Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated April 2, 2026

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

Recent Sales

Featured Restoration Project: A circa 1914 House in Reidsville, $141,000 $134,000

122 N. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $134,000 (originally $146,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,088 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• 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.”

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

507scedar

507 S. Cedar Street, Greensboro
The Matlock-Irwin House
Sale pending January 15, 2026

• $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.

7323shadyside

7323 Shadyside Drive, Summerfield, Guilford County

• $214,900 (originally $225,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,424 square feet, 0.32 acre (per county; see note)
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1928
• Listed February 23, 2026
• Last sale: $43,000, June 1978
• Neighborhood: Morehampton Park
• Listing: “just needs a little tlc to bring out its full potential”
• Note: Online listings say the lot is 0.59 acre. It’s not clear where the other 0.27 acre is. The county GIS map doesn’t show any other adjacent property owned by the seller.
  • The neighborhood was developed in the 1910s and 1920s, “what was to have been a substantial expansion of the settlement into a fully functioning town, with a grid of streets, logical subdivision, and street-oriented architecture,” according to unpopular local developer David Couch. The plan wasn’t completed.

1412rankin

1412 Rankin Mill Road, McLeansville, Guilford County
The Baxter and Rosa Goodwin House
Listing withdrawn January 4, 2023; relisted March 13, 2026
Sale pending March 25, 2026

• $205,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,876 square feet, 10.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 23, 2022
• Last sales: $108,200, March 2018; $13,000, December 2017; $145,000, May 2010; $150,000, June 2007
• Neighborhood: Located just outside the Greensboro’s eastern city limit, about 4 miles west of McLeansville. The Greensboro Urban Loop (Interstate 840) runs along the relatively short northeast boundary of the property. The house is at the opposite end in the southwest corner.
• Note: There’s probably little hope for this house, since the listing calls it “an abandoned farmhouse that is not livable.”
  • The listing just six years ago saw it much differently: “Own your own mini farm or start a vineyard on this 10 acre lot with vintage farmhouse. Large rooms, tall ceilings, classic entry hall with banister, over large covered front porch. Affordable price to make this home your own.”
  • Five years later, the 2022 listing said the house and multiple buildings had no value. The house has no heating or air conditioning systems.
  • From 1937 to 2007, the property was owned by the family of Baxter Carr Goodwin (1893-1941) and Rosa Hester Tuck Goodwin (1893-1945). Although he owned 155 acres of land, Baxter wasn’t a farmer. He was listed in census records through the years as a machinist, carpenter and foreman. Baxter and Rosa were married in 1914. They had at least 10 children between 1917 and 1931, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
  • The house was sold in 2007 by a bank handling the estate of the Goodwins’ daughter Betty Jean Goodwin (although she didn’t die until 2013, age 82). The buyer was a residential developer who apparently did nothing with the property but sell it three years later.
  • The 2017 sale was for $13,000 to a nonprofit organization; the price was a large discount to its appraised tax value of $119,700. The organization then sold it a year later for $109,000.

7716summerfield

7716 Summerfield Road, Summerfield, Guilford County
The Dr. Hugh Willis House

• $155,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,420 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1907
• Listed March 20, 2026
• Last sale: $100,000, October 2025; $35,000, September 1981
• Neighborhood: Summerfield Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by a company called Flip Homes LLC, but it looks like they haven’t done much except maybe clean up the lot and mark up the price up 55 percent.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, three-bay, side-gabled I-house with a central chimney has a two-story rear ell. Alterations include vinyl siding and replacement one- over-one double-sash windows. Original elements include the standing-seam metal roof and hipped front porch with four Queen Anne-style turned posts.”
  • Dr. Hugh Willis (1852-1914) was a native of Rockingham County and a graduate of Louisville Medical School. He spent his career practicing in Summerfield. “He came from one of the most prominent families in Rockingham county and he was respected as an ideal man,” the Greensboro Daily News said. “Though he was not a member of the church, he was known as a man of honesty, truthfulness, purity, and a faithful physician.”
  • He died of a stroke about four years after the death of his wife, Sallie J. Harris Willis (1857-1910).
  • Dr. Hugh’s siblings sold the house in May 1918, and it was sold again the next month to Joseph Addison Hoskins (1854-1936). Hoskins had served as sheriff of Guilford County for six years in the 1890s and later served on the state Highway Commission. He lost the property to foreclosure in 1933.
  • Sheriff Hoskins was bailed out by his resourceful daughter Mary Katherine “Miss Kate” Hoskins (1893-1986), who bought the house out of foreclosure. Miss Kate was a graduate of the State Normal and Industrial School for White Girls and once taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Thomasville. She returned to Summerfield and began a long and varied career as a farmer, conservationist and real estate developer. She also was a renowned local historian and a member of the N.C. Literary Historical Society. She sold the house in 1952.
  • Miss Kate’s buyers were Charles Marion Ayers (1909-1991) and Julia Paschal Parrish Ayers (1906-1997). Charles was a salesman with Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. Julia had taught at Summerfield School. They owned the house for 29 years.
  • In 1981 the house was bought by Jane Sherrill Angier (1924-1997) and her daughter Lida Angier Dozier (d. circa 2025) of Summerfield. Lida’s estate sold the house in 2025.

715broad

715 Broad Avenue, Greensboro
Sale pending March 12, 2026

• $119,900 (originally $124,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,244 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 8, 2026
• Last sale: $7,000, February 2013
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is protected by preservation covenants held by the Greensboro Redevelopment Commission. The commission bought the house in 1993 and sold it in 1996.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne cottage, residence, c. 1905-10”
• The original owners were Lester Hever Hines (1886-1931) and Lillian Clapp Hines (1888-1945), who bought the property in 1909. They were listed at the home’s original address, 711 Broad Avenue, in the city directory only once, in the 1909-10 edition. Lester was a clerk. He worked for Southern Railway for 20 years. They sold the house in 1916.
  • J.D. Johnson (full name and dates unknown) bought the house in February 1916 and the next month sold it to Clara F. Johnson (dates unknown). Clara used it as a rental property until she sold it in 1933.

232burlington

232 Burlington Avenue, Gibsonville, Guilford County
The Mann-Owen House
Sale pending March 12, 2026

• $100,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,376 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1923
• Listed February 26, 2026
• Last sale: $6,000, August 1979
• Note: The listing says the house “has been vacant for more than 20 years and sustained fire damage to the rear section approximately 2-3 years ago. The interior has been cleared of debris, however entry is at buyer’s own risk.”
  • “According to the Town of Gibsonville Code Enforcement, the structure must be brought into compliance by 5/17/2026.”
  • The original owners were Osborne Willis Mann (1885-1965) and Sibbie Bowman Mann (1881-1969). Osborne was a lumber dealer. They bought the property in 1919 and sold it in 1927 to Frank Redding Owen (1891-1956). The house is still in the Owen family.
  • Frank was a native of Yadkin College. He was a 1914 graduate of the University of North Carolina and a veteran of World War I. He was superintendent of Puritan Finishing Mills in Burlington. He also served as chairman of the Guilford County school board. After Frank died, his wife, Lucy Belle Totten Owen (1895-1979), continued to live in the house for the rest of her life. Lucy was a 1915 graduate of Greensboro College.
  • After Lucy’s death, ownership passed to daughter Dr. Frances Jeanne Owen (1921-2003). Jeanne was a graduate of the Women’s College, received a master’s degree from Indiana University, a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of North Carolina and a juris doctor degree from the University of Colorado.
  • She taught at various times at Rural Hall High School, Louisburg College, Averett College and Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia. She joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1956 when the college moved to Winston-Salem, retiring in 1991 from the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.
  • Jeanne was a member of the N.C. Bar Association and American Bar Association, American Association of University Professors and American Association of University Women. She supported Common Cause, the NAACP, Emily’s List, Doctors Without Borders, American Civil Liberties Union, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Southern Poverty Law Center, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and National Legal Aid & Defenders Association.
  • Jeanne’s sister Betty Jane Owen Wooten (d. 2020) of Shelby, Mississippi, took ownership after Jeanne died. It’s still in her name.
  • The 1919 deed locates the property on the North Carolina Central Highway.

606espringfield

606 E. Springfield Road, High Point
The Marshall-Jay House

• $45,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,360 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $33
• Built in 1846
• Listed March 31, 2026
• Last sale: $25,000, October 2025
• Neighborhood: Springfield
• Note: The house is a Friends landmark, now badly damaged by a fire in 2023. The original occupants were Zelinda and David Marshall, teachers who came to Springfield from what is now Guilford College. The house is said to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
  • In 1868 it was bought by a post-war relief organization, the Baltimore Association to Advise and Assist Friends in the Southern States. Allen Jay, a prominent Quaker minister from Indiana, led the group’s efforts and lived in the house.
  • In the 1940s, the house was restored and given to the Springfield Friends Meeting across the street. The meeting used the house for various purposes. It also served as an office for the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Emergency Material Assistance Program, a disaster-relief ministry.
  • The house was badly damaged by the 2023 fire, and the Springfield Meeting decided to tear it down, very reluctantly, they said.
  • Instead, the meeting was persuaded to sell the house to the High Point Preservation Society, which is now seeking a new owner to preserve it. Preservation and rehabilitation easements apply.

winston

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

428lockland

428 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem

• $275,000 (originally $299,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,836 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 6, 2026
• Last sale: $86,000, August 1997
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The entire description of the house in online listings: “Great investment property in popular Ardmore!” Only one photo is included in the listing.
• District NR nomination: “Foursquare. Two story; hip roof; German siding; paired, six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof porch; square posts; stone steps from street.”

1475w4th

1475 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem

• $169,950
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,092 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $156
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 26, 2026
• Last sales: $137,500, May 2021; $40,000, August 2000
• Neighborhood: Wachovia Highlands
• Listing: “Major renovations are underway or planned on most of the properties on this block.” I don’t know whether that’s true, but a house right across the street has certainly been improved and is now for sale.
  • “Located in a flood zone; buyers should complete due diligence.”
• Note: A rare amenity: Filly’s Gentlemen’s Club is next door.
  • Peters Creek Parkway runs along the back of the lot.
  • The address first appeared in the 1920 city directory. It was most likely a rental, as different residents were listed almost every year in the 1920s.
  • Curtis Calvin Parker (1925-1991) and Edith Trivette Parker (1925-2016) bought the house in 1953 and owned it for 47 years. Curtis worked for Duke Power. They initially lived in the house, but by 1959 they were using it as a rental property. Edith sold it in 2000.

305lockland

305 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem
Sale pending March 27, 2026

• $165,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,456 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 24, 2026
• Last sale: February 1992, price not recorded on deed (possibly a gift)
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: “Best and Final offers due by Thursday 2/26 at 5:00pm”
  • Owned by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The house is located across the street from the hospital’s eight-level parking deck.
• District NR nomination: “Two story; side gable; weatherboard; Craftsman-style, six-over-one windows; shed-roof entry porch; square posts; side porch with paired posts with lattice. 1925 CD: John and Clara Holton, a clerk at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.”

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
No longer under contract January 28, 2026

• $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.

421 Vine Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn December 9, 2024; relisted March 21, 2025
Listing withdrawn September 9, 2025; relisted January 2, 2026
Sale pending January 21, 2026 to February 21, 2026
Sale pending March 17, 2026

• $250,000 (originally $450,000)
• 16 or 17 bedrooms (see note), 13 bathrooms, 5,834 square feet (per county), 0.60 acre
• Price/square foot: $43
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 20, 2020
• Last sales: $50 (50 dollars), September 2024; $54,000, September 1987
• Note: Once known as the Carolina Inn or Carolina Home, identified variously as a boarding house or nursing home.
  • Previous listings have shown 16 or 17 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms.
  • Previous listing: “Tons of income potential with light TLC. … 6 rooms have private kitchenettes & baths.”
  • Listed agent is an online realty firm that promises to get properties listed with MLS and online listing sites.
  • The postcard above is from the intriguing Welcome to Leaksville, North Carolina site.

447cascade

447 Cascade Avenue, Eden, Rockingham County
Sale pending March 2, 2026

• $153,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,966 square feet, 0.86 acre
• Price/square foot: $52
• Built in 1915
• Listed December 16, 2025
• Last sale: Unclear in online records
• Neighborhood: Way over there in Draper
• Note: Being sold by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Click here for details, or here (PDF).
  • The HUD listing notes, “Evidence of mildew/mold not remediated” and cites needed repairs to ceilings, flooring and kitchen cabinet, sink and oven.

725nmain

725 N. Main Street, Danville, Virginia

• $140,000 (originally $180,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,531 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $55
• Built circa 1890 (see note)
• Listed November 24, 2025
• Last sale: $50,000, May 2018
• Neighborhood: North Danville Historic District (NR)
• Realtor hype: “located just minutes from the NEW casino”
• Note: City records show a 1928 construction date. The ca. 1890 date in the National Register nomination appears much more likely.
  • No central air conditioning
  • This very striking church is across the street. Originally the Shelton Memorial Presbyterian Church, built in 1889, it’s now the home of The Well Church.
• District NR nomination: “This is a two-story, brick, Queen Anne influenced dwelling with a brick foundation, cross gable asphalt shingle roof, and an interior brick chimney. The dwelling was constructed in a prow plan with a central projecting bay on the main façade. The bay has chamfered corners with corbelled brick.
  • “Flanking this bay are one-story entry porches with hipped roofs, and milled posts, railing, brackets, and vergeboards. The main entrance contains an original single-light glass and three-panel wood door. Above the entrance is a single-light segmental arched transom.
  • “Windows in the dwelling are original one-over-one double hung wood sash set in segmental arched wood frames with jack arches.
  • “The house features a bracketed dentiled cornice and gable returns at the roofline. In the gable field of the main façade are paired multi-light fixed attic windows. At the rear is a shed roof addition with a brick pier foundation with later brick infill.”
  • The earliest known owners may have been tobacco warehouse operator William Thomas Keeling (1845-1926) and Sallie E. Davis Keeling (1948-1928). Sallie’s obituary said her body had been taken “to the old home, 725 North Main Street.”
  • “William’s obituary (headline: “Respected, Well Known Man Dies”) said he had come to Danville in 1884 “and since that time has been been one of the most active and energetic tobacco men in this city. His splendid work has had much to do in making this city the large loose left tobacco market that it is today.”
  • By 1934, Zachariah Frank Perkinson (1868-1944) and Anna Ellis Perkinson (1870-1951) lived at the address. Zachariah was general foreman of the local Southern Railway shops. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives. Their daughter Elizabeth Coleman Perkinson (1909-1990) continued to live there until at least 1970. Elizabeth was a dental assistant.
  • The house was bought in 1974 by William Langston Blair (1928-2014) and Ruby Salmons Blair (1932-1920). They owned it for 43 years. William was a Postal Service worker and farmer. Ruby worked for 50 years in the design department of Dan River Mills. Ruby sold the house in 2017.

112nmain

122 N. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $134,000 (originally $146,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,088 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• 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.”

• $109,900 (originally $249,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,442 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $32
• 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.

• $109,000 (originally $199,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $48
• 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.

105academy

105 Acdemy Street, Madison, Rockingham County
The Churchill House
Sale pending January 11 to February 20, 2026
Listing withdrawn February 20, 2026
Relisted March 9, 2026

• $70,000 (originally $80,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,284 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $55
• Built in 1830
• Listed October 19, 2026
• Last sale: $200,000, September 2016
• Neighborhood: Academy Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: Pictures show the house vacant and in poor condition, but the listing says it is now being rented (month-to-month lease) and the tenant wants to stay.
• District NR nomination: “One-story frame, single-pile, T-shaped house with bungalow-style front porch and dormer. Original rear portion said to have been built mid-nineteenth century around an 1830s log cabin which housed slaves of the Twitchell family next door; local historian recalled slave Porter Scales living here in 1860.
  • “Throughout the nineteenth century this house was part of the Twitchell-Gallaway House property and after 1860 it served as an office for doctors Oliver, Spencer and Carter; doctors Oliver and Spencer lived in the brick house next door. During the 1870s tinner James Churchill and his ten children lived here.
  • “In 1890 Col. Gallaway, who bought this property with that of the Twitchell-Gallaway House, added the front portion when he let the building serve as the Episcopal rectory. After 1917 Mrs. Pearl Van Noppen added the front dormer and remodelled the front porch. …
  • “Madison’s building boom that yielded structures in the Colonial Revival, other period revival, and bungalow styles during the first three decades of the twentieth century is well represented in the Academy Street district. The latter style appears only in the 1917 dormer addition and porch remodeling of the front portion of the Churchill House built in 1890.”

311swashington

311 S. Washington Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• $52,900 (originally $79,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,536 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $34
• Built in 1927
• Listed August 15, 2025
• Last sales: $53,000, August 2025$59,000, August 2022; $10,000, June 1985
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: County property records describe the house as a duplex for some reason.
• District NRHP nomination: “Probably constructed by the same builder and at the same time, this house is virtually identical in appearance to the adjacent house to the north (307 S. Washington Ave.)
  • “The only apparent difference between these one and one-half story gambrel-roofed bungalows is the window and door treatment on the facade of 311. Here tripartite four over one windows flank a sidelighted entrance.
  • “This was apparently the home in 1929 of J.F. McDonald of the Meador & McDonald Service Station.”

319 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn January 1, 2026; relisted February 6, 2026
Sale pending March 11, 2026

• $25,000 (originally $89,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 900 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $28
• 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

1691pine

1691 Pine Hall Road, Pine Hall, Stokes County
The Williamson-Mitchell House
Listing withdrawn February 2026

• $110,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,014 square feet, 2.24 acres
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 27, 2026
• Last sales: $80,000, May 2024; $25,000, July 2020
• Note: The house has seen significant increases in price while it has continued to deteriorate. The current listing contains no interior photos, but the 2024 listing showed that at least some of the interior was in relatively good shape.
  • A railroad track runs along the back of the property. The old Pine Hall depot is three lots south of the property.
  • The property includes a second, smaller and very dilapidated house.
  • Immediately behind the house is an old street, Flossie Road, that now seems to be nothing more than a right-of-way to three neighboring properties with no direct street access (see GIS map above). None appear to have buildings on them; they appear to be owned separately by three members of one family. Further down the road at the old depot, a second right-of-way extends from the road to another of the three properties.
  • The earliest known owners were Harry Hinton Williamson (1877-1954) and Mary Carr Chisman Williamson (1877-1963). Harry was born in Danville and attended the Bingham Institute in Asheville. He moved in 1918 to Pine Hall, where he operated a store. He served on the Stokes County school board and the boards of commissioners in Stokes and Rockingham counties.
  • The Williamsons sold the property, then consisting of 5.35 acres, in 1925 to Albert Mitchell (1892-1953) and Flossie Mae Satterfield Mitchell (1898-1975). Their family owned it for 70 years. It was sold by the estate of their daughter Alice V. Mitchell (1922-1992) in 1995.

314virginia

314 Virginia Drive, Yadkinville, Yadkin County
The Leonard and Pearl Kelly House

• Auction rescheduled for Thursday, May 28, 2026, 11:30 a.m., Yadkin County Courthouse
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,626 square feet, 1 acre
• Built in 1940 (per county; see note)
• Last sale: $29,500, June 1977
• Note: Judging from the architectural style of the house, the 1940 date seems too late by a matter of decades. In addition, the State Historic Preservation Office identifies the house as the L.D. Kelly House. Leonard Davis Kelly III died in 1937 (1873-1937). He was a rural mail carrier.
  • The house was rented ($75/month) from 1966 to 1968 by the Yadkin Baptist Association as a home for Rev. James Clarence Shore (1913-1994) and his family. Rev. Shore had served in several capacities since 1931; he was then the association’s missionary director.
  • In 1977 the house was bought by Wesley Dewitt Tuttle (1945-2019) and Joyce Johnson Tuttle. Dewitt worked for Roadway Express and was pastor of Faith Chapel Church.
  • County records show the property has a swimming pool and a pole shed.

Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Neighboring Counties

396pee

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

• $176,500 (originally $231,800)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 2.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $98
• 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.

827shell

827 Shell Road, Thomasville, Davidson County
Sale pending December 18, 2025, to March 16, 2026
Sale pending March 27, 2026

• $150,000 (originally $229,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,542 square feet, 0.82 acre
• Price/square foot: $42
• Built in 1937
• Listed December 12, 2025
• Last sale: $61,000, November 26, 2025; $325,000, April 2022
• Note: I missed this one the first time around, which is a shame because it’s one of the most complicated listings I’ve ever come across. Here’s something I haven’t seen before: “The home has tested positive for Methamphetamine.”
  • Three things to know meth-contaminated houses: State law requires properties to be decontaminated before they’re occupied again; remediation methods “have varying levels of success with limited studies comparing their long-term efficacies”; agents are required to disclose past contamination if they know or should know of it.
  • And … “The septic tank is falling in and leach lines are failing. When the property was subdivided, the new property line is over the leach field. Home no longer perks. The only permit that the county is offering is a pump and haul. Waiting for regional soil scientist to go out and do a test.”
  • For some reason, previous owners removed the Tudor half-timbering on the house and garage and replaced it with vinyl siding.
  • On the other hand, online listings call the house “charming.”
  • Added bonus: “The current owner turned the living room and dining room into a library and is willing to leave some of the books. They will also leave the antique wagon in the yard and the piano.” Sounds like the pool table is going, though.
  • From the High Point Enterprise, August 1, 2025:

• The house was bought in 1940 by Clarence Edgar Shell (1898-1970) and Lucy Mary Crotts Shell (1898-1978). It remained in their family for 70 years. Clarence founded Thomasville Cabinet Works. Ownership of the house passed to their daughter Irene Shell Ragan (1917-2008) and son-in-law Shirley Okern Ragan (1914-2005). Irene also inherited the cabinet business. Shirley worked for Bullock Hosiery Mill and taught classes in clock repair at Davidson Community College. Irene’s estate sold the house in 2010.

325nasheboro

325 N. Asheboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Smith-Branch House

• $130,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,792 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 17, 2026
• Last sale: $35,000, May 2010; $68,500, June 2005
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, frame residence has been altered by the complete removal of its porch and the addition of replacement windows and artificial exterior siding.”
  • The house may have been on a 5 1/2-acre tract bought by James Rankin Smith in 1903. If it is (the deed’s description is vague; it does mention a railroad crossing, though, and there are railroad tracks across the street). James (1879-1925) and Lona Workman Smith (1888-1978) lived in the house the rest of their lives. In 1959, Lona was living in the house with daughter Bertha Mae Smith Branch (1912-2008) and son-in-law Frederick Hercules “Bennie” Branch (1909-1971) and passed ownership to them. Bennie was the owner of the Liberty Seafood Market. Bertha worked for Dependable Hosiery. Her estate sold the house in 2010.

410high

410 High Point Street, Randleman, Randolph County
The Hayworth-Floyd House

• $110,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,542 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1890
• Listed February 13, 2026
• Last sale: $22,000, February 1996
• Note: No interior photos are included in online listings.
  • A “triple-A” house with a side-gable roof and a third gable centered on the front elevation over a full-width front porch.
  • John Elwood Hayworth (1849-1919) bought the property from Randleman Manufacturing Company in 1885. He sold the house in 1896 and moved to Chestnut Hill in Rowan County, where he became a prominent merchant.
  • James Oliver PIckard Sr. (1844-1900) bought the house in 1896. “Colonel” Pickard was superintendent of Randleman Mills. His sudden death at age 55 was reported across the state. “He had been in good health until a few minutes before his death, which was caused by apoplexy,” The Charlotte Observer reported. “He had just returned from the mill and was at the supper table when the summons came.”
  • After the Colonel’s death, Alsa Monroe Floyd (1873-1942) and Allie Magnolia Prevost Floyd (1877-1950) bought the house in 1900. It remained in their family for 96 years.
  • Alsa worked for Deep River Mills for more than 45 years. He served on the Randleman city council and Randleman school board. He was a charter member of the local Junior Order. He also served for 30 years as superintendent of the Sunday school at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church.
  • Ownership passed to their daughter Hazel Floyd (1901-1990), an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, and then to her niece Sue Floyd Farlow (1949-2021), who taught English at Asheboro High School for 30 years. Sue sold the house in 1996.