in 1923 (per county, or possibly a couple years earlier; see note)
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $258,000, November 2005
• Neighborhood: West Market Terrace
• Note: The house is at the corner of Aberdeen Terrace and West Friendly Avenue. The streets were originally called West Market Boulevard and West Market Plaza, respectively.
  • The original owners were Axel L. Sterner (dates unknown) and Ruth Glanville Sterner (1896-1943), listed on West Market Boulevard in 1921. Axel was sales manger for the locally produced El-Rees-So cigars and later was a traveling salesman. They sold the house in 1925.

• Sold for $170,000 on July 12, 2023 (originally $239,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,107 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $81
• Built in 1899
• Listed December 15, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, September 2022
• Note: Cheap plastic floors, replacement windows and siding. It even has popcorn ceilings.

• Sold for $370,000 on July 11, 2023 (listed at $385,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,994 square feet, 0.61 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1933
• Listed June 24, 2023
• Last sale: $312,000, July 2020
• Note: Wood siding, which is becoming rare enough to point out

• Sold for $362,000 on July 11, 2023 (listed at $362,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,040 square feet, 0.72 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1935
• Listed April 28, 2023
• Last sale: $82,750, November 1994
• Neighborhood: Country Club Estates Historic District (NR)
• Note: Located across the street from the Mount Airy Country Club
  • A small creek runs along the back of the lot.
• District NR nomination: “Story-and-a-half Dutch Colonial Revival house of novelty vinyl-sided frame construction with an asphalt-shingled side-gambrel roof.
  • “Long shed dormers extend across the front and rear roof planes. The front entry has sidelights, a wood panel door, and replacement classical columns. The porch roof is supported at the house wall by original decorative wood brackets.
  • “On the north end is a one-story porch with slender replacement classical columns in groups of twos and threes and turned balusters. Other features include a brick foundation, an exterior brick chimney on the north end, and a modern rear deck.
  • “The driveway leading to an exposed basement garage is flanked by a retaining wall that gives the front yard a terraced appearance.
  • “According to Billee Prather Miller, the daughter of Country Club Estates developer Joseph William Prather [1891-1956] and his wife, Gertrude Prather [1894-1980], this house was built as her parents’ first residence in the subdivision. The Prathers later moved to the house at 528 Country Club.”
  • Marshall Cornelius Foster (1894-1956) and Lucy James Barker Fowler (1895-1985) owned the house in the early 1950s. Marshall was a tobacconist. After his death, Lucy had a house built next door at 515 Country Club Road and lived there.
  • Dr. Richard D. Jackson (1919-2009) and Julia Anderon Jackson (1920-2011) bought the house from Julia. Richard was a surgeon who came to Mount Airy when Northern Hospital opened. A wing of the hospital is named in his honor. He was a native of Erie, Pennsylvania. His father was a doctor, as were two of their three sons and a granddaughter.
  • Julia was originally from Edgefield, South Carolina. She was a graduate of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was honored as the school’s best all-around athlete. She worked as a swimming instructor in Erie, where she met Richard, and as a high school teacher and in life insurance sales. Two of her three brothers were doctors.

• Sold for $685,000 on July 7, 2023 (listed at $675,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,634 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $260
• Built in 1929
• Listed May 26, 2023
• Last sale: $287,000, January 2000
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: The property includes a detached garage with electricity and HVAC.

• Sold for $480,000 on July 7, 2023 (originally $545,000)
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not specified; house has been divided into four apartments; 2,776 square feet; 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 8, 2023
• Last sale: $140,000, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: This would be the property’s third sale in five years.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman gable-end, Residence, 1920-25”
  • Eugene Andrews (1874-1940) and Nellie Creel Andrews (dates unknown) bought the property in 1921, and it was listed in the city directory for the first time in 1922. They sold it in 1923 to Eugene’s son Bune Derwood Andrews (1986-1944), an embalmer (his mother was Emma Uleacy Fox Andrews, 1877-1905).
  • Bune owned the house until 1940. He may have divided the house right away. The 1923 city directory shows three residents, none of them the new owner. It apparently has remained divided into apartments ever since.

• Sold for $358,000 on July 6, 2023 (listed at $365,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,640 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 14, 2023
• Last sale: $35,000, January 2015
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: The living room fireplace has 18th century Moravian stove tiles made in Salem.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne. Two story; hip roof; front and side, front-gable roof projections; weatherboard; decorative wood shingles in gable; one-over-one replacement windows on second floor and original, diamond-light transoms over single-light windows on first floor; hip-roof porch; Tuscan columns. …
  • “Appears on 1951 Sanborn map. 1925 CD: Reverend H. W. Baucom, pastor at Salem Baptist Church; 1934 CD: James and Elma Brewer, an insurance agent; 1945 CD: Samuel and Maude Warren, owner-occupant, a brakeman at Southern Railway; 1955 CD: Maude Warren, owner-occupant, a widow.”

• Sold for $752,500 on July 5, 2023 (listed at $699,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,651 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1930 (per county, but probably a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed June 4, 2023
• Last sale: $475,000, January 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Dutch Colonial Revival. One and a half story; gambrel roof; wide, shed-roof dormer; vinyl siding; six-over-six, double-hung sash; front-gable entry porch; Tuscan columns; fanlight; enclosed side porch.
  • “1928 CD: Elmer and Fannie Houlthouser, conductor on Southern Railway.”