Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated December 17, 2025

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

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Featured Restoration Project: An entire (Little) Historic District in Reidsville, $179,000

321-329 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $179,000
• Five houses, each with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 800 square feet; 0.50 acre total
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built circa 1912 (county records say 1900; see note)
• Listed November 18, 2025
• Last sale: March 2011, part of a sale of three properties; no separate prices were broken out.
• Neighborhood: North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District (NR)
• Note: Reidsville has two remarkably tiny historic districts — the Richardson Houses Historic District, with three houses; and the North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District, with these five houses. The Richardson mansions and the workers houses couldn’t be more different. 
  • The five lots have been combined into one with 329 N. Washington as the address.
• District NR nomination: “The cluster of five simple frame houses located on the east side of the 300 block of North Washington Avenue is significant in the history of Reidsville as the only surviving, intact group of a type of house built in the early 20th century for black workers employed by the American Tobacco.Company shortly after construction of its tremendous new facility in Reidsville in 1912.
  • “As such, they are representative of a larger pattern of housing construction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as increasing numbers of industrial workers, drawn from the depressed agricultural sector to work in the cotton mills and tobacco factories, required housing in growing towns across the state. The five essentially identical houses are also closely related to traditional rural house forms, such as the early North Carolina single-pen houses of both log and frame construction. …
  • “The five workers’ houses … are the simplest of frame houses, consisting originally of three rooms — one-over-one with a shed room behind. The side gable roof extending over the rear shed room produces a saltbox form. The central entrance on the single-bay facade is sheltered by an attached, shed-roofed porch which spans approximately two-thirds of the facade.
  • “Basic materials include plain weatherboard siding and a standing seam metal roof. A brick chimney rises between the front and rear rooms, and six over six windows light each room on both stories on the north and south side elevations. Door and window surrounds are flat-board post and lintel with a beaded lintel. The foundation is brick piers with cinder block infill.
  • “At the rear, a ca. 1940 shed-roof addition provided a bathroom and back porch. On three of the five houses, this rear porch has been enclosed. The bathroom is clad in German siding.”

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

507scedar

507 S. Cedar Street, Greensboro
The Matlock-Irwin House

• $220,000 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,634 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built circa 1900
• Listed October 7, 2025
• Last sale: $2,750, September 1949
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: County records give the date of the house as 1912.
  • No central heat or air conditioning.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne I-house. This two-story, two·room·deep, gable-end dwelling apparently was originally erected on the corner lot to its south (now 610 Morehead Avenue) at the opening of the century, its first occupant grocer Matlock. In the mid 1910s it was shifted to this lot, its first occupant on its new site auto mechanic Wade C. Baggett.”
  • Samuel Burgess Matlock was a plasterer before he went into the grocery business in 1904. He passed the business on to his son Samuel Jr. when he retired. He came from either Alamance County or Caswell (accounts differ) and lived in Greensboro for 55 years. He also was a volunteer firefighter.
  • Wade C. Baggett (dates unknown) was listed at 507 Cedar in 1917, the first year it appeared in the city directory. By 1920, he had disappeared from the directory.
  • In 1949, Woodrow Wilson “Pop” Irwin (1914-1987) and Mary Fredda Darby Irwin (1914-1984) bought the house. It has now been owned by their family for 76 years. Pop was a mechanic at Fred Ayers Music Company. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Daughter Jacqueline Reed Irwin Loy (1935-2023) and son-in-law John Erwin Loy (1934-2010) were living with Pop when when he died and inherited the house. Jackie’s estate is selling the house.

821 Pearson Street, Greensboro
Sale pending June 13, 2025
No longer under contract July 7, 2025

• $187,000 (originally $210,000, later $185,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,284 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1900 (per county, but probably several years earlier; see note)
• Listed April 23, 2025
• Last sale: $107,000, November 1999
• Neighborhood: South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: Renovation being abandoned part-way through.
  • Originally for sale by owner.
• District NR nomination: “L-plan, residence, 1890-1899”
  • The house has been a rental for most of its existence. The property was bought in 1890 by Thomas A. Spencer of Guilford County (dates unknown). He used it as a rental property. He sold it in 1914.
  • The address appears in the city directory as early as 1892, when M.C. Hendley (dates unknown), a mechanic, was listed there. The 1896-97 city directory lists Truxillo Alba Vada Terrell Hawkins, a widow, and adult daughters Fannie, Kate, Lelia, and Mattie Hawkins at the address. Mrs. M. Ward, another widow, was listed in 1899-1900.
  • From around 1901 to 1904 the residents were Charles Edward Woltz (1851-1930), a carpenter, Jennie Watt Clack Woltz (1855-1939) and their son James Edward Woltz (1877-1908), also a carpenter.
  • The first owners to live in the house were Baxter Willis Terrell (1878-1948) and Myrtle Rea Terrell (1882-1972), who bought the house from Spencer in 1914. Baxter owned a furniture store. They sold the house to F.A. Terrell in 1922, presumably Baxter’s brother Fred Anderson Terrell (1886-1938), one of Baxter’s salesmen.
  • Fred sold the house in 1923 to Thomas D. Tinnin Jr. (1874-1943) and Minnie Lou Whisett Tinnin (1873-1968). They rented the house out. Thomas was a bookkeeper. He worked for the American Agricultural Chemical Company for many years. Minnie sold the house in 1945.
  • In 1951 Booker Talefero Washington McCallum (1903-1988) and Willie Mae McCallum (1911-1980) bought the house. Booker was a school principal. He rented the house out. He sold it in 1984.

2814cypress

2814 Cypress Park Road, Greensboro

• Online auction scheduled Sunday December 14, 8 a.m., to Tuesday December 16
  • Opening bid: $35,000 (originally $55,000)
  • Listing showed it as an auction before being changed to the HUD First Look Program. the First Look period ran from Sunday November 30 to Tuesday December 2, 2025.
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,150 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $16 (at $35,000)
• Built in 1941
• Last sale: $87,500, March 1997
• Neighborhood: Lamrocton
• Note: The street was known as Laurel Drive, then West Lake Road and later Twin Lakes Drive before being named Cypress Park Road sometime after 1982.
  • The property is across the street from Pinecroft Lake Park.

winston

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

225 E. Monmouth Street, Winston-Salem

• $150,000 (originally $165,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,144 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1927 (per county, but probably a year earlier; see note)
• Listed February 11, 2025
• Last sale: $123,000, March 2006
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story hip-roof Foursquare with hip-roof dormer; vinyl siding; replacement one-over one windows; hip-roof porch with replacement posts and brackets.”
  • The address was first listed in the city directory in 1926 with Robert Ollie Denny (1892-1939) and Minnie Kiger Denny (1897-1987) as residents. Robert was a plant supervisor for N.C. Public Service Company. They were listed at another address in 1934.

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

603 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Cicero Holt House
Listing withdrawn January 31, 2023; relisted November 18, 2023
Sale pending May 4 to August 5, 2024
Listing withdrawn October 22, 2024; relisted January 3, 2025
Sale pending July 17, 2025
No longer under contract August 21, 2025

• $299,900 (originally $432,000, later $359,900)
• Originally a single-family home, now a boarding house with 8 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,084 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1930 (per county, or ca. 1915; see note)
• Listed August 18, 2022
• Last sale: $250,000, December 2020
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• Previous listing: “Currently serves as a 10 unit home with 3 Full Bathrooms and a common Kitchen. … Could be converted back into a Single Family Home.”
• Note: No central air conditioning
• District NRHP nomination: “Originally a one-story ca. 1915 structure, this frame residence of Cicero Holt, a partner in Burlington Hardware Company, achieved its present configuration when the shingle-sided second floor was added in the early 1920s.
  • “The house is covered by a hipped roof and features a one-story wraparound porch, enclosed on the east side, with massive tapered wooden posts on brick piers. These tapered posts probably are replacement supports installed when the second story was added.”

616 N. Mebane Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Hurdle House
Sale pending August 9, 2025

• $299,900
• 10 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,276 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built ca. 1924 (see note)
• Listed March 4, 2025
• Last sale: $73,000, December 2015
• Note: Originally a single-family home, the house has been divided into four low-end apartments.
  • “The dominant features of this large, late nineteenth/early twentieth century are its one-story wraparound porch with corner pavilion and the rock-faced stone used for the foundation, porch piers and chimneys. Typical of the style are the irregular configuration and high hip roof extending to pedimented gables covering a variety of bays on the facade and side elevations. Now converted to rental apartments, the house features Colonial Revival trim, such as slender classical columns, an entrance with transom and sidelights, and a round window lighting the second-floor stair hall.” (An Architectural History of Burlington, North Carolina, p. 57)
  • County records give 1950 as the date of the house, which is clearly decades too late. The home’s original street address appears to have been 307 N. Mebane, which appears in the 1924 city directory.
  • The original owners appear to have been Joseph Hardy Hurdle (1845-1927) and Rebecca Isabelle Walker Hurdle (1859-1947). They bought the property in 1924 and were listed at 307 N. Mebane that year. Joseph was a “pioneer citizen of Alamance, for many years an influential and highly respected farmer,” the Greensboro Daily News wrote. Rebecca lost the house to foreclosure in 1931.

329washington

321-329 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $179,000
• Five houses, each with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 800 square feet; 0.50 acre total
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built circa 1912 (county records say 1900; see note)
• Listed November 18, 2025
• Last sale: March 2011, part of a sale of three properties; no separate prices were broken out.
• Neighborhood: North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District (NR)
• Note: Reidsville has two remarkably tiny historic districts — the Richardson Houses Historic District, with three houses; and the North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District, with these five houses. The Richardson mansions and the workers houses couldn’t be more different. 
  • The five lots have been combined into one with 329 N. Washington as the address.
• District NR nomination: “The cluster of five simple frame houses located on the east side of the 300 block of North Washington Avenue is significant in the history of Reidsville as the only surviving, intact group of a type of house built in the early 20th century for black workers employed by the American Tobacco.Company shortly after construction of its tremendous new facility in Reidsville in 1912.
  • “As such, they are representative of a larger pattern of housing construction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as increasing numbers of industrial workers, drawn from the depressed agricultural sector to work in the cotton mills and tobacco factories, required housing in growing towns across the state. The five essentially identical houses are also closely related to traditional rural house forms, such as the early North Carolina single-pen houses of both log and frame construction. …
  • “The five workers’ houses … are the simplest of frame houses, consisting originally of three rooms — one-over-one with a shed room behind. The side gable roof extending over the rear shed room produces a saltbox form. The central entrance on the single-bay facade is sheltered by an attached, shed-roofed porch which spans approximately two-thirds of the facade.
  • “Basic materials include plain weatherboard siding and a standing seam metal roof. A brick chimney rises between the front and rear rooms, and six over six windows light each room on both stories on the north and south side elevations. Door and window surrounds are flat-board post and lintel with a beaded lintel. The foundation is brick piers with cinder block infill.
  • “At the rear, a ca. 1940 shed-roof addition provided a bathroom and back porch. On three of the five houses, this rear porch has been enclosed. The bathroom is clad in German siding.”

112nmain

122 N. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $141,000 (originally $146,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,088 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $68
• Built in 1932 (per county, but probably several years earlier; see note)
• Listed November 25, 2025
• Last sales: $143,000, October 2021; $62,500, July 2019
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: County records date the house to 1932, but the National Register nomination for the historic district says 1914 to 1922.
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story frame, single-pile house is clad in drop siding and topped by a hip roof with a central hip dormer. Paired 5 over 1 windows flank the sidelighted entrance on the three-bay facade, which is spanned by a one-story porch with square posts on brick piers. A one-story ell extends to the rear of the house.
  • “Built between 1914 and 1922, the house was occupied in 1929 by salesman Edward B. Ware.”

• $119,900 (originally $199,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1870
• Listed January 14, 2025
• Last sale: $8,000, May 2020; $20,000, November 1986
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Single-family house divided into two apartments
• District NR nomination: “What seems to be a variety of alterations to the original house give this one and one-half story frame dwelling a very unusual appearance. Clad in aluminum siding, the house is topped by a roof of standing seam tin which begins as a side gable and ends as a shed over a two-story addition. A pedimented facade gable with a small window is centered above the three-bay facade. The entrance has sidelights and is capped by a flattened elliptical fanlight. A one-story porch with posts on brick piers wraps the facade and north and south elevations.”
  • By 1948, the house was occupied by Herman D. Litaker (1911-1970) and May Cole Litaker (1914-1985). Herman worked in the American Tobacco factory. They didn’t own it until around the time Herman died, receiving it as a gift from May’s daughter Vicki Litaker Sherrill and brother-in-law Stephen L. Sherrill (which sounds odd, but that’s what the records show).
  • The house was bought in 1986 by elder Ernest H. Graves (1934-2009) and Edna Graves (dates unknown). Ernest graduated from N.C. A&T State University with a degree in masonry. He was a subcontractor and brick mason. He also served as pastor at Brown’s Arbor Primitive Baptist Church and New Hope Primitive Baptist Church. Ernest left the house to his daughter Ernestine Graves Jackson, who later passed it to Ernest’s brother Sherman David Graves Sr. (1937-2024). Sherman also was masonry contractor and served as a deacon at Ernest’s church. He sold the house to a landlord in 2020.

• $119,900 (originally $249,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,442 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $35
• Built in 1915
• Listed January 16, 2025
• Last sale: $80,000, February 2022
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has been divided into four 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartments, possibly since the late 1960s.
  • Next door to a former Primitive Baptist church, since 2009 the Christian non-denominational Ramah Restoration Outreach Center.
  • The address originally was 79 Lindsey.
• District NR nomination: “Built in 1909 for J.W. [James William] Millner, a tobacco factory foreman, this two-frame Colonial Revival house sits well back from the street on a well-shaded lot.
  • “Now converted into apartments, the house is by a high hipped roof with hip dormers on the facade and east and west side elevations. One-story semi-hexagonal bays are located on the east elevation and in the east bay of the three-bay facade, which is spanned by a one-story porch with classical columns and turned balustrade, extending to the west elevation.
  • “Corbeled-cap brick chimneys jut through the roof’s east and west slopes, and a one-story wing extends across the rear. Since the 1978 survey, a second floor recessed balcony in the northwest corner of the house has been enclosed.”
  • James later moved to Florida. On a return visit in 1927, he died of a heart attack. Obituaries said he died at the home of his sisters on Lindsey Street. Sisters Hattie Lee Millner (1868-1961), Annie Eldridge Millner (1871-1964) and Jane Watt Millner (1870-1964, also known as Jennie), were listed at the residence from the late 1920s to 1950s. They were interior decorators.
  • By 1932, their brother William M. Millner and sister-in-law Margaret Millner (dates unknown for both) were living in the house as well, apparently for a relatively brief time. William was secretary-treasurer of Reidsville Motor Company, the local Chevrolet dealership. Their brother Wallace B. Millner was president.
  • Annie, Hattie and Jennie were still listed at the house as late as 1959. Annie lived to be 92 years old; Hattie and Jennie lived to be 93.
  • The house was sold by a nephew in 1967. It was sold again in 1968 to an owner with many properties in Rockingham County, who owned it until 2014.

319 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $27,000 (originally $89,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 900 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $30
• Built in 1924
• Listed January 13, 2025
• Last sales: $24,000, April 2023; $17,000, July 2018

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

313 E. King Street, King, Stokes County
Sale pending June 10 to August 4, 2023
Listing withdrawn May 11, 2024; relisted May 24, 2024
Listing withdrawn February 7, 2025
Relisted April 8, 2025

• $285,000 (originally $250,000, later $245,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,533 square feet, 1.0 acre
• Price/square foot: $186
• Built in 1934
• Listed May 10, 2023
• Last sale: $85,000, October 2013

278 Old U.S. Highway 52, Mount Airy, Surry County
Miller’s Tavern

• $140,000 (originally $150,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, three half-bathrooms, 2,179 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• Built in 1942 (per county, but maybe a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed August 7, 2025
• Last sale: October 1940, price not listed in deed
• Neighborhood: Boone’s Hill
• Note: The building includes the bar and “living quarters.”
  • James William “Bill” Miller (1894-1953) and Mae Nina Barbee Miller (1909-1999) bought the property in 1940. A sign over the door as recently as 2013 read, “Miller’s Tavern, Established 1941.”
  • In 1956, Mae married Harry Lee Tilley (1929-2019). Harry’s obituary says he opened the tavern in 1954, although circumstantial evidence suggests it was already in business by then. In any case, Harry ran the bar for 58 years.
  • The building is now being sold by one of Harry’s cousins.

Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Neighboring Counties

3376 S. N.C. Highway 150, Lexington, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn July 31, 2024; relisted September 9, 2024
Listing withdrawn March 8, 2025
Relisted April 14, 2025

• $344,900 (originally $350,000, later $375,000, then $329,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,836 square feet (per county), 1.68 acres
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1884
• Listed May 21, 2024
• Last sale: $53,000, December 1999
• Neighborhood: Located about 8 miles west of Lexington, just north of Tyro
• Note: Online listings show only 1,657 square feet.

396 Pee Dee Church Road, Richmond County
Pee Dee Presbyterian Church

• $188,888 (originally $231,800)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 2.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $105
• Built in 1901 (per county)
• Listed June 5, 2025
• Last sale: $165,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: The property has a Mount Gilead mailing address but is located across the county line in Richmond County, about 6 1/2 miles southeast of Mount Gilead and 20 miles northwest of Rockingham.
  • Online listings mistakenly show it as being in Montgomery County.
• Note: An incomplete effort to convert the church into a residence has a long way to go.
  • Bank-owned property
  • An online source dated 2020 says a sign at the church gives 1858 as the date of the church’s organization. In its early days, the church apparently shared a minister with First Presbyterian in Mount Gilead and Bisco Presbyterian in Biscoe. A previous Pee Dee Presbyterian Church was built near Mount Gilead around 1840; it’s no longer standing.
  • A 2011 tour of historic churches in the lower Pee Dee River valley included Pee Dee Presbyterian. The Pee Dee congregation was merged into First Presbyterian in Mount Gilead in 2018. We thank Sam Martin of the North Carolina Presbyterian Historical Society for providing information on the history of the church.