Piedmont Historic Homes

Recent Sales

• Sold for $130,000 on December 18, 2023 (listed at $139,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,686 square feet, 5.91 acres
• Price/square foot: $77
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 25, 2023
• Last sale: $110,000, May 2023
• Note: The house was listed after five months by an owner who has given up on renovations, as the previous owner did.
  • Some of the work has been good (the siding was milled from trees on the property, according to a previous listing); some, not so good (replacement windows).
  • The property includes a horse stable and a creek along the rear property line.
  • The property has a Westfield mailing address but is well to the east, roughly between Westfield and Lawsonville.

• Sold for $115,000 on December 14, 2023 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,612 square feet, 2.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1898
• Listed October 5, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2002
• Listing: “It needs cosmetic updates and renovations with the most expensive ones being installation of a central HVAC system including the additional electrical wiring and ductwork and a complete plumbing upgrade. …
  • “Removal of all personal property and trash is negotiable. Must have proof of funds for ALL offers. No assignments or wholesaling. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER THE OLD BARNS. SELLER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES THAT OCCUR ON THE PROPERTY.”

130 W. Lebanon Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The A.J. Bondurant House

• Sold for $107,000 on December 4, 2023
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2,304 square feet, lot size not recorded in property records
• Price/square foot: $46
• Built in 1900
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $84,000, November 2011
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Two-story building of vinyl-sided frame construction with a composite-shingled hip roof. The two-tier front porch has square posts (historic) and square balusters (modern), an exterior stair, and granite steps.
  • “The front entries are a mix of historic wood and glass and modern metal. Other features include a hipped dormer, a parged interior chimney, a parged foundation, and replacement windows. A granite retaining wall runs along the front of the lot.
  • “1948 Sanborn map address: 137. A.J. Bondurant lived at the address in 1928. The county date for the property is 1900, which is probably too early.” The nomination dates it to 1920.
  • Andrew Jackson Bondurant (1878-1963) was a farmer. He died at age 83, three months after the death of his wife, Jo Ellen Scales Bondurant (1887-1961). Their survivors included four sons and seven daughters.

• Sold for $102,000 on November 30, 2023 (listed at $99,000)
  • Sold to an LLC in High Point
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,217 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 27, 2023
• Last sale: $15,400, February 1958
• Note: “Windows and doors are boarded up because most windows are in bad shape with broken panes and/or wood rot.”
  • Some of the interior charm has survived despite the home’s neglect.

• Sold for $192,222 on November 29, 2023 (listed at $150,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,064 square feet, 0.57 acre
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 8, 2023
• Last sale: $21,000, January 1975
• Neighborhood: Country Club Estates

• Sold for an astonishing $150,100 on November 27, 2023 (listed at $100,000)
  • Sold to a Winston-Salem LLC
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,014 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $148
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 8, 2023
• Last sale: $21,000, January 1975 (one of five properties sold together, no individual prices specified)
• Neighborhood: Ardmore (but not within historic district)

• Sold for $88,000 on November 16, 2023 (listed at $87,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,512 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $58
• Built in 1925
• Listed October 18, 2023
• Last sale: $65,000, June 1998
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “Quaint”
• Note: Bank-owned property
• District NR nomination: “One-story Craftsman Bungalow with front-jerkinhead roof; vinyl siding; shingled gable end; one-over-one windows and hexagonal/diamond multi-light-over-one windows; shed-roof porch supported by metal posts; knee braces.”

274 Church Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Baptist Pastorium

• Sold for $81,000 on November 15, 2023
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,365 square feet, lot size not recorded in county records
• Price/square foot: $59
• Built in 1900
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $8,500, September 1985
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Although its date of construction was earlier, the first known use of the house, from at least the early 1930s through the 1940s, was as the Baptist Pastorium. A new parsonage was erected at 132 Gwyn Avenue in 1949. …
  • “Typical of many Queen Anne-style cottages built during the early years of the twentieth century, the house has a steep hipped roof with pedimented side cross gables, interior chimneys, and a partial front porch with plain posts and sawnwork balustrade.
  • “Somewhat unusual is the left front projecting wing with its angled bay-front end and exterior front chimney. Although the body of the house has been covered with vinyl siding, the roof retains its pressed-metal shingles and its decorative metal acroteria on the ridgecrest.”

• Sold for $75,000 on November 14, 2023 (originally $105,000)
  • Four accepted offers fells through before the owners closed on the fifth.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,199 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $63
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 31, 2023
• Last sale: $33,000, October 1989
• Note: Not owner-occupied

• Sold for $85,000 on October 30, 2023 (listed at $110,000)
• bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,694 square feet, 0.66 acre
• Price/square foot: $32
• 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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• Sold for $85,000 on October 30, 2023 (listed at $92,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,317 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $65
• Built circa 1927
• Listed August 1, 2023
• Last sale: October 2003, price not listed in deed
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: County records give the date of the house as 1931, but the address appeared in the city directory as early as 1927.
  • The property was bought in 1912 by Arthur James Hughes Sr. It has remained in his family ever since except for a five-year period from 1998 to 2003, when a granddaughter sold it and then bought it back again.
  • Arthur was born in London. He was secretary-treasurer of Carolina Warehouse Inc. and later worked in real estate.
  • In 1927 the city directory listed Arthur and Arthur Jr., a civil engineer, as residents. Arthur had been a widower since his wife, Louise Meiser Hughes, 1874-1925, died.
  • When he died in 1928, Arthur Sr. was living in the house with his second wife, Thelma Smith Hughes (dates unknown), his son John Robert Hughes Sr. (1906-1998) and daughter-in-law Margaret Pearl Dixie Bryson Hughes (1908-1979). John was manager of the Ideal Barber Shop. He and Dixie bought the house from Thelma in 1934. They lived in the house until around 1955, when they made it a rental property.
  • John passed the house to his daughter Betty Hughes Nichols (1929-2023) in 1995. Betty graduated from Guilford College with a major in English and history and received a masters degree in education from UNCG. “Betty went on to become one of Greensboro’s first women residential builders, building many homes around the Forest Oaks Country Club neighborhood,” her obituary said. She was a charter member of Westover Church and was active with the Daughters of the American Revolution, Family and Children Services and the Greensboro Symphony Guild.

• Sold for $230,000 on October 20, 2023 (listed at $325,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,201 square feet, 8.31 acres
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 5, 2023
• Last sale: $3,465, April 1925
• Note: The property has a Lexington mailing address but is in the Enterprise community 10 miles north of town.
  • The property has been in the seller’s family since before the 1925 sale, when Lewis Philip Reich (1877-1952) and Annie E. Zimmerman Reich (1882-1964) sold it to their son Willie Eli Reich (1902-1933). Lewis was a farmer and dairyman. He was born in Forsyth County but since childhood had lived in Freidburg in Davidson County and then in Enterprise for 52 years.

• Sold for $105,000 on October 18, 2023 (originally $200,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,552 square feet, 1.67 acres
• Price/square foot: $68
• 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

409 W. Main Street, Pilot Mountain, Surry County
The Lewis Snyder House

• Sold for $100,000 on October 11, 2023
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,877 square feet, lot size not recorded in property records
• Price/square foot: $35
• Built in 1900
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $500, May 1935
• Note: County property record card: “MUCH DEF MAINT; PORCH FALLING; HOLE IN ROOF”
  • Undated photo from the Surry County Historical Society (Ruth Minick Collection):

• Sold for $191,500 on October 10, 2023 (originally $265,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,200 square feet, 0.48 acre (see note)
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1920
• Listed August 31, 2023
• Last sale: $58,000, March 1992
• Neighborhood: Southern Pines Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “This home is listed [in county records] as 2 BR 1 BA at 750 sq ft however it has 2 bathrooms and is really 1200+ square feet”
• District NR nomination: “Irregularly-shaped, Tuscan-influenced, stuccoed clay tile house; metal Spanish tile gabled and hipped roofs: two-story, three-sided bay on east elevation with round-arched doorway with transom; round-arched doorway on west elevation with ornamented surround; round-arched doorway on north elevation with transom; casement windows; shutters with cutouts on doors and windows; modern garage door on north elevation; clay tile projecting from stuccoed walls; designed by gentleman artist George E. Cook as a gallery and garage adjacent to his (now destroyed) seasonal house; later home to his brother-in-law, Sicilian Count Vittorio Crescimanno.”
  • “George E. Cook (1865-1930) was an impressionist artist who traveled across America and Europe painting and selling his art in many galleries, most works being oil on canvas. Adelaine Cook, George’s sister, sung opera in America and Europe as well.” (Chenango County Historical Society)
  • Count Vittorio Emmanuel Crescimanno di Capodarso (1901-1992) and Mary Adaline Cook Crescimanno di Capodarso (1869-1964) bought the property in 1956 and owned it until their deaths. Both are buried in Aberdeen.

• Sold for $69,900 on October 10, 2023 (listed at $69,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,625 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $27
• Built in 1901
• Listed August 24, 2023
• Last sale: Property records show a deed dated June 1972, but, unlike even most rural counties, Davidson County’s online deeds database doesn’t go back that far.
• Note: No central air conditioning or heating systems.
  • After letting the house deteriorate for years, the owners are inviting a buyer to tear it down: “Talk to the Town of Denton about the building possibilities with this lot.”
  • How far have they let the property go? Listing: “Despite its undeniable charm and historical significance, the home’s structural deterioration and the ravages of time are undeniable. As whispers of the past linger within its walls, it’s clear that this old house, with its rich history and faded elegance, is on the brink of yielding to the inevitable march of progress. CAUTION: PORCH AND FLOORS ARE WEAK, WATCH WHERE YOU WALK, PROCEED WITH CAUTION. DO NOT GO IN TAPED OFF ROOMS.”
  • Although no deeds are accessible online for this property, this example of small-town local government at work is available (click to see it bigger):

• Sold for $40,000 on October 9, 2023 (listed at $49,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,238 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $18
• Built in 1878
• Listed September 19, 2023
• Last sale: $17,500, June 2023
• Listing: “This home has endured a fire and NEEDS WORK and is presently NOT HABITABLE. The first level is not fire-damaged but needs considerable work and upper level is stripped to studs. Fire-damaged materials have been removed from the premises but roof covering is not presently fully intact. … No HVAC, no plumbing fixtures, no lights.”

• Sold for $60,000 on October 6, 2023 (listed at $85,000)
  • The buyer is an LLC based in Cary.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,823 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $21
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 4, 2023
• Last sale: $100,000, November 2002
• Note: The house was under contract when it was listed.
  • Single-family house, divided into two units.
  • Owned by an LLC

• Sold for $125,419 on September 27, 2023 (listed at $122,400)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,984 square feet, 8.08 acres
• Price/square foot: $63
• Built in 1888
• Listed September 7, 2023
• Last sale: $14,000, January 1977
• Note: The listing includes no pictures of the interior of the house.
  • The listing says a mobile home on the property has no value.
  • The property has been owned since 1941 by the family of Samuel Buford Fain (1890-1976) and Dolly Ruth Light Fain (1902-1977). It is being sold by the estate of a grandson.
  • The property has a Pinnacle mailing address but is 4 1/2 miles southwest of town.

• Sold for $130,000 on September 7, 2023 (originally $149,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 752 square feet, 3.53 acres
• Price/square foot: $173
• Built in 1944
• Listed July 19, 2023
• Last sale: $20,000, June 2020
• Note: The property has a Mount Airy mailing address, but it’s much closer to Dobson, south of White Plains. It’s in a bend of the Little Fisher River, surrounded by the river on three sides.
  • Curious: Almost no houses were built in the United States in 1944.
  • Vague: “There’s also a large building in good condition that can be used for multiple purposes.”

• Sold on September 1, 2023, price not recorded on deed (listed at $45,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 914 square feet, 2.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $49 (at $45,000)
• 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.

• Sold for $125,500 on August 30, 2023 (listed at $129,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,062 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1917
• Listed June 9, 2023
• Lasts sale: $42,000, April 1995
• Note: “Adjoining lot in rear of home included in sale.”

• Sold for $139,000 on August 24, 2023 (listed at $124,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,342 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $59
• Built in 1903
• Listed June 7, 2023
• Last sale: $67,000, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: The address is skipped over in the district’s NR nomination, oddly. The earliest known residents were Remus M. Holder and Mary Holder in 1916. Remus was an employee of the Lexington Mirror Company.

14 Robbins Circle, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $45,000 on August 24, 2023
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,217 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $37
• Built in 1918
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $11,000, November 2019

• Sold for $50,000 on August 23, 2023 (originally $65,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 848 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $58
• Built in 1905
• Listed July 28, 2023
• Last sale: $27,000, December 1988
• Note: Appears to have been a rental property for at least 35 years.

• Sold for $81,000 on August 21, 2023 (originally $110,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 722 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1917
• Listed May 6, 2023
• Last sale: $35,000, April 1996
• Neighborhood: Pomona

• Sold for $62,871 on August 15, 2023 (listed at $65,900)
  • Sold to an LLC in Austin, Texas
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,028 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $61
• 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”
  • “Material facts: Part of foundation is missing under kitchen, Only heat is gas heater in bedroom. Water throughout the home is restricted, trickles out at faucets.”

• Sold for $116,000 on August 8, 2023 (listed at $100,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,146 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $54
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 28, 2023
• Last sale: Unknown, apparently before 1982
• Listing: “It has no heat nor air conditioning. We have an oil circulator stove in the den hooked up to the fireplace, but the copper lines from the oil drum are missing. Kitchen floor in front of the sink needs repair. At some point in the past there was a fire in the attic over the kitchen. The ceilings and walls are stained. Owners have never lived in the property. It was used as a rental. … Remaining items will not be removed and becomes the property of buyers at closing.”

• Sold for $100,000 on August 7, 2023 (originally $139,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,555 square feet, 0.95 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• Built in 1912
• Listed June 13, 2023
• Last sale: $47,500, April 2005
• Neighborhood: Erlanger Mills Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “The 2nd floor sq. ft. is appx. 482 ft.,and not in sq. footage advertised because the upstairs has no heat.”
• District NR nomination: Five houses in the district are of this type: “A two-story, three-bay, single-pile, side-gable-roofed house with an almost full-façade hip-roofed porch supported by square posts, a gabled central attic wall dormer bearing only a small vent, six-over-six sash, an interior chimney, a brick foundation, and weatherboards.”
  • This house has “replacement porch posts, a modern wood railing, 1/1 sash, a metal-sheathed foundation, and vinyl siding.”

• Sold for $155,000 on July 25, 2023 (listed at $170,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,930 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $80
• Built in 1931
• Listed June 27, 2023
• Last sale: $12,500, June 1992
• Note: The listing doesn’t include a photo showing the entire front of the house, which is unusual. The photo above is from Google Street View, May 2023.
  • The listing describes it as a “conventional style home.”

• Sold for $100,000 on July 17, 2023 (listed at $85,000)
  • Sold to an LLC in Randleman
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,603 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $62
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 28, 2023
• Last sale: $1,835, June 1945
• Note: The Guilford County Historic Resource Inventory List includes this residence as the “Pugh-McGuiness” House (deeds indicate it should be “McInnis”) but provides little information about it. It was bought in 1945 by Clay Wall McInnis (1899-1968) and Hattie Lillian Apple McInnis (1908-1980), and it appears to have remained in their family ever since. That sale was court-ordered; it’s unclear who the previous owner was. No deeds going back to 1914 mention anyone named Pugh.
  • Clay was a salesman and in the mid-1940s was in the wholesale auto parts business. Hattie had seven siblings — Hallie, Harvey, Helen, Herbert, Herman, Howard and Hugh. Herbert’s first name was, inexplicably, James, but he went by Herbert, his middle name.

• Sold for $104,900 on July 13, 2023 (listed at $99,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,244 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 13, 2023
• Last sale: $26,000, July 2004
• Note: The listing calls it “move in ready,” but it needs some cosmetic work on the interior at least.

• Sold for $79,900 on July 5, 2023 (listed at $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).

66 Bombay Road, Denton, Davidson County

• Sold for $45,000 on June 27, 2023 (listed at $64,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,558 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $29
• 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 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.

• Sold for $110,000 on June 21, 2023 (listed at $124,900)
  • Sold to an LLC based in Eden
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,372 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $46
• 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 …”

501 Cable Street, High Point

• Sold for $35,000 on June 21, 2023
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,385 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $25
• Built in 1915
• Not posted publicly for sale
• Last sale: $12,000, May 1974

• Sold for $290,000 on June 16, 2022 (listed at $344,000)
  • Sold to a fix-and-flip operation based in Greensboro
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,948 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $149
• 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.

• Sold for $65,000 on June 16, 2023 (originally $98,500)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,880 square feet (per county), 1.66 acres
• Price/square foot: $23
• 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.

• Sold for $90,000 on June 14, 2023 (listed at $119,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,636 square feet, 1.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $55
• 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.

• Sold for $75,000 on June 14, 2023 (online auction)
  • It was previously listed for sale with a “suggested offer” of $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
• Price/square foot: $40
• 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

• Sold for $100,000 on June 7, 2023 (listed at $100,000)
  • The buyer was Solid Cash Offer Inc. of Tacoma, Washington.
  • The closing was handled by a firm called 24-Hour Closing in Matthews.
• 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.”

• Sold for $45,000 on June 6, 2023 (listed at $49,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 952 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $47
• 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”

• Sold for $185,000 on June 2, 2023 (listed at $175,000)
  • The property was under contract for 13 1/2 months before closing at $10,000 over the asking price.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,549 square feet )(per county), 11 acres (see note below)
• Price/square foot: $119
• Built in 1868 (per listing)
• Listed February 25, 2021
• Last sale: Before 1990; no identifiable deed found online.
• Neighborhood: The property has a Lexington mailing address but is well to the east, just beyond I-85.
• Listing: No heat or air conditioning systems.
  • The tax card shows 13 acres. The listing says some land was taken for the I-85 corridor. Eleven acres is an estimate subject to survey.
  • County records also show the date of the house as 1900.

• Sold for $130,000 0n June 1, 2023 (listed at $159,900)
  • Sold to an LLC based in Reidsville
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,308 square feet, 1.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $39
• 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.”

• Sold for $170,000 on May 26, 2023 (listed at $160,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,755 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $62
• 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), 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.

• Sold for $60,000 on May 18, 2023 (listed at $49,995)
  • Sold to an LLC based in Lexington
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,050 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $57
• Built in 1914
• Listed April 26, 2023
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District
• Listing: “Priced to sell!!”
• District NR nomination: “One-story weatherboarded bungalow with a side-gable roof and a gabled front porch supported by square posts on brick piers; 12/1 sash, wood shingles and false beams in gables, exposed rafter ends, brick interior chimneys.”

1350 Salisbury Street, Ramseur, Randolph County

• Sold for $55,500 on May 18, 2023
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 820 square feet, 1 acre
• Price/square foot: $68
• Built in 1920
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $27,500, May 2022

2345 Pisgah Church Road, Kernersville, Forsyth County

• Sold for $3.24 million on May 17, 2023
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,532 square feet, 37acres
• Built in 1920
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $34,000, December 2022 (with 1.17 acres)
• Note: Sold as part of a 37-acre tract to a home-building company.

• Sold for $130,900 on May 12, 2023 (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: $42
• 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.

• Sold for $115,000 on May 11, 2023 (listed at $115,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 827 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $139
• Built in 1938
• Listed April 21, 2023
• Last sale: 1940 (4519 Swift) and 1956 (4601 Swift), prices unknown
• Neighborhood: Terra Cotta
• Note: The property consists of two lots, one vacant.
  • “Sellers have never lived in property and have no knowledge if heat or cooling works, no oil in tank. House is being sold ‘AS IS’ Furniture there will not be removed.”
  • The property was bought in 1940 by Eugene McMurray (1909-1991) and Annie Mae Raleigh McMurray (1911-1977), who may have been the original owners. The house is being sold by their descendants.
  • The Terra Cotta community formed around a factory that at the time was about five miles west of Greensboro. Today, it’s well within the city.
    • “The Terra Cotta community was originally a company town for workers of the Pomona Terra Cotta Manufacturing Company. Built in 1886, the company primarily produced terra cotta pipes used in sewage systems across North Carolina as well as products like roof tiles and chimney liners. Company towns like Terra Cotta were communities built around one employer who provided housing as well as shops and other amenities. The Terra Cotta community was primarily African-American families who moved to the area for the work. …
    • “From the beginning, the Terra Cotta community was close-knit. At a time when the South was segregated and good jobs for African-Americans were limited, workers would tell their friends and family about opportunities. Many of the early residents were already related, and this sense of community grew.” (Terra Cotta Community Foundation)
    • What remains of Terra Cotta is a green island surrounded by a sea of asphalt between Wendover Avenue to the south, the railroad tracks to the north and Norwalk Street to the east (click the image to see it larger).

1924 E. 25th Street, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $66,000 on May 11, 2023
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,244 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $29
• Built in 1920
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $9,000, April 1973
• Note: The house was owned from 1973 to 2023 by Thomas Jerry Duke Sr. (1931-2008) and Hilda S. Duke (dates unknown). Thomas was a U.S. Army veteran. He worked for Volvo White Trucking Company for 41 years.

• Sold for $45,000 on May 10, 2023 (listed at $49,900)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,521 square feet, 1.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $30
• Built in 1890
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: Not identifiable in online Stokes County records.
  • The property has a Madison mailing address. It’s located just over the Stokes-Rockingham county line.

• Sold for $165,000 on May 9, 2023 (listed at $160,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,663 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1946
• Listed January 4, 2023
• Last sale: $93,000, October 2004
• Neighborhood: Franklin Boulevard

901 N. Scales Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $72,000 on May 9, 2023
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not listed, 2,007 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $36
• Built in 1890
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $25,000, March 2003

• Sold for $120,000 on May 8, 2023 (originally $150,000)
  • Despite the “classic” “charm and beauty” of this “dream home,” it was sold to a development company.
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,064 square feet, 0.81 acre
• Price/square foot: $94
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 10, 2022
• Last sale: $3,000, August 1977
• Note: The new listing includes “charm and beauty,” “classic,” “great potential,” “dream home,” “original,” “timeless,” “gorgeous,” “inviting,” “perfect,” “plenty of potential,” “spacious,” “perfect” (again) and “unique.”

• Sold for $110,000 on May 8, 2023 (originally $160,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,686 square feet, 5.91 acres
• Price/square foot: $65
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 13, 2021
• Last sale: $51,200, December 2019
• Listing: “renovations started but not completed”
  • Some of the work has been good (the siding was milled from trees on the property); some, not so good (replacement windows).
  • The property includes a horse stable and a creek along the rear property line.
  • The property has a Westfield mailing address but is well to the east, roughly between Westfield and Lawsonville.

1523 W. 1st Street, Winston-Salem
The Robert and Emma Hopper House

• Sold for $210,000 on May 5, 2023 (listed at $246,000)
  • The listing was withdrawn in October 2022 and was sold without being listed publicly again.
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,188 square feet, 0.32 acre
• Price/square foot: $66
• Built in 1923
• Listed September 28, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, June 2002
• Neighborhood: West Highlands
• Note: Rental property
  • “… requires a full rehab but the structure is in good condition. The roof needs to be repaired or replaced, the kitchen and the bathrooms need to be redone, floors need to be changed, AC need to be installed and general maintenance is needed.”
  • The first residents listed in the city directory were Robert Lee Hopper (1868-1954) and Emma Florence McKeel Hopper (1874-1959). Robert was a tobacco auctioneer at Planters Warehouse.

• Sold or $106,400 on May 2, 2023 (originally $112,000)
  • The buyer is something called Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust HB8, so this place may come up for sale again soon.
• 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.

• Sold for $170,000 on April 20, 2022 (listed at $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.

• Sold for $110,000 on April 19, 2023 (listed at $110,000)
  • Sold to an LLC
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,567 square feet 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1923
• Listed March 30, 2023
• Last sale: $3,000, October 1968
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Listing: “home needs some repairs”

• Sold for $60,000 on April 16, 2023 (listed at $65,000)
  • Address of record for the buyer is in New Jersey
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 916 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $66
• Built in 1924
• Listed April 3, 2023
• Last sale: $57,500, November 2022
• Note: The house was sold in July 2022 for $11,500.

• Sold for $85,000 on April 14, 2023 (listed at $99,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 3,573 square feet, 3.08 acres
• Price/square foot: $24
• 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”

• Sold for $50,000 on April 14, 2023 (listed at $44,500)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,492 square feet, 1.19 acres
• Price/square foot: $34
• Built in 1903
• Listed March 16, 2023
• Last sale: November 1983, price not recorded on deed

• Sold for $24,000 on April 14, 2023 (originally $39,900)
  • Kicked from one LLC to another
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 900 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $27
• Built in 1924
• Listed February 22, 2023
• Last sale: $17,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Although it’s in the historic district, the nomination form doesn’t mention it.

• Sold for $90,000 on April 13, 2023 (originally $132,000, later $185,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,342 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $38
• 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.”

• Sold for $54,000 on April 12, 2023 (listed at $34,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,564 square feet, 3.95 acres
• Price/square foot: $35
• 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 release 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

• Sold for $120,000 on April 10, 2023 (listed at $130,000)
• 3 bedrooms (per county), 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,540 square feet, 1.49 acres
• Price/square foot: $47
• 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.”

• Sold for $75,000 on April 5, 2023 (originally $99,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,168 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $64
• 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”

3574 Piney Grove Road, Kernersville, Forsyth County

• Sold for $36,000 on April 5, 2023
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,004 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $36
• Built in 1920
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $500, September 2011

• Sold for $105,000 on March 27, 2023 (listed at $99,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,116 square feet, 3.94 acres
• Price/square foot: $94
• 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.

• Sold for $60,000 on March 24, 2023 (listed at $70,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,796 square feet, 0.5 acre
• Price/square foot: $33
• Built in 1930
• Listed October 27, 2022
• Last sale: $10,000, January 2020
• Note: The property consists of two lots.
  • The owner is an LLC in Charlotte, which apparently has done nothing in almost three years of ownership except put it back on the market at seven times the price it paid.

• Sold for $80,000 on March 20, 2023 (listed at $79,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,626 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 15, 2023
• Last sale: $22,000, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)

316 Irvin Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
The Damaris Price House

• Sold for $75,000 on March 20, 2023
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,432 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $31
• Built ca. 1924
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $76,881, November 9, 2022
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “A relatively intact example of a mid 1920s frame four-square, this was the residence in 1929 of Miss Damaris (or Damorice) Price, a local dry goods merchant.” Damaris was still living in the house when she died at age 73.
  • In 1924, Damaris (1876-1949) bought out the interest of Daisy Dods in A.S. Price & Co., which sold “dry goods, shoes, clothing, gents’ furnishings, notions, hats, etc.” Damaris’s brothers A. Syd Price (1862-1926) and Schuyler K. Price (1869-1913) were partners in the business. Another brother, Zebulon Astor Price (1871-1939), signed the 1924 legal announcement about Damaris buying into the firm, suggesting he also may have been a partner. Damaris liquidated the company in 1926 after Syd’s death.
    • “Typical of the style, the house has a two-story, double-pile plan topped by a high hip roof with a hip dormer and exposed rafters, and a one-story bungalow porch extending to a porte cochere on the north elevation. The three-bay facade consists of paired windows flanking the main entrance.
    • “Interior brick chimneys rise on either side of the roof ridge. An open metal staircase has been added on the south elevation.”

3741 & 3761 Harper Road, Clemmons

• Sold for $450,000 on March 10, 2023
  • Sold to an LLC
• 3741: 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
• 3761: Bedrooms and bathrooms not listed
• Total square feet: 3,391, 6.56 acres
• Price/square foot: $133
• Built in 1922 (3741)
• Not listed with MLS for sale
• Last sale: $66,000, August 2017

• Sold for $63,000 on March 10, 2023 (listed at $60,000)
  • The sale closed after 11 months under contract.
  • The owner died in 1971, intestate. She had five children, four of whom survived her and three of whom had heirs. Among her children and grandchildren, at least seven died intestate.
  • The grantors included six individuals, five married couples and two estates.
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,254 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 31, 2022
• Last sale: $8,200, August 1964
• Neighborhood: Arlington Park
• Note: The property changed hands nine times between August 1925 and August 1928, making to difficult to identify the original owner of the house. It was listed as vacant in 1926 and 1927.
  • The first residents listed in the city directory were Arnold B. Whitt and Rose Lee Whitt, who bought the house in December 1927. Arnold is identified in the directory with only the word “transfer.”
    • In August 1928, Annie L. and Charles B. Pugh bought the house. Charles was a conductor. They lost the house in a foreclosure in 1930.
    • After a few years as a rental owned by real estate and investment companies, the next owners were Harry D. Donnell and Martha E. Donnell, who bought the house in 1936. Harry operated a grocery store a block away at 513 Andrew Street and later worked as a mechanic with Wysong & Miles. They lived in the house until they sold it in 1964.

• Sold for $126,452 on March 9, 2023 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,371 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $92
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 10, 2022
• Last sale: Not identifiable in online records
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “A near twin to 110 S. Poplar Street, this two-story, cross gable house has paired and single two-over-two windows, and a hip roof porch with square posts. It has an irregular diamond shaped attic vent and asbestos siding.”

• Sold for $170,000 on March 7, 2023 (listed at $125,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,312 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 26, 2022
• Last sale: $20,500, August 1979
• Neighborhood: South Fork
• Listing: “Great opportunity for a complete remodel of the entire home”

602 Acadia Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $150,000 on March 7, 2023
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,820 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1915
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $120,000, May 2022

4345 Old Thomasville Road, Davidson County

• Sold for $133,000 on March 7, 2023 (listed at $133,497)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,486 square feet, 1.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1914
• Listed February 9, 2023
• Last sale: $92,000, February 1994
• Note: The house is in Davidson County but has a Winston-Salem mailing address.

• Sold for $160,000 on February 24, 2023 (listed at $175,000)
  • Bought by an LLC
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,377 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $67
• Built in 1910
• Listed February 1, 2023
• Last sale: $100,000, September 2022
• Note: Another fix-and-flip abandoned partway through. The seller has ripped away almost all of the historic character from the house and now wants $75,000 more than he paid for it.
• District NR nomination: “The two-story, frame Triple-A dwelling … features plain siding, a diamond vent in the front gable, a one-story gable ell, replacement one-over-one sash windows, and a one-story hip porch with turned posts and brackets. …
• “The house was built circa 1900 as the First Baptist Church parsonage. The Reverend Rayborn P. Ellington family resided in the house in 1935.”
• The house was being renovated in 1999 when the district’s National Register nomination was written.

• Sold for $140,000 on February 22, 2023 (listed at $140,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,846 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1935
• Listed January 25, 2023
• Last sale: $62,000, August 2013 (part of a multi-property sale)
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “diamond in the rough”
  • County records list the owner as Johnson Concrete Company.
• District NR nomination: “Two-story brick Colonial Revival with a side-gable roof and a pedimented entry porch supported by paired Tuscan columns; vinyl replacement windows, entry with fanlight and sidelights, brick end chimney, brick foundation, flat-roofed porch with Tuscan columns spanned by a wood railing on the east elevation, one-story brick wing on the west elevation.”
  • Orville Rowan Craver (1893-1961) and Jennie Lee Leonard Craver (1896-1977) bought the property in 1925 and were listed at the address in 1937. Jennie sold the house in 1973. Orville was a contractor and owner of Craver Lumber Company and Craver Block Company. “He was one of the most widely known and popular citizens of Davidson County,” The Dispatch said in his obituary.

• Sold for $52,000 on February 22, 2023 (listed at $68,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,628 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $32
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 26, 2023
• Last sale: $42,000, October 2019
• Note: Restoration work in progress

• Sold for $55,000 on February 14, 2023 (listed at $60,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,528 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $36
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 27, 2023
• Last sale: $58,000, February 2022
• Note: A would-be “fix-and-flip” owner is walking away from this one after a year. “Buyer has done a great deal of demolishing … Cash buyers only as this house will not qualify for a loan. Interior is down to studs in some areas. Most of the Main joist and some upper floor joist have been replaced. Inside walls are ready for wiring and insulation. Back porch has been partially closed in. A lot of work has been completed.” Caveat emptor.

• Sold for $45,000 on February 21, 2023 (listed at $50,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,750 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $26
• Built in 1916
• Listed January 31, 2023
• Last sale: $9,800, June 1974
• Note: The listing provides no pictures of the interior.

• Sold for $46,000 on February 20, 2023 (listed at $49,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 2,475 square feet, 1.15 acres
• Price/square foot: $19
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 11, 2023
• Last sale: $55,000, July 1994
• Listing: “The Home has Several Rooms that were used as Bedrooms, but Septic Permit is for 2 Bedrooms.”
  • The listing shows only 2,244 square feet.
  • Located just north of Randleman off U.S. 220 Business

• Sold for $130,000 on February 14, 2023 (listed at $180,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,582 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1910
• Listed November 25, 2022
• Last sale: $3,500, March 1940
• Note: No central air conditioning

605 SE Market Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $7,500 on February 3, 2023
• Bedrooms and bathrooms not listed, 1,808 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $4
• Built in 1900
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $86,000, August 1995
• Note: Property record card notes: “POOR CONDITION … PLUMBING POOR … NO HEAT”

221 College Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $140,000 on January 25, 2023 (originally $300,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,660 square feet, 1.04 acres
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1917
• Listed May 27, 2021
• Last sale: $70,000, March 2014

135 W. Lebanon Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The A.G. Webb House

• Sold for $105,000 on January 20, 2023
• The house is divided into five apartments; bedrooms and bathrooms were not listed; 3,392 square feet, lot size not listed in country property records
• Price/square foot: $31
• Built in 1900
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $325,000, April 1990
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “The Queen Anne form and style of this two-story frame house, which has a hip-and-gable roof with fishscale wood shingles in the gables, and the classicizing influence of its square porch columns, which taper and have an elegant entasis or slight curvature, support an early 1910s construction date.
  • “The house appears to be depicted on the 1915 McGrary map. The wraparound porch has a staggered footprint which conforms to the irregular front of the house with its projecting gabled wing, and it has a gable in line with the front entry and a low railing with square balusters.
  • “Other features of the house include pedimented roof gables, a deck at the top of the roof hip, weatherboard siding, a brick foundation, a modern steel stair on the southeast side, and one-over-one wood sash windows. 1948 Sanborn map address: 140.
  • “A.G. Webb lived at the address in 1928.” Anderson Greene Webb (1883-1974) was secretary-treasurer of Granite Mercantile Company, a wholesaler of groceries and dry goods. He was also vice president of Workmen’s Savings & Loan.

• Sold for $145,000 on January 18, 2023 (originally $155,000, later $210,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,592 square feet
• Price/square foot: $56
• Built in 1892
• Listed December 9, 2019
• Last sale: $125,000, August 2016

• Sold for $33,000 on January 12, 2023
  3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,090 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $16
• Built in 1900
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: August 1997, price not recorded on deed

• Sold for $124,900 on January 10, 0223 (listed at $199,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,636 square feet, 0.10 acre
• Price/square foot: $76
• Built in 1912
• Listed August 23, 2022
• Last sale: $3,000, March 1976
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Longtime rental property
  • No central air conditioning
  • Dr. Rigdon Osmond Dees (1884-1954) and Helen Hazel Groome Dees (1891-1988) were the original owners. Rigdon bought the property in 1913, and they sold it in 1933, although by 1923 they had moved to 305 S. Mendenhall Street. Dr. Dees was a physician and surgeon. He practiced with his brother, Ralph Erastus Dees (1881-1957). Rigdon and Helen moved to Myrtle Beach in 1952. They were the paternal grandparents of noted media figure Rigdon Osmond Dees III (b. 1950).
• The district’s NRHP nomination classifies the house as a “non-contributing structure”: “Permastone, asbestos siding, and altered windows have compromised this dwelling’s integrity.”

• Sold for $55,000 on January 10, 2022 (originally $93,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,700 square feet, 0.8 acre
• Price/square foot: $20
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 26, 2022
• Last sale: $27,500, February 2016

402 E. Main Street, Stoneville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $75,000 on January 6, 2023 (listed at $125,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bedroom, 1,540 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $49
• Built in 1918
• Listed November 11, 2022
• Last sale: $550, September 1942

705 Morehead Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $195,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,785 square feet
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1925
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District