Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated December 10, 2025

Featured Listing
Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties and Nearby Areas
Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties and Nearby Areas
Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties and Nearby Areas

Recent Sales

Featured Listing: An 1858 Mansion on 6+ Acres in Caswell County, $850,000

11741 N.C. Highway 150, Caswell County
The Ansel Ware House
Sale pending February 18, 2025
No longer under contract February 18, 2025

• $799,000 (originally $850,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 4,274 square feet, 6.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $187
• Built in 1858 (per listing; see note)
• Listed February 17, 2025
• Last sale: $283,500, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Stony Creek Township, near the Ashland community. The property has a Reidsville mailing address.
• Note: County records date the house only to 1907 (it’s common for county records to fail to reflect the actual age of historic structures). The architecture of the house suggests an earlier date, but, oddly, it’s not documented in records of the State Historic Preservation Office or in An Inventory of Historic Architecture, Caswell County, North Carolina. A trove of historical documents are reported to have been auctioned off in 2020 to a buyer from New York.
  • Listing: “This is an historic property that has buildings on it that were present on the property during the Revolutionary War.”
  • There’s plenty of lore surrounding the house. The property’s log cabin is said to have sheltered Continental soldiers after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Interior woodwork — much of it unpainted — is attributed to master craftsman Thomas Day of Milton. Jesse James is said to have lived in the house for a time (and, yes, there actually does appear to be evidence that James visited North Carolina). There’s a lot more digging to be done on this one.
  • The original owner appears to have been Ansel Ware (1802-1872). The property remained in the Ware-Matlock-Griffin family until 2019. Ansel was a farmer and, as of 1860, owner of 14 slaves. His will left the 230-acre property to his son, Joseph Talbot Ware (1850-1927). Deeds refer to the property as the J.T. Ware home place. He was a farmer and “one of the best known and most highly respected citizens in his county,” the Greensboro Daily News reported in his obituary. Joseph passed the property to his children.
  • In 1945, Joseph’s son Dr. Sterling Ansel Ware (1875-1962), a physician in Atlanta, and daughter Lucy Alice Ware Waynick (1880-1976) of Greensboro sold it to their sister Annie Miller Ware Matlock (1885-1972).
  • Annie sold the house in 1969 to her daughter Una Matlock Griffin (1914-2003) and son-in-law John Earl Griffin Sr. (1915-1992). They lived in Greensboro from 1942 to the early 1970s. Una was a nurse. John held a variety of sales jobs and operated Griffin Finance Company and similar firms in High Point. He was very active in the Odd Fellows, serving as Noble Grand Master of the Greensboro lodge and Grand Master of North Carolina. He also served as chairman of the Odd Fellows’ World Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation. John and Una lived in Greensboro’s College Hill neighborhood and were members of the College Place United Methodist Church.
  • Una was still living in the house at her death in 2003. The property, then totaling 200 acres, passed to their son, John Earl Jr. (d. 2019, age 75). He was a professor of architecture and mechanical engineering and also was a farmer. He was an accomplished woodworker and furniture maker. He apparently didn’t marry or have children. His estate sold the property in 2019.

Greensboro

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

815 Woodland Drive, Greensboro
The Glenn-Duke House
Listing removed and relisted six times since May 2011
Listing withdrawn August 1, 2022; relisted October 29, 2022
Listing removed November 1, 2023
Relisted February 22, 2025

• $1.675 million (originally $1.89 million, later $1.59 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 5,458 square feet (per county), 0.70 acre
• Price/square foot: $307
• Built in 1925
• Listed January 8, 2011
• Last sales: $1.7 million, June 2004; $106,000, June 1973
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Designed by Charles Hartmann, one of Greensboro’s premier architects
  • Site of the 2005 Junior League Designer Showhouse
  • Online listings show only 4,557 square feet, 16 percent smaller than county records.
• District NR nomination: “a large two-story brick Colonial Revival dwelling with a slate-covered hipped roof and hipped dormers. A handsome Georgian Revival entrance is centered on the seven-bay facade. Two bay windows project from the south side of the house. A large one-story addition with Palladian windows and metal roof has been added recently [1990] to the north side. A brick wall encloses the back yard.”
• Owners: Joseph Haywood Duke (1904-1962) was general manager of the King Cotton Hotel. The grand 13-story hotel stood downtown from 1927 to 1971 on Market Street at Davie, where the News & Record building stood until recently. Duke was a native of Dunn and grew up in Elizabeth City. Before coming to Greensboro in 1937 to run the King Cotton, he managed his mother’s Duke Inn in Elizabeth City and the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, among others around the state. He later bought an interest in the King Cotton and owned the Sedgefield Inn.
  • Duke bought the house in 1948. It was sold by his widow, Elizabeth Savage Etheridge Duke (1904-1983), in 1970.
  • The original owners were Robert W. Glenn (1884-1935) and Katherine Hardie Glenn (1887-1982), who were first listed in the city directory on Woodland Drive in 1926. Robert was the branch manager of Ciba Company, which produced dyes. Kate sold the house to the Dukes in 1948.
  • Ciba was part of of the Swiss firm Ciba-Geigy Ltd., one of the largest chemical companies in the world. In 1996, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz spun off and merged their drug and agriculture businesses to form Novartis. In 2000, Novartis and AstraZeneca spun off their agrochemical businesses and merged them to form Syngenta, whose U.S. business unit is based in Greensboro.
  • “The 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index named Syngenta one of the best performing chemical companies worldwide. However, the company has been controversial, mainly due to its main business – selling toxic chemicals and the environmental impact of those chemicals – but also due to its investment in lobbying. In 2012, the company was nominated for the Public Eye Award, which denounces companies with questionable human rights practices.” (Wikipedia)

102 Kemp Road West, Greensboro
The Cyrus McMichael House

• $1.625 million (originally $1.75 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,594 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $354
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 26, 2025
• Last sale: $1.23 million, May 2012
• Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
• Note: The house is located on Lake Euphemia.
  • “This cleanly articulated stuccoed Mediterranean Revival-style house was built about 1927, one of a handful of dwellings erected when the community of Hamilton Lakes was first established. McMichael, a building contractor, may have constructed as well as first occupied it.” (Greensboro: An Architectural Record)
  • Cyrus Johnson McMichael (1871-1948) and Daisy Crawley McMichael (1888-1938) bought the two lots in 1926 and 1927 from Hamilton Lakes Inc. By 1928, the city directory listed the address. Daisy was a clerk at the Ellis Stone Department Store. Apparently a victim of the Depression, Charles was identified as a carpenter in 1934. They sold the house in 1935.
  • Charles Spurgeon Thacker (1903-1980) bought the house in 1935. He owned a restaurant, Thacker’s, at 108 W. Market Street. He sold the house in 1941. It has eight owners since then.

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207 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Kenneth and Alva Denny House

• $1.145 million (originally $1.195 million)
• 4 bedrooms (per county), 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,355 square feet (per county), 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $263
• Built circa 1928
• Listed August 30, 2025
• Last sales: $660,000, November 2022; $265,000, November 1990
• Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
• Realtor Babble from the 2022 listing: “A once in a lifetime opportunity … !”
• District NRHP nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story, truncated-hip-roofed, Tudor Revival-style house has a steeply-pitched slate roof that extends down to the first-floor level on the facade and left (east) elevation.
  • “It has stuccoed exterior with brick veneer around the entrance and at the inset porch, and faux half-timbering in the dormers. It has a wide, partially inset gabled dormer on the left end of the facade and smaller, partially inset dormers on the right (west) end of the facade and on the left elevation.
  • “The house has metal casement windows with rough-hewn lintels. Windows in the large front-gabled dormer are paired, diamond-light casement windows.
  • “The decorative brick chimney with double flues rises to the right of the entrance, a batten door with strap hinges in a basketweave brick surround.
  • “An inset porch across the left half of the facade is supported by rough-hewn posts with slender braces. A one-story, shed-roofed porte-cochere on the right elevation has matching supports and faux half-timbering in the gables.”
  • The address first appeared in the 1928-29 city directory with Kenneth C. Denny (1887-1940) and Alva Weedon Denny (1891-1987) as residents. Kenneth founded Denny Veneer Company in High Point. He moved it to Rocky Mount in 1934.

Winston

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

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1020 W. Kent Road, Winston-Salem
The Richard and Hortense Stockton House

• $1.8 million
• 6 bedrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms, 6,653 square feet, 2.33 acres
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1927 (per county; see note)
• Listed November 19, 2025
• Last sale: $590,000, February 2012
• Neighborhood: Reynolda Park
• Note: Designed by Charles Barton Keen (1968-1931), the architect of Reynolda House, R.J. Reynolds High School and many other prominent homes and buildings in Winston-Salem and the Piedmont.
  • The house was built by Fogle Brothers and completed in October 1926, according to Winston-Salem’s Architectural Heritage.
  • The house essentially has two front sides. The original address was 1001 Reynolda Road; the side toward Reynolda is Tudor Revival. The side facing West Kent Road is Georgian.
  • The property includes a swimming pool.
  • The original owners were Richard Gordon Stockton (1892-1960) and Hortense Haughton Jones Stockton (1893-1969). Richard was the second of seven children in his family; his older brother was Norman Stockton, whose menswear store is still in business in Winston-Salem.
  • Richard originally was a lawyer, joining the bar in 1912. He served with the Army’s advocate general’s office during World War I. He joined Wachovia in 1922 as secretary and trust officer and rose to become chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee (online listings mistakenly identify him as an R.J. Reynolds executive). He also served as president of the Methodist Children’s Home and the N.C. Foundation for Church-Related Colleges.
  • Hortense was a graduate of St. Mary’s College in Raleigh. She was initially a school teacher and later served as president of the Community Council, commissioner of the Girl Scouts, president of the Juvenile Relief Association and chair of the Community Nursing Service. She sold the house in 1961.

2840 Reynolds Drive, Winston-Salem
The Leet and Nancy O’Brien House
Listing withdrawn August 2025; relisted September 9, 2025
Sale pending October 12 to November 2025 (date not specified)
Listing withdrawn November 2025; relisted November 25, 2025
Sale pending November 25, 2025

• $1.525 million (originally $1.695 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms, 2 half-bathrooms, 4,838 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $315
• Built in 1929
• Listed June 16, 2025
• Last sale: $939,000, March 2011
• Neighborhood: Westview/Buena Vista
• Note: Designed by Northup and O’Brien, “one of the most prolific and distinguished architectural firms in North Carolina during the first half of the 20^th century,” according to N.C. State’s Architects & Builders: A Biographical Dictionary. Most likely by partner Leet O’Brien.
  • Red Ludowici tile roof
  • The original owners were Leet Alexander O’Brien (1891-1963) and Nancy Lee Simmons O’Brien (1890-1953). O’Brien went to work for Willard Northup as a draftsman in 1907. They established their architectural partnership in 1916. O’Brien’s most notable works include the library at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, the state government office building in Raleigh and the medical school and Hospital at UNC-CH.
  • Their son, Leet Alexander “Alex” O’Brien Jr., owned the house after Leet Sr. retired and moved to Florida. He was in sales in the insurance and hotel industries. Alex had sold the house by 1971.

523 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The Pepper-McClung House
Sale pending December 10, 2025

• $990,000 (originally $1.095 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,495 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $220
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 15, 2025
• Last sale: $365,000, May 2004
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing says the house is on the highest point in the West End.
  • Online listings show 4,763 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “The Pepper-McClung House is a large, two-story frame, symmetrically planned Colonial Revival house with a hip roof, a gabled front dormer with a Palladian window, slightly projecting bays on either side of the house, and a large wrap-around porch with Tuscan columns and a deck above the central entrance bay.
  • “Alterations include the addition of aluminum siding during the last decade [i.e., the 1970s; listings show it now has wood siding] and the replacement of the original Roman Doric columns with Tuscan columns, probably during mid-century, but these changes do not destroy the architectural integrity of the house.
  • “The focal point of the exterior is the elaborate front entrance with a glass and wood paneled double-leaf door, leaded and beveled glass sidelights and transom, and a Classical surround with Roman Doric columns and pilasters. Flanking the entrance are large windows with leaded glass transoms.
  • “The interior is ornamented with a Roman Doric colonade dividing the front hall from the rear stair hall, a Colonial Revival stair, parquet floors, a vertical sheathed wainscot, three pairs of sliding pocket doors, and well-developed dining room mantel and cupboard details.
  • “Georgia A. Pepper purchased the property in 1895, and she and her husband, Thomas, lived first in a one-story house. Between 1907 and 1912, however, the present house was constructed. It remained in the Pepper-McClung family until ca. 1970,”
  • Georgia Ann Liipfert Pepper (1864-1985) and Thomas Raybon Pepper (1860-1935) were married in 1890. How it came to be that she bought the property is a bit of a puzzle; such situations weren’t common at the time, but they weren’t unknown, either. Thomas worked for R.J. Reynolds for 21 years and then was a tobacco warehouse operator, sufficiently prominent to merit a front-page obituary in Winston-Salem and news items statewide reporting his death. “Thomas Raydon Pepper, who died yesterday, is still another good example of what an industrious man can do in a progressive community,” the Twin City Sentinel said, a nice gesture although they misspelled his middle name.
  • Georgia had been in declining health for several years when Thomas died. She died two months later. Born in Virginia, she had attended Sunnyside College in Buffalo Springs, Virginia. She, too, merited a front-page obituary. “Mrs. Pepper was a member of Centenary Methodist Church and lived an exemplary life,” the Winston-Salem Journal said.

Alamance

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties and Nearby Areas

7920 E. Washington Street, Mebane, Orange County
The White Family House
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025
Relisted October 2, 2025

• $2.2 million
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4,951 square feet, 5.64 acres
• Price/square foot: $444
• Built circa 1885 (see note)
• Listed June 19, 2025
• Last sale: $200,000, January 2018
• Neighborhood: Just east of the Alamance-Orange County line.
• Note: Current online sales listings say the house was built “in the 1880s,” which is credible; county records say 1940, which doesn’t seem likely.
  • County records also give the size as 3,725 square feet, which appears too small, and say there are 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
  • The property includes a pond and a huge pavilion with three chandeliers and propane heaters.
  • Listing: “Some White Furniture pieces (from the original White Furniture Factory) are included in the sale.”
  • The listing cites “amazingly spacious rooms with charm and character … with period fixtures, stained glass and built-ins,” but the 54 photos (in the initial listing, at least) show only one interior room, a sunroom. Which, for a $2.2 million, 4,900 square-foot house, is weird.
  • For-sale listings say the house was built by “the storied White Furniture family.” That could mean Stephen Alexander White (1826-1908), patriarch, railroad agent and Mebane postmaster; eldest surviving son David Alexander White (1859-1916), co-founder of White Furniture in 1881; or David’s brother William Edgar “Will” White (1861-1935), company co-founder and president from 1896 until his death. Their brother James Samuel White (1877-1971), youngest of Stephen’s nine children, who also worked for the company, was the last surviving son when he sold the house in 1949.
  • James sold the house to Phonse Bean (1908-1995) and Ola Beatrice Harris Bean (1906-1996). Phonse was director of manufacturing for White Furniture from 1944 to 1983. He and Ola were married for 70 years. They sold the house in 1988.
  • Joseph T. Barnett (1922-2015) and Rita Barnett (1927-2021) bought the house from the Beans and owned it for 30 years. Joseph was born in Mebane. He moved to Palos Verdes Estates, California, in 1958. Originally an engineer, he later became a real-estate broker. He served 12 years on the Palos Verdes Estates City Council, including eight years as mayor. He was a director of the National Association of Realtors. Rita was a graduate of UCLA and an interior designer. Their family trust sold the house in 2018.
  • Those buyers, the current owners, apparently did a massive restoration after buying the house for just $200,000.
  • From the the Encyclopedia of North Carolina: White Furniture started out as a manufacturer of window materials and a construction contractor. By 1896 it was also producing furniture. It provided the original furniture for the Grove Park Inn in Asheville and for U.S. military personnel working on the Panama Canal and around the world. The family sold the business in 1985; the factory closed in 1993.
  • “Eventually the company became known for its elegant mahogany dining room furnishings. The pieces produced by White Furniture featured classical designs with attention given to details, such as the selection of fine, kiln-dried woods. Carefully crafted inlays became the company’s trademark.”

1700richardson

• $1.995 million (originally $2.4 million)
• 6 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms and 5 half-bathrooms, 8,946 square feet (per county), 9.67 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $233
• Built in 1912
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $950,000, May 2021
• Note: Belmont is the grandest of the three Richardson family homes comprising the principal structures of the Robert Payne Richardson Houses Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The district consists of 22 buildings and structures on about 30 acres near downtown Reidsville.
  • The house is now a wedding and private residence.
  • The property includes a beach volleyball court.
  • The 2021 listing said the house had been completely restored; the current listing calls it “partially remodeled.”
  • The listing shows 10,001 square feet. The 2021 listing showed 8,946, the county’s figure, with an additional 3,332 unfinished square feet for a total of 12,278.
  • Tobacco manufacturer and plantation owner Robert Payne Richardson (1820-1909) built his house on this site around 1842 and in 1860 built a substantial addition, which is now a separate house. Located atop a hill, his house occupied the best homesite on his 1,600-acre plantation.
  • District NR nomination: “In 1912, [Robert Payne Richardson Jr., 1855-1922] separated and moved the earlier houses to locations nearby on the family property and began construction of a magnificent Neo-Classical Revival house. Belmont, as this house is known, is an opulent example of the style, one of the finest in the state, and it amply demonstrated his family’s prosperity.”

11741 N.C. Highway 150, Caswell County
The Ansel Ware House
Sale pending February 18, 2025
No longer under contract February 18, 2025

• $799,000 (originally $850,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2 half-bathrooms, 4,274 square feet, 6.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $187
• Built in 1858 (per listing; see note)
• Listed February 17, 2025
• Last sale: $283,500, July 2020
• Neighborhood: Stony Creek Township, near the Ashland community. The property has a Reidsville mailing address.
• Note: County records date the house only to 1907 (it’s common for county records to fail to reflect the actual age of historic structures). The architecture of the house suggests an earlier date, but, oddly, it’s not documented in records of the State Historic Preservation Office or in An Inventory of Historic Architecture, Caswell County, North Carolina. A trove of historical documents are reported to have been auctioned off in 2020 to a buyer from New York.
  • Listing: “This is an historic property that has buildings on it that were present on the property during the Revolutionary War.”
  • There’s plenty of lore surrounding the house. The property’s log cabin is said to have sheltered Continental soldiers after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Interior woodwork — much of it unpainted — is attributed to master craftsman Thomas Day of Milton. Jesse James is said to have lived in the house for a time (and, yes, there actually does appear to be evidence that James visited North Carolina). There’s a lot more digging to be done on this one.
  • The original owner appears to have been Ansel Ware (1802-1872). The property remained in the Ware-Matlock-Griffin family until 2019. Ansel was a farmer and, as of 1860, owner of 14 slaves. His will left the 230-acre property to his son, Joseph Talbot Ware (1850-1927). Deeds refer to the property as the J.T. Ware home place. He was a farmer and “one of the best known and most highly respected citizens in his county,” the Greensboro Daily News reported in his obituary. Joseph passed the property to his children.
  • In 1945, Joseph’s son Dr. Sterling Ansel Ware (1875-1962), a physician in Atlanta, and daughter Lucy Alice Ware Waynick (1880-1976) of Greensboro sold it to their sister Annie Miller Ware Matlock (1885-1972).
  • Annie sold the house in 1969 to her daughter Una Matlock Griffin (1914-2003) and son-in-law John Earl Griffin Sr. (1915-1992). They lived in Greensboro from 1942 to the early 1970s. Una was a nurse. John held a variety of sales jobs and operated Griffin Finance Company and similar firms in High Point. He was very active in the Odd Fellows, serving as Noble Grand Master of the Greensboro lodge and Grand Master of North Carolina. He also served as chairman of the Odd Fellows’ World Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation. John and Una lived in Greensboro’s College Hill neighborhood and were members of the College Place United Methodist Church.
  • Una was still living in the house at her death in 2003. The property, then totaling 200 acres, passed to their son, John Earl Jr. (d. 2019, age 75). He was a professor of architecture and mechanical engineering and also was a farmer. He was an accomplished woodworker and furniture maker. He apparently didn’t marry or have children. His estate sold the property in 2019.

308 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The William Lindsey House
Blog post (2021) — The William Lindsey House: A Grand 1870 Mansion Built by One of Reidsville’s Early Business Leaders
Listing withdrawn September 23, 2025
Relisted October 12, 2025

• $595,000 (originally $649,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 5,205 square feet, 0.91 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1868
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sales: $445,000, May 2021; $322,000, August 2002
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The current owners operated a bed-and-breakfast in the house for four years.
  • The listing says Elizabeth Taylor once stayed there when she was married to Sen. John Warner. Warner is said to have been a friend of William’s Lindsey’s grandson-in-law.
  • The property includes a pool house “with a premium Michael Phelps swim spa.”
• District NRHP nomination: “Because of both its historical associations and its architectural distinction, the William Lindsey House is a pivotal building in the Reidsville Historic District.”
  • The house is “a two-story, single-pile brick Italianate dwelling with a three-bay facade, one-story bays on the side elevations, and a one-story brick ell spanning the rear of the main section. The hip-roofed house features elaborate Italianate trim, including deep paneled and bracketed eaves, decorative hoods over slender paired windows on the second floor, segmental arched window and door openings on the first, and paneled interior chimneys.
  • “Early in the 20th century, a new porch was constructed across this facade, in the Neo-Classical Revival style. It consists of a one-story, full-facade porch supported by corinthian columns which are repeated in monumental fashion in the central projecting two-story pedimented portico. Heavy turned balusters line the porch and the central balcony, from which a double-leaf door, similar to the main entrance, opens to the second floor. The earlier porch appears to have spanned only the entrance bay, with a second porch on the south elevation.” As late as the mid-1980s, there were large magnolia trees in the front yard.
  • “William Lindsey (1829-1889) is believed to have moved to this area of Rockingham County from Virginia in 1852 and opened a tobacco factory in the late 1850s …. In the early 1880s, he built a large brick factory on the west side of N.W. Market St., where he produced the following brands: ‘Johnnie Reb,’ ‘Our Statesman,’ ‘Edna Lindsey,’ ‘Lindsey’s Leader,’ and ‘Our Level Best.’
  • “In partnership with H.K. Reid, he operated a general store, and he was a founder of many local businesses. Lindsey owned several hundred acres of land in the new town of Reidsville, and his name appears on many land transactions as the town grew.
  • “He was married to Sarah Holderby [1833-1893], daughter of Joseph Holderby [1803-1875], who was prominent in the early development of Reidsville. The Lindseys first lived in the early 19th century home of Reuben Reid (demolished) which was at this location until they built a new home and moved the earlier house to a site on nearby Lindsey Street.
  • “Occupied for many years by the Lindseys’ daughter, Edna [1868-1961], and her husband, tobacconist Eugene Watt [1868-1941], the house remains [as of August 1986] in the Lindsey family, occupied by his granddaughter, Sarah Watt [1901-1990] and her husband, William C. Stokes [1900-1986].”
  • Bonus Reidsville history: “Reuben Reid of Hogans Creek moved his family, including wife, Elizabeth Williams Settle, and son, David Settle Reid, to a 700-acre farm on the ridge between Wolf Island and Little Troublesome creeks in May, 1814. He became a successful farmer, operated a store and a public inn maintained in a private home and served the county as a constable and justice of the peace.
  • “The family secured a post office, aptly named Reidsville, in 1829. 16-year-old David Settle Reid was appointed its first postmaster. He would later become a State Senator (1835-42), a U.S. Congressman (1843-47), Governor of North Carolina (1850) and a U.S. Senator (1854).”
  • H.K. Reid, William Lindsey’s business partner, was another son of Reuben Reid.

Stokes

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

301 Virginia Drive, Yadkinville, Yadkin County
The Henry and Emily Mackie House

• $549,900 (originally $599,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 5,321 square feet (per county), 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1907 “and later” (see note)
• Listed November 25, 2024
• Last sale: $332,000, August 2021
• Note: The State Historic Preservation Office shows the date as “1907 and later,” reflecting its significant additions. County records give a date of 1940, which could be the date of a major addition.
  • The property includes a swimming pool.
  • Online listings show 5,665 square feet.
  • The house is one of three Yadkinville properties bearing the Mackie name that have been placed on the National Register Study List. The others are the Mackie Family House at 420 Carolina Avenue and the Mackie Family Farm at the end of South Jackson Street. The Study List identifies properties that are likely to be eligible for the National Register, although it isn’t a guarantee.
  • The original owners of this house were Henry Hamilton Mackie (1860-1923) and Mary Emily Shugart Mackie (1862-1949). Henry operated a general store for more than 20 years. The house remained in the Mackie family until 1984.
  • “He was one of the best known, most highly respected and most successful merchants of Yadkinville and this section of the state,” the Winston-Salem Journal said in his obituary. “He was a consecrated Christian gentleman and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.”
  • Ownership apparently passed to a son, Julius Alexander Mackie (1886-1971). He lived in Winston-Salem and operated the Mackie Candy and Distribution Company. Julius Jr. (1927-2003) was the last family member to own the house. He graduated from medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and spent his career there as a professor of surgery. He also served in the Army medical corps. He lived in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He sold the house in 1984.

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110 W. Church Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Hawkins-Thompson House

• $469,000
• 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 3,988 square feet (per county), 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1888
• Listed September 30, 2025
• Last sale: $24,500, April 1987
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The neighborhood’s historic-district nomination dates the house to 1895.
• District NR nomination: “substantial frame transitional Italianate/Queen Anne style house with complex plan; main two-bay hipped front pavilion intersected by side hipped pavilion; narrow octagonal tower at northeast corner with faceted conical roof; hipped porch across front curves around side, has tapered, chamfered posts with brackets, stick frieze; sheathed in German siding with quoins; small brackets in eaves; interior chimneys with decorative caps; two-over-two and one-over-one sash; front door with stained glass, panelled reveal; rear shed wings; one-story, jerkin-headed wing on west elevation; stuccoed concrete block addition; local tradition says was residence of a Captain Hawkins, one of the first railroad conductors in Mocksville; purchased by Charles L. Thompson (1875-1953) in 1913.”
  • Few details about Captain Hawkins are available; his full name is among the missing information. Newspaper reports say he lived in Mocksville until October 1899, when he moved to Winston.
  • Hawkins sold his house to the Rev. James Monroe Downum (1853-1940). In 1909 Downum became registrar at Appalachian State Teachers College, a position he held for 30 years, retiring at age 86.

Davidson

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Nearby Counties

6 Curtis Court, Thomasville, Davidson County

• $2.499 million (originally $2 million, later $2.775 million)
• 9 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, 13,098 square feet, 6.42 acres (4 lots)
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1940
• Listed February 10, 2023
• Last sale: $70,000, February 1981
• Listing: “A complete compound with guest quarters, business center, maintenance garage, professional tennis courts, olympic-size pool, 6000 SF putting green.”
  • The property includes a four-car garage/guest house of 3,900 square feet.
  • The listing says the house was built by “the founders of Thomasville Furniture.” Although Davidson County deeds of the period aren’t available online, it appears that Doak Finch (1898-1967) owned the property at least as far back as the 1940s. Doak was vice president of Thomasville Chair Company (his brother T. Austin Finch was president), president of Davidson Realty and Insurance, and vice president of Thomasville Realty and Trust (his brother George was president of that one).
  • Census records show Doak living on Vance Road, which appears to be an old name for Holly Hill Road, which runs past the property. City directories list him as living at “The Lake House,” no address given. The area was called Lakeview, although there is no lake in the vicinity now. The property now on Curtis Court appears to have been sold by his son and daughter in 1977.

115 S. Pearl Street, Troy, Montgomery County
Listing withdrawn June 19, 2020; relisted August 15, 2020
Sale pending May 9, 2021; no longer under contract May 9, 2021
Listing withdrawn February 16, 2022 (price: $549,900)
Relisted June 30, 2024

• $499,000 (originally $599,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,978 square feet (per county), 0.42 acres
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built in 1892
• Listed July 14, 2019
• Last sale: Possibly 1910, can’t be determined from online sources.
• Listing: The house was built in 1892 and 1910 with two additions in the 1980s.
  • The listing shows 5,339 square feet.
  • The house is across the street from the Montgomery County Courthouse parking lot and next door to Troy Presbyterian Church.
  • Previous listing: “A portion of the home was the original town post office and has remained in the same family since 1910.”
  • “Remington chandeliers from Pennsylvania, mahogany over-mantles from plantations on the Mississippi River, fireplaces throughout. Hidden doorways and many nooks and crannies with quirky charm. … An impressive 2 story pine paneled entrance with original oak floors, stained glass window, and a massive staircase … Original 10′ & 12′ stamped metal ceilings. Elegant formal dining room has been known to seat 30+ family and guests. A fully stocked library with volumes of antique books. … 20×36 foot wine cellar in basement with stone fireplace and steel reinforced storm shelter.”
  • “Perfect for a bed and breakfast, home-based business, shop, office, educational facility or just a residence for large family or someone who welcomes an abundance of visitors.
  • “Entertainment/game/billiard room is 25 x 36 with pool table included. An indoor pool remains structured under the large billiard room floor if so desired to convert back into function.”
  • The listing says two additional lots also can be purchased; they were previously included in the listing, which may account for the lower price now. A lot adjacent to the house is 0.23 acre and has no structures (a house on the lot burned around 2018); a lot adjoining that one is 0.20 acre with a 64×32′ garage that holds approximately 18 cars, according to the previous listing. The garage: