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Updated March 25, 2023

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Featured Restoration Project: A Glorious 1914 Neo-Classical Mansion in Carthage, $325,000

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.”

Preservation North Carolina Listings

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

• $69,000
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not specified, 1,643 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $42
• Built in 1802
• 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

716 Franklin Boulevard, Greensboro
Sale pending January 6, 2023

• $160,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,663 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1946
• Listed January 4, 2023
• Last sale: $93,000, October 2004
• Neighborhood: Franklin Boulevard

1105 Campbell Street, High Point
Listing withdrawn March 2, 2023

• $129,000 (originally $135,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,025 square feet, 0.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $64
• Built in 1924
• Listed December 30, 2022
• Last sale: $55,000, March 17, 2022
• Listing: “clean slate interior with lots of options”

4016 High Rock Road, Guilford County
Sale pending March 16, 2023

• $99,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,116 square feet, 3.94 acres
• Price/square foot: $90
• Built in 1940
• Listed March 6, 2023
• Last sale: $124,500, December 2022 (foreclosure)
• Note: The property has a Gibsonville mailing address, but it’s 7 1/2 miles northwest of the town near Northeast Park.

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

116 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem
The Joseph R. and Ethel Modlin House
Sale pending January 18, 2023

• $300,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathroom, 2,082 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $144
• Built in 1900 (per county, but probably later; see note)
• Listed November 28, 2021
• Last sale: $$91,500, July 2005
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Originally a single-family home, divided into three units long ago
  • For sale by owner
  • Sold for $320,000 in 1999; six years later, it sold for $91,000.
  • Listing: “Could be a Single family home.”
  • The property does not include the adjacent vacant lot.
• District NRHP nomination: “This is a two-story, rectangular, hip roof, Queen Anne/Colonial Revival house clad in asbestos siding with gables with continuous pent roofs.
  • “The wraparound, hip-roof porch has Tuscan columns. Windows are one-over-one and the entry has sidelights with hexagonal lights.”
  • The address is first listed in the city directory in 1911. The original residents were Joseph R. Modlin, his wife Ethel Modlin, and Herman L. Modlin, relationship unknown. Joseph was secretary-treasurer of the Sharp-Modlin Department Store at 420 Trade Street. Herman was vice president.

5416 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem

• $70,000 (originally $85,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 720 square feet, 0.9 acre
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1924
• Listed March 29, 2022
• Last sale: $4,000, January 1985

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

3405 Maple Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County

• $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

• $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, that was his first name) was a janitor and painter with the school system. 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.

1129 N.C. Highway 65, Wentworth, Rockingham County
Sale pending March 17, 2023

• $125,900 (originally $189,900)
• Two houses and an old store building, 4 acres total
  • The Dewey Adams House, 1935: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,164 square feet
  • The Robert G. Mitchell house — county tax card: 1907, bedrooms and bathrooms not listed, 1,216 square feet, no heat, no electrical, construction grade F, unsound condition
  • The Robert G. Mitchell Store — county tax card: 1900, 720 square feet, no heat, no electrical, construction grade F, unsound
• Price/square foot: $41
• Listed March 3, 2022
• Last sale: Not identifiable in online records
• Note: The properties are in Wentworth but have a Reidsville mailing address.
  • The listing gives dates for the buildings that vary slightly from county records.

2069 Carolina Road, Burlington, Alamance County

• $106,400 (originally $112,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,199 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1910
• Listed February 1, 2023
• Last sale: $81,629, April 2022
• Note: Another half-assed “fix-and-flip” attempt abandoned part-way through, with an exorbitant $30,000 markup. This one has a considerable amount of cheap plastic flooring now installed.

• $82,500 (originally $99,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,168 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 10, 2022
• Last sale: $125,000, March 2020 (part of a multiple-property sale)
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “The majority of bungalows in the district are clearly derived stylistically from the Craftsman influence popular in the early 20th century; typically, such houses have deep porches supported by tapered posts on brick piers, broadly overhanging roofs with exposed rafter ends and knee braces, windows with novelty upper sash, and craftsman-style doors. Intact examples include … 304 and 306 South Washington Avenue.”
  • “A well-appointed one and one-half story frame dwelling, this house is one of eight bungalows erected on this block of S. Washington Ave. during the second and third decades of the 20th century.
  • “Clad in drop siding with wood shingles in the gable ends, the house has a large gabled dormer with engaged balcony and a shed-roofed bay on the south elevation.
  • “Typical of craftsman bungalows, it has an engaged porch with heavy wooden posts on brick piers, a slat balustrade, and exposed rafter ends.
  • “Windows have latticed upper sashes, and interior brick chimneys pierce the asphalt shingle roof in front of the roof ridge.
  • “In 1929, this was the home of C.J. Neal of Model Dry Cleaners and Dyers”

618 Thomas Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Sale pending March 20, 2023

• $44,500
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,492 square feet, 1.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $30
• Built in 1903
• Listed March 16, 2023
• Last sale: November 1983, price not recorded on deed

141 Hooks Haven Lane, Milton, Caswell County
sale pending March 8, 2023

• $34,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,564 square feet, 3.95 acres
• Price/square foot: $22
• Built in 1954 (per listing)
• Listed March 1, 2023
• Last sale: $46,291, January 2023 (foreclosure sale, reverted to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation)
• Note: “A realease and Hold harmless agreement must be signed by agents and purchasers before entering the property.”
  • Located about a mile and a half southeast of Milton off N.C. 57
  • County property records show the construction date as 1964
  • Last sale before foreclosure: $73,000, August 2001

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.

126 Leon Trail, Mount Airy, Surry County
Sale pending March 17-22, 2023
Sale pending March 23, 2023

• $170,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,511 square feet, 9.05 acres
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1900
• Listed March 16, 2023
• Last sale: $68,000, April 2006
• Listing: The property includes a guest house (1 bedroom, 1 bathroom), a wired workshop, a two-car carport with an attached 25×25 metal storage building and three mobile home lots, each with its own septic system.
  • “Home needs some TLC”
  • No central air conditioning
  • The property is located 4 miles northeast of Mount Airy off East Pine Street.

1165 Mill Street, Pinnacle, Stokes County
Listing withdrawn January 3, 2023; relisted February 5, 2023
Sale pending February 5, 2023
No longer under contract March 20, 2023

• $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 must have been 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.”

4441 Hunting Creek Church Road, Hamptonville, Yadkin County
Sale pending March 24, 2023

• $99,900
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 3,573 square feet, 3.08 acres
• Price/square foot: $28
• Built in 1921
• Listed February 23, 2023
• Last sale: $110,000, March 2007
• Note: No heating or air conditioning systems
  • “This home needs to be restored”

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Moore Counties

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.”

• $185,000 (originally $132,000, later $125,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,342 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 15, 2023
• Last sale: $26,000, October 1997
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story side-gable bungalow with a large gabled dormer and an engaged front porch supported by paired square posts on brick piers; 4/1 and 5/1 sash, sidelights at entry, brick interior chimney, weatherboards and vinyl siding.
  • “The house appears on the 1923 Sanborn map and was occupied by Samuel D. and Julia McMillan in 1925-26. Mr. McMillan was a telegraph operator at the Southern Railway Passenger Station.”

• $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

508 McReynols Street, Carthage, Moore County
The Dr. John Shaw House

• $130,000
• 3 bedrooms (per county), 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,540 square feet, 1.49 acres
• Price/square foot: $51
• Built in 1853 (per county, but perhaps earlier; see note)
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: December 1982, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Carthage Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing gives the date of the house as 1800 and says it has 4 bedrooms.
  • “The home has no utilities.”
  • The listing says the owners who sold the property in 1853, the Glascocks, “were first cousins of (President) George Washington, and it is said that a young George Washington would come from Virginia to visit his cousins the Glascock’s.”
• The historic district’s National Register nomination references the Glascock family but doesn’t mention George Washington: “frame house combining three periods of construction and architectural style: gable-front, two-story wing with one-story, single pile, gabled wing extending to east at perpendicular; one-story porch shelters three front bays of one-story east wing, enclosed on east elevation;
  • “has bracketed turned posts, sawn balustrade, molded handrail; one-story rear ell; rear porches enclosed; beaded siding with rosehead nails on rear wall of one-story wing under enclosed porch; aluminum siding on rest of house;
  • “nine-over-nine and six-over-six windows; paved single-shoulder, exterior-end chimneys on west elevation of two-story wing;
  • “Italianate door with tabernacle panes, contemporary with late 19th century porch, opens to broad hall connecting two wings; rear door, next to beaded siding is early 19th century raised six-panel beneath transom; other doors are two-panel, matching several mid 19th century Greek Revival mantels; single Italianate mantel on second floor; quarter-turn with landing stair begins in hall, rises between rooms in two-story wing;
  • “Dr. John Shaw, purchased tract known as Patty Glasscock land in 1853, apparently made additions to small existing house, probably dating to second quarter of 19th century; Patty Glasscock was widow of Dr. John Glasscock;
  • “Dr. Shaw was physician and prominent town and county citizen — Register of Deeds, county commissioner, two terms in state house of representatives, trustee of Carthage Academy.”

1295 Love Joy Road, Troy, Montgomery County

• $98,500
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,880 square feet (per county), 1.66 acres
• Price/square foot: $34
• 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.

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 March 2023
sale no longer pending March 9, 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.