Piedmont Historic Homes

Updated October 3, 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 Two-Room Schoolhouse in Stokes County, circa 1900, $175,000

1055 Ed Booth Road, Moore’s Spring, Stokes County

• $175,000
• 1 acre
• Built circa 1900
• Listed June 3, 2026
• Last sales: $12,000, May 2018; $200, November 1937
• Neighborhood: Near the Moore’s Spring community, just off Moore’s Spring Road, about 5 miles west of Danbury and 15 miles southeast of Westfield. It has a Westfield mailing address.
• Note: The school may have been called Moore’s Spring School, since that’s the community it served. The two-room schoolhouse most likely was built around 1900. The school was closed by 1937, probably several years earlier as smaller community schools were combined into larger ones.
  • Three sides of the property face Hanging Rock State Park.
  • Stokes County Historic Inventory, 1989: “Judging from those which remain, many of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century schools in the county were practical frame buildings with one or two rooms and little or no ornamentation. … The schools for white children in the county consolidated into fewer and larger structures during the 1920s and early 1930s. It was at this time that most, if not all, of the small frame schoolhouses ceased operation.”

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County

821pearson

821 Pearson Street, Greensboro
Sale pending June 13 to July 7, 2025
Listing withdrawn December 1, 2025
Relisted August 23, 2026

• $295,000 (originally $210,000, later $185,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,284 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $129
• Built in 1900 (per county, but probably several years earlier; see note)
• Listed April 23, 2025
• Last sale: $107,000, November 1999
• Neighborhood: South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is being renovated. The pictures above are from the 2025 listing. The current listing has more recent photos.
  • For sale by owner.
• District NR nomination: “L-plan, residence, 1890-1899”
  • The house has been a rental for most of its existence. The property was bought in 1890 by Thomas A. Spencer of Guilford County (dates unknown). He used it as a rental property. He sold it in 1914.
  • The address appears in the city directory as early as 1892, when M.C. Hendley (dates unknown), a mechanic, was listed there. The 1896-97 city directory lists Truxillo Alba Vada Terrell Hawkins, a widow, and adult daughters Fannie, Kate, Lelia, and Mattie Hawkins at the address. Mrs. M. Ward, another widow, was listed in 1899-1900.
  • From around 1901 to 1904 the residents were Charles Edward Woltz (1851-1930), a carpenter, Jennie Watt Clack Woltz (1855-1939) and their son James Edward Woltz (1877-1908), also a carpenter.
  • The first owners to live in the house were Baxter Willis Terrell (1878-1948) and Myrtle Rea Terrell (1882-1972), who bought the house from Spencer in 1914. Baxter owned a furniture store. They sold the house to F.A. Terrell in 1922, presumably Baxter’s brother Fred Anderson Terrell (1886-1938), one of Baxter’s salesmen.
  • Fred sold the house in 1923 to Thomas D. Tinnin Jr. (1874-1943) and Minnie Lou Whisett Tinnin (1873-1968). They rented the house out. Thomas was a bookkeeper. He worked for the American Agricultural Chemical Company for many years. Minnie sold the house in 1945.
  • In 1951 Booker Talefero Washington McCallum (1903-1988) and Willie Mae McCallum (1911-1980) bought the house. Booker was a school principal. He rented the house out. He sold it in 1984.

1056sutton

1056 Sutton Road, Guilford County

• $150,000 (originally $170,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,640 square feet, 6.02 acres
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1875
• Listed September 16, 2026
• Last sale: 1931, price not recorded on deed.
• Neighborhood: About 9 miles south of Greensboro, just west of Pleasant Garden and just east of Interstate 73. It has a Greensboro mailing address.
• Note: The house is a rental with tenants, but the listing refers to the home “being conveyed at no value.” No pictures of the interior are included in the listing.
  • The property has been in the family of Garland Daniel Eaton (1900-1979) and Cynthia Ann Southern Eaton (1904-1981) since 1931. Garland was a machinist with Residents Development Company. Cynthia worked for Dick’s Laundry. They passed the property to their daughter Clara Elizabeth Eaton Barber (1938-2005) and son-in-law Russell Vester Barber (1938-2016). Their daughter is now selling the property.

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

7park

7 Park Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Barrow-Swan House
Sale pending September 19, 2026

• $289,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,162 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1924
• Listed September 10, 2026
• Last sale: The house hasn’t been sold since it was built.
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “The home needs updating, but appears solid … certainly very livable with minimal repair. Main level all high ceilings, some original hardware, and most likely hardwood floors under carpet.”
• District NR nomination: “Frame hipped-roof foursquare with brick exterior end chimney, one-story porch over end entrance bay supported at each corner by square panelled post and two round columns. Hip roof covers one-story projecting bay of casements on front and south side.”
  • James Durham Barrow (1889-1960) and Mabel Agnes Spaugh Barrow (1884-1976) were listed at the address in the 1924 city directory. Durham was a clerk at R.J. Reynolds. After 39 years with the company, he retired as superintendent of the sales and accounting office. Mabel was a 1903 graduate of Salem College.
  • In 1970 Mabel passed ownership to daughter Antoinette Barrow Swan (1921-2005) and son-in-law Chester William Swan (1917-1996). Antoinette was a school teacher and, like her mother, a graduate of Salem College. Chester was a veteran of the Army Corps of Engineers in World War II. He worked for Reynolda Inc. and the City of Winston-Salem.
  • Antoinette passed ownership to their son Donald Thomas Swan in 1999. He is now selling the house.

1409w4th

1409 W. 4th Street, Winston-Salem

• $205,000
• Single-family home divided into four apartments, 3,412 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1913
• Listed October 1, 2026
• Last sale: $18,000, December 1976
• Neighborhood: South of Salem Parkway
• Note: Three 1-bedroom apartments and one 2-bedroom apartment.
  • “Exterior side stairs and back deck/stairs are not safe — do not walk on them.”
  • “There is an adjacent vacant lot (1280 Apple Street, MLS #1236951); Sellers prefer to sell both properties together.”
  • No central air conditioning.
  • “Boiler heating system has not been used for some time; may not be operational.”
  • The owners’ address of record is in Massachusetts.
  • The home’s original address, 1316 W. 4th Street, first appeared in the 1915 city directory as the location of the Crafton Heights Dairy & Truck Farm. By 1916, Henry Allen Tatem (1864-1932) and Bertha Moore Tatem (1872-1929) were listed at the address. Henry was a partner in Tatem & Oakley, a real-estate firm, and was the local manager for Mutual Insurance Company of New York. He later owned an antique store, which he operated until he died.
  • By 1920, Arthur Armor Gudger (1884-1954) and Daisy Ward Gudger (1881-1975) had bought the house. They owned it for the rest of their lives. Daisy worked for Vogler Jewelers for 45 years. Arthur worked for the Gilmer Brothers department store as a “display man” and then for Montgomery Ward. His obituary said he died in his flower garden.

1120waughtown

1120 Waughtown Street, Winston Salem
The George and Mamie Kimble House

• $129,900 (originally $145,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,066 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1918
• Listed July 30, 2026
• Last sale: $38,800, October 2017
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: Now a rental
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; shed-roof dormer; asbestos shingle siding; shed-roof porch; battered columns on brick piers; two-over-two double-hung sash windows; tails; knee braces.”
  • The property was first listed in the city directory in 1920 as 2214 Waughtown. The original owners were George Robert Kimble (1881-1947) and Mamie Franklin Roberts Kimble (1892-1978). George was an engineer on the Norfolk & Western Railroad. After George died, Mamie continued to live in the house for the rest of her life.

4455tobaccoville

4455 Tobaccoville Road, Tobaccoville, Forsyth County (also here) (PDF)
The Watts House

• Auction scheduled for Saturday October 3, 2026, noon
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,072 square feet, 11.63 acres (two adjacent parcels)
• Built in 1912
• Last sale: The property has been in the Watts family since at least 1913.
• Note: This will be an estate auction, as opposed to a judicial auction, so there will be no 10-day period for upset bids.
  • Listing: “public water, septic, barn, multiple outbuildings”
  • The listing includes no interior pictures, but the house can be visited by appointment.
  • A classic “Mount Vernon” style of Colonial Revival: full-height porch with square pillars, symmetrical facade, dark shutters on white siding, classical decorative details around the door, and simple, formal two-story rectangular form with a shallow roofline.
  • The house probably was built by Richard Thomas Watts (1850-1931) and Martha Alice Long Watts (1861-1917). A 1913 deed in Richard’s name is too vague to identify the property with certainty. This also could be a property he bought in the 1800s, for which only a mortgage document seems to be available online.
  • “Mr. Watts was widely known as a farmer and had many friends in the county where he had spent his entire life,” the Twin City Sentinel said in his obituary.
  • In 1918 Richard passed ownership to Charlie Ross Watts (1884-1959), one of his six sons, and daughter-in-law Armittie Francis Kreeger Watts (1887-1962). Charlie was a farmer and also operated the Watts Grocery Store in Tobaccoville.
  • Charlie’s son Carl Willis Watts (1916-1994) inherited the house in 1963. Carl and his wife, Velma Irene Watts (1923-2026), owned Watts Distributing Company, an electric appliance distributor. Carl was president; Velma was secretary-treasurer. The property is being sold by Velma’s estate.

2508sink

2508 Sink Street, Winston-Salem (PDF)

• A continuing series of online auctions is under way.
  • A previous auction drew a bid of at least $90,200, which was lower than the reserve amount. It wasn’t accepted.
  • Opening bid: $25,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,051 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Built in 1922
• Last sales: $91,500, June 2026 (foreclosure); $140,000, December 2022
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: This is the third time since 2007 that the house been taken by a lender.
• District NR nomination: “One story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; shingled gable ends and shed-roof dormer; nine-over-one windows; shed-roof porch; square posts on brick piers; knee braces.”

1744longview

1744 Longview Drive, Winston-Salem (PDF)
Sale pending September 1, 2026

• Auction ended September 1, 2026; final bid was $85,001.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,562 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Built in 1948
• Last sale: $15,000, December 1985
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house was bought in 1985 by Bennie Lee Swepson (d. 2008, age 82) and Amy Swepson (dates unknown). Bernie worked for R.J. Reynolds. He was an Army veteran and a stunt motorcycle rider.
• District NR nomination: “Period Cottage. One story; side gable; brick; front-gable entry pavilion; facade chimney with stone accents; metal porch; one-over-one replacement windows.”

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

Alamance, Caswell and Rockingham Counties

712smain

712 S. Main Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The George and Florence Burton House
Sale pending May 6, 2026
No longer under contract May 7, 2026

• $180,000 (originally $255,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,024 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $60
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 9, 2026
• Last sale: Deed not found online
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house needs cosmetic work throughout, but it hasn’t been ruined with vinyl floors and other cheap crap.
• District NR nomination: “A substantial number of ‘four-square’ houses — two-story, double-pile, hipped-roof frame dwellings — exhibit classical details. For instance, the house at 712 south Main Street has Tuscan columns supporting the full-facade porch and sidelights flanking the entrance.”
  • The earliest known owners were George Washington Burton (1857-1936) and Florence Lee Mims Burton (1864-1942). George had an eclectic career, working in Milton in the retail trade, later entering the tobacco business in Reidsville. “When his health began to fail, he became the proprietor of the Piedmont Hotel, which business he continued until his death,” his obituary said.
  • The house was bought in 1944 by Clarence Lamar Jolly (d. 1958, age 56) and Priscilla Charles Hoffman Jolly (dates unknown). Clarence was a graduate of Georgia Tech and a career textile executive. He came to Reidsville as general superintendent of the Cone Mill Edna Plant.
  • In 1977, their son Charles and daughter-in-law Myrna took ownership. They sold the house in 1981 to Walter Daniel Rakestraw (1927-2010) and Dorothy Grey Dove Rakestraw (1928-2023). Dot worked for Sears for 30 years. Walter worked for the IRS. After retiring, he operated several businesses, including R and R Realty, Golden Tan, Silver Shears and Golden Comb. Dot’s estate is now selling the house.

223lawsonville

223 Lawsonville Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Major W.S. Allen House

• $175,000 (originally $214,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,972 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $59
• Built in 1870
• Listed June 26, 2026
• Last sales: $14,800, December 1980; $3,500, August 1939
• Neighborhood: Governor Reid Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: A Folk Victorian with gable-front-and-wing form and characteristic bay window and turned porch posts.
• District NR nomination: “Significant as the home of Major W.S. Allen (1839-1927).” William Samuel Allen was a native of Guilford County and a Confederate veteran. He became one of Reidsville’s original town commissioners when the town was incorporated in 1873. He served several terms as mayor and also was named to the school board. He operated a drug store for 30 years and was involved in tobacco manufacturing.
  • The house was owned by the major’s children until 1989, when the last family member of that generation, a daughter-in-law, sold it. A 1939 dispute over ownership had gone to court, with a son and daughter paying $3,500 to their two widowed half-sisters for the house. Three other siblings stayed out of it.
  • [T]his late 19th century two-story L-shaped frame house has undergone a number of remodelings during its history, including application of asbestos siding.
  • “A standing seam tin gable roof with returns covers the house, which has a three-bay facade with a small rectangular window bay on the first floor of the projecting northwest bay. Two-over-two windows have arched lintels and board and batten shutters, and a transom tops the entrance.
  • “The one-story, hipped roof porch is supported by paired square wooden posts, and rebuilt brick chimneys rise through the roof ridge. Similar chimneys occur in the numerous one-story gable-roofed rear wings and ells.
  • “The house stands well back from the street on a large corner lot with mature trees and shrubbery; a low stone retaining wall runs along the front property line.”

148bridge

148 Bridge Street, Milton, Caswell County
The Gordon-Brandon House

• $75,000
• 1,968 square feet, 1.7 acres
• Price/square foot: $13
• Built around 1850
• Last sale: $30,000, June 2022
• Neighborhood: Milton Historic District (NR)
• Note: According to the 2022 listing, the house “was purchased by an absentee owner in 2000 and suffered several years of neglect. Happily, it was recently purchased by a local preservationist who has enlisted Preservation NC’s assistance to find someone to purchase and restore it to its former elegance.” Now they’re looking for a new owner again.
  • “The Gordon-Brandon House is an unusual example of a uniquely Milton house type: a modest-scale raised Greek Revival cottage consisting of a brick lower level and a wood frame upper level containing the main entrance and ornamentation. Located at the end of N. Bridge (‘Warehouse’) Street, the house is set near Country Line Creek on a secluded wooded lot entered through masonry gates. Nearby is the last remaining tobacco factory in Milton.”
  • “Some rehabilitation work has been started on the property, including removal of rotten flooring to begin repair of the joists and repointing and repair of the south side chimney.  A comprehensive rehabilitation is still needed, including rebuilding the two front bay windows, masonry repair/repointing, foundation and structural repair. The roof will need to be assessed and repaired accordingly.
  • “Other needed repairs include new electrical, plumbing and HVAC systems, removal of wood paneling, repair/replacement of damaged plaster, and new bathrooms and kitchen.”
  • The property is located in the Milton National Register Historic District and is eligible for tax credits.
  • “The Gordon-Brandon House may have been built c.1850 by Field Gordon who owned a local saloon.” In 1948 it was purchased by James Hunter Brandon Jr. (1908-1964) and Annie Page Carter Brandon (1907-2000). Hunter owned Brandon Shell Service Station. Annie was a teacher.

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie Counties

607kirby

607 Kirby Road, King, Stokes County

• $549,900 (originally $550,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,381 square feet, 2.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $398
• Built in 1910
• Two separate listings — May 19, 2026, and June 23, 2026
• Last sale: $800, August 1925
• Neighborhood: A 1961 deed says, “This property lies south of King, on the south side of Kirby Road (OLD DAN RIVER ROAD) one mile eastward from Five Points.”
• Note: The property has been owned by the Turner-Kirby family for about 136 years.
  • There are two contradictory listings for the property.
  • One calls the house “an iconic turn-of-the-century estate built in 1910 and rich with Southern charm. This historic town and county landmark showcases timeless architecture, inviting porches, and character rarely found today. … A true treasure waiting to be reimagined.”
  • The other: “2.17 acres of commercial land in the heart of King, NC. (The house currently on the land has no value.)”
  • Joseph E. Turner (1867-1953) bought two tracts in 1889 and 1890, both only vaguely described in deeds. Since those were the only properties that county records show hm owning, this property was likely part of one of them. Joseph was a farmer who lived in King his entire life.
  • The house was built by either Joseph or his son Perry Boston Turner (1888-1935). In 1911 Joseph passed ownership of the property, then 8.65 acres, to Perry and his wife, Dora Alice Carroll Turner (1889-1971). Perry moved to Winston-Salem around 1920 and worked as a salesman.
  • In 1925 Perry and Dora sold the house to his sister Doskey Turner Kirby (1891-1931) and her husband, Charlie Edgar Kirby (1880-1964). Charlie was a farmer and also worked for Southern Railway for 20 years. He served in the Army “during the Mexican Insurrection of 1911,” his obituary said.
  • In 1961 Charlie passed ownership to daughter Blannie Bernice Kirby (1916-1999). The property is now being sold by her nieces and nephews (or their descendants), who may or may not have any sentimental attachment to the place.

132orchard

132 Orchard Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
Sale pending September 23, 2026

• $255,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,527 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 27, 2026
• Last sale: $240,000, July 2025
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is one of the six or so oldest houses in the historic district.
  • There’s no air conditioning upstairs.
  • Behind the house is a decrepit-looking, circa 1950 one-story apartment. The listing includes a picture of it but doesn’t mention it.
• District NR nomination: “Fronting the street, 132 Orchard is a basic T-plan house of vinyl-sided frame construction with two-story gable wings and a long rear one-story ell. The one-story front porch has turned posts (probably modern) and square balusters. Other features include composite-shingle roofing and replacement windows and wood and glass front door.”

1055ed

1055 Ed Booth Road, Moore’s Spring, Stokes County

• $175,000
• 1 acre
• Built circa 1900
• Listed June 3, 2026
• Last sales: $12,000, May 2018; $200, November 1937
• Neighborhood: Near the Moore’s Spring community, just off Moore’s Spring Road, about 5 miles west of Danbury and 15 miles southeast of Westfield. It has a Westfield mailing address.
• Note: The school may have been called Moore’s Spring School, since that’s the community it served. The two-room schoolhouse most likely was built around 1900. The school was closed by 1937, probably several years earlier as smaller community schools were combined into larger ones.
  • Three sides of the property face Hanging Rock State Park.
  • Stokes County Historic Inventory, 1989: “Judging from those which remain, many of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century schools in the county were practical frame buildings with one or two rooms and little or no ornamentation. … The schools for white children in the county consolidated into fewer and larger structures during the 1920s and early 1930s. It was at this time that most, if not all, of the small frame schoolhouses ceased operation.”

207summit

207 Summit Street, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2025
Relisted September 5, 2026

• $160,000 (originally $200,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,667 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1920 (per county, see note)
• Listed March 27, 2025
• Last sale: $28,500, October 1984
• Note: The seller says the house was built in 1890, but the listing provides no documentation.
  • Something to ask about from the 2025 listing (not included in 2026): “Pre-listing inspection available upon request. … Previous water leaks and foundational issue noted. Foundation issues quoted by structural repair company and can be provided upon request.”
  • The pictures with the 2025 listing were better.
  • County property records have the street name misspelled (“Summitt”) and give the acreage as zero.
  • The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the Frank J. Petree House, most likely for Francis Jacob Petree (1886-1975), who bought the house in 1923. He was married to Eva Maude Vaughn Petree (1893-1980). Frank was a plumbing contractor. The house was sold by their daughter to the current owners in 1984.

1691pine

1691 Pine Hall Road, Pine Hall, Stokes County
The Williamson-Mitchell House
Listing withdrawn February 2026; relisted July 17, 2026
Listing withdrawn August 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.

1315harmony

1315 U.S. 21 Highway, Yadkin County (PDF)
The Luther F. Miller House

• Auction closed Thursday August 27, 2026.
  • The website says the property has been sold for $63,000. No deed has been filed yet.
• 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (per listing), 1,660 square feet, 2 acres
  • County records show 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 4, 2026
• Last sales: $45,000, April 2026; $249,000, March 2020
• Neighborhood: Near the Lone Hickory community, about 5.5 miles southeast of Hamptonville and 9.6 miles southwest of Yadkinville. The property has a Hamptonville mailing address.
• Note: The property appears to be a 2-acre piece of a 51-acre tract.
  • “The home has been vacant for several years, currently has no electrical service, and is in poor condition. It will require a complete renovation or may be best suited for demolition and redevelopment. The well is believed to be functional but has not been confirmed due to no electrical service. The septic system is in unknown condition and Yadkin County has no septic permit records available.”
  • The history of the house is a subject for further research. The State Historic Preservation Office associates the home with Luther F. Miller (1856-1926). County records give the date of the house as 1940, suggesting that either the county’s date of the house is off by many years or there was another Luther F. Miller who was significantly younger than the one who died in 1926.
  • “The deceased was one of the substantial and progressive men of his community and had in many ways, especially in the matter of education, given his influence and ability unstintingly for the benefit of his section,” the Winston-Salem Journal wrote in Luther’s obituary.

314virginia

314 Virginia Drive, Yadkinville, Yadkin County (PDF)
The L.D. Kelly House

• Auction held Tuesday, September 1, 2026
  • The listing says the sale has closed, but no deed has been filed.
  • Estimated credit bid: $130,000 (“The amount bids must exceed to purchase the property. The highest bid above it wins in the end.”)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms (per county), 2,626 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Built in 1940 per county records, but the house looks older.
• Last sale: $29,500, June 1977
• Note: County records list a swimming pool and a pole shed on the property. Whether they’re still there is unknown.
  • The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the L.D. Kelly House. That designation most likely refers to Leonard Davis Kelly III (1873-1937), although if the house was built in 1940, he never lived there. 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.
  • It was bought in 1977 by Wesley Dewitt Tuttle (1945-2019) and Joyce J. Tuttle. Wesley was a veteran of the Vietnam War. He worked for Roadway Express and later as pastor of Faith Chapel Church.

Davidson, Randolph and Montgomery Counties

Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery and Neighboring Counties

207npayne

207 N. Payne Road, Davidson County
The Julius and Katie Nifong House

• $248,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,132 square feet, 1.81 acres
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1916
• Listed September 12, 2026
• Last sale: $70,000, October 2017
• Neighborhood: In the Union Grove community in northern Davidson County, about 11 miles south of Winston-Salem near Arcadia and Midway. The property has a Winston-Salem mailing address.
• Listing: “Enter the property at your own risk.” It includes no pictures of the interior.
• Note: The house most likely was built by Julius E. Nifong (1859-1940) on what was then a 33-acre tract he received in 1889 (I think; look at the hand-written deed and see what you think) from his parents, Jacob Nifong (1823-1901) and Catherine “Katie” Weir Nifong (ca. 1823-1900, dates uncertain).
  • Julius was a farmer. He and his wife, Chloe Dulcina “Della” Bodenhamer Nifong (1852-1942), lost the house to foreclosure in 1940. Julius died two months later. His obituary said he had lived his entire life “at the present home place,” but the house doesn’t appear to date back to the 1850s.
  • In 1978 the property was sold to Jerome W. Transou (1954-2006), and it still remains in his name. He worked for R.J. Reynolds and Reynolds American. He was an active volunteer with the United Way, American Cancer Society and the National Black Theater Festival, among other organizations.

244carl

244 Carl Snider Road, Davidson County

• $245,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,880 square feet, 2.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $85
• Built in 1918
• Listed September 21, 2026
• Last sale: $245,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Near the Silver Valley community, about 15 miles southeast of Lexington and 13 1/2 miles south of Thomasville.
• Note: Many old houses have sad stories in their histories, but few are this recent. A June 8 court order involving the now-separated owners states, “Defendant had after the separation of the parties neglected the condition of the home and allowed the home to become filthy and unsafe for the minor children, leading in part to the Court’s award of custody to the Plaintiff father.” The house really is a mess inside.
  • The initial listed price is the same as the sale price eight years ago.
  • The house was most likely built by Carl Luther Snider Sr. (1886-1963) and Ella Louranda Beck Snider (1890-1977). Carl was a farmer.
  • Ownership passed to their daughter Geraldine Marion “Gerry” Snider Miller (1923-1997). She passed ownership to two of her children in 1994 but continued to live there for the rest of her life. The children sold the house in 2001.

396pee

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

• $159,500 (originally $231,800)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 2.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $89
• 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
  • Listing: “Heating and cooling units have been vandalized and not operational.”
  • 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.

207w9th

207 W. 9th Street, Lexington, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn October 13, 2016; relisted November 11, 2020
Listing withdrawn November 16, 2020; relisted May 15, 2026
Sale pending July 6, 2026

• $129,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,294 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $100
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 31, 2015
• Last sale: $64,000 September 1999
• Neighborhood: Lexington Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “One-and-one-half-story vinyl-sided bungalow with a side-gable roof, gabled dormer and engaged front porch supported by replacement metal posts spanned by a metal railing; replacement 1/1 sash, shed addition on west elevation, concrete block foundation. The house appears on the 1929 Sanborn map.”

227asheboro

227 Asheboro Street, Liberty, Randolph County
The Bascom and Alpha Brower House

• $125,500
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,197 square feet, 0.83 acre
• Price/square foot: $57
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 26, 2026
• Last sale: The property has been in the Brower family since 1906.
• Neighborhood: Liberty Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is being sold by a great-grandson of Bascom and Alpha.
• District NR nomination: “The Bascom M. and Alpha L. Brower House, 227 N. Asheboro St. … displays the transitional characteristics of the massed-plan and compound roof form drawn from the Queen Anne style and combined with aspects of the Neoclassical influences which swept the nation at the tum of the century. … The one-story porch extends across the entire faced and wraps portions of both the north and south elevations and features a porte-cochere at its north corner.”
  • Neoclassical elements include pedimented gables and Tuscan columns.
  • Bascom Moore Brower (1878-1940) was a prominent local businessman. He was cashier at the Bank of Liberty for 25 years. He retired and opened a “modern mercantile business,” his obituary said, in partnership with his son James. He served as secretary of the Liberty school board and as a director of Liberty Industries Inc. His death occasioned a laudatory memorial editorial in the Greensboro Record:

613westside

613 Westside Drive, Lexington, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn July 23, 2022; relisted January 1, 2023
Listing withdrawn January 1, 2025
Relisted April 23, 2026

• $106,000 (originally $85,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,291 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1932 (per county, but probably by 1929; see note)
• Listed May 18, 2022
• Last sale: $5,000, December 2011
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: “New listing price reflects seller’s minimum acceptable by seller”
• District NR nomination: “One-story brick bungalow with a clipped-front-gable roof and a gabled entry porch supported by tapered posts on brick piers; pergola at north end of porch, 5/1 sash, brick interior and end chimneys, stuccoed gables, shed addition on north elevation. The house appears on the 1929 Sanborn map.”

410high

410 High Point Street, Randleman, Randolph County
The Hayworth-Floyd House
Sale pending April 27 to May 6, 2026
Sale pending June 7 to August 26, 2026
Listing withdrawn August 26, 2026; relisted September 23, 2026
Sale pending October 2, 2026

• $65,000 (originally $110,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,542 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $42
• 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.

1591old

1591 Old N.C. Highway 109, Davidson County
The Milton Hughes House
Auction apparently canceled

• The property had been listed with auction date to be announced.
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,128 square feet, 3.79 acres
• Built in 1929
• Last sale: $63,000, June 2009
• Neighborhood: About 12 miles southeast of Lexington and 10 miles south of Thomasville, near the Silver Valley community.
• Note: The house is pretty well trashed inside.
  • The house was built by Milton Hughes (1869-1951), who bought the property in 1904. He was a farmer. When he died, one of his seven daughters, Ora Hughes Nance (1915-2008), and son-in-law Benjamin Carson Nance (1919-1970) were living with him in the home. Ora’s siblings agreed to give her the house after their father’s death. Benjamin was the produce manager at the A&P in Thomasville.
  • Ora’s estate sold it to the present owner in 2009.

506w4th

506 W. 4th Street, Siler City, Chatham County (PDF)

• A continuous series of online auctions is under way.
  • Opening bid: $85,000 (previously $86,000, then $81,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,478 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Built in 1900
• Last sale: $85,500, July 2024 (foreclosure)
• Note: County records show no central heating or air conditioning systems.
  • In 1981, ownership of the property was transferred to Clarence Lee “Wormie” Gilliland (1943-2003) from his parents, William Roe Gilliland (1918-1992) and Myrtle Mae Gilliland (1920-2001). William and Myrtle continued to live in the house for the rest of their lives. William was retired from the Boling Company, the former High Point Bending and Chair Company. Myrtle had worked for the Siler City Manufacturing Company.

115greenhill

115 Greenhill Road, Ramseur, Randolph County (PDF)

• A continuous series of online auctions is under way.
  • Starting bid: $77,000 (originally $79,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 992 square feet, 1.01 acres
• Built in 1940
• Last sale: $140,000 (foreclosure); $225,000, July 2024
• Neighborhood: At the corner of U.S. Highway 64 and Greenhill Road.
• Note: The interior is pretty well trashed.