Restoration Projects: Sales, Winter-Spring 2023

601 Park Avenue, Greensboro
The Rigdon and Helen Dees House

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.”