Piedmont Historic Homes

These houses were taken off the market without sales in recent months.

Withdrawn Listings 2023
Withdrawn Listings 2021
Withdrawn Listings 2020
Withdrawn Listings 2018-2019

• $280,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,124 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 26, 2022
• Last sale: $155,000, June 2006
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local)
• Note: The property is in the local historic district, but outside the boundary of the National Register district.

• $599,000 (originally $619,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,280 square feet, 0.67 acre
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1928
• Listed July 21, 2022
• Last sale: $128,000, May 2007
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Picturesque one-and-one half story English cottage style stuccoed house with a steep front gable over the right (west) bays and engaged porch sweeping across the left of the main elevation and extending to form a porte-cochere.
  • “A shed-roofed dormer is lighted by a band of six-light casement windows. The round arched entryway to the porch is repeated in a ‘garden gate’ entrance at the extreme right where the front gable extends almost to the ground.”
  • The National Register description mentions “a fanciful garden gazebo” in the backyard, but it doesn’t appear to have survived.

• $339,000 (originally $900,000 for 30 acres)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,580 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $155
• Built in 1881
• Listed June 1, 2020
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The owner says the house needs considerable work. It has no HVAC.
  • Previous listing: “Large open fields with creek. Farmhouse, large barn and numerous outbuildings. Land suitable for development or possible commercial use.”
  • “60 foot right of way to Pizza Hut.”
  • Located about 4 miles south of Tobaccoville

1300 W. Market Street, Greensboro
sale pending July 17-20, 2022
listing withdrawn November 21, 2022

• $399,900 (originally $459,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,872 square feet (per county), 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $139
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 26, 2022
• Last sale: $13,500, June 1966
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: Before its recent renovation, it was one of the most problematic student rentals in the UNCG area (the university is directly across the street).
  • Although it’s advertised as 5 bedrooms, Greensboro zoning prohibits renting to more than four unrelated persons.
  • Out-of-town owner
  • Replacement windows, but the siding and floors are still wood
  • The listing shows only 2,600 square feet.
  • The last time the house was sold, Friendly Avenue was still called Madison Avenue.
  • The property is on a triangular lot, surrounded by student rentals, on a small triangular block squeezed between two major thoroughfares:

• $165,000 (originally $235,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,371 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• 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.”

• $249,900 (originally $259,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,023 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $124
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 12, 2022
• Last sale: $155,000, September 2002

• $350,000 (originally $425,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,544 square feet, 0.62 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 26, 2022
• Last sale: Unclear in online records
• Note: Covington Memorial Park is across the street.

• $80,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,616 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $50
• Built in 1908
• Listed February 5, 2022
• Last sale: $7,000, September 2019
• Neighborhood: Leaksville
• Note: For sale by owner
  • Out-of-town owner
  • Listing: “Home was damaged in a fire and is being SOLD AS IS. Cash offers only.”

• $999,900 (originally $1.175 million, later $915,000)
• 11 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 7,567 square feet, 22 acres
  • The figures are totals for a cottage and four log cabins.
• Price/square foot: $132
• Built in 1940
• Listed August 1, 2018
• Last sale: $3.6 million, February 1992
• Note: The property includes four log cabins and a cottage that are now rented for weddings and events. It is part of Grassy Creek Vineyard and Winery.
  • Located a mile outside Elkin and two miles from Interstate 77
  • The property includes creeks, a lake and a pond.
  • The cottage has two suites with a bathroom in each.
  • The main log cabin has 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, a large entertainment area, a dining room that can seat more than 50 people, a fully equipped kitchen and a covered porch overlooking the lake.
  • Two cabins are two-bedroom, two-bathroom duplexes.
  • The fourth cabin is a game room with a pool table, card table, satellite television, stereo, bar and bathroom.
  • All furniture, fixtures and equipment are included in the sale.
  • One of the cabins:

• $209,900 (originally $220,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 856 square feet
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1922
• Listed August 30, 2022
• Last sale: $137,000, January 2019
• HOA: $100/month
• Note: Condo in the A.W. Kaplan Apartments, also known as Hartmann at the Flatiron. They were turned into condos in 2009.
  • Abraham Wolf Kaplan (1872-1923) was born in Russia. He was proprietor of the Greensboro Loan Company. Sadly, he died at age 51 just a year after the apartments were built.
  • The apartments were completed in 1922, built at a cost of $24,000. Other notable buildings started or completed that year include the Cypress Street School, now Swann Middle School; C.C. Fordham Building on South Elm Street; the Asheboro Street School, now the Nettie Coad Apartments on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive; and the Brown-Belk department store, 240 S. Elm Street, now the Greensboro Bicentennial corner.

• $244,000 (originally $274,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,291 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 10, 2022
• Last sale: $114,000, August 1997
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Pebbledash stucco ornaments the gables and a front shed dormer of this story-and-a-half Craftsman bungalow, built in the 1910s or early 1920s. The house has brick veneer at the first story and interior brick chimneys.
  • “The composite-shingled side-gable roof engages a front porch with square wood columns and an original or early railing with square balusters. The railing continues all the way across the front with a gate in line with the front entry, perhaps a feature to keep playing toddlers from wandering off the porch. The porch has a granite foundation (as does the rest of the house) and early or original lattice underpinning.
  • “The window sashes appear to be replacements, although they may replicate the original sash arrangements.
  • “Other features include sidelights around the front entry, an interior brick chimney, and a side shed addition with novelty weatherboard siding and a brick foundation.”
  • The original owners were William Isaac Monday (1887-1967) and Ella Smith Monday (1887-1979). William was vice president of the Home Building & Loan Association and vice president of G.C. Lovill Company, a wholesaler of groceries, feed and notions.

• $450,000 (originally $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,846 square feet, 10.0 acres
• Price/square foot: $158
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 11, 2022
• Last sale: $70,000, December 1989
• Note: The house has an attached garage.
  • The listing implies the house needs renovation.
  • “Looks like pine wood floors under carpet.”

• $319,000 (originally $325,000)
• 13 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,224 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $76
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 8, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, November 2016
• Neighborhood: Oakwood Historic District (NRHP)
• Listing: “Huge home being used as a 13 room rooming house but can easily be used as a 11-12 room single family home”
• District NRHP nomination: “prominent frame house influenced by the Colonial Revival style in its massing and symmetrical fenestration and by the Craftsman mode in the supports of its impressive wrap front porch; tall side gable originally with wooden shingle accents on second story and weatherboards at first; now covered in vinyl.”
• Thomas Jackson Gold Sr. (1879-1961) was born in Shelby. He was a judge, state legislator and attorney. His wife, Nina Josephine Wheeler Gold (1887-1964), was born in High Point.

• $395,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,791 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 23, 2022
• Last sale: $295,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NRHP)
• Listing: “2 car garage with a potential office/studio space that is heated/cooled.”
• District NRHP nomination: “Constructed in the late 1920s for Dr. A.J. Ellington, a
  local dentist, this two-story brick T-plan period house features elements derived from the Colonial Revival style.
  • “The base of the T is extended by a two-story frame wing; a brick chimney with corbelled cap rises between the two sections. A tripartite window in the left bay of the three-bay facade has an elliptical opening with keystone; a keystone is also located in the flat window opening in the right bay.
  • “The single-bay entrance porch has a shed roof supported by paired Doric columns which flank a classical entrance. A six-panel door is topped by a leaded glass semi-circular fanlight; the Doric pilasters of the surround have double capitals with a shell motif in the upper capital.
  • “Decorative brickwork accents the structure at several points. A narrow box cornice with returns is a feature of the cross gable roof.”
  • Dr. Amzi Jefferson Ellington Sr. (1890-1980) and Ruth Martin Norwood Ellington (1899-1988) bought the property in 1924. It was sold by Ruth’s heirs in 1992.

283 S. N.C. Highway 62, Yanceyville, Caswell County
listing withdrawn February 5, 2022; relisted February 7, 2022
listing withdrawn April 11, 2022; relisted April 12, 2022
listing withdrawn fall 2022 (exact date uncertain)

• $580,900 (originally $629,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,025 square feet, 2.22 acres
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1921
• Listed April 14, 2021
• Last sale: $133,000, May 2003
• Note: The property includes a guest house, 688 square feet.
  • The house is immediately south of Bartlett Yancey High School.

205 Chadwick Drive, Jamestown, Guilford County
listing withdrawn September 30, 2022

• $785,000 (originally $867,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,314 square feet, 2.88 acres
• Price/square foot: $237
• Built in 1978
• Listed April 8, 2022
• Last sale: $550,000, December 2019
• Note: Architect unknown, according to N.C. Modernist, who would know.

• $179,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,203 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1957
• Listed February 18, 2022
• Last sale: $80,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: O. Henry Oaks
• Note: Out-of-town owner
  • The original owners were Edwin Cicero Tate (1932-2011) and Marian Elizabeth Holloway Tate (1934-1987). Edwin was a service technician with Burroughs Corp.

210 N. Main Street, Suite 300, Kernersville, Forsyth County
listing expired September 9 2022

• $379,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,867 square feet
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 8, 2022
• Last sale: $32,500, May 2017
• HOA: $275/month
• Note: Rental unit
  • Condo at The Factory, an 83-unit residential/retail/office building that was formerly a furniture factory. Retail tenants include retail stores, salon and spa, coffee shop, wine shop, oil and vinegar shop, restaurant, dance studio, photography studio and barber shop, among others.

• $250,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,560 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1945
• Listed August 3, 2022
• Last sale: $152,000, February 2022
• Note: An unusual little house (oddly, there’s an almost identical house in Reidsville, in the 1700 block of S. Scales Street)
  • For sale by owner

746 Park Avenue, Greensboro
The William Vance Forbis House
sale pending July 31-August 15, 2022
sale pending August 30 to September 9, 2022
listing withdrawn September 9, 2022

• $190,000 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,152 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1915 (per county, put probably a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed July 10, 2022
• Last sale: $38,000, February 1980
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The house clearly needs work on the interior. The low price also may be attributable to the condition of the kitchen and bathrooms (which aren’t shown in the listing) and the air conditioning, which is provided by central air, a heat pump, an attic fan and window units.
  • Oddly, the historic district’s NRHP nomination doesn’t mention the house.
  • The listing says it belonged to “Greensboro’s First Mayor,” an unlikely prospect. The first mayor of Greensboro, Alexander P. Eckel, served from 1859-1863 and died in 1906.
  • The first owner was William Vance Forbis (1879-1950). Greensboro has had two mayors named Forbis. Neither of them appear to have lived here, regardless of what the listing says.
  • William bought the property from the Summit Avenue Building Company in 1912. It remained in his family until 1960. William was a furniture salesman. Ownership passed to his wife, Espie Blanche Shepherd Forbis (1987-1954) upon his death and then to their son Lynn V. Forbis (1917-1966), who sold the house in 1960.

• $179,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,380 square feet, 2.47 acres
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1914
• Listed July 7, 2022
• Last sale: $66,500, July 2006
• Neighborhood: West Burton

310 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Nichols-Hall House
sale pending December 8-11, 2021
sale pending December 17, 2021, to January 4, 2022
listing withdrawn January 4, 2022; relisted March 8, 2022
sale pending March 15 to April 8, 2022
sale pending May 4-11, 2022
sale pending August 25-31, 2022
listing withdrawn August 31, 2022

• $289,000 (originally $309,000, later $409,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,222 square feet
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built around 1930
• Listed September 26, 2021
• Last sale: $66,500, September 2020
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “The earliest known occupant of this one-and-a-half-story frame house was H. Grady Nichols, manager of the Elk Printing Company, which published The Elkin Tribune. Grady Nichols served as manager of the paper, while his brother, Walter E. Nichols (who owned a house—no longer standing—on Gwyn Avenue directly behind Grady Nichols’s house), was editor.
  • “In 1936 the Clyde A. and Mano B. Hall family took occupancy of the house. Clyde Hall worked at the power plant at Chatham Mill; at the time of his death in 1989, he had attained the position of chief engineer at the mill.
  • “A long flight of steps leads up the steep hill from the street to the front entrance. The square house has weatherboard siding with beveled corners and a hipped roof with intersecting, wood-shingled, gabled dormers. The center-bay front entrance with sidelights is sheltered by a gable-roofed porch with grouped wood posts with lattice between the posts.
  • “The porch on the south side of the house repeats the use of grouped posts with lattice, but also has wood-shingled plinths and skirt. The gabled roofs of the dormers and porches all have overhanging, flared eaves with plain bargeboards that have circular notches at the ends. Windows have grouped nine-over-one or six-over-one sash.”

• $59,000 (originally $78,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,536 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $38
• Built in 1927
• Listed June 17, 2022
• Last sale: $10,000, June 1985
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Photo from Google Street View, 2013.
  • County property records describe the house as a duplex, although it doesn’t appear to be.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Probably constructed by the same builder and at the same time, this house is virtually identical in appearance to the adjacent house to the north (307 S. Washington Ave.).
  • The only apparent difference between these one and one-half story gambrel-roofed bungalows is the window and door treatment on the facade of 311. Here tripartite four over one windows flank a sidelighted entrance.
  • “This was apparently the home in 1929 of J.F. McDonald of the Meador & McDonald Service Station.”

• $161,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,946 square feet, 17.46 acres
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1927
• Listed June 8, 2022
• Last sale: $100,000, October 1989 (83 acres)
• Note: The property has a Westfield mailing address but is far to the southeast and across the county line in Stokes County. It’s about as close to Pilot Mountain as Westfield.
  • The property is adjacent to the state-owned property that includes the historic Vade Mecum Springs Hotel (restoration is planned, but the timeline is unknown).
  • A creek runs through the property.

2563 Mountain View Church Road, King, Stokes County
listing withdrawn August 17, 2022

• $75,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 342 square feet (see note), 3.74 acres
• Built in 1866
• Listed August 15, 2022
• Last sale: Not identifiable in online records
• Note: “Ceilings in the majority of home, with exception of primary bedrooms and kitchen, are under 7 feel tall [and so can’t be counted in the total area of the house].
  • “Main level has central a/c and is heated with oil furnace. Upper level is set up for small window unit and is vented to allow heat to migrate up from main level.”

905 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn August 16, 2022

• $344,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,904 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $181
• Built in 1937
• Listed July 15, 2022
• Las sale: $213,000, August 2020
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District
• Realtor babble: “Pinterest-worthy”
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; side gable; vinyl siding; six-over-six, replacement sash; shed-roof porch; square posts; multi-light door.”

938 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
The J. Kent Sheppard House
listing withdrawn August 10, 2022

• $675,000 (originally $775,000)
• Converted to offices (no bedrooms), 1 bathroom, 3,077 square feet (per county), 0.16 acre (county)
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1913
• Listed February 18, 2022
• Last sale: $219,000, August 2002
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NRHP)
• Note: “Currently is used for separate offices, but the zoning fits multiple uses including residential and residential duplex. This property will require a substantial amount of renovation for residential purposes.” Unfortunately, it’s not priced appropriately for residential renovation.
  • The listing shows the house and lot both larger than county records do — 4,500 square feet and 0.22 acre.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This large Craftsman bungalow is a one-and-a-half-story house with a pebbledash first story and an aluminum-sided upper story. (The siding does not significantly diminish the integrity of the house.)
  • “It has a broad gable roof interrupted by front and rear shed dormers, an engaged front porch with heavy pebbledash columns and balustrade, and an extension of the south side of the porch which forms a terrace.
  • “The house is prominently situated on a terraced corner lot.
  • “From ca. 1914 to ca. 1956 this was the residence of the J. Kent Sheppard family. The secretary-manager of the Sheppard Veneer Co., he was the son of Benjamin J. Sheppard, who lived immediately behind at 420 Summit St.”

• $103,000 (originally $113,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,950 square feet 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 23, 2022
• Last sale: $28,000, May 1998
• Listing: “up and coming neighborhood”

• $134,000 (originally $160,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,686 square feet, 5.91 acres
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1910
• Listed August 13, 2021
• Last sale: $51,200, December 2019
• Listing: “Home in the process of total remodel. Ready for you to finish.”
  • “Bring an open and creative mind”
  • 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.
  • “Home previously pulled from market, electrical was removed and reinstalled, electrical Permit is current but as home is finished permits will need to be updated, current plumbing and building/structure still needs county approval. Buyer to consult with county during due diligence.”
  • The property has a Westfield mailing address but is well to the east, roughly between Westfield and Lawsonville.

2953 Westfield Road, Mount Airy, Surry County
sale pending August 1, 2021, to July 19, 2022
listing withdrawn July 19, 2022

• $139,500
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,306 square feet, 2.3 acres
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1925
• Listed March 16, 2021
• Last sale: $30,000, June 1983
• Listing: “Fixer upper but move in condition … . Includes a large cinder block workshop”

• $369,000 (originally $389,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,760 square feet, 0.80 acre
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1926
• Listed May 11, 2022
• Last sale: $265,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Washington Mills
• Note: Renovations have added cheap vinyl siding and replacement windows.
  • The property has two outbuildings.
  • Washington Mills, less than a block away, originally owned the house. The company sold it to private owners in 1964. The listing says the house had been the home of the company president. The plant opened in 1896 as Mayo Mills.

116 E. Naomi Street, Randleman, Randolph County
listing withdrawn July 14, 2022

• $275,000 (originally $450,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, 2,330 square feet, 1.2 acres
• Price/square foot: $118
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 20, 2022
• Last sale: $45,000, October 1988
• Note: Vinyl siding

• $198,000 (originally $229,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,846 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built by 1929 (see note)
• Listed May 21, 2022
• Last sale: $85,000, January 1983
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belville Historic District (NRHP)
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable … gabled dormer; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; sidelights; beveled glass; gabled porch; metal posts.”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1929. County records show a 1940 date. The house may have been a rental property initially; different names are listed at the address each year for at least its first five years.

836 Oak Street, Unit 406, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn January 6, 2021; relisted January 13, 2022
listing withdrawn July 1, 2022

• $249,900 (originally listed at $199,900)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 753 square feet
• Price/square foot: $332 (see note below)
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 7, 2020
• Last sale: $172,000, January 2019
• HOA: $196/month
• Note: Condo in The Exchange at Oak Street, a 30-unit former tobacco factory
  • Eight units in the building sold in 2021 at prices ranging from $206/square foot to $282/square foot.

5275 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn June 13, 2022

• $285,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,483 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $192
• Built in 1977
• Listed April 29, 0222
• Last sale: $40,500, January 1989

201 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The Roy and Rosamund Morgan House
Blog post — The Roy and Rosamund Morgan House in Greensboro: 1940’s Home of a Distinguished Lawyer-FBI Agent-Diplomat, $863,000
listing withdrawn June 7, 2022

• $825,000 (originally $863,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,058 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $270
• Built in 1939 (per county, see note)
• Listed October 11, 2021
• Last sale: $427,500, April 1999
• Neighborhood: Irving Park
• Note: The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1942, suggesting a date of 1941 or 1942 for the house.
  • The property was bought in 1940 by Roy Leonard Morgan (1908-1985) and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan (1901-1995); they owned it until 1965. Roy was a special agent with the FBI and a lawyer practicing with Brooks, McLendon and Holderness. He had a remarkable career.
  • “While he was a special agent for the FBI, he represented the U.S. government during the 1942 detention of 1200 Japanese, German and Italian diplomats from North and South America at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia and The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
  • “In 1946 he went to Tokyo for the War Department to serve as Associate Counsel and Chief of the Investigative Division of the International Prosecution Section (IPS) of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.” (University of Virginia: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Digital Collection)
  • Roy came back to Greensboro, continued practicing law and served on the City Council. In 1950 he went back to Japan to work for Ford Motor Company. Four years later, he went to Germany as a military intelligence analyst for a year.
  • “For the next fifteen years Morgan served in various capacities for the U.S. and Japanese governments. In 1955-1956 he was one of the American advisors to the Prime Minister of Japan, and Chief Justice of the U.S. Civil Administration, Appellate Court for the Far East until 1960.
  • “From 1960 to 1967 he was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce, and consultant of the U.S. government, advisor on international trade with Japan, and in 1962 and 1968, he served as Head of the U.S. Trade Missions to Japan.”
  • He retired to Florida and eventually moved to Mount Airy, where he died in 1985. He and Rosemund are buried in Low Gap.

698 Chestnut Street, Greensboro

• Auction canceled (had been scheduled for Wednesday June 1, 2022)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,041 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Built around 1917 (see note)
• Last sale: $155,000, April 2002
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Although county records give the date as 1935, the house was listed in the city directory by 1917.
  • It may have been built as a rental property by Emma T. Pickett (1865-1949), a prolific real estate investor in the first couple decades of the 20th century. She was particularly active in buying and selling in the area now known as the Dunleath Historic District.
  • Ownership of the property is not well documented in identifiable deeds; Emma appears to have bought it between 1902 and 1910. She sold it in 1917 to her son, Archie Tate Pickett (1891-1979). His ownership was brief; the next identifiable deed shows a different owner selling it in 1920 (with no deed reference to the seller’s purchase of the property).

927 Apple Street SW, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn May 25, 2022

• $210,000 (originally $229,500)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built in 1885
• Listed April 7, 2022
• Last sale: $142,500, February 2021
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows
  • The house is next-door to the 1-acre-plus Apple Green City Farm and just around the corner from Carolina University (formerly Piedmont International University, 2012-20, and Piedmont Bible Institute, 1946-2012).
  • District NRHP nomination: “I-house. Two story; side gable; single pile; rear ell; one-over-one replacement windows; vinyl siding; hip-roof porch; turned posts; sawn brackets. Appears on 1917 Sanborn map.”

304 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
listing withdrawn on or before May 16, 2022

• $729,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,834 square feet (per county), 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $397
• Built in 1921
• Listed April 7, 2022
• Last sale: $429,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The listing shows 1,966 square feet.
  • The property includes a two-car detached garage with a second floor.
  • The address first appears in the 1924 city directory, listed as vacant. The property changed hands six times between August 1921 and November 1924, making it difficult to determine exactly who built the house.
  • Alexander C. “Sandy” Forsyth (1869-1940) bought the house in November 1924. He and his wife, Henrietta Clapp Forsyth (1871-1945), owned it until 1944. Sandy, a native of Canada, was a traveling salesman.

211 Woodlawn Avenue, Greensboro
The Ossie and William Hardin House
listing withdrawn on or before May 15, 2022

• $459,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,626 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $282
• Built in 1931 (per county, but probably earlier)
• Listed April 7, 2022
• Last sale: $230,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The city directory shows William and Ossie Hardin living at this address by 1921. Ossie Pinnix Hardin (1876-1924) bought the property in 1904, before her marriage. William B. Hardin (1857-1928) had a grocery store nearby at 700 Guilford Avenue.
  • William’s will gave the house to the Eliada Orphanage and Rescue Home of Asheville. It rented the property out until selling it in 1944. The institution still exists, now as a psychiatric residential treatment facility, foster care provider, and special-needs and early-childhood education school. It was founded in 1903 by evangelist Rev. Lucius B. Compton.

219 W. Main Street, Thomasville, Davidson County
contract pending July 13, 2020
listing withdrawn May 5, 2022

• $99,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,878 square feet
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1931
• Listed June 19, 2020
• Last sale: Not available in online records
• Note: Not owner-occupied

448 Princeton Avenue, Greensboro
The Frank and Mildred Rogers House
listing withdrawn April 26, 2022

• $305,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,089 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $280
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 9, 2022
• Last sale: $130,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Highland Park
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The listing shows 1,431 square feet.
  • From 1944 to 2021, the house was owned by the family of Frank and Mildred Rogers. Frank James Rogers Sr. (1915-1983) was a printer and later foreman at the Greensboro News.

108 Sink Inn Road, Lexington, Davidson County
listing withdrawn April 24, 2022

• $175,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,473 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $119
• Built in 1930
• Listed April 18, 2022
• Last sale: $120,000, May 2020
• Note: The property includes a koi pond.

4087 Ebert Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn April 13, 2022

• $150,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,524 square feet, 0.51 acre
• Price/square foot: $98
• Built in 1898
• Listed April 11, 2022
• Last sale: $87,000, May 2015
• Note: For sale by owner

1122 Trogdon Drive, Eden, Rockingham County
listing expired March 31, 2022

• $209,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,254 square feet, 0.71 acre
• Price/square foot: $93
• Built in 1959
• Listed October 21, 2021
• Last sale: $114,000, January 2021
• Neighborhood: Leaksville

121 W. McGee Street, Unit 2A, Greensboro
listing withdrawn March 19, 2022

• $349,900 (originally $359,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,639 square feet
• Price/square foot: $214
• Built in 1921
• Listed February 18, 2021
• Last sale: $130,000, October 2012
• HOA: $267/month
• Neighborhood: Downtown Greensboro Historic District
• Note: Condo in McGee Lofts, formerly the General Greene Hotel
  • Two comparable units in the building have been sold in the past 18 months, one for $269,900, $160/square foot, and one for $218,000, $134/square foot. Both were 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 1,600 to 1,700 square feet.
  • District’s NRHP nomination, describing how the building originally looked: “A three-story brick structure erected ca. 1915. Four intact, simple wooden storefronts at street level, including hotel entrance. Upper floors have six-bay divisions with course of rusticated stone trim running under the sills on each floor. Flemish bond brickwork on front facade, common elsewhere. Mock wooden balustrades flank hotel sign above third floor.”
  • How it looked back in the 1920s or possibly 30s (undated photo):

6937 N.C. Highway 66 South, King, Stokes County
listing presumably withdrawn (link no longer active) March 2022

• $340,000 (originally $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,523 square feet, 14.97 acres
• Price/square foot: $223
• Built in 1890
• Listed May 3, 2020
• Last sale: $140,000, July 2006
• Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows

410 Otteray Avenue, High Point
The William E. Davis House
listing expired February 26, 2022

• $335,000 (originally $360,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,298 square feet
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 18, 2021
• Last sale $25,000, June 1978
• Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District
• Note: An attached in-law suite was added in 2006.
  • District NRHP nomination: “This large, two-story, gambrel-roofed, Dutch Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a wide, gambrel-roofed dormer on the facade.
  • “The house has plain weatherboards, one-over-one, wood-sash windows, and molded dentils along a cornice between the first and second stories.
  • “The one-light-over-two-panel door has replacement sidelights and is sheltered by a full-width, engaged porch supported by tapered wood posts on brick piers.
  • “There is an arched gable vent in the dormer and pedimented vents in the side gables. There is a one-story gabled rear ell and a shed-roofed section to the right (east) of the ell.
  • “The house appears on the 1924 Sanborn map.”
  • The address appears in the 1927 city directory with William Edward Davis (1884-1955) and his wife, Mazie Brooks Davis (1892-1947) listed as residents. William was a bookkeeper with Melrose Hosiery Mill.

231 Lewis Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County
listing withdrawn December 31, 2021; relisted February 21, 2022
listing withdrawn March 2, 2022

• $82,900 (originally $84,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,168 square feet
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1889
• Listed November 7, 2021
• Last sale: $33,000, November 1999
• Note: Rental property

165 Virginia Street, Suite 404, Mount Airy, Surry County
National Register of Historic Places
listing withdrawn February 22, 2022

• $317,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,745 square feet
• Price/square foot: $182
• Built in 1923
• Listed February 8, 2022
• Last sale: $190,000, December 2015
• Note: Two-level condo on fourth floor of Renfro Lofts
  • The condo includes a storage unit and a garage parking space.

408 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
The Freeman-Badgett House
listing withdrawn February 14, 2022

• $335,000 (originally $345,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,421 square feet
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1910
• Listed April 23, 2021
• Last sale: $105,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
• Note: County records date the house to 1910, but the National Register district nomination has it at 1924 to 1929.
  • District NRHP nomination: “Constructed between 1924 and 1929 for Mark Freeman, an ice manufacturer and automobile salesman, this is an unusual two-story square frame house clad in German or novelty siding and capped by a hip roof. A one-story side wing has been expanded to wrap around the rear of the structure. The two-bay facade is divided by a centrally located exterior chimney with a projecting bay window to its right.”
  • The house was bought in 1945 by Dr. George Edwin Badgett (1918-1999) and his wife, Phyllis Joyce Badgett (1920-2010). It remained in their family for 73 years. It was sold by their heirs in 2018.

2767 Moir Farm Road, Lawsonville, Stokes County
listing withdrawn February 9, 2022

• $350,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,049 square feet, 58.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $334
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 20, 2021
• Last sale: $45,000, January 2008
• Listing: “Does not have a permanent heat source, wood stove may convey with acceptable offer.”

430 Granville Drive, Winston-Salem
The William and Mildred Tucker House

• Auction cancelled (was scheduled for Wednesday February 2, 2022)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,165 square feet
• Built in 1923
• Last sale: $80,000, November 2002
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side gable; front-gable porch; metal posts on brick piers; six-over-one, double-hung sash; vinyl siding; false beams with thru-tenon detail.”
  • The house first appears in the city directory in 1923, with William Henry Tucker (1889-1973) and Mildred Miller Tucker (1894-1967) as residents. William was a supervisor at R.J. Reynolds. He and Mildred lived in the house for at least 40 years.

202 W. Main Street, Troy, Montgomery County
listing withdrawn January 31, 2022

• $198,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,868 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $51
• Built in 1920
• Listed December 16, 2022
• Last sale: Not identifiable in online records
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: Originally a residence, the property is being marketed as a commercial building. It was previously a funeral home.

1008 Haywood Street, Greensboro
listing withdrawn March 4, 2018; relisted December 30, 2018
listing withdrawn November 5, 2019; relisted March 13, 2020 (at $189,000)
listing withdrawn July 24, 2021; relisted October 19, 2021
listing withdrawn January 17, 2022

• $219,999 (originally $499,000, last listed price was $309,998)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,604 square feet
• Price/square foot: $137
• Built in 1905
• Listed November 25, 2017
• Last sale: $65,000, November 1998
• Neighborhood: Glenwood
• Note: For sale by owner
  • Zillow listing says the house is 1,804 square feet; county tax records say 1,604.
  • Even reduced by almost 60 percent from the original price, it’s still priced far higher that what you would expect to pay for a house in Glenwood.

232 Willow Street, Unit 203, Mount Airy, Surry County
listing withdrawn January 16, 2022

• $449,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,187 square feet
• Price/square foot: $205
• Built in 1890
• Listed July 21, 2021
• Last sale: $435,000 December 2017
• HOA: $200/month
• Note: Condo in Spencer’s Mill, a former apparel manufacturing complex in downtown Mount Airy.
  • The complex received a 2019 North Carolina Main Street award for downtown revitalization.

307 Dameron Street, Eden, Rockingham County
listing withdrawn January 4, 2022

• $39,950 (originally $44,950)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms, 1,463 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $27
• Built in 1920
• Listed December 14, 2021
• Last sale: $25,500, April 2000
• Neighborhood: Primitive Heights
• Note: The neighborhood is named for the Spray Primitive Baptist Church.
  • Zillow lists this property as “Undisclosed Address.”
  • Not owner-occupied
  • The listing shows a date of November 2018 for the last sale of the house, but the last deed filed for the property was in April 2000.