Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated June 1, 2023

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Featured Restoration Project: A Stokes County Cottage of Uncertain Age, with an Old Store Building on the Property

• $155,000 (originally $125,000, later $170,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,388 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in: Unknown (see note)
• Listed June 20, 2022
• Last sale: $65,000, September 2010
• Note: County records show the date as 1950, but the style of the house shows it most likely was built decades earlier.
  • The property includes a former store that has been vacant for years. The store faces North Old 52 Road, next to a former gas station, now a used-car lot (the house can be seen behind the store, facing Mill Street on the other side of the block):

• From 1959 to 2010 the property was owned by the family of Mack Dee Hamm and Martha S. Hamm.
  • Something you don’t see too often: The 1959 deed covers three tracts. The description of the third tract includes this note: “That on or about the 3rd day of September, 1954, the grantors herein made a deed herein of the above described property. At that time the grantees herein delivered to the grantors herein a deed of trust on the above described property. The original deed has been misplaced and was never recorded. The deed of trust has never been recorded. This deed is to take the place of the original deed, and it is contemplated that this deed and the deed of trust will be recorded immediately.”

Preservation North Carolina Listings

403 McReynolds Street, Carthage, Moore County
The Charles T. Sinclair House

• $325,000
• Bedrooms not specified, no full bathrooms (see note), 5,437 square feet, 2.54 acres
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1914
• Last sale: The property was given to the Carthage United Methodist Church in 2003.
• Neighborhood: Carthage Historic District (NR)
• Note: The Sinclair House hasn’t been sold since it was built. The property was given to the church by Louise Sarah Thompson Sinclair (1912-2007), daughter-in-law of the original owners, Charles T. Sinclair (1873-1957) and Mary Bertha Petty Sinclair (1881-1960). Charles was the owner of Carthage Furniture Company and a partner in the Sinclair Brothers department store.
  • Their son, Charles Jr. (1915-1989), succeeded Charles as owner and president of the company.
  • Louise was a graduate of Greensboro College. She taught home economics at Carthage High School.
  • McReynolds Street was originally named Elm Street. Before it was a city street, it was part of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, running from Fayetteville northwest to Salem. The section in Carthage was built in 1851.
• District NR nomination: “The Charles Sinclair House (403 McReynolds Street) is a splendid example of the Neo-Classical Revival style, a fashion picked up by many prominent North Carolinians as a symbol of their affluence and important roles in community life. …
• “Perhaps the most academically accurate building in the Carthage Historic District … [t]he expansive Neo-Classical Revival style residence, the only brick-clad building from the period of significance, features the characteristic monumental classical portico. It is also adorned with handsome elliptical stained-glass windows above the entrance and flanking windows.”
• Preservation North Carolina: “This stylishly detailed Neoclassical Revival house was built for local merchant Charles T. Sinclair and his wife Mamie in 1914 from plans by noted Raleigh architect Frank B. Simpson.
  • “Simpson, whose work included commercial, institutional and residential projects across the state, designed this exquisite large house in the latest fashion during a time when well-heeled northeasterners were moving to resort communities such as Pinehurst and Southern Pines. Sited on a prominent location along McReynolds Street in the Carthage Historic District, the Charles T. Sinclair House offers 12 beautifully appointed rooms for use as a residence or B&B inn.
  • “The once monumental semicircular front portico with Corinthian columns was removed several years ago and will need to be restored. … A sizable catering kitchen would benefit from updates. While the house is habitable with functioning HVAC and a few half baths, no full bathroom exists.
  • “Areas of deferred maintenance including some water infiltration, soffit repair, reconstruction of the front portico, repainting, and other upgrades as necessary await the new owner.”

4118 Oak Ridge Road, Summerfield, Guilford County
The Alexander Strong Martin House
Sale pending (date unknown)

• $110,000
• bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,694 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $41
• Built circa 1835
• Last sale: $90,000, December 2015
• Neighborhood: Summerfield Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The house is owned by the Town of Summerfield. Preservation North Carolina is selling the house for the town.
• Preservation North Carolina: “The Alexander Strong Martin House has benefited from recent foundation repair and removal of non-historic additions. The property has a septic system, but no well. The house will require a complete rehabilitation including all mechanical systems (electrical, plumbing, and HVAC), some restoration carpentry, a new kitchen and bathrooms. The staircase maintains its original unique carved tapered newel posts and handrail, but is missing its straight picket balusters that will need to be restored. The existing septic should be tested for operability. The Alexander Strong Martin House is eligible for historic tax credits.”
  • “The Alexander Strong Martin House is an early, modestly rendered example of the Greek Revival style featuring solid brick construction and finely crafted details such as a corbelled brick cornice; decorative curved exposed rafters; a 60-inch wide, double-leaf glazed front door set within deep coffered panels; an elaborate transom above the main entrance door; and well-executed, mitered window surrounds. The additional six-panel door to the left of the main entrance provides access to a room once used as an office. The front porch with a flashy center gable was added later and is composed of Tuscan colonettes atop brick piers, while the back porch displays a more Victorian-inspired version with turned posts, fretwork, decorative brackets and a shingled center gable.
    • “The interior of this 8-room house is equally modest yet finely crafted with a variety of styles perhaps reflecting its use over the years as a single-family home, home office, fabric shop, and apartments. The main entrance opens into a broad center hall with the staircase located on the left and a Victorian door with stained glass in the rear hall opening onto the back porch. The main parlor features an 8-panel door with decorative woodgraining and a high-style Victorian mantle. The opposite front parlor features a 2-panel Greek Revival door also with woodgrain paint and boxlock. The other seven mantles are much simpler. Plaster walls, wide tongue-and-groove ceiling boards, wood floors, symmetrical door and window molding with cornerblocks, and 6-panel doors are found throughout the house.”
• District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, five-bay, double-pile, side-gable Greek Revival-style house is built of American bond (1:3) brick with corbelling on both exterior end chimneys and at the cornice. A pressed-metal roof covers the main section of the house. Both the front and rear of the house have a full-width, asphalt-shingled, hipped-roofed porch. Craftsman details prevail on the front porch with slender Tuscan columns on brick piers and the siding in the central gable that exhibits an Oriental influence. The rear porch has Queen Anne-style details … with turned posts, carved brackets and shingle siding in the center gable. Windows are six-over-six.”
• Alexander Strong Martin was the son of Alexander Martin (1740-1807), a merchant, lawyer and one of the most prominent figures of North Carolina’s Revolutionary Era. The elder Martin was an a native of New Jersey and an early graduate of Princeton. Through a brother in Virginia, he also was a friend of James Madison Sr. and helped convince him to send his son and namesake, the future president, to Princeton rather than William & Mary. From the 1770s into the 19th Century, Martin served as speaker of the N.C. Senate, governor (elected four times), U.S. Senator and many other public positions. Martin never married but acknowledged Alexander Strong as his son. The child’s mother was Elizabeth Lewis Strong (b. 1753). Her husband, Thomas Strong, had disappeared during the Revolutionary War
• The house was built around 1837 by Valentine Allen. He and his brother James had bought 872 acres in the area from the estate of Charles Bruce, one of the earliest settlers in the area, originally called Bruce’s Crossroad. Alexander Strong Martin (1787-1864) bought the house and 448 acres in 1838. He owned it for 11 years. (This information is from an article in the Northwest Observer, which contains some conspicuous inaccuracies — the house itself is not listed on the National Register, and Gov. Martin was not the first governor of North Carolina — but it’s the only readily available source for the early history of the house.)
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1567 Belmont Road, Linwood, Davidson County
Beallmont

• $75,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,422 square feet, 2.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $31
• Listing: “Rare NC example of 1840s Picturesque Cottage with decorative lattice porch, bay window and early woodwork.”
  • “The original small two-story frame house was built by either Doctor Robert Moore, the original grant holder, or his son Ebenezer, in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century. A two-story log addition was built early on. Ebenezer’s son-in-law Burgess Lamar Beall, a prominent physician and politician, transformed the house into a fashionable picturesque villa in the late 1840’s. … The side wing was added during the picturesque villa remodeling and also featured latticework. The current one-bay wide porch was added in the twentieth century.”
  • The house has been moved to a nearby lot with access to a small pond. The surrounding land will be protected by a conservation easement.
  • The house will require a complete rehabilitation, including structural repair, restoration carpentry, new systems, bathrooms and kitchen.

653 Vernon Road, Wentworth, Rockingham County
The King House
Blog post — ‘A Rare survivor’: A Circa 1800 Log House In Rockingham County, $69,000

• $69,000
• Bedrooms and bathrooms to be determined, 1,643 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $42
• Built ca. 1800
• Last sale: 1785, price not available
• Listing: “The farm has been continuously owned and operated by the King family and was designated a North Carolina Century Farm in 1986 and a Bicentennial Farm by the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture in 2017.”
  • “Early log house with large stone chimneys, exposed beaded ceiling joists, wide wall planks, hand-forged door hardware, and a rear wing, once an early separate kitchen. Family cemetery with ancient soapstone markers nearby all situated on a scenic ridge between Wentworth and Reidsville.”
  • “The house has been covered by rolled asphalt siding. Small sections have been uncovered to reveal lap siding on the main house and board-and-batten siding on the kitchen.”
  • “The house will require a complete rehabilitation including repair of the roof (some 5v metal panels were ripped off in a recent storm), restoration/repair of log structure, installation of new systems including electrical, plumbing and HVAC, a new kitchen and bathrooms.”
  • The property for sale includes the cemetery. It’s a 10-acre piece of a 240-acre farm.

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

108 Oakwood Street, High Point
The Thomas J. Gold House
listing withdrawn October 6, 2022
relisted April 3, 2023

• $420,000 (originally $325,000, later $319,000)
• 13 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,224 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 8, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, November 2016
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District (NRHP)
• Listing: “Huge home being used as a 13 room rooming house but can easily be used as a 11-12 room single family home”
• District NRHP nomination: “prominent frame house influenced by the Colonial Revival style in its massing and symmetrical fenestration and by the Craftsman mode in the supports of its impressive wrap front porch; tall side gable originally with wooden shingle accents on second story and weatherboards at first; now covered in vinyl.”
• Thomas Jackson Gold Sr. (1879-1961) was born in Shelby. He was a city judge, state legislator and attorney. His wife, Nina Josephine Wheeler Gold (1887-1964), was born in High Point. Thomas was a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest law school. He was elected to the state House and Senate in the 1930s. He also served as president of the first Red Cross chapter organized in High Point and as president of the Kiwanis.

547 Woodvale Drive, Greensboro
Sale pending May 8, 2023

• $344,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,948 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1960
• Listed May 1, 2023
• Last sale: 1961, price unknown
• Neighborhood: Starmount Forest
• Note: “Priced at recent appraisal value.”
  • Not quite Mid-Century Modern, but an interesting house anyway
  • The address first appears in the 1961 city directory, listed as vacant. The house was bought that year by William Ray Frazier (1921-2003) and Sara Lou Aaron Frazier (b. 1936). William was an associate professor at Greensboro College.

• $110,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 722 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $152
• Built in 1917
• Listed May 6, 2023
• Last sale: $35,000, April 1996
• Neighborhood: Pomona

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

5416 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem

• $65,000 (originally $85,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 720 square feet, 0.9 acre
• Price/square foot: $90
• Built in 1924
• Listed March 29, 2022
• Last sale: $4,000, January 1985

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

1421 Fieldcrest Road, Eden, Rockingham County

• $274,000 (originally $284,500)
• See note in re bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,312 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 29, 2023
• Last sale: $230,000, June 2009
• Neighborhood: Draper
• Note: Currently a boarding house. The listing says there are 14 rooms available for rent.
  • “Most tenants heat with a space heater but there is a gas boiler for the building. Full kitchen in the basement.”
  • “There is an old house on the property that might be able to rehab & rent.”

3405 Maple Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
Blog post — 4 Historic Former Neighborhood Stores For Sale as Homes or Outbuildings
Sale pending April 18, 2023

• $175,000 (originally $200,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,552 square feet, 1.67 acres
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1933
• Listed June 10, 2022
• Last sale: October 1932, deed not found online
• Listing: The property includes a building that was once a grocery store.
  • No central air conditioning

414 E. Morehead Street, Burlington, Alamance County
Episcopal Rectory
Sale pending April 6, 2023

• $160,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,755 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $58
• Built ca. 1890 (per district NR nomination)
• Listed February 16, 2023
• Last sale: $125,000, July 2005
• Neighborhood: South Broad-East 5th Streets Historic District (NR)
• Note: Currently divided into two units
  • Tax records show a date of 1950, which appears to be way off.
• District NR nomination: “Well-preserved [as of 2001] 2-story gable-and-wing house of eclectic design, with original siding, an ornate boxed cornice with pendanted brackets, tall 4/4 sash windows with peaked lintels, and an entrance with beveled glass transom and sidelights.
  • “The wraparound front porch [now missing] has slender classical columns that are probably early 20th century replacements. The rear ell has been enlarged in recent years.
  • “The Episcopal Church apparently built this house as the rectory. D.F. Rudd, painter with the City Schools, bought the house in 1919 and lived here until 1937. Kemp D. Blalock was the owner-occupant from then until 1981.”
  • D.F. Rudd was Doctor Franklin Rudd (1880-1950) was a janitor and painter with the school system (“Doctor” was his first name). He was married to Mary Elizabeth Rudd (1879-1969).
  • Kemp DeWitt Blalock (1884-1959) was a mechanic with P&S Motor Company, the local Hudson automobile dealership. He and the lyrically named Carrie Exie Oakley Blalock (1893-1967) were married in 1909.

1221 Richardson Drive, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The George Barber House
Sale pending April 5-14, 2023
Sale pending April 24, 2023

• $159,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,308 square feet, 1.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $48
• Built in 1912
• Listed March 30, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, October 3, 2014
• Note: The house has some remarkable parquet floors and original mantels, pocket doors and windows.
  • George Barber (1872-1937) bought the property in January 1913, and it remained in his family until 1959, when it was sold by a daughter, Audrey Barber Poole. George was a contractor.
  • From the Leaksville News, December 7, 1922: “For the past two months, contractor George L. Barber in Reidsville has had his hen house raided nightly, with one egg being taken daily. Mr. Barber thought the thief was a small dog until he happened to look into a box of rough feed and saw a fat possum feasting on an egg. He trapped the possum and said he now is going to do some feasting himself.”

4615 N.C. Highway 65, Rockingham County

• $125,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,790 square feet, 0.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 12, 2022
• Last sale: $460,000, April 2023 (73.84 acres)
• Listing: “2 wood stoves, 2 sheds and a small cabin on the property. There are two rooms upstairs that do not count towards heated sqft. HVAC is non-functioning.”
  • Located 12 miles east of Reidsville
  • The 73-acre property was bought in April by an LLC, which is now selling a small piece of the property containing the house.

510 Patrick Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Sale pending May 19, 2023

• $124,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,372 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 15, 2023
• Last sale: Unknown
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing refers to bamboo in the backyard as if it’s a good thing.
• District NR nomination: “The simple, functional bungalow, a nationally popular style in the 1920s, is well represented in central Leaksville with a number of intact examples found throughout the district. They share similarities in their one or one-and-one-half story form with gently pitched broad gables and spacious, engaged porches.
  • “A group of three exceptionally well-preserved one-and-one-half story frame bungalows, constructed between 1910 and 1920 and ornamented with a variety of decorative elements, is located at 510, 512 and 514 Patrick Street. They differ slightly and represent variations on a theme. The house at 510 Patrick has a gracious wraparound porch and gabled dormer …”

205 Castle Drive, Rockingham County

• $79,900
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 795 square feet, 13.43 acres
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1940
• Listed May 30, 2023
• Last sale: $12,000 in June 1976 (11 acres) and $4,400 December 1981 (2 acres).
• Note: The property has a Pelham mailing address but is in Rockingham County, 18 miles west of Eden and 5 miles west of Pelham.
  • The initial 11 acres were bought in 1976 from the estate of Myrtle Emma Cook Newton (1897-1975), part of a 335-acre farm she owned in Rockingham and Caswell counties, presumably with her husband, Jesse Oscar Newton (1895-1973). The buyers were Arthur J. Long Sr. (1943-2011) and Mildred Pinnix Long (1947-2023).

303 Victor Street, Eden, Rockingham County
Sale pending June 1, 2023

• $49,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 952 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $52
• Built in 1915
• Listed May 24, 2023
• Last sale: May 2013, price not recorded on deed (bought in a foreclosure sale)
• Listing: “Needs some tlc”

3228 Red Marshall Road, Pelham, Caswell County

• $45,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 914 square feet, 2.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1925
• Listed April 28, 2023
• Last sale: Unknown, probably 1955, not identifiable in online records
• Note: The Caswell-Rockingham county line runs through the property.

514 Flynn Street, Eden, Rockingham County

• $29,900 (originally $32,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 844 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $35
• Built in 1937
• Listed May 16, 2023
• Last sale: $90,000, August 2004
• Neighborhood: Spray
• Listing: “There are 2 properties on this lot & currently being surveyed to separate the houses into 2 lots.”

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

113 S. Gilmer Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
listing withdrawn October 19, 2022
relisted November 9, 2022

• $275,000 (originally $299,900)
• 11 apartments, 6,276 square feet, 1.01 acre
• Price/square foot: $44
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 20, 2022
• Last sale: $135,000, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District
• Listing: “11 unit apartment building upfit opportunity.”
  • Owned by an LLC in Charlotte
  • District NRHP nomination: “Two-story granite building with hipped roof, gabled dormers, gabled entrance porch with Doric columns, and one-over-one window~ Opened in 1918 as the nursing school serving Martin Memorial Hospital across Gilmer Street (#211). The school graduated its first class of five nurses in 1921. A total of 298 nurses graduated before the school was closed in the mid-1950s.”
  • In the 1980s, the building housed the Surry County health department.

3144 Piney Mountain Road, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
The George and Carrie Richardson House

• $175,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,684 square feet, 30.71 acres
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 16, 2023
• Last sale: $800, October 1908 (50 acres)
• Listing: “House has been vacant for quite some time.”
  • The listing says, “Being sold ‘As is’ with 2+/- acres of land,” but also says the size of the property for sale is 30.71 acres.
  • George Davis Richardson (1875-1949) bought the property, originally 50 acres, in 1908. After his death it passed to his wife, Carrie S. Duggins Richardson (1891-1976). It is now being sold by a descendant.

221 S. Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County

• $159,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,000 square feet, 0.87 acre
• Price/square foot: 80
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 20, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2021
• Note: Yadkin County property-records website is offline.

• $155,000 (originally $125,000, later $170,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,388 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in: Unknown (see note)
• Listed June 20, 2022
• Last sale: $65,000, September 2010
• Note: County records show the date as 1950, but the style of the house shows it most likely was built decades earlier.
  • The property includes a former store that has been vacant for years. The store faces North Old 52 Road, next to a former gas station, now a used-car lot (the house can be seen behind the store, facing Mill Street on the other side of the block):

• From 1959 to 2010 the property was owned by the family of Mack Dee Hamm and Martha S. Hamm.
  • Something you don’t see too often: The 1959 deed covers three tracts. The description of the third tract includes this note: “That on or about the 3rd day of September, 1954, the grantors herein made a deed herein of the above described property. At that time the grantees herein delivered to the grantors herein a deed of trust on the above described property. The original deed has been misplaced and was never recorded. The deed of trust has never been recorded. This deed is to take the place of the original deed, and it is contemplated that this deed and the deed of trust will be recorded immediately.”

Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

• $175,000 (originally $78,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,114 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1890
• Listed March 22, 2021
• Last sale: $60,000, July 2007

2335 Swicegood Road, Linwood, Davidson County

• $170,000
• 3 bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,108 square feet, 1.59 acres
• Price/square foot : $81
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $79,500, October 2000
• Note: Partially renovated with an often-heard story — “The owner has had some renovations completed within the past 8 years … Unfortunately due to health issues he hasn’t been able to do any further renovations.”
  • “There are 3 buildings also on the property that could use some TLC but do keep items inside them dry.”

333 Temple Street, Lexington, Davidson County

• $162,500 (originally $170,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,224 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 2, 2023
• Last sale: $64,000, July 2017
• Listing: “The seller is highly motivated and will not turn down any reasonable offer.”

633 Oliver Street, Ramseur, Randolph County

• $119,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,636 square feet, 1.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 25, 2023
• Last sale: $61,500, April 2023
• Note: Nothing in the listing suggests why someone would pay almost twice as much for this house as the owner paid just one month before putting it up for sale.

891 Brooklyn Avenue Extension, Ramseur, Randolph County
Sale pending March 9-14, 2023
Sale pending May 3, 2023
No longer under contract May 12, 2023

• $110,000 (originally $120,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 896 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1927
• Listed July 20, 2022
• Last sale: $40,500, April 2001
• Note: The listing’s entire description of the house: “Home previously used as a rental.”
  • The one photo included in the listing shows the house leaning almost catastrophically to the right. For what it’s worth, the Google Street View photo (July 2022) shows it standing upright:

975 Loflin Hill Road, Trinity, Randolph County
Sale pending May 12, 2023

• $100,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,655 square feet, 2.06 acres
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 3, 2023
• Last sale: $56,000, September 2009
• Listing: “Diamond in the rough. … Buyer responsible for removing personal property items.”

1295 Love Joy Road, Troy, Montgomery County
Sale pending April 27, 2023

• $80,000 (originally $98,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,880 square feet (per county), 1.66 acres
• Price/square foot: $28
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 17, 2023
• Last sale: $6,000, October 1978 (lot with house)
• Listing: “due to foundation issues buyer option limited to cash only.”
  • The listing shows only 1,440 square feet. The tax card notes, “2nd floor not useable.”
  • The property consists of three lots.

703 Fisher Ferry Street, Thomasville, Davidson County

• $65,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,028 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 24, 2023
• Last sale: $60,000, October 2021
• Listing: “This property is being sold pursuant to a court order and is subject to the 10 day upset bid period”

66 Bombay Road, Denton, Davidson County
Sale pending May 20, 2023

• $64,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,558 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $42
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 31, 2023
• Last sale: $55,000, February 16, 2023
• Note: This is at least the third time a “fix-and-flip” owner has given up on this house. It was been sold in February 2023 ($55,000), February 2022 ($58,000) and April 2020 ($18,000).
  • The house has now been gutted and has what look like brand-new cheap vinyl windows.

Auctions

223 Holly Street, Franklinville, Randolph County
Sale pending March 26 to April 3, 2021
Sale pending April 29 to May 1, 2021
Sale pending June 24 to July 6, 2021
Sale pending early March 2023 to March 9, 2023
Sale pending May 2023

• Alternates between online auctions and periods of direct offers
  • “Suggested offer”: $103,930 to $118,586 (originally $56,698 to $111,944)
  • Previous online auctions: Opening bid $35,000, reserve price $97,930, $53/square foot
• 3 bedrooms, 2  bathrooms, 1,856 square feet, 3.29 acres
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 12, 2019
• Last sale: $79,764 (foreclosure auction), September 2019; last non-foreclosure sale price was $96,100, August 2002
• Note: Bank-owned property

In Limbo

1145 Joe Scales Road, Sandy Ridge, Stokes County
sale pending October 8, 2022; no update since then

• $130,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,982 square feet, 29.06 acres
• Price/square foot: $44
• Built in 1920
• Listed July 6, 2022
• Last sale: $120,000, January 2022
• Listing (please excuse the yelling and misspelling): “VALUE IS IN LAND AND TIMBER. HOUSE, WHILE APPEARING SOUND NEEDS A GREAT DEAL OF WORK … IT IS NOT KNOWN WHERE OIL TANK IS, NOR WELL, NOR SEPTIC/FIELD. NOTE SIZES OF ROOMS, WITH SUBSTANTIAL RENOVATIONS, HOUSE COULD BE VERY NICE 100+ YR OLD HOME. THERE IS A SMALL CEMETARY NEAR OR INSIDE THE NORTHERN BOUNDRY OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS FENCED IN. SOME OF GRAVES APPEAR TO BE CIVIL WAR VETERANS. IT LOOKS LIKE ALL GRAVES HAVE STONE MARKERS.”

• $950,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 63 acres
• Price/square foot: $528
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 22, 2022
• Last sale: July 1986, price unknown
• Note: There are two houses on the property. The other is an 1,800 square foot ranch built in 1947.
  • Listing: “Price does not reflect house values or any guarantees of square footage or any components of the two houses.”
  • “City water and sewer available nearby”
  • The property includes at least six outbuildings.