Historic Houses: Sales Winter-Spring 2021

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524 Church Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County
The Kivette House

  • Sold for $349,900 on June 30, 2021 (originally $359,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,270 square feet, 0.9 acre
  • Price/square foot: $154
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed May 10, 2021
  • Last sale: $153,000, July 2020
  • 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.

116 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $285,000 on June 29, 2021 (originally $299,999)
  • 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,653 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $172
  • Built in 1913
  • Listed March 29, 2021
  • Last sale: $160,000, February 2006
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story frame house is characterized by its simplicity and is a good example of some of the less elaborate, though soundly built, houses erected in the West End during the 1910s. The house features a gable end two-bay facade, a hip-roofed front porch with square Classical posts and a plain balustrade, two-over-two sash windows, and a small one-story rear ell. It has been covered with vinyl siding in recent years, but this has not seriously affected its integrity.
    • “The house was probably built by contractor Henderson H. Riddle as investment property. His wife, Ida, owned it from 1912 to 1939, but they lived at 601 Spring St.”

617 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
The A.J. and Ruth Ellington House

  • Sold for $295,000 on June 25, 2021 (listed at $295,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,791 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $106
  • Built in 1928
  • Listed May 8, 2021
  • Last sale: $180,000, January 2017
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • Note: The family of Dr. A.J. Ellington (1890-1980) and Ruth Martin Norwood Ellington (1899-1988) owned the house for 68 years, 1924 to 1992. Their sons, A.J. Jr. and Robert, were doctors in obstetrics and gynecology and founded Alamance Clinic for Women.
    • District NRHP nomination: “Constructed in the late 1920s for Dr. A.J. Ellington, a local dentist, this two-story brick T-plan period house features elements derived from the Colonial Revival style. The base of the T is extended by a two-story frame wing; a brick chimney with corbelled cap rises between the two sections.
    • “A tripartite window in the left bay of the three-bay facade has an elliptical opening with keystone; a keystone is also located in the flat window opening in the right bay.
    • “The single-bay entrance porch has a shed roof supported by paired Doric columns which flank a classical entrance. A six-panel door is topped by a leaded glass semi-circular fanlight; the Doric pilasters of the surround have double capitals with a shell motif in the upper capital.
    • “Decorative brickwork accents the structure at several points. A narrow box cornice with returns is a feature of the cross gable roof.”

4620 Groometown Road, Greensboro

  • Sold for $247,969 on June 25, 2021 (originally $274,900)
  • 5 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 3,651 square feet, 3.14 acre
  • Price/square foot: $68
  • Built in 1901
  • Listed May 1, 2021
  • Last sale: $155,000, November 1995
  • Listing: “… simply needs some TLC. Will need a trash out for items left behind by previous owner.”
    • The listing shows 7,064 square feet; county records show about half that.

337 Chestnut Grove Church Road, Lexington, Davidson County

  • Sold for $175,825 on June 25, 2021 (listed at $170,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,735 square feet, 0.51 acre
  • Price/square foot: $101
  • Built in 1933
  • Listed May 19, 2021
  • Last sale: $15,000, August 1994
  • Note: The listing says the house was originally built as a school.
    • The house has a Lexington mailing address but is located well to the northwest of the town.

2231 Snow Hill Church Road, Danbury, Stokes County

  • Sold for $130,000 on June 22, 2021 (listed at $169,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,823 square feet (per county), 41 acres
  • Price/square foot: $71
  • Built in 1912
  • Listed November 16, 2020
  • Last sale: $1,000, August 1938
  • Note: The property is being sold by the estate of John Wesley Wall, who died in 1975 at age 62. His second wife, Doris Marie Bullington Wall, died in August 2020 at the age of 101.
    • The property has a Danbury mailing address but is located in the Lawsonville area, north of Danbury.
    • The listing says the house includes “a tater room for all the garden veggies.”
    • No central air conditioning
    • The property includes a pond and two outbuildings, both of which have two floors.

112 S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro
The Romulous and Adah Edwards House

  • Sold for $607,000 on June 21, 2021 (listed at $549,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,381 square feet, 0.31 acre
  • Price/square foot: $255
  • Built in 1929
  • Listed May 19, 2021
  • Last sale: $299,000, August 2003
  • Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
  • Note: Romulous M. Edwards (1894-1970) and Adah Jane Calloway Edwards (1987-1995) bought the property in 1928 and owned it for 67 years. Romulous was the owner of Greensboro Barber & Beauty Supply Company. Adah sold the house 24 years after he died and just a year before her death at age 97.
    • District NRHP nomination: “The two-and-a-half-story, three-bay, side-gabled with returns, brick Colonial Revival-style dwelling with a one-story, flat-roofed, classical portico supported by Tuscan columns and topped with a truncated wood balustrade. The portico shelters a multi-light door. The portico repeats on the north elevation where it shelters a secondary entrance; triangular braces support this portico.
    • “Two front-gabled dormers with returns are sheathed in a smooth-coat stucco. An interior corbelled brick chimney rises from the roof ridge. Windows are six-over-one and topped with soldier-course brick lintels. A pineapple motif perforates each wood shutter.
    • “A one-story, flat-roofed sunroom is located on the south end. It likely originally served as an open porch, but was later enclosed and sheathed with hardboard siding. It features modern one-over-one windows and a fully-glazed door with fully-glazed sidelights.”

419 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The S.J. Hinsdale House

  • Sold for $270,000 on June 17, 2021 (listed at $255,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,218 square feet, 0.34 acre
  • Price/square foot: $122
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed May 15, 2021
  • Last sale: $202,000, May 2019
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • Note: Winner of the Minetree Pyne Preservation Award
    • District NRHP nomination: “S.J. Hinsdale, a ca. 1929 official of Atlantic Bank and Trust Company, had this bungalow built in the late 1920s. It is clad in German siding, with wide shed dormers on the front and rear, tapered, square-in-section posts supporting the engaged porch, and purlin brackets.”

2011 Griffin Road, Rural Hall, Forsyth County

  • Sold for $465,000 on June 16, 2021 (listed at $465,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,112 square feet, 13.14 acres
  • Price/square foot: $149
  • Built in 1880 with 1999 addition
  • Listed April 3, 2021
  • Last sale: $290,000, December 2015

209 W. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro
The E.S. Wills House

  • Sold for $679,900 on June 15, 2021 (originally $729,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,486 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $195
  • Built in 1922
  • Listed October 30, 2020
  • Last sale: $230,000, July 1996
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
  • Note: The property includes an in-ground saltwater pool, an amenity rarely found in historic districts; freshwater spa; and koi pond.
    • E.S. Wills was the president of Wills Book & Stationery, secretary-treasurer of Matheson-Wills Real Estate Company and vice president of the Greensboro Real Estate Board. The store was at 107 S. Greene Street. It survived well into the ’90s, then located at Four Seasons mall. The company also had at least one store out of town for many years, in Raleigh at the North Hills Shopping Center.

618 Scott Avenue, Greensboro
The Rives-Duncan House

  • Sold for $385,000 on June 15, 2021 (listed at $350,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,585 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $149
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed April 30, 2021
  • Last sale: $215,000, August 2016
  • Neighborhood: Lindley Park
  • Note: The house has a separate in-law suite/apartment with exterior and interior entrances.
    • The original owner appears to have been Edwin Earl “Scrubby” Rives (1898-1953), an attorney and later an innovative local judge (he was mentioned briefly in an interesting Time magazine piece, September 1948). He bought the property in 1926 and rented it out until selling it in 1935. He lived at 405 West Greenway North in Sunset Hills. He was an Army sergeant in World War I and a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General Detachment of the Army during World War II. He also served as a civilian aide to the secretary of the army after the war. The E. Earle Rives United States Army Reserve Center in Greensboro is named for him.
    • In 1948, William M. Duncan (1915-1991) bought the house, and it remained in his family for 68 years. William was manager of the Sam Bolton Company, a leather wholesaler. On his death, ownership passed to his wife, Mary Susan Herring Duncan (1914-2005), and then in 2004 to their son William Thomas Herring Duncan, who sold the house in 2016.

425 E. Hendrix Street, Greensboro
The Charles Augustus Hendrix House
Blog post — The Charles Augustus Hendrix House: A Grand 1890s Mansion in Dunleath, $300,000

  • Sold for $200,000 on June 15, 2021 (originally listed at $300,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,255 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $61
  • Built around 1895
  • Listed February 14, 2021
  • Last sale: $50,000 plus unspecified balance of a mortgage, July 2007
  • Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District
  • Note: The house has remained in the extended Hendrix family since it was built, owned successively by a daughter and son-in-law, grandson and great-granddaughter of Charles Hendrix.
    • Although the photos indicate the house is in very livable shape, it’s priced like a fixer-upper. At least some of the floors need refinishing, and a new owner might well want to update the kitchen and bathrooms.
    • County records show the date of the house as 1902, but the city directory shows brothers Charles and Edward Hendrix living there with their wives by 1896. The NRHP nomination for the Summit Avenue Historic District gives the date as 1895-99. The Hendrix brothers appear to have bought the property in the 1880s. Edward, a broker, died in 1919.
    • Charles Augustus Hendrix (1862-1942) was identified in the 19th century as a farmer and horse trader, but later became a prominent contractor. His obituary credits him as the contractor for the Aycock school and Sedgefield Gold golf course and for the excavations for the Southeastern Building, the King Cotton Hotel and the original O. Henry Hotel. He was a founder of the Sedgefield Ride and Hunt Club and the North Carolina Fox Hunt Association.

1808 Madison Avenue, Greensboro
The Edna and Pleas M. Sawyer House

  • Sold for $575,000 on June 14, 2021 (originally $630,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,524 square feet (per county)
  • Price/square foot: $228
  • Built in 1930
  • Listed January 30, 2021
  • Last sale: $300,000, February 2013
  • Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
  • Note: County records show 3 1/2 bathrooms. The listing says 4 1/2.
    • District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, side-gabled, weatherboard Colonial Revival-style house features a front-gabled portico supported by Tuscan columns and graced by triglyphs along its frieze. It shelters a multi-light and paneled wood door. Four-over-four casement windows and six-over-six double-hung sash illuminate the interior. An eyebrow dormer rests on the front roof slope. A brick chimney occupies the east gable end of the main block where it intersects with a two-story, side-gabled wing that contains a sun porch on its first level. The 1936 city directory lists Mr. Sawyer as an agent in charge at the Internal Revenue Office.”
    • The Sawyers owned the house from 1934 to 1964.

705 Simpson Street, Greensboro
The Sadie R. Taylor House

  • Sold for $492,000 on June 14, 2021 (listed at $465,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,240 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $220
  • Built in 1921
  • Listed May 11, 2021
  • Last sale: $435,000, May 2018
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
  • Note: Sadie Bingham Royster Taylor (1892-1971) was the original owner, buying the house in 1922. It was noted on the deed that she was the wife of Roland McNairy Taylor (1893-1976), but the deed itself was in her name alone.
    • In 1934, the deed was taken over by the Home Owners Loan Corporation, a Depression-era federal institution that refinanced mortgages in default to prevent foreclosure. The deed went back into Sadie’s name later, although county records don’t say specifically when.
    • Otherwise, the property remained in Sadie’s family for 48 years. After she died, the house was signed over to their daughter, Etta Farrar Taylor Mangum (1921-2016). She sold it in 1975.
    • No mention of the HOLC is complete without noting that it also introduced the concept of redlining, designating minority neighborhoods as hazardous areas for banks to provide mortgages and enforcing and promoting segregation. For more about the federal government’s role in actively promoting and in many places introducing and enforcing residential segregation, see The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein.

3622 Milhaven Road, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $425,000 on June 14, 2021 (originally $475,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,311 square feet (per county), 0.48 acre
  • Price/square foot: $184
  • Built in 1912
  • Listed December 18, 2020
  • Last sale: $67,500, April 1995
  • Neighborhood: Mount Tabor
  • Note: The property includes a two-car detached garage with a large workshop and a second-floor office/studio.

1900 Brantley Street, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $370,000 on June 14, 2021 (originally $429,500)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,895 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $195
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed: March 23, 2021
  • Last sale: $131,500, June 1994
  • Neighborhood: Ardmore

615 Colonial Drive, High Point
The Grover C. Furr House
contract pending May 3, 2021

  • Sold for $376,000 on June 11, 2021 (originally $375,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,375 square feet, 0.31 acre
  • Price/square foot: $155
  • Built in 1936
  • Listed April 29, 2021
  • Last sale: $280,000, August 2018
  • Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
  • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, hip-roofed, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a one-story, hip-roofed wing on the right (west) elevation. The house has a brick veneer with brick quoins on the corners and eight-over-eight, wood-sash windows.
    • “The six-panel door with four-light transom is centered on the facade and has a classical surround with fluted pilasters and a broken pediment. A second entrance on the left (east) elevation is sheltered by a low, hip-roofed porch on square posts with a denticulated cornice and a decorative metal railing at the second-floor level.
    • “The one-story wing on the right elevation has a bay window and large exterior end chimney. Classical details include the octagonal window centered on the facade, keystones over the first-floor windows, and a rowlock brick course under the denticulated cornice.
    • “The earliest known occupant is Grover C.Furr (superintendent, Adams-Millis Corporation) in 1939.”

6800 Germanton Road, Germanton, Forsyth County

  • Sold for $362,000 on June 11, 2021 (listed at $375,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,866 square feet, 1.7 acres
  • Price/square foot: $94
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed March 26, 2021
  • Last sale: $166,000, April 2015

739 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Galloway-Linville House

  • Sold for $246,000 on June 11, 2021 (listed at $299,900)
  • 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 3,916 square feet, 0.78 acre
  • Price/square foot: $63
  • Built in 1865
  • Listed April 7, 2021
  • Last sale: $375,000, April, 2011
  • Listing: “Wonderful place to make your home or perfect for B&B. Some TLC and this home could be the masterpiece you’ve been dreaming of!”
    • District NRHP nomination: “Two story rectangular frame house with low hipped roof and pair of interior corbelled chimneys. Believed to have been built in the 1870s by R. R. Galloway, large property owner and donor of the land for the Baptist Church located across the street. House remodelled c. 1930 by Ed Linville; he may have added the rear ell and the classically inspired full-facade hip-roofed porch carried by paired tapered box posts with molded caps. Leaded glass sidelights flank main entrance; two-over-two sash windows.”

212 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Brockmann-Ogburn House

  • Sold for $496,000 on June 10, 2021 (listed at $475,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,545 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $195
  • Built in 1904
  • Listed April 29, 2021
  • Last sale: $349,000, July 2018
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: The property includes a two-car garage with electricity and attic space.
    • The first owner of the house was Charles Joseph Brockmann (1865-1954), a first-generation German-American born in Greensboro. He bought the land for $350 in 1902 and owned it for 51 years. He taught music at the Normal and Industrial College, now UNCG, and was proprietor of the Moore Mineral Spring at 1007 Spring Garden Street, now part of the UNCG campus. He previously lived at 404 Lithia Street, which is now the section of Tate Street running from Walker Avenue to Gate City Boulevard. His widowed mother, Bertha Raven Brockmann (1830-1910), and older sisters Emma (1858-1927) and Laura Brockmann (1863-1943) lived nearby at 716 Walker Avenue. Laura also taught music at the college and later lived at 212 S. Mendenhall herself.
    • Charles established the school’s first orchestra in 1900. UNCG remembers the Brockmanns: “Music performance (or applied music) has been a concentration within the music department since UNCG opened in 1892. The first concentration in performance offered was in vocal. It was not until 1900, with the addition of Charles J. Brockmann and his sister Laura Brockmann to the faculty, that a concentration in instrumental became available for piano and violin. Under this duo, the music department expanded by creating the first university orchestra, as well as offering classes in piano, which were previously taught off campus.”
    • Charles sold the house in 1953 to Thomas and Carrie Lorena Coffey Ogburn (1912-1981). Thomas Leighton Ogburn Sr. (1911-1993) was a postal worker and later a salesman. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. The Ogburns sold the house in 1979.
    • Later, the house fell into the hands of absentee landlords who let the house fall into ruin. It was bought by the city Redevelopment Commission in 1992, which sold it to architect Bruce Cantrell in 1993. He and his wife, Ann, restored the house.

327 South Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County

  • Sold for $315,000 on June 10, 2021 (listed at $315,000)
  • 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,488 square feet, 1.51 acres
  • Price/square foot: $90
  • Built in 1914
  • Listed April 22, 2021
  • Last sale: $93,000, October 2019
  • Note: Vinyl siding and replacement windows

1903 Rolling Road, Greensboro
The Myrtle and Henry Cranford House

  • Sold for $550,000 on June 9, 2021 (listed at $539,900)
  • 4 bedrooms 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,887 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $191
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed April 20, 2021
  • Last sale: $478,000, December 2019
  • Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, side-gabled,weatherboard Colonial Revival-style dwelling features a centered,one-story, front-gabled portico with returns.Paired square posts support the portico that shelters the paneled wood door. Windows throughout are six-over one. A brick chimney rises from the east elevation of the main block, just forward of the roof ridge. A one-story, one-bay-wide, hip-roofed, weatherboard wing occupies the east elevation.
    • “The Cranfords bought the property in April 1925 and first appear at this address in the 1926 city directory. He was a bookkeeper for J.W. Scott and Company. In September 1926, the Cranfords sold the house to Hazel and Thomas Boydston, who worked as a traveling salesman. They sold the house in 1935.”

116 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Rev. Dr. Pinckney Lafayette Groome House
contract pending April 28, 2021

  • Sold for $375,000 on June 9, 2021 (originally $400,000)
  • Triplex: Downstairs unit has four bedrooms and two bathrooms; upstairs units each have two bedrooms and one bathroom; 4,760 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $79
  • Built in 1890
  • Listed April 8, 0221
  • Last sale: $300,000, February 2019
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: The house appears to have been divided into apartments as far back as 1925.
    • The first recorded occupant, in 1896, was Rev. Dr. Pinckney Lafayette Groome, editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate and author of Rambles of A Southerner in Three Continents (published in 1889 and still in print through a publisher called Forgotten Books).

406 Lindley Road, Greensboro
The James and Belva Hinshaw House

  • Sold for $460,000 on June 8, 2021 (listed at $440,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,951 square feet, 1.0 acre
  • Price/square foot: $156
  • Built in 1945
  • Listed April 15, 2021
  • Last sale: $389,000, July 2003
  • Neighborhood: Boxwood Acres
  • Note: The original owners of the house appear to have been James Harvey Hinshaw (1884-1950) and his wife, Belva Thelma Hammond Hinshaw (1901-1974). They owned the property from 1941 until their heirs sold it after Belva’s death.
    • The listing says the house was built in 1932, but county records say 1945.

750 Sheffield Road, Mocksville, Davie County

  • Sold for $401,000 on June 8, 2021 (listed at $375,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,546 square feet, 3 acres
  • Price/square foot: $113
  • Built in 1919
  • Listed April 3, 2021
  • Last sale: $350,500, September 2020
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412 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Robert H. Walker House II

  • Sold for $330,000 on June 8, 2021 (listed at $350,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,729 square feet (per county), 0.31 acre
  • Price/square foot: $191
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed May 6, 2021
  • Last sale: $280,000, June 2020
  • Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District
  • Note: The property includes a two-car detached garage with heated/cooled finished space upstairs.
    • District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, front-gabled, English Cottage-style house is three bays wide with a flared roofline and gabled dormers on the right(east) and left (west) elevations.The house has a stuccoed exterior, interior stuccoed brick chimney, and vinyl windows with wood lintels. An arched opening on the left end of the facade leads to a recessed six-light batten door. An inset, enclosed porch on the right elevation has arched openings. There is a shed-roofed wing at the rear of the left elevation that is covered with weatherboards.The earliest known occupant is Robert H. Walker (president, Pickett Mill; vice-president, High Point Yarns Mills) in 1927.”

263 Providence Church Road, Randleman, Randolph County

  • Sold for $289,000 on June 7, 2021 (listed at $289,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,330 square feet, 1.49 acres
  • Price/square foot: $124
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed April 21, 2021
  • Last sale: May 2002, price not recorded on deed
  • Note: For sale by owner

712 Sideview Street, Graham, Alamance County

  • Sold for $242,500 on June 4, 2021 (originally $250,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,006 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $121
  • Built in 1902
  • Listed April 3, 2021
  • Last sale: $120,000, November 2013

808 Douglas Street, Greensboro
The Freeland-Burnette House

  • Sold for $65,000 on June 4, 2021 (listed at $70,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,560 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $42
  • Built in 1928
  • Listed April 29, 2021
  • Last sale: $27,500, August 2000
  • Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
  • Note: For sale by owner
    • The original owners appear to have been George Gillespie Freeland and Bessie Irwin Freeland. George was the proprietor of Freeland Music Company. They deeded the house to a daughter, Grace Irwin Freeland, in 1935. She sold it in 1946.
    • In 1946, James and Eliza Burnette bought the house. They owned it for 54 years. James C. Burnette was a cleaner at Wade’s Dry Cleaning. Since Eliza sold it in 2000, it has been a rental.

173 Turnpike Road, Thomasville, Davidson County

  • Sold for $225,000 on June 3, 2021 (listed at $250,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,882 square feet, 0.9 acre
  • Price/square foot: $120
  • Built in 1912
  • Listed March 23, 2021
  • Last sale: Unclear in online records
  • Note: Vinyl siding

1930 Golden Gate Drive, Greensboro

  • Sold for $154,500 on June 3, 2021 (listed at $154,500)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,175 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $131
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed May 3, 2021
  • Last sale: $87,000, February 2015
  • Neighborhood: McAdoo Heights
  • Note: Vinyl siding and replacement windows
    • Gurney Hammer Sr. bought the house in 1950. After his death in 1954, his wife, Gertrude, owned the house until her death in 1976.
    • In 1951, nine members of the family worked for Cone Mills, including Gurney Sr. and Gertrude; four of their seven children — Earl, Gurney Jr., Hazel and Obert; and three daughters-in-law, Earl’s wife, Veralyn; Junior’s wife, Betty; and Obert’s wife, Bernice.

724 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Tingen-Long House

  • Sold for $320,000 on June 1, 2021 (listed at $310,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,323 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $96
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed April 21, 2021
  • Last sale: $173,000, November 2017
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “In 1923, Jesse Tingen, the Alamance County Registrar of Deeds, built this two-story frame Foursquare with Colonial Revival elements popular in Burlington in the first three decades of the twentieth century. The identifying elements of the type are symmetricality of configuration, a hip roof, a three-bay facade spanned by a one-story porch, and sidelights flanking the entrance. Square wooden posts on brick piers connected by a simple slat balustrade support the porch’s hip roof. Flanking interior chimneys emphasize the central-hall, double-pile plan of the house.
    • “The house was purchased in the mid-1930s by L.E. Long, who was associated with several business enterprises in Burlington …” Lewis Edgar Long (1879-1948) and Mollie James Long (1877-1951) owned the house until they died. Mollie left it to their daughters, Melba Elizabeth Long Combs (1910-1993) and Frances James Long Pickard (1914-1986). It was sold in 1987 after Frances’s death.

1115 Country Club Road, High Point

  • Sold for $225,000 on June 1, 2021 ($210,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 2,570 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $88
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed April 20, 2021
  • Last sale: $172,500, August 2005
  • Neighborhood: Emerywood

1222 N. Stokes School Road, Danbury, Stokes County

  • Sold for $175,000 on May 28, 2021 (originally $179,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,472 square feet, 3.59 acres
  • Price/square foot: $119
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed March 23, 2021
  • Last sale: $400 for a 1/18 interest in a 61.82-acre property
  • Listing: “… still needs cosmetic updates. Alot updates been done …” including vinyl siding and replacement windows.

804 Sunset Drive
The Van Wyck Williams House

  • Sold for $1.2 million on May 27, 2021 (originally listed at $1.795 million)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,470 square feet (per county), 0.49 acre (per county)
  • Price/square foot: $346
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed March 16, 2011
  • Last sale: $650,000, August 1992
  • Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “The Williams House is a wonderfully detailed one-and-a-half-story Tudor Revival cottage. It combines Flemish bond brickwork on the first story with stucco and half timbering on the upper story and a steep gabled roof with multi-colored slate shingles of graduated overlap from ridge to eaves. Other notable features include dormers with half-timbered gables, a front porch with timber posts, and a side chimney with highly decorative brickwork.”
    • Overlooks the Greensboro Country Club golf course
    • Listing: “Matching guest quarters with attached garage includes sitting room, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths” (750 square feet not included above).
    • The address doesn’t appear in the Greensboro city directory until 1929.
    • Van Wyck Williams (1886-1962) bought the house from the Irving Park Company in May 1928. He was a traveling salesman. Williams sold the house in August 1934 and then bought it back again five months later, in January 1935. The prices weren’t recorded on the deeds.
    • Williams didn’t sell the house again. On his death, he left it to his wife, Sarah Alberta Watkins Williams (1897-1972). She sold the house in 1964 to Charles and Betty Cheek. He was president of Piedmont Financial. The Cheeks sold it to the current owners in 1992.

4105 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
The Matthew and Ila Banner House

  • Sold for $435,000 on May 27, 2021 (listed at $429,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,906 square feet, 0.74 acre
  • Price/square foot: $150
  • Built in 1937
  • Listed April 24, 2021
  • Last sale: $350,000, August 2017
  • Neighborhood: Lindley Park
  • Notes: The Banners built the house and owned it for 47 years, buying the property in 1936 and selling it 1983. They were married for 60 years. Matthew Ray Banner Sr. (1885-1967) was a partner in the Banner-Trulove Company, wholesale grocers. Sons M.R. Banner Jr. (1908-1998) and William Powell Banner (1912-1986) joined the company and after his death continued to operate it. Ila (1885-1986) sold the house three years before she died at the age of 101.

1948 Farmington Road, Farmington, Davie County (Mocksville mailing address)
The Charles F. and Jane A. Bahnson House

  • Sold for $474,900 on May 21, 2021 (originally $579,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,364 square feet and 6.1 acres (both per county records)
  • Price/square foot: $141
  • Built circa 1878
  • Listed December 22, 2020
  • Last sale: $203,500, February 2008
  • Neighborhood: Farmington Historic District (NRHP)
  • Note: The listing shows 3,800 square feet and 7 acres, both a bit larger than county records say. Farmington is 9 miles north of Mocksville and 9 miles west of Clemmons.
    • NRHP district nomination: “This I-house features a projecting, full-height, gabled central entrance bay with a double-leaf door and a hip-roofed front porch with a gable over the entrance. Turned porch posts have replaced the original square, bracketed posts and a square vent now pierces the front gable in place of the original decorative gable vent, but the house retains Italianate-style elements such as the heavy sawn work brackets that ornament the boxed cornices and the original two-over-two sash that illuminate the interior. A bay window projects from the north elevation’s first story, and a bracketed flat-roofed hood shelters the south elevation’s first-story window. Six-over-six sash light the attic. A standing-seam metal roof protects the house.
    • “The rear ell consists of two small gabled sections. The two-room western section is slightly taller and has a central brick chimney and a bay window on the north elevation. The shed-roofed porch on the south elevation has been enclosed to create a sun porch. According to family tradition, the ell’s east end was originally a detached kitchen and has been remodeled to serve the same function. A small room in the southeast corner, which served as a pantry, has been converted into a laundry room, while the adjacent room, originally a meat storage closet, is now a bathroom. The shed-roofed porch on the south elevation has been enclosed to serve as a garage.
    • “The interior retains original plaster walls, tall baseboards, plaster ceilings, and a stair with a turned newel post, turned balusters, and a molded handrail that rises from the center hall’s east end to a landing above the front door. As in several other Farmington dwellings, plaster arches frame the recesses on either side of the chimney and the bay window in the northwest room, which served as the parlor. The parlor and south second-floor bedroom mantels feature circular medallions incised from the central panels. …
    • “Molded trim surrounds the windows and original two-raised-vertical-panel doors. Two-light transoms surmount each door that leads into a hall. Electric light fixtures, probably installed about the time Farmington received electric service in 1921, remain in several principal rooms. The brass chandeliers in the dining room and hall were removed from Farmington Methodist Church when the interior was updated in the late 1980s.
    • “Carpeting covers the original wide cypress floors in the halls and bedrooms. Central plaster medallions ornament the parlor and dining room ceilings. The south second-floor bedroom ceiling features decorative plaster work in each corner.”
    • “Charles Frederic Bahnson (1840-1911) and his wife Jane Amanda Johnson (1842-1926), known as Jennie, erected the two-story main block after inheriting money from his mother’s uncle Israel George Loesch’s estate in 1878, but the one-story ell is older. Jennie’s parents, George Wesley and Martha Williams Taylor Johnson, gave the couple land in Farmington that included two small houses (formerly slave quarters according to oral tradition) at the time of their marriage on December 6, 1865. The Bahnsons initially resided on Johnson family property (which is now Tanglewood Park), but moved to Farmington and joined the two existing dwellings to create their home, which they occupied in August 1867.”
    • “The young couple established a successful farm on the land her parents gave them in Farmington, and Charles opened a small office and jewelry shop in a one-room building adjacent to their home. He also traveled throughout the region offering watch repair and optometry services in county seats on court days.”

426 W. Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Morrow-Barnwell House

  • Sold for $440,000 on May 21, 2021 (listed at $425,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,600 square feet, 1.0 acre
  • Price/square foot: $122
  • Built in 1892
  • Listed April 8, 2021
  • Last sale: $290,000, June 2016
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • Note: The Nation Register nomination for the district gives 1892 as the date of the house, but county records say 1913.
    • District NRHP nomination: “This large Queen Anne residence is a significant surviving representative of the homes built by the growing number of professionals and businessmen attracted to Burlington in the last decades of the nineteenth century as the town was being transformed into an industrial city. It was built circa 1892 for Doctor Robert Morrow, a dentist who set up practice locally in 1890 and became prominent in the city’s business and civic affairs. The house was later owned by Dr. Morrow’s daughter and her husband, John Henry Barnwell, a founder in 1930 of Barnwell Brothers Trucking Company which merged in 1942 with Horton Motor Lines and several smaller companies to form Associated Transport, Inc., based in New York City.
    • “Features of the two-story frame structure include its irregular configuration, entrance through a side stair hall, a gable on high hipped slate roof, a wraparound porch with porte cochere and polygonal pavilion supported by classical columns on brick piers, and elaborate chimneys with paneled stacks and corbeled caps. Surviving interior elements included symmetrically molded door and window surrounds with bulls-eye corner blocks, one Victorian mantel, and the main staircase with square newel post and slender, turned balusters.”

2473 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

  • Sold for $260,013 on May 21, 2021 (originally $267,500)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,000 square feet, 0.33 acre
  • Price/square foot: $130
  • Built in 1885
  • Listed August 14, 2020
  • Last sale: $34,000, July 2004
  • HOA: $55/month
  • Note: The restored Glencoe mill village is just north of Burlington off N.C. 62. It is a historic district administered by the City of Burlington (Glencoe is outside the city limits but within Burlington’s zoning jurisdiction).

1007 N.C. Highway 705, Westmore, Moore County

  • Sold for $149,900 on May 21, 2021 (listed at $149,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,674 square feet, 14.3 acres
  • Price/square foot: $90
  • Built in 1902
  • Listed March 11, 2021
  • Last sale: September 1960, price not recorded on deed
  • Listing: The house is described as “ready for you to renovate and make over the way you would want it.”
    • Something you don’t see every day: “There is a free flowing spring that crosses the field and the owners say they have never seen it run dry.”
    • The property has a Seagrove mailing address but is well to the southeast, just across the Moore County line and almost to Westmore.

1710 W. Market Street, Greensboro
The Ruth and Dr. J. Henry Boyles House

  • Sold for $558,000 on May 20, 2021 (listed at $555,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,367 square feet, 0.39 acre
  • Price/square foot: $166
  • Built in 1935
  • Listed Monday March 15, 2021
  • Last sale: $503,000, January 2020
  • Neighborhood: Sunset Hills
  • Note: Dr. Boyles (1873-1939) served in the U.S. Army medical corps in Cuba during the the Spanish-American War and, at age 43, in France during World War I. He maintained an office downtown and was on the staff of Piedmont Hospital. He died of lymphoma at age 65.
    • Ruth (1880-1964) was 58 when Henry died and never remarried. She sold the house in 1939 and lived to be 83.
    • The house was owned by the Asheboro Street Baptist Church from 1959-67 and Friendly Road Baptist Church from 1967-99.
    • District NRHP nomination: “The two-story, three-bay, truncated hip-roofed, brick Colonial Revival-style house displays modillion blocks along its soffit. A hip-roofed entry porch with modillion blocks and dentils on its cornice is supported with paired slender Tuscan columns and shelters a multi-light door with sidelights. Windows are primarily paired and single six-over-six replacement sash; first floor windows are topped by soldier-course lintels.
    • “An exterior brick chimney occupies the east elevation and protrudes through the roof of a one-story, three-bay, hip-roofed, wood sun porch with modillion blocks and a dentiled cornice. Fluted pilasters with plain caps separate four-over-four windows with two-light transoms and flank the multi-light, centered door topped with a three-light transom.
    • “A small, one-bay, side-gabled hyphen connects the house to a one-story, front-gabled,brick, two-bay, brick garage with modillion blocks and a small, octagonal, multi-light window near top of the façade. A pyramidal-roofed cupola rests on the roof ridge and a front-gabled brick dormer with modillion blocks rests on the west roof slope.
    • “The Boyles family bought the property in March 1935 and first appears at this address in the 1938 city directory.”

511 Jersey Avenue, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $420,000 on May 20, 2021 (listed at $430,000)
  • 4 apartments: one with two bedrooms, three with one bedroom each; 4 bathrooms total; 3,200 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $131
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed January 31, 2021
  • Last sale: $300,000, February 2018
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • Note: The listing shows 3,200 square feet; county records say 1,549, which doesn’t look right.
    • Aluminum siding
    • District NHRP nomination: “This is a plain one-story frame house with a low hip roof, a northeast corner engaged front porch, and a small projecting bay on the southwest side. The Sanborn maps show that a one-story house with a full-facade porch and a rear porch was built here between 1917 and 1924. If this is the same house, it has been altered by comprehensive changes to the porches and by the addition of aluminum siding.”

1057 W. Main Street, Swepsonville, Alamance County (Graham mailing address)

  • Sold for $244,500 on May 18, 2021 (listed at $259,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,400 square feet, 0.68 acre
  • Price/square foot: $102
  • Built in 1901
  • Listed November 6, 2020
  • Last sale: $55,000, July 2012
  • Note: Foreclosure sale

1614 West End Place, Greensboro
The Luther and Martha Schenck House

  • Sold for $328,000 on May 14, 2021 (listed at $315,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,809 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $181
  • Built in 1941
  • Listed April 8, 2021
  • Last sale: $154,000, September 2019
  • Neighborhood: College Park
  • Note: Luther Virgil Schenck (1901-1938) and Martha Virginia Dreher Schenck (1901-1988) bought the property in 1925 and owned it for 41 years. Luther was an employee of the Vicks Chemical Company and later president of Triangle Producing Company, which sold theatrical supplies and/or produced plays (descriptions in the city directories are inconsistent). After Luther’s early death from leukemia, Martha continued running the company until 1940. She remained in the house until she sold it in 1966.
    • This may be the second house to be built at this address. The address first appears in the 1927 city directory, with the Schencks listed as occupants. County property records, though, show the date of the house as 1941. Judging from the design of the house, 1941 seems more likely.

6462 Jordan Road, Ramseur, Randolph County

  • Sold for $169,000 on May 14, 2021 (originally $179,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,040 square feet, 0.84 acre
  • Price/square foot: $83
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed February 11, 2020
  • Last sale: $12,500, August 2016
  • Note: Vinyl siding

2456 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

  • Sold for $159,000 on May 13, 2021 (listing price was $159,000; originally $150,000)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,248 square feet, 0.29 acre
  • Price/square foot: $127
  • Built in 1880
  • Listed October 18, 2019
  • Last sale: $95,000, July 2011
  • HOA: $55/month
  • Note: Note: The restored Glencoe mill village is just north of Burlington off N.C. 62. It’s a historic district administered by the City of Burlington (Glencoe is outside the city limits but within Burlington’s zoning jurisdiction).

801 N. Eugene Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $355,000 on May 12, 2021 (listed at $359,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,092 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $170
  • Built as early as 1916 or as late as 1931 (see note below)
  • Listed May 28, 2020
  • Last sale: $165,000, November 2003
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
  • Note: For sale by owner
    • Fisher Park’s National Register nomination describes it as a “three-bay, facade-gable, gable-end I house with a bungalow-style front porch.”
    • The NRHP nomination dates the house from 1916-20, and city directories show a residence at 801 Keough, as the street was then known, dating back to 1921. County records, though, give the date as 1931. For what it’s worth, it looks more like a 1920 house than one built in 1931.

6068 Hedgerow Circle, Clemmons, Forsyth County

  • Sold for $238,000 on May 12, 2021 (originally $320,000)
  • 5 bedrooms (per county records), 2 bathrooms, 1,812 square feet, 3.14 acres
  • Price/square foot: $131
  • Built in 1880
  • Listed November 4, 2020
  • Last sale: $225,000, May 2004
  • Note: Not owner-occupied
    • The property includes a three-car log garage.

2003 Madison Avenue, Greensboro
The Sarah and Don D. Folk House

  • Sold for $770,000 on May 11, 2021 (listed at $685,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,509 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $219
  • Built in 1927
  • Listed May 1, 2021
  • Last sale: $231,000, June 1994
  • Neighborhood: Sunset Hills NR Historic District
  • District National Register nomination: “The two-story, four-bay, side-gabled,brick English Cottage style dwelling displays a two-story, brick front gable whose upper gable is graced with decorative bands of soldier-course brick and pierced by a tall, narrow, louvered wood vent. A wood pendant crowns the gable’s rakingcornice. Brick posts and heavy paneled wood posts support the partial-façade shed-roofed porch that shelters a paneled wood door. An arched brick opening is located on the east end of the porch. Windows are six-over-one with those on the first level of the front gable and on the west end of the side-gabled portion’s façade topped by relieving brick arches. Soldier-course brick lintels top other windows. A three-bay, stucco shed dormer rests on the front roof slope. Brick end chimneys rise from each gable end.
    • The original owner was Don Folk, a manager at the Corley Company, which sold “pianos, victrolas and musical merchandise.”
    • Alvis and Rosa Craver bought the house in 1930 and owned it for 27 years. Alvis Wesley Craver (1890-1979) was a dentist and served in the military in World War I. He was born in Yadkin County and is buried in Boonville. Rosa Richardson Pope Craver (1906-1991) was born in South Carolina.

118 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The George L Keehln House

  • Sold for $335,000 on May 11, 2021 (listed at $325,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,098 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $108
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed March 25, 2021
  • Last sale: $75,000, April 2000
  • Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
  • Listing: “… opportunity for conversion back to a single residence. Or live in the large main level residence with 3 BR/2B and let the upstairs 1BR apt supplement your income.”
    • Not owner-occupied
    • District NRHP nomination: “Frame vernacular house with Queen Anne massing and transitional Colonial Revival details; corbelled interior chimneys; hipped roof with cross gables, decorative wood shingles at gable ends; one-story hipped-roof wrap porch supported by classical columns; octagonal bay on east side elevation with jerkin-head roof.”
    • The original owners appear to have been George and Arabella Keehln. He was a partner in Crist & Keehln, printers and the proprietors of Blum’s Farmer’s and Planter’s Almanac. The almanac was first published in Salem in 1828 and is still published today.

464 Carolina Circle, Winston-Salem
The Henry and Vera Sherrill House

  • Sold for $880,000 on May 7, 2021 (listed at $849,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,281 square feet, 0.72 acre
  • Price/square foot: $268
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed March 22, 2021
  • Last sale: $575,000, February 2002
  • Note: Henry H. Sherrill (1886-1973) was president of Sherrill Paving Company. He bought the property in 1922. He and his wife, Vera (1892-1976) sold the house to their daughter, Annie Louise, in 1957 but continued to live there at least into the early 1960s.
    • The 1940 Census showed Henry and Vera at the address with their seven children: Frank, 27 years old; George, 25, Annie Louise, 22; Ralph, 20; Henry Jr., 18; James, 15; and Leon, 13. Two lodgers also were listed at the house.
    • Son James Nelson Sherrill (1926-2012) graduated from the NCSU School of Design and became a noted architect. He lived his adult life in Hickory and outlived his sister and all five brothers.

130 Tate Street, Greensboro
The Rev. Samuel M. Rankin House

  • Sold for $295,000 on May 5, 2021 (listed at $325,000)
  • Triplex: total of 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,292 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $129
  • Built in 1907 (see note below)
  • Listed March 1, 2021
  • Last sale: $275,000, January 21, 2021
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: Rental property
    • The property was put up for sale less than six weeks after being bought. The listing notes the need for “minimal, light cosmetic rehab,” raising the question of why anyone would pay $325,000 for the exact same house that sold for $50,000 less earlier this year.
    • Originally a single-family home, it was divided into three units decades ago.
    • Rev. Rankin was chairman of the Presbyterian Home Missions committee.
    • County records give the house a 1940 date, but city directories show a residence at the address from 1907. The historic district’s NRHP nomination says 1905-10.

1115 Council Street, High Point
The Henry Grady Owens House

  • Sold for $267,500 on May 5, 2021 (listed at $270,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,616 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $166
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed March 26, 2021
  • Last sale: $125,000, November 2020 (before that, $139,500, May 2002)
  • Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NRHP)
  • District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is five bays wide and triple-pile with a shed-roofed wall dormer on the right (north) end of the facade. The house has a brick veneer, replacement windows, and a four-light-over-four-panel door sheltered by an arched hood on brackets. A flat-roofed screened porch projects from the right end of the facade, supported by square, full-height brick piers. There are paired windows in the gable ends and brackets under the windows in the dormer for holding a window box. The site slopes to the rear to reveal a basement-level garage. The earliest known occupant is Henry Grady Owens (teacher, High Point High School) in 1927.”
    • How it looked when it was sold in 2020:

784 N. Stratford Road, Winston-Salem
The Pinckney and Nannie Fulton House

  • Sold for $750,000 on May 3, 2021 (listed at $769,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,529 square feet, 0.37 acre
  • Price/square foot: $213
  • Built in 1928
  • Listed March 3, 2021
  • Last sale: $550,000, June 2008
  • Neighborhood: Buena Vista
  • Note: The property includes an attached two-car garage and a detached garage converted into office/studio space.
    • Something you don’t see every day: “Even a bedroom custom painted by local artist Laura Lashley!”
    • The first occupants listed in the city directory were T. Pinckney and Nannie Fulton. He was an employee of the Taylor Brothers Warehouse.

702 Arch Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

  • Sold for $160,000 on April 30, 2021 (originally $189,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,600 square feet, 0.9 acre
  • Price/square foot: $62
  • Built in 1879
  • Listed October 30, 2020
  • Last sale: $54,000, December 2008
  • Note: Vinyl siding

609 Woodland Drive, Greensboro
The Harlin-Falk House

  • Sold for $1.15 million on April 27, 2021 (originally listed at $1.03 million, then $995,000 when the listing was withdrawn)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,130 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $367
  • Year built: 1925
  • Listed February 22, 2018 (listing withdrawn June 25, 2018)
  • Last sale: $725,000, November 2000
  • Neighborhood: Irving Park
  • Note: The house was built by contractor William B. Enoch, who sold it in 1927 to Alexander F. Harlin, a sales manager for Blue Bell Overall Company.
    • Herbert and Louise Falk bought the house from Harlin in 1935, and they owned it for 58 years. Attorney Henry Seesholtz Falk Sr. (1902-1975) and Louise Amelia Dannebaum Falk (1908-1997) both received honorary degrees from UNCG in 1975 — Louise, class of 1928, as an advocate for the arts, the community and education; and Herbert as a patron of the arts. He was a former president of the Weatherspoon Gallery Association. His law office was in the Southeastern Building downtown. After Herb’s death, Louise owned the house until 1993.
    • Their son, Henry S. Falk Jr. (1931-200), also was a prominent Greensboro lawyer. He was the namesake of the Greensboro Bar Association’s Herb Falk Society, created in 2011 to honor members who contribute at least 75 hours of pro bono service annually.

511 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County

  • Sold for $208,500 on April 27, 2021 (listed at $194,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,254 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $93
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed December 23, 2020
  • Last sale: $122,500, July 2000
  • Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District
  • Note: Vinyl siding
    • District NRHP nomination: “A good example of the Foursquare style, this frame house exhibits the typical characteristics of a two-story, box-like shape, topped with a low hipped roof and wide overhanging eaves. A hip-roof dormer projects from the roof as does a tall partially rebuilt interior chimney. A hip-roof nearly full facade porch is carried by plain square posts.”

331 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Charles Pfohl House

  • Sold for $580,000 on April 26, 2021 (originally $595,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,786 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $208
  • Built in 1905
  • Listed January 15, 2021
  • Last sale: $280,000, April 2006
  • Listing: The house’s restoration won the 2013 Preserve Historic Forsyth Award.
    • District NRHP nomination: “At the turn of the century, Sanborn Insurance maps show a small house at the street front of this lot. The present house was built for Charles and Mary Josephine (Eberhardt) Pfohl by their son Herbert, then president of Fogle Brothers Company. Charles was working for Salem College and Herbert built this house to bring his father closer to his work. … The house on Lot 43 remained in the Pfohl family until 2006, with the exception of a 15-year ownership by retired Salem College president Dale Gramley beginning in 1971.”
    • “The high cross-gable main roof (asphalt shingle) meets at a large central brick chimney with corbelled cap. A variety of roof lines is created by multiple projecting pedimented gables with flared eaves and assorted dormers. Vertical and horizontal elements on the exterior walls, pointed arch and shingled solid verge boards, a tall partially engaged exterior end brick chimney with corbelled cap, and a range of window features give this frame house a decorative appeal. Window sash is four-over-one with wide surrounds.”
    • “The projecting front bay with tripartite windows has one large light one-over-one sash flanked by smaller one-over-one sash and louver panels. Paired and tripled windows are in dormers. Lunettes are featured in the north and south gable ends; the rear gable is clipped. The engaged front porch with Tuscan columns and turned balustrade is a reworking of the original porch as shown on the 1912 Sanborn Insurance map. This map also recorded two outbuildings. The rear yard, which ends with the granite wall at Cedar Avenue, is currently empty, although a formal garden with a fish pond and a frame garage were present in the mid-twentieth century. The house was rehabilitated in 2009.”

1241 Waughtown Road, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $168,000 on April 25, 2021 (listed at $161,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,680 square feet, 0.45 acre
  • Price/square foot: $63
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed March 15, 2021
  • Last sale: $106,000, July 2003
  • Neighborhood: Waughtown
  • Note: Vinyl siding

701 Arbor Road, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $765,000 on April 21, 2021 (listed at $799,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,248 square feet, 0.36 acre
  • Price/square foot: $236
  • Built in 1927
  • Listed February 22, 2021
  • Last sale: $695,000, September 2020
  • Neighborhood: Buena Vista
  • Note: Five months after buying the house, the owners are asking $100,000 more than they paid. The listing calls it “beautifully refreshed” and lists a radon mitigation system, waterproofing in the crawl space and other unspecified improvements.
    • “The owner is a licensed real estate agent,” but isn’t the listing agent.

663 O Bryant Road, Reidsville, Rockingham County

  • Sold for $216,000 on April 21, 2021 (listed at $205,800)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,896 square feet, 2.47 acres
  • Price/square foot: $114
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed March 5, 2021
  • Last sale: $170,000, March 2020
  • Note: The house has a Reidsville mailing address, but it’s in southern Rockingham County, just over the Guilford County line.
    • The property was sold in 2016 ($135,000), 2018 ($135,000) and 2020 ($170,000).

211 E. Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro

  • Sold for $470,000 on April 19, 2021 (originally $375,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,268 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $207
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed July 29, 2020
  • Last sale: $100,000, April 2020
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park
  • Note: For sale by owner
    • The property was bought by an LLC in April 2020 for $100,000; three months later it was listed for sale at $375,000. The price has been raised twice since.
    • The property is in the Fisher Park Neighborhood and NRHP historic district, but is not within the local historic district. That means it’s not subject to the appearance guidelines of the local historic district.

809 Dover Road, Greensboro
The Ezra and Mabel Hodgin House

  • Sold for $550,000 on April 16, 2021 (originally $599,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,559 square feet (per county)
  • Price/square foot: $155
  • Built in 1936
  • Listed January 11, 2021
  • Last sale: $555,000, March 2015
  • Neighborhood: Irving Park
  • Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage with a 400 square-foot guest suite.
    • The listing shows only 2,886 square feet; county records say 3,559.
    • The first owners of the house were Ezra Clay Hodgin and his wife, Mabel Coggin Hodgin. They bought the property in 1937 and sold it in 1948. He was a chiropractor.
    • Although county records give a 1936 date for the house, it doesn’t show up in city directories until 1938. The property was owned by a bank until the Hodgins bought it in 1937.

610 Simpson Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $445,000 on April 15, 2021 (originally $465,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,160 square feet (per county records)
  • Price/square foot: $206
  • Built in 1916
  • Listed December 14, 2020
  • Last sale: $385,000, November 2006
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District

2312 Lafayette Avenue, Greensboro
The Proctor-Cardwell House
… alternately, The Ballard Brothers Fish Company House

  • Sold for $635,000 on April 14, 2021 (listed at $699,700)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,902 square feet 0.42 acre
  • Price/square foot: $219
  • Built in 1928
  • Listed February 23, 2021
  • Last sale: $455,000, March 2015
  • Neighborhood: Kirkwood
  • Note: It looks like a slate roof. The listing shows the roof material as “other,” so I’m guessing it is.
    • The house was built by Kirkwood Inc. in 1928 and was a rental property until the company lost it to foreclosure in 1931. It was bought by the Ballard Brothers Fish Company of Cape Charles, Virginia (which appears still to be in business, dba Cherrystone Aqua-Farms). Although the company doesn’t appear to have had any other presence in Greensboro, it continued to use the house as a rental property.
    • The first owner-occupants were salesman Albert W. Proctor of the Greensboro Overall Company and his wife, Ann, who bought it in 1936.
    • In 1939 Dr. Willard Cardwell, a physician, bought the house and owned it for 53 years, selling it in 1992. His wife, Amelia, was a singer (soprano) and general manager of the Greensboro Opera Association in the 1950s.

533 College Street, Eden, Rockingham College

  • Sold for $220,000 on April 9, 2021 (originally $278,800)
  • 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,886 square feet, 1.2 acres
  • Price/square foot: $57
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed November 23, 2020
  • Last sale: $135,000, June 2013
  • Listing: “The 7th bedroom is currently being used as the upstairs laundry room. There is a main floor laundry/mudroom, as well.”
    • The property includes a detached two-car garage and a storage building.

4401 Pleasant Garden Road, Pleasant Garden, Guilford County

  • Sold for $400,000 on April 8, 2021 (listed at $384,900; originally $349,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,484 square feet, 3.74 acres
  • Price/square foot: $161
  • Built in 1903
  • Listed August 11, 2017
  • Last sale: $180,000, October 2015
  • Listing: “Many original details remain,” but not the wood siding or original windows.
    • “10 stall barn includes 2nd level perfect as an event space and office. Large fenced pasture.”

117 Salem Street, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Strickland-Long House

  • Sold for $225,000 on April 8, 2021 (listed at $249,900)
  • 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 3,577 square feet, 0.73 acre
  • Price/square foot: $63
  • Built in 1890
  • Listed February 3, 2021
  • Last sale $25,000, January 1978
  • Neighborhood: Salem Street Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “The most ornate building is the Strickland-Long House at 117 Salem Street, but most of that decoration dates from the mid 1980s and is based on supposition of the original decoration.”
    • “The late Victorian vernacular Strickland-Long House at 117 Salem Street has a distinctive mansard-roofed tower that reflects the influence of the French Second Empire style.”
    • “Local tradition claims that Dr. J. T. Strickland built this house ca. 1887 but sold it soon thereafter to William Alexander Lambeth. The property changed hands several times until postmaster Keiffer L. Long purchased it in 1916. Long, who held various positions at the post office and later worked for Ragan Knitting Company, occupied the house until at least the early 1960s. Soon after they purchased the house, the Longs removed the front bay window and added a bungalow-type porch.”
    • “Around 1985 Steve Nixon, who purchased the house in 1978, rebuilt the bay window and added a period-inspired porch that wraps around the southwest corner of the house.” Nixon and his wife, Doris, are now selling the house.
    • “The two-story, weatherboarded frame dwelling boasts a tower with a wood-shingled, flared, mansard roof at the junction of its front and south-side wings that provides the house with a distinctive, vernacular French Second Empire-style appearance. The house has a gabled roof with bracketed eaves, an interior chimney with a corbeled cap, two-over-two double-hung sash windows with louvered wood shutters, decorative bay windows on the front and side elevations, and a wraparound porch with a turned balustrade, turned and bracketed posts, and a sawnwork frieze.”

21 Park Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Isenhour-Pool House

  • Sold for $362,000 on April 1, 2021 (listed at $379,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,894 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $191
  • Built in 1924
  • Listed January 14, 2021
  • Last sale: $342,000, April 2019
  • Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “Frame house with gable-on-hip roof, three bays wide with central entrance, triple window above entrance. One-bay entrance porch has flat trellis roof supported by fluted Doric columns and pilasters, extensive use of brackets (which match those beneath main roof) to suggest pergola. Side porch has similar treatment but no pilasters (may have been removed when asbestos siding added). At rear is attached, flat-roofed carport. Jacob G. Isenhour (wife Clara) lived here for a short time; he worked for Mutual Fountain Company. Dr. Bennett B. Pool, a physician (wife Alta), bought the house in 1927, lived there one year and sold it to real estate company.”

612 Springwood Avenue, Gibsonville, Guilford County

  • Sold for $231,500 on March 31, 2021 (originally $249,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,903 square feet, 1.02 acres
  • Price/square foot: $122
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed October 15, 2020
  • Last sale: Not found in online records

1101 Virginia Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $550,000 on March 29, 2021 (originally $650,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,279 square feet, 0.31 acre
  • Price/square foot: $241
  • Built in 1913
  • Listed November 24, 2020
  • Last sale: $530,000, May 2015
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
  • Note: One of the most remarkable houses in Fisher Park
    • From Greensboro: An Architectural Record — “Flared eaves, a pointed-arch entry underpinned by half-timbering ad brackets, flower boxes, clipped gables stuccoed walls — all lend a fanciful appearance to the Germanic revival-style house … “

1558 W. Northwest Boulevard, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $410,000 on March 27, 2021 (listed at $414,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,479 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $165
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed February 11, 2021
  • Last sale: $276,000, July 2013
  • Neighborhood: West Highlands
  • Note: The house has been extensively renovated, in some ways well and in some ways not (replacement windows and vinyl siding).

6930 Walnut Cove Road (U.S. 311), Walkertown, Forsyth County

  • Sold for $325,858 on March 26, 2021 (listed at $379,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,632 square feet, 14.18 acres
  • Price/square foot: $124
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed January 7, 2021
  • Last sale: $43,713, March 2004
  • Note: The listing says the house “is ready for your makeover.”
    • The property includes a spring-fed pond.
    • The house house has a Walkertown mailing address but is well north of the town.

4003 Max Drive, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $262,650 on March 26, 2021 (originally $449,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,004 square feet, 15.58 acres
  • Price/square foot: $87
  • Built in 1882
  • Listed April 9, 2018
  • Last sale: Unclear in online records
  • Note: The house is being sold by the estate of Carolyn C. Shelton (1932-2016). “She was the co-owner of the former Shelton Swimming Lake, owned and managed beauty salons, was a developer, and an avid residential and commercial real estate investor in NC and SC alike,” her obituary says. She appears to have been the developer of the Shelton Lake neighborhood, where the house is located.
    • The property includes a small lake; about 12 properties border the water.
    • Ominous? “New owner will be responsible for Lake/Lake Dam and any pending actions by the state regarding the dam.” (from previous listing)
    • Also ominous? “No Septic Information on file.” (from previous listing; information wasn’t included when the property was relisted)
    • New as of February 2021: “The listing price is per Fannie Mae’s list price guidance. This property is to be placed in an upcoming auction. All bids should be submitted at Xome.”
    • New as of December 2020: “Potential short sale. … All offers Considered… Sold AS IS… Buyer is responsible for Lake and/or Dam repairs. May be Subject to Bank Approval!”
    • The property is being sold as is.

319 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Peter Fetter House

  • Sold for $459,000 on March 25, 2021 (listed at $500,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,620 square feet (per county), 0.33 acre
  • Price/square foot: $175
  • Built in 1840
  • Listed February 4, 2020
  • Last sale: $399,000, May 2020
  • Note: Converted into a duplex after a 1920 sale, the listing implies it’s now a single-unit house.
    • Interior designer Carol Wooley owned the house from 2001-2020 and rented out one side as a guest house for at least part of that time.
  • District NRHP nomination: “The ca. 1920 purchase of this house by Walter Hege and his conversion of it into a duplex concealed and modified the original center hall, two-room deep single family house. Located at the south end of Lot 83 and against the sidewalk, the two-story frame (weatherboard) building with side gable roof (asphalt shingle) has returned eaves and is on a high stuccoed stone foundation. The symmetrically arranged three-bay façade has wide cornice and corner boards and paired four-over-one sash windows with wide casings. Side porches (north and south) have low hip roofs supported by square posts with shingled balustrade. A two-story frame (weatherboard) centered rear ell has a hip roof with an interior chimney.”
    • “The remodeling of the house removed front and rear porches, altered fenestration, and adjusted the interior to accommodate two housing units. The house was split in half and a two-story rear ell was added to accommodate a kitchen/ pantry and additional bedroom for each unit. With the front entry removed, side porches were added to shelter new entrances. The roof retains interior end brick chimneys (south has lost its corbelled cap), and each upper gable end retains the two six-over-six sash windows at the third floor/attic level.”

1058 Teague Road, Winston-Salem
The Austin D. and Alberta C. Parker House

  • Sold for $240,000 on March 25, 2021 (originally $319,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,381 square feet, 1.68 acres
  • Price/square foot: $71
  • Built in 1941
  • Listed August 9, 2020
  • Last sale: It has been in the Parker family since at least 1941.
  • Listing: “unique Caribbean style, custom built home in a lovely country setting” This house may stretch the definition of Mid-Century Modern. It looks like a precursor to MCM.
    • Description on N.C. Modernist: “Parker sketched the designs for this and the next house on a paper bag while sailing back to the United States after one of his trips to Cuba. He hired Fogle Brothers to build two unusual but not really Modernist houses, one for himself and one for his son, Mark Parker.” It’s still owned by the Parkers’ heirs.

711 Park Avenue, Greensboro

  • Sold for $260,000 on March 23, 2021 (originally $286,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,741 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $149
  • Built in 1931
  • Listed October 29, 2020
  • Last sale: $273,622, October 2014
  • Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District

912 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro
The Wrenn-Foushee House

  • Sold for $257,500 on March 23, 2021 (originally $288,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,386 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $108
  • Built in 1905
  • Listed September 24, 2020
  • Last sale: $185,000, May 2014
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: Rental property
    • According to the historic district’s NRHP nomination, the first owner was Owen Wrenn, a civil engineer.
    • The house was owned by Sam and Verna Foushee and their descendants from 1941 to 2010. Sam was a conductor on the Yadkin & Atlantic Railway.

714 Manly Street, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $454,000 on March 22, 2021 (listed at $449,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,440 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $186
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed February 19, 2021
  • Last sale: $390,000, July 2016
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “The Colonial Revival detailing of this house is typical of the period, but the form is somewhat unusual. It is a two-story weatherboarded frame house with a gable roof which sweeps low in the rear. The facade features an off-center porch with paneled wood posts and a plain balustrade and a left front second story wing which projects over the porch. The north slope of its gable sweeps downward to porch roof level.
    • “In 1923 Charles S. and Edith A. Noble purchased the property and built the house as their residence. He was president of Cobb-Noble-Loyd Co., a real estate and general insurance firm, and secretary-treasurer of Citizens Building and Loan Assn. The Nobles owned the house until 1942, The longest subsequent owners were John F. and Rena L. Wallace, from 1944 to 1974.”

3001 Alamance Road, Sedgefield, Guilford County

  • Sold for $250,000 on March 21, 2021
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,348 square feet, 3.67 acres
  • Price/square foot: $75
  • Built in 1940
  • Apparently not listed in MLS
  • Last sale: November 1998, price not recorded (executor’s deed)
  • Note: The house was owned from 1960-1964 by the Episcopal Church, initially by the Diocese of North Carolina and beginning in 1961, by All Saints Episcopal Church on Groometown Road when its status was raised from mission to parish.

5250 Siler City-Snow Camp Road, Siler City, Chatham County

  • Sold for $165,000 on March 20, 2021 (originally $215,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,049 square feet, 2 acres
  • Price/square foot: $81
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed June 30, 2020
  • Last sale: $110,000, March 2017
  • Note: Aluminum siding

311 E. Main Street, Stoneville, Rockingham County

  • Sold for $200,000 on March 19, 2021 (listed at $200,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,775 square feet, 1.18 acres
  • Price/square foot: $72
  • Built in 1906
  • Listed January 31, 2021
  • Last sale: $197,000, February 2018
  • Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows

3168 Rock Hill Road, Alamance County

  • Sold for $285,000 on March 17, 2021 (listed at $250,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,923 square feet, 3.5 acres
  • Price/square foot: $148
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed February 9, 2021
  • Last sale: $128,000, September 2015
  • Note: The house has a Burlington mailing address but is far to the south near Bellemont.

709 Blair Street, Greensboro
The Tom and Sara Sears House

  • Sold for $730,000 on March 15, 2021 (listed at $800,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,974 square feet (per county), 0.73 acre
  • Price/square foot: $184
  • Built in 1979
  • Listed November 18, 2020
  • Last sale: The house has been owned by the sellers since it was built.
  • Neighborhood: Irving Park
  • Note: The house is a meticulous copy of the John Vogler House in Old Salem, built in 1819.The house was built by Tom and Sara Sears, two of the Triad’s most accomplished preservationists and antique collectors (Antiques magazine says they’ve assembled “one of North Carolina’s finest collections of southern antiques.”). Both have served on the boards of Old Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem. Tom also has served as Old Salem’s director of grounds and buildings, a member of the Greensboro Historic Preservation Commission and on the executive council of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers.
    • Seasons magazine: “With master builder D.C. Patton from Burlington and woodworker Roger Harvell from Greensboro (who once worked for famed designer Otto Zenke) — not to mention a lot of their own sweat equity — the Searses raised a near perfect replica of the Vogler House … . It included five fireplaces and eventually a copy of Old Salem’s bake house for a tool shed, plus a replica of the Moravian firehouse on the square for a garage.”
    • Old Salem NRHP nomination: “A prominent architectural statement was made when silversmith John Vogler built his 1819 two-story Federal style brick house on Main Street at the southwest corner of Salem Square, which departed from traditional Germanic/Moravian architecture. An early advocate of industrialization, Vogler’s hand was in the mix of the Salem grist mill in 1819, the Salem Cotton Mill in 1836, and the industrial activities that followed. However, even with its refinement and stylishness, the house contained Vogler’s shop, and he did not separate his work and living space until 1846. The house was given to Old Salem in 1952 by Vogler descendants and is an exhibit building.”

2500 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, Guilford County

  • Sold for $485,000 on March 15, 2021 (listed at $525,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,459 square feet, 6.47 acres
  • Price/square foot: $140
  • Built in 1930
  • Listed November 16, 2020
  • Last sale: $244,500, October 2020 (foreclosure sale)
  • Note: The property includes a recently built detached three-car garage.

403 S. 2nd Avenue, Mayodan, Rockingham County

  • Sold for $265,000 on March 12, 2020 (originally $259,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,750 square feet, 0.8 acre
  • Price/square foot: $96
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed December 20, 2020
  • Last sale: $68,750, November 2019
  • Note: Replacement windows

403 W. Main Street, Pilot Mountain, Surry County
The Swanson House

  • Sold for $301,000 on March 11, 2021 (listed at $299,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,684 square feet, 0.6 acre
  • Price/square foot: $112
  • Built in 1896
  • Listed March 4, 2021
  • Last sale: $239,900, October 2019
  • Note: The owner listed the house for sale on March 4, accepted an offer March 5 and closed March 11.
    • Vinyl siding, which is such a shame on a beautiful house like this.
    • The house sold for $300,000 in July 2008, two months before the real-estate bubble burst. Eleven years later, that buyer sold it for $60,000 less (and likely had to pay an agent’s commission of about $14,000).

2300 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
The Patterson-Bonkemeyer House

  • Sold for $210,000 on March 11, 2021 (originally $259,900)
  • 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,651 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $79
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed January 5, 2021
  • Last sale: $110,000, November 1997
  • Neighborhood: Lindley Park
  • Note: The notably low price for Lindley Park may relate to the need for cosmetic work (refinishing floors, paint, etc.) and the lack of central air conditioning.
    • … and the vinyl and aluminum siding.
    • The house apparently was divided into apartments at one time. County records classify it as “APT<5 UNITS.”
    • The property has been sold only four times in 102 years. John D. Patterson, who was in real estate (the city directory isn’t more clear than that), bought the property in 1919 and built the house in 1923. He lost it to foreclosure in 1938.
    • Claudius and Lula Bonkemeyer bought the house in 1938. He was a general contractor. Claudius died in 1968 at age 74; Lula, in 1982 at age 87. Their daughter, Mildred Bonkemeyer Adams, owned the house until 1984.
    • Roy and Linda Arrington owned the house from 1984 to 1998. Roy was an accountant who was a co-founder in 1985 of Addams Bookstore, located in the old Victory Theatre on Tate Street. It closed in 2014.
    • Since 1998, the house has been owned by Van Scott Walker. In 2003, he founded the Walker Family Band with his brother Landon and daughter Jennie.

910 Douglas Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $45,000 on March 11, 2021 (listed at $99,900)
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,538 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $29
  • Built in 1913
  • Listed January 22, 2021
  • Last sale: $38,000, December 2005
  • Neighborhood: Asheboro Community

3808 W. Friendly Avenue, Greensboro
The Sapp-Shepherd House

  • Sold for $400,000 on March 10, 2021 (originally $475,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,665 square feet, 1.83 acres
  • Price/square foot: $109
  • Built in 1948
  • Listed December 12, 2020
  • Last sale: $60,136, November 1969
    • Note: The interior was designed by Otto Zenke.
    • When the house was built in 1950, it was outside of the city. The western city limit was about where Wendover Avenue now crosses Friendly.
    • The property was bought in 1945 by Victor and Denholm Sapp. Victor was controller of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance. They apparently built the house and then sold it in 1951.
    • In 1969 it was bought by Bernard and Ellenor Shepherd, owners of the Bernard Shepherd menswear store. Bernard died in 2007. Ellenor sold the house after 51 years.

3932 Starmount Drive, Greensboro
The Herman and Edyth Davidson House

  • Sold for $628,000 on March 8, 2021 (listed at $639,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,560 square feet, 0.81 acre
  • Price/square foot: $176
  • Built in 1956
  • Listed November 14, 2020
  • Last sale: $565,000 May 2015
  • Neighborhood: Starmount Forest
  • Note: An unusual collaboration — the architect was modernist Edward Lowenstein; the interior designer was traditionalist Otto Zenke.
    • Herman Davidson (1904-1980) was president of the Davidson Supply Company, which sold auto accessories at 317 S. Greene Street. After he died, Edyth (1914-2006) owned the house until 2005.

156 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Roland C. Taylor House

  • Sold for $270,000 on March 8, 2021 (originally $299,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,351 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $115
  • Built around 1905 (see note below)
  • Listed March 10, 2020
  • Last sale: $237,500, November 2017
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • Note: The National Register nomination for the West End lists the date of the house as circa 1905. The county property listing says 1921.
    • NRHP district nomination: “The Taylor House is an example of one the more simple Queen Anne-influenced houses built in the West End in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a two-story frame dwelling with a right front projecting bay. Exterior decoration is found only in the fish scale-cut wood shingles and in the front porch with its turned posts and balustrade (which continues down the front steps) and sawnwork brackets. Aluminum siding has been added in the last decade [late 1970’s to early 80’s], but does not detract from the overall character of the house.”
    • “Roland C. Taylor, a bookkeeper for Harler Dry Goods Co., purchased the property in 1904, and he and his wife, Eleanor, were listed at this location by 1906. They, or she (after his death), continued to occupy the house until the late 1930s, and retained ownership until 1945.”

2450 Glencoe Street, Glencoe Mill Village, Alamance County

  • Sold for $250,000 on March 5, 2021
  • 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,856 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $135
  • Built in 1885
  • The house apparently was not listed for sale.
  • Last sale: $236,000, December 2019

1544 NE Pine Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Ed Shelton House

  • Sold for $150,000 on March 5, 2021 (listed at $159,500)
  • 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,503 square feet (per county records), 1.69 acres
  • Price/square foot: $60
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed August 3, 2020
  • Last sale: $11,500, October 1981
  • Note: The house is not on the National Register of Historic Places. The property’s online listings initially were in error; other online sources picked up the false information. Click here for the State Historic Preservation Office’s full list of North Carolina properties and districts on the National Register.
    • Vinyl siding and replacement windows

228 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Joseph H. Packer House

  • Sold for $395,000 on March 4, 2021 (listed at $425,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 2,180 square feet, 0.35 acre
  • Price/square foot: $181
  • Built in 1921
  • Listed November 20, 2020
  • Last sale: $225,000, October 2012
  • 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.”

7204 Whitsett Park Road, Whitsett, Guilford County

  • Sold for $380,000 on March 2, 2021 (listed at $375,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 half bathrooms, 3,447 square feet, 1.79 acres
  • Price/square foot: $110
  • Built in 1902
  • Listed January 8, 2021
  • Last sale: $262,000, May 2018 (foreclosure; the house sold for $425,000 in September 2010)
  • Note: Vinyl siding

121 Main Street West, Yanceyville, Caswell County

  • Sold for $127,900 on March 2, 2021 (originally $149,500)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,452 square feet, 0.5 acre
  • Price/square foot: $52
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed September 21, 2020
  • Last sale: $65,000, January 2006
  • Note: “Upper level is a separate living quarter with it’s own kitchen and 2 bathrooms, living room and bedroom. It has a separate entrance.”

815 W Front Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Haworth-Stratford House

  • Sold for $430,000 on February 26, 2021 (listed at $425,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,470 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $124
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed January 14, 2021
  • Last sale: $145,000, December 2014
  • Neighborhood: West Front Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “Apparently built in the early 1920s for Chester C. Haworth, superintendent of the Burlington School System, this two-story frame dwelling exhibits the influences of both the Colonial Revival and bungalow styles. At the rear of the structure, the gable roof with its narrow boxed cornice terminates above the second floor, while in front it sweeps down to cover the engaged porch. The slender, square, classical posts support the wide frieze of the porch and frame the entrance with its classical pilastered surround. The sides of the shed dormer as well as the gable ends are clad in wood shingle siding. The house was later owned by Parke C. Stratford, an executive of the Stratford Hosiery Corporation.”

825 W. Sixth Street, Winston-Salem
The Penry-Austin House

  • Sold for $316,000 on February 26, 2021 (listed at $300,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,951 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $162
  • Built in 1915
  • Listed January 25, 2021
  • Last sale: $138,000, January 2019
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “… a two-story pebbledash dwelling very similar to the Maynard House at 212 West End Blvd. It is a simple but dignified Colonial Revival house with a hipped roof, a two-bay facade, and a hip-roofed front porch with square Classical posts and a plain balustrade. The entrance is highlighted by sidelights and transom. … Behind the house is a one-car cinderblock garage with a pyramidal roof which appears to date from the mid-twentieth century.”

1106 Miller Road, Walnut Cove, Stokes County

  • Sold for $190,000 on February 25, 2021 (listed at $199,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,393 square feet, 1.34 acres
  • Price/square foot: $79
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed December 23, 2020
  • Last sale: $110,000, August 2015
  • Note: The street splits the property. A third of an acre is across the street from the house.

1116 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $420,750 on February 24, 2021 (previously listed at $459,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,240 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $130
  • Built in 1919
  • Listed May 25, 2018
  • Last sale: $336,000, April 2007
  • Neighborhood: West End

630 Joyner Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $300,000 on February 23, 2021 (listed at $350,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,656 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $113
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed May 18, 2020
  • Last sale: $135,000, December 2001
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: The house has four 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartments. The house may have been built as a quadruplex. City directories show multiple households at the address as early as 1924.

401 Otteray Avenue, High Point

  • Sold for $286,500 on February 19, 2021 (listed at $318,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,415 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $119
  • Built in 1925
  • Listed November 19, 2020
  • Last sale: $90,000, March 1994
  • Neighborhood: Uptown Suburbs Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “This one-story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and five-pile with a front-gabled section behind the main gable that connects to a side-gabled section at the rear of the house. The house has weatherboards and twelve-over-twelve, wood-sash windows, generally in groups of two or three. The house has two entrances, one facing Otteray Avenue and one on the left (east) elevation facing Hurdorver Street. There are twelve-over-twelve windows flanked by six-over-six windows on both street elevations. Two fifteen-light French doors are sheltered by an inset porch on the left end of the facade. The porch has been enclosed with glass. An entrance on the left elevation is sheltered by a small, gabled porch on paneled, square columns. A shed-roofed dormer extends nearly the full depth of the right elevation. There is a loose stone wall along the front sidewalk. The earliest known occupant is Reverend Lloyd T. Wilson (pastor, First Baptist Church) in 1927.”

680 Hicks Lane, Bennett, Chatham County

  • Sold for $430,000 on February 18, 2021 (listed at $440,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,858 square feet, 24.12 acres
  • Price/square foot: $231
  • Built in 1900
  • Listed December 8, 2020
  • Last sale: $244,000, June 2012
  • Notes: The property is just inside the Chatham-Randolph line, north of Bennett and southeast of Coleridge (Randolph County).
    • The property include a four-stall barn, pastures and a smokehouse.

643 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem
The Dr. Robert H. Jones House

  • Sold for $469,000 on February 16, 2021 (listed at $449,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,537 square feet, acre
  • Price/square foot: $185
  • Built in 1893
  • Listed January 6, 2021
  • Last sale: $335,000, August 2010
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “The Jones House is not only one of the oldest houses in the West End, but is also one of the most architecturally intact from its period. It is a two-story weatherboarded frame house with a left front projecting bay and a gabled roof. Fanciful ornamentation is achieved through bracketed eaves; gables with wood shingles, a sawnwork kingpost, and a patterned wood frieze; and a front porch with turned posts and balustrade and sawnwork brackets. The house also retains its louvered window shutters and its double-leaf glass and wood paneled entrance with transom and applied and incis8d decoration. Dr. R. H. Jones is listed at this location in 1894/95, and he remained here until at least 1910.”

1405 Fairmont Street, Greensboro
The William and Irma Kampschmidt House
Blog post — New Listing: 1405 Fairmont Street, a 1930 Gem Hidden Away in West Market Terrace, $350,000

  • Sold for $342,750 on February 12, 2021 (listed at $350,000)
  • 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,328 square feet (per county records)
  • Price/square foot: $147
  • Built in 1930
  • Listed September 30, 2020
  • Last sale: $280,000, April 2018
  • Neighborhood: West Market Terrace
  • Note: The original owners were the Rev. William and Irma Kampschmidt. He was a teacher at Immanuel Lutheran College; she was the manager of the Dragon Shop, a millinery store at 123 W. Market Street. They owned the house from 1930 to 1967.
    • Immanuel Lutheran was a residential high school, junior college and seminary for African American students from 1905 to 1961. Its campus at the corner of East Market and Luther streets became part of the adjacent N.C. A&T State University campus. All of its buildings have been torn down. One of its most famous graduates was actor Gregg Morris of the original Mission Impossible TV series. (More here)

610 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $235,000 on February 12, 2021
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,620 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $145
  • Built in 1918
  • Apparently not listed for sale
  • Last sale: $168,000, September 2016
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District

2403 Hubbard Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $154,000 on February 12, 2021 (listed at $154,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,499 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $103
  • Built in 1919
  • Listed December 13, 2020
  • Last sale: $120,000, November 2013
  • Neighborhood: Cone Mills
  • Note: For sale by owner

905 W. McGee Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $318,900 on February 11, 2021 (listed at $318,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,894 square feet (per county)
  • Price/square foot: $168
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed January 19, 2021
  • Last sale: $19,500, August 1972
  • Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
  • Note: The listing shows 2,555 square feet.
    • Originally a single-family home, the house has been divided into an unspecified number of apartments.

136 S. Elm Street, Asheboro, Randolph County

  • Sold for $235,000 on February 11, 2021 (listed at $249,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,487 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $94
  • Built in 1933
  • Listed September 24, 2020
  • Last sale: $45,000, August 2006

148 N. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $460,000 on February 10, 2021 (originally $524,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,094 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $149
  • Built in 1920
  • Listed July 23, 2020
  • Last sale: $321,000, June 2004
  • Neighborhood: West Highlands

120 S. Sunset Drive, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $289,900 on February 5, 2021 (listed at $289,900)
  • Duplex — each apartment has 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms; total square footage, 3,080
  • Price/square foot: $94
  • Built in 1922
  • Listed December 11, 2020
  • Last sale: $150,000, December 1998
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District

927 Apple Street SW, Winston-Salem

  • Sold for $142,500 on February 1, 2021 (originally listed at $165,000)
  • 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $67
  • Built in 1885
  • Listed August 3, 2019
  • Last sale: $70,000, April 2008
  • Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NRHP)
  • Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows Not owner-occupied
  • A previous listing said, “… no serious issues move in ready.”
  • The house is next-door to the 1-acre-plus Apple & Green City Farm and just around the corner from Carolina University (formerly Piedmont International University, 2012-20, and Piedmont Bible Institute, 1946-2012).
  • District NRHP nomination: “I-house. Two story; side gable; single pile; rear ell; one-over-one replacement windows; vinyl siding; hip-roof porch; turned posts; sawn brackets. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

605 N. Church Street, Greensboro
The Fisher-Carlson-Latham House
Blog post — New Listing: The Fisher-Carlson-Latham House in Fisher Park, $589,900

  • Sold for $493,000 on January 29, 2021 (originally $589,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,755 square feet, 0.43 acre
  • Price/square foot: $131
  • Built in 1905
  • Listed September 18, 2020
  • Last sale: $370,000, July 2004
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
  • Note: The house is often referred to as the Carl Carlson House, but he was apparently the second owner. Arthur Fisher built the house and in 1913 sold it to Carlson.
    • County property records date the house to 1905. Fisher Park’s NRHP nomination has it as circa 1910-15. It first appears in the city directory in the 1912-13 edition with Fisher living there.
    • NRHP district nomination: “C. I. Carlson: topped by large shingled, cross-gambrell roof; multiple bays are recessed beneath the roof, behind a round-columned wraparound porch at the first story.”
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1202 E. Main Street, Swepsonville, Alamance County

  • Sold for $120,000 on January 29, 2021 (listed at $125,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,325 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $91
  • Built in 1910
  • Listed October 29, 2020
  • Last sale: $97,000, December 2007

5710 Scotland Road, Sedgefield, Guilford County

  • Sold for $430,000 on January 28, 2021 (listed at $449,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,578 square feet, 0.88 acre
  • Price/square foot: $120
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed October 24, 2020
  • Last sale: $244,000, January 2016
  • Listing: “Additions such as the master suite, new kitchen and large living area were all completed in 2005.”
  • The house was owned from 1958 to 2004 by Jonathan (1916-1969) and Frances Burnett Woodell (1920-2009). He was president of E.A. Woodell & Co., a printing and engraving from started by his father, Edgar A. Woodell. Jonathan also served as state president of the B.P.O. Elks, 1965-66.

130 Poplar Street NW, Winston-Salem
The Nixon and Bertha Padgett House

  • Sold for $277,500 on January 21, 2021 (listed at $269,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,476 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $112
  • Built in 1909
  • Listed January 1, 2021
  • Last sale: $1,000, March 1987
  • Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “The Padgett House is a two-story, hip roof house with a shallow, gabled, polygonal bay and asymmetrical roof gable. The entry has sidelights and a two-light transom. Windows are two-over-two. The full width porch has square posts. The house is clad in asbestos siding. Nixon Padgett, a printer at Union Republican Publishing Co., and his wife Bertha resided here in 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Padgett were the first couple married at Calvary Moravian Church. Their wedding took place on 1891 in the earlier church building. This house appears to have been rental property.”

139 Welcome Arcadia Road, Lexington, Davidson County

  • Sold for $199,000 on January 19, 2021 (originally $249,900)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,544 square feet, 0.79 acre
  • Price/square foot: $56
  • Built in 1934
  • Listed October 3, 2020
  • Last sale: $97,000, April 2015
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808 W. Farriss Avenue, High Point

  • Sold for $425,000 on January 15, 2021 (originally $467,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,539 square feet, 0.78 acre
  • Price/square foot: $167
  • Built in 1954
  • Listed July 9, 2020
  • Last sale: $375,000, October 2014
  • Neighborhood: Emerywood
  • Note: It’s rare to see a house built in the 1950s with architectural details (stone quoins and slate roof, for example) that were fast disappearing by the 1930s.

916 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Voltz House

  • Sold for $410,000 on January 14, 2021 (originally $449,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,110 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $132
  • Built in 1816
  • Listed March 9, 2020
  • Last sale: $225,000, December 1990
  • Listing: “Lower level features playroom w/separate outside entrance w/mudroom, playroom, bedroom & bath for frequent visitors, Air B&B or multi-generational living.”
    • Sold by Salem Academy & College

722 Manly Street, Winston-Salem
The W.B. Hawkins House

  • Sold for $259,000 on January 13, 2021 (originally $299,987)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,939 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $134
  • Built in 1925 (county records) or earlier (see note below)
  • Listed November 11, 2020
  • Last sale: $185,000, November 6, 2020
  • Neighborhood: West End Historic District
  • Note: This is an odd one. The house was sold on November 6, 2020, for the first time in 49 years, for $185,000. Five days later, it was put on the market at $299,987, and five days after that an offer was accepted.
    • From the West End’s NRHP nomination: “The Hawkins House is one of the best examples of a Craftsman bungalow in the West End. The one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling is sheathed entirely with square-cut wood shingles and has contrasting granite chimneys, foundation, and front steps.”
    • “The house has a gable roof with widely overhanging eaves with simple bargeboards, a right front matching cross gable, a small shed dormer, groups of nine-over-one and six-over-one sash windows, and a semi-engaged offset corner porch with shingled posts and a shingled balustrade. On the north side of the house is a shallow bay window, and at the rear is an upper story sleeping porch. Alterations include a one-story rear shed addition and a south side wooden stair to the upper story, but these have little effect on the integrity of the house.”
    • “The hillside house is enhanced by the impressive granite retaining wall which borders the West End Blvd. side of the property and curves around the corner of Manly St. At the rear of the property narrow granite steps lead up the side of the wall to the back yard of the house, and the granite wall continues up the hill, bordering the rocky cliff behind the Manly and Summit St. houses.
    • “The 1917 Sanborn Map shows that the house had been built by that time, but the first city directory listing for this location was not until 1920, when the house was listed as vacant.”

210 E. Hendrix Street, Greensboro

  • Sold for $437,500 on January 11, 2021 (originally $447,500)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,312 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $189
  • Built in 1908 (per county records; see note below)
  • Listed September 29, 2020
  • Last sale: $326,000, December 2011
  • Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “Gable-end roof; Oriental flair to roof of front portico and two front dormers”
    • Although county records show a 1908 date for the house, it doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1917 with physician Walter F. Byrd as the resident. He apparently was a tenant, since the house was then owned by the Rev. Charles W. and Hattie Byrd. He was the pastor of West Market Methodist Episcopal Church; they were listed as living at 412 W. Market Street. In 1918, Mrs. Byrd, by then a widow and living in Buncombe County, sold the house.
    • After two short-term owners, attorney R.R. King bought the house in 1920. He and then his descendants owned the house for 77 years, until 1997.

404 W. Fifth Street, Burlington, Alamance County

  • Sold for $251,000 on January 11, 2021 (originally $260,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,250 square feet, 0.33 acre
  • Price/square foot: $112
  • Built in 1897
  • Listed September 18, 2020
  • Last sale: $43,000, January 2020
  • Note: The current owners renovated the house, in some ways very nicely and in others not so well (vinyl siding, replacement windows). How it looked before renovation (click photo to see it larger):

315 Maple Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

  • Sold for $85,000 on January 11, 2021 (listed at $73,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,084 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $41
  • Built in 1927
  • Listed October 23, 2020
  • Last sale: $90,400, January 2020 (foreclosure)

148 Holly Mount Church Road, Candor, Montgomery County (for sale by owner listing)
148 Holly Mount Church Road, Candor, Montgomery County (Realtor listing)
Blog post — Hidden Away in Montgomery County: An 1880 Home Way Back in the Woods, $100,000

  • Sold for $70,000 on January 11, 2021 (listed at $100,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,000 square feet, 3.14 acres
  • Price/square foot: $35
  • Built in 1880 (per original listing, see note)
  • Listed June 10, 2020
  • Last sale: $18,500, April 1996
  • Note: There are two current listings for this property — one for sale by owner and one Realtor listing. The latter, which was posted about six months after the FSBO listing, shows the house’s date as 1812. County records show 1990.
    • FSBO listing: “This home was built in the 1800s before the county was established.” Montgomery County was created in 1779.
    • “Originally built as a post office then a hotel for weary travelers on horseback.”
    • This is an odd one: The county GIS system does not include 148 Holly Mount Church Road as an address (the address given in property records is 0 Holly Mount Church Road, which is the same address given for almost all properties on the road).
  • The county property record provides almost no detail about the house — no square footage, number of bedrooms or bathrooms.  It lists a “TENANT HSE” on the property and includes a note, “DWG STILL LIVED IN”.
  • The county record does include some information that matches the listing. It  gives the same lot size, 3.14 acres. The owner of the property is listed with an address in Colorado. The phone number for the owner in the listing is in Colorado as well.
  • The property is in the Uwharrie National Forest, about midway between Candor and Mount Gilead.

313 S. Main Street, Old Salem, Winston-Salem
The Belo-Stockton House

  • Sold for $385,000 on January 8, 2021 (listed at $379,900)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,011 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $191
  • Built in 1875
  • Listed December 7, 2020
  • Last sale: $155,00, December 1988
  • Neighborhood: Old Salem
  • District NRHP nomination: “… John Levin Belo constructed his house on the northern half of Lot 83 (brother of Edward Belo … 455 S. Main St.). The house is commonly associated with Tilla Stockton, a music teacher who taught lessons in her home and at Salem College.””Set back from the street by a shallow yard with picket fence, the Italianate house is a one and one-half story common bond (5:1) brick building. The side gable roof (wood shingle) has open eaves with exposed rafter and purlin ends. There are two interior brick chimneys with corbelled caps. The symmetrical five-bay façade features a prominent centered entry-bay portico with chamfered posts and turned balustrade. It shelters a double-leaf door with large two-light transom and sidelights. From a low concrete retaining wall at the sidewalk, three concrete steps lead to four wide wood steps which access the portico. Centered above the portico is a gabled wall dormer with narrow glazed doors set in a round arch, which open onto the flat porch roof. This basic configuration is repeated in simpler form on the rear elevation. First floor windows are large light four-over-four sash. The upper gable ends have four-over-four sash windows at the second floor level and are flanked by four-light casement attic windows. All sash windows are hung with louver shutters.”

803 E. Bragg Street, Greensboro
Blog post — 803 E. Bragg Street: A 1915 House Gets a Bold New Look That Tests Its Owners’ Nerve

  • Sold for $220,000 on January 8, 2021 (originally $295,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,379 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $92
  • Built in 1915
  • Listed August 2, 2020
  • Last sale: $21,000, April 2019
  • Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
  • Note: From 1969-1997, the house was owned by Ezell Blair Sr. and his wife, Corene, parents of Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair Jr.), one of the Greensboro Four.
    • The owners lost their nerve! This is how the house looked when they originally listed it in August:
  • … and how it looked before its renovation:

1005 Fairmont Street, Greensboro
The Burton and Grace Newell House

  • Sold for $425,000 on January 7, 2021 (originally $425,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,485 square feet
  • Price/square foot: $171
  • Built in 1923
  • Listed December 20, 2020
  • Last sale: $36,500, August 1976
  • Neighborhood: Westerwood
  • Note: The owners already had accepted an offer when the house was listed.Although county records give the home’s date as 1923, it wasn’t listed in the city directory until 1925.
  • The house has had only two owners in the past 64 years, one for 21 years and the current owners for 43.
  • The original owners were Burton and Grace Newell. He was secretary of M.G. Newell Co. at the time. After the death of his father, Myron, in 1936, Burton became president, retiring in 1960. Grace died in 1940. Burton sold the house in 1953.
  • M.G. Newell Corp. is still in business. It has evolved from a dealer in water systems, agricultural implements and machinery, and dairy supplies to a designer and manufacturer of stainless-steel equipment “across numerous hygienic industry sectors including craft breweries, food & dairy plants and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants.”