Piedmont Historic Homes

Withdrawn Listings: Most Notable
Withdrawn Listings 2022
Withdrawn Listings 2021
Withdrawn Listings 2020
Withdrawn Listings 2018-2019

• $599,500 (originally $642,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 3,000 square feet, 11.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1914
• Listed October 3, 2023
• Last sale: $310,500, March 2020
• Note: The property has a Mebane mailing address but is across the county line in Orange County abut 7 1/2 miles north of Mebane.
  • The presumed value of this property is soaring. It sold for $185,000 in 2015 and $310,500 in 2020.
  • The property includes a “40.5 X24 detached wired workshop, pole barn, chicken coop, smoke house, old tobacco barn, storage shed & more.”
  • “Home has 5 rms that were used for bdrms; Septic permit is for 2 bdrm with a 5 bdrm repair site if ever needed * * Building permits could not be found at OC.”

1013 N. Elm Street, No. B-1
Listing withdrawn December 17, 2023

• $136,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 608 square feet
• Price/square foot: $224
• Built in 1930
• Listed December 12, 2023
• Last sale: $70,000, July 2021
• HOA: $297/month

931 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
Formerly First Church of Christ, Scientist
Listing withdrawn July 29, 2023; relisted September 5, 2023
Listing withdrawn December 15, 2023

• $649,000 (originally $689,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,024 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $321
• Built in 1924
• Listed July 22, 2023
• Last sale: $380,000, January 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Facing the corner of Brookstown Ave. and W. Fifth St., the Christian Science church is a small building of strong Federal Revival classicism. The well-developed design features a one-story rectangular structure lined with fifteen-over-fifteen sash windows accented by tall, keystoned round arches.
  • “The corners of the stuccoed building are accented by tall Tuscan pilasters. The facade features a central entrance porch with Tuscan posts and a full pedimented entablature which echoes the larger pedimented entablature of the gable roof.
  • “In 1915 a Christian Science Society was organized in Winston-Salem, and in 1916 the Society rented space in an office building at 418 N. Liberty St. In May, 1924, a lot was purchased at Brookstown and Fifth for the erection of a church, and by October of that year work on this handsome building was completed. In May, 1925, the Society formally became the First Church of Christ, Scientist.”
  • The church sold the building in 2005.

4110 Oak Ridge Road, Summerfield, Guilford County
The Cyrus Scarlette House
Sale pending November 17 to December 7, 2023
Listing withdrawn December 8, 2023

• $239,000 (originally $249,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,097 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 27, 2023
• Last sale: $124,000, April 2016
• Neighborhood: Summerfield Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “In the 1920s and ’30s, Cyrus Scarlette worked at the Summerfield Motor Company, as did his sons, Lee, ‘Boots,’ Bill, and Herbert. He moved into his modern bungalow home at 4110 Oak Ridge Road in 1928.”
  • Cyrus Lee “Syke” Scarlette (1893-1974) and Mary Bailey Scarlette (1898-1961) and their heirs owned the house until 1986.
  • Boots’s first name was actually Claxton.

1700 N. Elm Street, Unit O2
Listing withdrawn December 6, 2023

• $153,000 (originally $175,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 744 square feet
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1937
• Listed October 2, 2023
• Last sale: $140,000, March 2008
• HOA: $294/month
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)

709 Summit Street, Winston-Salem
The John and Adele Shipley House
Listing withdrawn December 5, 2023

• $799,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,581 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $223
• Built in 1910
• Listed July 6, 2023
• Last sale: $608,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “original woodwork, wood wainscoting, towering ceilings, classic built-ins, 7 fireplaces, pocket doors, grand staircases, an abundance of windows and immaculate architectural details throughout.”
• District NR nomination: “The Shipley House reflects a combination of the Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. Located at the head of Jersey Ave. on a high terraced lot, the house is the most imposing of those on the Summit St. hill.
  • “The two-story house has a brick veneer first story, a pebbledash second story, a bellcast hip roof with widely overhanging bracketed eaves, and three pedimented front dormers.
  • “Windows are paired twelve-over-one sash with keystoned lintels, and the central entrance with sidelights and transom is sheltered by a Classical porch with Tuscan columns on brick plinths, a full entablature, and a balustraded deck.
  • “On the east side of the house is an open porch, while on the west side is a sun room.”
  • The nomination says John Wesley Shipley (1857-1928) first listed the property for taxes in 1911. He operated a harness and saddlery shop at 442 Trade Street. He and his wife, Adele Louise Ferguson Shipley (1862-1928), were listed at the residence in 1913, the first time Summit Street was included in the city directory. They died two weeks apart in 1928. Their son John Robert Shipley (1889-1967) lived in the house after they died. He was a stenographer with Southern Railway. He was no longer listed at the address in 1934.

1113 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
The Timothy B. Transou House
Sale pending November 21, 2023
Listing withdrawn December 5, 2023

• $185,000 (originally $233,800)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,233 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $150
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 26, 2023
• Last sale: $9,500, December 1976
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “Bring your tools, paint and brushes …”
  • “There is an enclosed porch that could be a wonderful retreat. (Not currently safe to enter!)”
• District NR nomination: “The Transou House is a modest but well-designed one-story frame bungalow. It is characterized by a typical combination of weatherboard and wood shingle siding, abroad gable roof with overhanging braced eaves, a shed dormer, a central chimney, a Craftsman front door with sidelights, a center bay gabled porch with heavy brick posts and balustrade, and a rear sleeping porch.
  • “Timothy B. Transou purchased the property in 1921 and in 1922 was first listed in the city directory at this location. He sold the house in 1929, and it appears to have been used as rental property until the present owners acquired it in 1976.” It appears to be a rental property again.
  • Timothy Benty Transou (1885-1952) was a grocer. The city directory identified his wife as Littie Transou (dates unknown).

3606 Delancy Street, Greensboro
Sale pending October 19, 2023
Listing withdrawn December 2023

• $43,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,092 square feet, 0.3 acre
• Price/square foot: $39
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 5, 2023
• Last sale: $64,000, September 27, 2023 (foreclosure)
• Neighborhood: Lowdermilk

747 Park Avenue, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn November 2023 (specific date not reported)

• $525,000 (originally $575,000)
• Originally a duplex, now divided into five apartments – three 1-bedroom units and 2 studios
• 2,687 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built ca. 1922
• Listed June 2, 2023
• Last sale: $160,000, August 2020
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: The address appears in the city directory beginning in 1922.
  • No central heating (individual units in each apartment) or air conditioning (window units).
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman foursquare … With few exceptions, the Summit Avenue Historic District’s resources were built as single-family residences. However, on Park Avenue a few duplexes, such as the … Paris-Hull House at 747 Park, were erected in the teens and twenties. These look little different than their single-family, foursquare neighbors.”
  • The original owner was A.W. Preston, who bought the property in 1920 and sold it in 1948 (possibly Allen Winbourne Preston, 1862-1951). He was listed at the address from 1922-24.

1817 Chapel Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn November 2023

• $175,000 (originally $195,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,064 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $164
• Built in 1935
• Listed August 7, 2023
• Last sale: $92,167, November 2022
• Neighborhood: Centerville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Charlotte
• District NR nomination: “One-story Craftsman Bungalow featuring front-facing jerkinhead roof; paired, square posts with trellis supporting shed-on-hip porch roof; asbestos shingle siding; four (vertical lights)-over-one, double-hung sash; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.”

• $188,500 (originally $239,900)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 630 square feet
• Price/square foot: $299
• Built in 1924
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $58,000, July 2011
• HOA: $150/month
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: The listing describes this 630 square-foot condo with the words “luxury,” “an unparalleled living experience,” “perfect,” “true masterpiece,” “true oasis,” “spacious bedroom” and “incredible.”
  • Currently a rental

• $140,000 (originally $125,000, later $170,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,388 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in: Unknown (see note)
• Listed June 20, 2022
• Last sale: $65,000, September 2010
• Note: County records show the date as 1950, but the style of the house shows it most likely was built decades earlier.
  • The property includes a former store that has been vacant for years. The store faces North Old 52 Road, next to a former gas station, now a used-car lot (the house can be seen behind the store, facing Mill Street on the other side of the block):

• From 1959 to 2010 the property was owned by the family of Mack Dee Hamm and Martha S. Hamm.
  • Something you don’t see too often: The 1959 deed covers three tracts. The description of the third tract includes this note: “That on or about the 3rd day of September, 1954, the grantors herein made a deed herein of the above described property. At that time the grantees herein delivered to the grantors herein a deed of trust on the above described property. The original deed has been misplaced and was never recorded. The deed of trust has never been recorded. This deed is to take the place of the original deed, and it is contemplated that this deed and the deed of trust will be recorded immediately.”

7223 N.C. Highway 89, Stokes County
Listing withdrawn November 27, 2023

• $215,000 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,636 square feet, 2.45 acres
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1945 (see note)
• Listed June 29, 2023
• Last sale: $83,000, January 2022
• Note: The property has a Westfield mailing address but is about 14 miles east, just north of Hanging Rock State Park.
  • Extremely few houses were built in 1945. The architecture of this one suggests the house could be considerably older.

3144 Piney Mountain Road, Walnut Cove, Stokes County
The George and Carrie Richardson House
Listing withdrawn November 15, 2023

• $175,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,684 square feet, 30.71 acres
• Price/square foot: $104
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 16, 2023
• Last sale: $800, October 1908 (50 acres)
• Listing: “House has been vacant for quite some time.”
  • The listing says, “Being sold ‘As is’ with 2+/- acres of land,” but also says the size of the property for sale is 30.71 acres.
  • George Davis Richardson (1875-1949) bought the property, originally 50 acres, in 1908. After his death it passed to his wife, Carrie S. Duggins Richardson (1891-1976). It is now being sold by a descendant.

• $165,000 (originally $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,812 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1890
• Listed October 10, 2023
• Last sale: $102,000, October 2021
• Note: “Some sq ft not included in total due to ceiling height, but still very usable!”
  • The property has been sold five times in this century. The prices:
    • $50,000, 2003
    • $32,500, 2007
    • $57,000, 2009
    • $46,000, 2020
    • $102,000, 2021

• $180,000 (originally $187,500, later $190,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,222 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $147
• Built in 1950
• Listed September 7, 2022
• Last sale: $19,000, July 2015
• Note: Originally for sale by owner; listed with an agent after 11 months
  • The large building behind the house appears to be on an adjoining property.

• $750,000
• Originally a single-family home, now divided into six studio apartments, 3,427 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 4, 2023
• Last sale: $105,000, September 2020
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • Even by the standards of today’s “real estate investors,” this is an attempted money-grab of remarkable scale.
• District NR nomination: “This late Victorian, two-story frame dwelling was moved to this site from its original location on West Front Street in the early 1920s. It has served for many years as a multi-family dwelling, first as a boarding house and more recently as apartments.
  • “The structure features a high hip roof extending to clipped gables with simple bargeboards over projecting front and side bays. The sides of the one-story wraparound porch have been closed in, leaving a two-bay porch with a tapered post on brick pier and a simple balustrade leading to double-leaf glazed door.”

• $1.79 million (originally $1.89 million, later $1.59 million)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 5,215 square feet
• Price/square foot: $343
• Built in 1925
• Listed January 8, 2011
• Last sale: $1.7 million, June 2004
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Joseph Haywood Duke (1904-1962) was general manager of the King Cotton Hotel. The grand 13-story hotel stood downtown on Market Street at Davie, where the former News & Record building now is, from 1927 to 1971. Duke was a native of Dunn and grew up in Elizabeth City. Before coming to Greensboro in 1937 to run the King Cotton, he managed his mother’s Duke Inn in Elizabeth City and the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, among others around the state. He later bought an interest in the King Cotton and owned the Sedgefield Inn.
  • Duke bought the house in 1948. It was sold by his widow, Elizabeth Savage Etheridge Duke (1904-1983), in 1970.
  • The original owners were Robert W. Glenn (1884-1935) and Katherine Hardie Glenn (1887-1982), who were first listed in the city directory on Woodland Drive in 1926. Robert was the branch manager of Ciba Company, which produced dyes. Kate sold the house to the Dukes in 1948.
  • Ciba was part of of the Swiss firm Ciba-Geigy Ltd., one of the largest chemical companies in the world. In 1996, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz spun off and merged their drug and agriculture businesses to form Novartis. In 2000, Novartis and AstraZeneca spun off their agrochemical businesses and merged them to form Syngenta, whose U.S. business unit is based in Greensboro.
  • “The 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index named Syngenta one of the best performing chemical companies worldwide. However, the company has been controversial, mainly due to its main business – selling toxic chemicals and the environmental impact of those chemicals – but also due to its investment in lobbying. In 2012, the company was nominated for the Public Eye Award, which denounces companies with questionable human rights practices.” (Wikipedia)
• District NR nomination: “a large two-story brick Colonial Revival dwelling with a slate-covered hipped roof and hipped dormers. A handsome Georgian Revival entrance is centered on the seven-bay facade. Two bay windows project from the south side of the house. A large one-story addition with Palladian windows and metal roof has been added recently to the north side. A brick wall encloses the back yard.”

• $639,500 (originally $649,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,806 square feet, 8.34 acres
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1911
• Listed September 7, 2023
• Last sale: $82,000, April 2004
• Listing: “updated and restored by a European furniture designer”
  • “Resort like inground concrete salt-water pool … with outdoor dining/lounge area, pool house w/teak flooring & cabinetry, PLUS sleeping quarters.”
  • The property includes a barn, a pergola and two “authentic” storage buildings.

408 W. Starmount Avenue, Liberty, Randolph County
Sale pending September 22-October 11, 2023
Listing withdrawn October 31, 2023

• $265,000 (originally $309,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,775 square feet, 0.70 acre
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1930
• Listed July 26, 2023

7212 Charnel Lane, Climax, Guilford County
Listing withdrawn October 30, 2023

• $214,000 (originally 245,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,412 square feet, 1.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $89
• Built in 1928
• Listed October 14, 2023
• Last sale: $25,000, April 2012
• Note: “Property has been cared for but needs some updating.”
  • The property includes a barn.

• $435,000 (originally $445,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,901 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $229
• Built in 1925
• Listed August 21, 2023
• Last sale: $325,000, January 2022
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Philadelphia
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; side gable; weatherboard; six-over-one, double-hung sash [now replaced]; gable-roof entry porch; square posts; open truss in porch gable; panel and louver shutters with cross motif [now missing]; half lunette windows flank chimney in gable end; shed-roof side porch.”
  • Listed under its original address, 438 S. Hawthorne.
  • The lot was originally much deeper. It was split sometime ago. A small, separately owned rental house sits behind 434, accessed by a driveway running along the right side of 434’s lot.
  • The original owners were Frederick James DeTamble (1886-1961) and Elsie Elliott DeTamble (1888-1961). Frederick was a native of Toronto, was raised in Indianapolis and graduated from Detroit University. In 1908 he joined his father in an automobile manufacturing venture in Anderson, Indiana. It lasted only three years. He became a salesman for Ford, took a district manger position in Charlotte, and in 1916 acquired the company’s Winston-Salem dealership. He was the proprietor of Twin City Motor Company, the local Ford, Fordson and Lincoln dealer, until he retired in 1953.
  • When he retired, he said he had heard there was still a DeTamble car being driven in Georgia.
  • Elsie was a native of Detroit. When she died, eight months after Frederick, she left an estate of $2.4 million, the Winston-Salem Journal reported in a front-page article. The two largest bequests went to First Presbyterian Church, $915,000, and Father Flanagan’s Boy’s town in Nebraska, $674,000.
  • The lead headline in the paper the day the will was reported, November 30, 1962, was, “Chimp Safe After Twice Orbiting Earth; Glenn Is Selected For Orbital Flight.”

• Auction had been scheduled for Tuesday October 17, 2023, 10 a.m., Randolph County Courthouse. It apparently has been canceled.
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,468 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Built in 1918
• Last sale: $149,000, August 2018
• Note: The original owner may have been John William Curtis Sr. (1881-1935), who bought at least 17 properties in Liberty between 1902 and 1935, many of which are all but impossible to identify due to obsolete descriptions in the deeds. He owned the house when he died at age 53. John was a prominent undertaker.
  • “People from Greensboro, Burlington, Siler City, Madison and many other communities joined a great crowd of residents of Liberty and the surrounding section in attendance at the funeral of John W. Curtis, 53, Liberty mortician, at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home in Liberty,” the Greensboro Daily News reported on April 5, 1935.
  • “Attendance at the funeral was very large and included, as honorary pallbearers, many other morticians, also a number of representatives of firms which have regular contacts with undertaking establishments. Flowers in great profusion afforded further evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. Curtis was held.”
  • The house was sold by his widow, Runa Ellen Clapp Greenleaf (1899-1999), and their children in 1959.
  • The house was bought in 1961 by Abraham Lincoln Gantt (1921-1991) and Martha Leigh “Patsy” Johnson Gantt (1928-2017). Abraham was he was World War II veteran and an employee of Gregson Manufacturing Company, a chair manufacturer in Liberty. Their heirs sold the property in 2017.

• $475,000 (originally $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,052 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $231
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed July 15, 2023
• Last sale: $415,000, August 2021
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house has been sold five times since 2004.
  • The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1931.
• District NR nomination: “Colonial Revival. Two story; hip roof; brick; six-over-one, double-hung sash; hip-roof entry porch; slender classical columns; side porch and porte-cochere have battered posts on brick piers.”
  • The first owners were Francis Edward Swain (1891-1983) and Henrietta Jones Swain (1894-1968). Francis was a traveling salesman.

428 S. Whiskey Road, Candor, Montgomery County
Sale pending May 19 to June 3, 2023
Listing withdrawn October 12, 2023

• $275,000 (originally $290,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,505 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 15, 2023
• Last sale: $90,000, July 2021
• Note: The property includes a detached garage/workshop.

• $129,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1927
• Listed May 3, 2023
• Last sale: $59,450, March 2016
• Note: The address is first listed in the city directory in 1928 with Mrs. Scovia Poston (1880-1972) listed as the resident. She was identified as the widow of Arris E. Poston (1869-1913).

• $349,900 (originally $449,900)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,178 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1930
• Listed June 1, 2022
• Last sale: $304,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District
• Listing: Previously a triplex used as a B&B.
• District NRHP nomination: “W.E. Lindsay is thought to have been the original owner of this Craftsman bungalow, which was probably built around 1920. In 1922 Lindsay was the manager and secretary-treasurer of the Alpine Woolen Mills. He lived at this address in 1928.
  • “The story-and-a-half frame house has a conventional bungalow form, with a low-pitched side-gable roof that supports a large gabled dormer and flares to engage a front porch. The porch and a porte cochere on the left side have stout square wood columns on river-cobble pedestals.
  • The honey-colored cobbles, which are also used for the foundation and two interior chimneys, are not an unusual material for a ca. 1920 bungalow but they stand out in Mount Airy where most stonework from the period is local granite.
  • The house is sheathed with wood shingles and there are large triangular brackets in the gables of the main roof and porte cochere and under the front corners of the porch roof.
  • “Since the house was first surveyed in the 1980s, two added front entries—presumably the result of the house’s conversion into apartments—have been removed to return the façade to its original three bays of windows flanking the front door, apparently when the house was returned to its original use as a single-family dwelling. Other features include replacement windows, exposed rafter ends, and rear shed and gable dormers.
  • “By 1948 the house had been converted to the Lindsey Apartments, a name that remained in use into the 1960s.”

5416 Old Walkertown Road, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn October 1, 2023

• $55,000 (originally $85,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 720 square feet, 0.9 acre
• Price/square foot: $76
• Built in 1924
• Listed March 29, 2022
• Last sale: $4,000, January 1985

1595 Power Line Road, Elon, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn September 27, 2033

• $415,000 (originally $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,746 square feet, 1.51 acres
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1933
• Listed May 26, 2023
• Last sale: August 2003, price not recorded on deed
• Note: Brick foursquare with a porte-cochere.
  • The property was formerly known as 238 N.C. Highway 87. The property (and the driveway) extends from Power Line Road to N.C. 87. The address was changed when the mailbox was moved from one side of the property to the other.

• $220,000 (originally $230,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,227 square feet, 0.42 acre
• Price/square foot: $99
• Built circa 1928
• Listed June 27, 2023
• Last sale: $45,000, August 2014
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing notes that there are “two bonus rooms that can easily be converted to bedrooms with appropriate heating.”
  • County records give a 1930 date for the house, which appears a bit late (see below).
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; shed-roof dormer; vinyl siding; hexagonal multi-light-over-one windows; battered columns and brick posts with ‘T’ capitals on brick piers; knee braces.
  • “This was the site of Smith and Phillips General Merchandise and Building Materials store in 1902.
  • “Appears on 1928 Sanborn map.”

1013 N. Elm Street, Unit B6, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn September 25, 2023

• $149,900 (originally $160,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 616 square feet
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1930 (per county)
• Listed August 17, 2023
• Last sale: $80,000, April 2021
• HOA: $296/month

• $388,500 (originally $425,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,170 square feet, 0.3 acre
• Price/square foot: $332
• Built in 1955
• Listed June 21, 2023
• Last sale: $374,000, February 2022
• Neighborhood: Kirkwood
• Note: The house was sold in 2021, 2022 and now is for sale again.
  • This time, the house is being marketed as a short-term rental. The sale will include the furnishings. It’s now owned by an LLC.
  • The property was sold in 1954, 1955 and 1956. Although county records show the date of the house as 1955, the address first appears in the city directory in 1954, listed as vacant. It’s shown in 1955 with an apparent renter as the occupant.
  • In January 1956, Earl Nello Brewer (1908-1991) and Faye East Brewer (1908-1981) bought the house. They owned it for 35 years. Earl, originally from Winston-Salem, was a salesman for plumbing supply companies. Faye also was a native of Forsyth County.

2913 Horseshoe Road, Stokes County
Listing withdrawn September 20, 2023

• $425,500 (originally $432,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,708 square feet, 2.12 acres
• Price/square foot: $249
• Built in 1925
• Listed September 7, 2023
• Last sale: $178,000, August 2013
• Listing: “A 2 Stall barn w/ power & water (screened in chicken pen on side) sits near the back of the property. Detached carport w/parking & storage, 10×12 green house, 12×16 workshop & 10×16 workshop, all have power. Chicken condo on site”
  • The house has a Westfield mailing address but is about 6 1/2 east of town.

• $199,690 (originally $194,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,143 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 10, 2023
• Last sale: $47,000, July 1996
• Note: Originally for sale by owner, now listed with a real estate agent
  • Formerly known as 410 Montlieu Avenue
  • Located one block from High Point University

• $393,100 (originally $400,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,430 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $275
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 2, 2023
• Last sale: Can’t be found in online county records
• Listing: “needs renovation to be lived in”
  • “ready to be renewed and restored … This home was built in 1910 and is still standing. … The well and septic for the home are existing. Home has electric connections … “
  • Located 7 miles north of Mebane

• $530,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,965 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $179
• Built in 1917 (per county, probably earlier)
• Listed July 13, 2023
• Last sale: $399,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “one of the most distinctive of the ‘Dutch’ Colonial Revival houses in the West End. It is a large one-and-a-half-story weatherboarded frame dwelling with a triple-gambrel roof, The front gambrel has diamond-muntined upper sash which match the diamond-muntined sidelights and transom of the glass and wood paneled front entrance.
  • “Other details include interior end chimneys, one-over-one sash windows with wood louvered shutters, a front porch with Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade, a high brick foundation, and a long flight of balustraded wood steps leading to the front entrance.
  • “Like other houses on the street, this one has a stone retaining wall by the sidewalk and stone front yard steps.
  • “The house was built by the Southern Development Co., a West Virginia corporation, according to the owner survey form on this property.
  • “William J. Roberts acquired the property in 1911, and in 1912 he and his wife, Sallie, were listed in the city directory at this location. W.J. Roberts was manager of R.G. Dunn & Co. (mercantile agency). The Roberts family remained owner-occupants until 1930.
  • In 1935 Paul H. and Thelma Lehman purchased the house for their residence, owning it until 1979. Paul Lehman was an employee of P.H. Hanes Knitting Co.”

• $425,000 (originally $325,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,520 (per county records) square feet, 4.69 acres
• Price/square foot: $127
• Built in 1919
• Listed September 27, 2020
• Last sale: $150,000, January 2011
• Note: Was for sale by owner in 2021
  • The listing gives the size of the house as 2,754 square feet.
  • The property has a Burlington mailing address but is located southwest of the city near the community of Alamance.
  • For some reason, there are two addresses on Bellemont Mount Hermon Road with the number 3743. The other is 3743C.

• $210,000 (originally $260,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,222 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1929
• Listed May 29, 2023
• Last sale: The last two deed transfers have been as gifts, dating back to 1994.
• Note: “Beautifully preserved” with replacement windows and vinyl siding.

• $415,900 (originally $424,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,210 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built ca. 1922 (see note)
• Listed March 12, 2022
• Last sale: $375,000 on April 18, 2022
• Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: Although county records give the date of the house as 1935, it appears on the 1922 Sanborn map under its original address, 370 N. Main. The owners then were Grover Cleveland Lovill (1884-1962) and Anna Elizabeth Reece Lovill (1894-1974).
• District NR nomination: “A gambrel roof relates this story-and-a-half brick-veneered house to a subgenre of the Colonial Revival style known as Dutch Colonial Revival. Colonial treatments include a scrolled and broken pediment with a center urn over the front entry and half and quarter-circle attic windows at the top of the end elevations and the gambreled rear wing.
  • “The house has symmetrically balanced one-story projections at the ends: a porch with square wood columns and a pergola treatment around the roof at the north end and a conservatory or music room wing at the south end, also with a pergola treatment around the roof. Three shed dormers are spaced across the front roof slope.
  • “The front entry has a wood panel door flanked by sidelights. The windows are replacements. From the rear wing extends a screen porch and what may be a breakfast room and a deck.
  • “The house appears on the 1922 Sanborn map (with the address as 370 North Main) and was probably built shortly before. Grover Cleveland Lovill, born in Surry County in 1884, worked for a Mount Airy general store beginning in 1900, went into business on his own in 1905, and in 1910 ‘enlarged the scope of his enterprise and became a wholesale grocery, feed and produce dealer.'”
    • Grover, his father and siblings were prominent members of the Mount Airy community. Grover was president of the Mount Airy Produce Exchange and vice president of G.C. Lovill Company, a wholesaler of groceries, feed and notions.
    • Brother James Walter Lovill (1880-1963) was president of G.C. Lovill Company and vice president of the produce exchange. He also was vice president of the Mount Airy Granite Cutting Company and Mount Airy Knit Company. He operated a tobacco warehouse as well.
    • Brother Robert Jones Lovill (1887-1964) was a physician. He practiced in Mount Airy but also had spent some time in medical research in Boston.
    • Sister Mary Elizabeth Lovill (1889-1979) was co-owner of Lovill-Hatcher Insurance Agency.
    • Their father, Walter (1853-1927), was a farmer. The Greensboro Daily News reported his death: “Mount Airy, June 18 [1927] — Walter Wiley Lovill, prominent farmer of the county and father of a number of prominent business men of this city, died suddenly at his home near here this afternoon at 4 o’clock following an attack of acute indigestion, probably brought on by diabetes. …
    • “Mr. Lovill was a farmer all his life and took an active interest in the upbuilding of his section. He was a Democrat and an energetic man and at this time has holdings of around 300 acres.”
    • Walter and his wife, Martha Jones Lovill (1856-1941), had seven children, all of whom lived to adulthood.

• Auction canceled (was scheduled for Tuesday August 15, 2023)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,934 square feet, 1.17 acre
• Built in 1908
• Last sale: $218,000, July 2020
• Note: The house was owned from 2018 to 2020 by a house-flipping company, which bought it out of foreclosure.

• $155,000 (originally $165,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,244 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1936
• Listed June 20, 2023
• Last sale: $102,000, March 2021

• $140,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,172 square feet (per county), 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $119
• Built in 1940
• Listed July 20, 2023
• Last sale: $40,000, August 2018
• Neighborhood: Waughtown-Belview Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner
  • Owned by an LLC in Greensboro
  • The listing shows 1,232 square feet.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman. One story; front gable; brick; side gable, wraparound porch; battered columns on brick piers; shingled gable ends; one-over-one replacement windows.”

• $210,000 (originally $239,900)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 630 square feet
• Price/square foot: $333
• Built in 1924
• Listed April 1, 2023
• Last sale: $58,000, July 2011
• HOA: $150/month
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Note: The listing describes this 630 square-foot condo with the words “luxury,” “an unparalleled living experience,” “perfect,” “true masterpiece,” “true oasis,” “spacious bedroom” and “incredible.”
  • Currently a rental

221 S. Carolina Avenue, Boonville, Yadkin County
Listing withdrawn July 17, 2023

• $159,900
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,000 square feet, 0.87 acre
• Price/square foot: $80
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 20, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2021

• $619,900 (originally $650,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,532 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $245
• Built in 1915
• Listed March 22, 2023
• Last sale: $430,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Currently a high-end rental. This is one of three houses the owners put on the market on the same day.
• Note: The property includes a detached two-car garage.
• District NRHP nomination: “Colonial Revival. Gambrel-roof; stone-veneered first floor, shingled above; projecting front porch with trellis, supported by stone piers; shed dormer across front.”
  • The original owners were Jesse Graham Bradshaw (1883-1928) and Pattie Clendenin Bradshaw (1884-1932), who bought the property in 1919 from the James E. Latham Company, the area’s developer. The address first appeared in the city directory in 1920. Bradshaw was in real estate. The Bradshaws sold the house in 1922. They bought and operated the Moore’s Spring Resort in Stokes County. Unfortunately, the hotel burned in 1925. Jesse’s cause of death in 1928 was listed as “cerebral apoplexy,” presumably a stroke.
  • David N. Gilbert and Connie H. Gilbert bought the house from the Bradshaws. David was co-proprietor of Mullen & Gilbert, cotton brokers. They owned the house until 1944.

• $399,900 (originally $439,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,649 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1931 (per county, but probably earlier; see note)
• Listed March 22, 2023
• Last sale: $430,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: This is one of three houses the owners put on the market on the same day.
  • The address appears in the city directory from 1922. The house was originally owned as a rental by David N. Gilbert, a cotton broker. He owned it from 1922 to 1944.

333 Temple Street, Lexington, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn July 10, 2023

• $162,500 (originally $170,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 2,224 square feet, 0.45 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1922
• Listed April 2, 2023
• Last sale: $64,000, July 2017
• Listing: “The seller is highly motivated and will not turn down any reasonable offer.”

223 Holly Street, Franklinville, Randolph County
Listing withdrawn July 10, 2023

• $100,000 (originally $132,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2  bathrooms, 1,856 square feet, 3.29 acres
• Price/square foot: $54
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 28, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000 (foreclosure auction), June 14, 2023; last non-foreclosure sale price was $96,100, August 2002

116 Markham Street, Burlington, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn July 3, 2023

• $150,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,199 square feet, acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1939
• Listed June 13, 2023
• Last sale: $40,000, April 2015
• Listing: “Some hardwood flooring and original moldings around doors.”

209 W. Raleigh Avenue, Liberty, Randolph County
Listing withdrawn May 24, 2021; relisted June 11, 2022
Listing withdrawn July 1, 2023

• $175,000 (originally $78,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,114 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1890
• Listed March 22, 2021
• Last sale: $60,000, July 2007

• $159,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,752 square feet, 0.46 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built in 1940
• Listed May 17, 2023
• Last sale: $84,500, February 2022

4615 N.C. Highway 65, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn June 28, 2023

• $125,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,790 square feet, 0.84 acres
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 17, 2023
• Last sale: $460,000, April 2023 (73.84 acres)
• Listing: “2 wood stoves, 2 sheds and a small cabin on the property. There are two rooms upstairs that do not count towards heated sqft. HVAC is non-functioning.”
  • Located 12 miles east of Reidsville
  • The 73-acre property was bought in April by an LLC, which is now selling a small piece of the property containing the house.

• $110,000 (originally $120,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 896 square feet, 0.93 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1927
• Listed July 20, 2022
• Last sale: $40,500, April 2001
• Note: The listing’s entire description of the house: “Home previously used as a rental.”
  • Can this house really be leaning almost catastrophically to the right? For what it’s worth, the Google Street View photo (July 2022) shows it standing upright:

127 Dixon Street, Asheboro, Randolph County
Listing withdrawn June 3, 2023

• $238,000 (originally $265,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,462 square feet, 0.4 acres
• Price/square foot: $97
• Built in 1910
• Listed October 18, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, September 2020
• Note: Currently a rental property
  • The house has a studio apartment.
  • The property includes an outbuilding.

• $289,900
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,374 square feet
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1893
• Listed March 26, 2023
• Last sale: $197,500, December 2021
• HOA: $230/month

127 London Lane, Mount Airy, Surry County
Listing withdrawn May 30, 2023

• $179,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 836 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $215
• Built in 1928
• Listed May 24, 2023
• Last sale: $47,000, December 2010

• $170,000
• 3 bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,108 square feet, 1.59 acres
• Price/square foot : $81
• Built in 1927
• Listed April 6, 2023
• Last sale: $79,500, October 2000
• Note: Partially renovated with an often-heard story — “The owner has had some renovations completed within the past 8 years … Unfortunately due to health issues he hasn’t been able to do any further renovations.”
  • “There are 3 buildings also on the property that could use some TLC but do keep items inside them dry.”

• Auction canceled (had been scheduled for Tuesday May 9, 2023)
  • Opening bid: $104,783
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,052 square feet, 1.47 acres
• Built in 1925
• Last sale: $125,000, September 2002
• Note: Located south of Winston-Salem, about halfway between I-40 and Wallburg.

• $99,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 844 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $117
• Built in 1931
• Listed April 18, 2023
• Last sale: $28,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: East Winston
• Note: No pictures of the interior are included in the listing.

• $400,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,176 square feet, 57.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $340
• Built in 1937
• Listed August 15, 2022
• Last sale: $42,000, April 1984
• Listing: The house “hasn’t been lived in for years and definitely needs love and work.”
  • “Heated finished sq.ft. is calculated by living area not all rooms have baseboard heaters. Multiple barns on property in great shape, spring head feeds creek in the meadow behind the house. No septic records found. Locked gated entrance”
  • The farm is located well to the northeast of Westfield, north of the Johnstown community.

• $349,900 (originally $375,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,788 square feet, 0.13 acre
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1924
• Listed March 24, 2023
• Last sale: $195,000
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, 1920-25.”
  • The original owners were Fredrick Smith Petrea (1892-1964) and Alice Aldridge Petrea (1894-1992). They bought the property in 1923. Fred was a chemist with Davis Drug Company. They owned the house until 1946.
  • In 1950 the house was bought by Winfield Supply Barney Sr. (1883-1955) and Minnie Ola Barney (1890-1974). It remained in their family until 1989, when it was sold by the heirs of one of their sons, Francis P. Barney (1918-1988). Winfield Sr. was a professor at the Women’s College. A scholarship in his name is awarded to senior students in French or Spanish at UNC Greensboro.

• Auction canceled at the last minute, status unknown
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,041 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Built in 1935 (per county, but probably much earlier; see note)
• Last sale: $155,000, April 2002
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: The address appears in the city directory from 1917 onward.
  • The house appears to have been built by Archie T. Pickett (1891-1979) as a rental. He owned the property from 1917 to 1919. Archie was a Navy veteran of World War I. He worked with his father, William, and brother, Herman, at W.F. Pickett and Sons grocers, 248 Summit Avenue. They all lived at 246 Summit. Both of those properties now appear to be parking lots at the corner of Summit and Church Street.
  • The first owners who lived in the house appear to have been Willie Pauline Kent Allen (1891-1957) and James N. Allen (dates unknown). James owned a business, J.N. Allen & Company, merchandise brokers and distributors, but only Willie’s name was on the deed. They owned the house from 1922 until losing it in a foreclosure in 1932.
  • The house was owned from 1947 to 1975 by Luther Loe Slate Sr. (1906-1991) and Annice I. Slate (1907-1960). Luther was a plumber. He was born in Westfield in Stokes County, the sixth of 14 children, 12 of whom survived childhood.
  • Their son, Luther Jr., and Dianne Slate owned the house from 1975 to 1983.

• $321,900 (originally $324,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,651 square feet
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1893
• Listed January 10, 2023
• Last sale: $270,000, April 2022
• HOA: $225/month
• Note: The listing says is the only two-floor unit in the building.

116 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem
The Joseph R. and Ethel Modlin House
Sale pending January 18, 2023
Listing withdrawn April 2023 (exact date uncertain)

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

136-140 N.C. Highway 62 W., Guilford County
Listing withdrawn March 31, 2023

• $1.25 million
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,913 square feet, 21.55 acres
• Price/square foot: $653
• Built in 1920
• Listed January 15, 2023
• Last sale: February 2001, price not recorded on deed (see note below)
• Note: Listed on Zillow as “Undisclosed Address”
  • The property has a Randleman mailing address but is in southern Guilford County just east of U.S. 220/Interstate 73.
  • The property was owned from 1951 to 1965 by Gregory D. Ivy (1904-1985) and Naomi W. Ivy (1902-1989). Gregory Ivy was a Modernist painter and in 1935 founded the art department at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, now UNC Greensboro. He also was one of the founders of what is now the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG.
  • Something strange here: The deed for the last sale is dated February 1, 2001, but the register’s office stamp on the document records the date of filing as February 21, 2002.

• $259,997 (originally $250,000, later $185,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1/2 bathroom, 3,968 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $66
• Built in 1917
• Listed June 30, 2021
• Last sale: $28,000, July 2019
• Note: The 2019 listing showed two bathrooms.
  • Out-of-town owner
  • Previously the home of the Winchester Boxing Academy. Earlier, it served at various times as a residence and as a location for businesses, including a barber shop and a self-service laundry.
  • The neighborhood is residential. Two other buildings at the intersection look like they also were built originally for corner-store-type businesses.
  • How it looked in 2019:

• $239,000 (originally $369,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,821 square feet
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1893
• Listed December 6, 2022
• Last sale: $310,000, July 2022
• HOA: $235/month

4326 Tise Avenue, Winston-Salem
Sale pending November 29 to December 15, 2022
Sale pending February 15, 2023, to March 5, 2023
Listing withdrawn March 5, 2023

• $194,900 (originally $225,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,707 square feet, 0.39 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 23, 2022
• Last sale: $66,500, September 2006
• Neighborhood: Montview
• Note: Replacement windows

623 Summit Avenue, Greensboro
The Jesse and Kate Keith House
sale pending November 10 to December 24, 2022
sale pending January 2 to February 15, 2023
listing withdrawn February 15, 2023

• $275,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,155 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $128
• Built in 1913
• Listed November 6, 2022
• Last sale: $50,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: The house has been a B&B and an Airbnb since its 2017 renovation.
  • The house first appeared in the city directory in the 1912-13 edition with Jesse E. Keith and Kate A. Keith, the original owners, as residents. Jesse was co-proprietor of Keith & Patterson, a tailor shop at 203 S. Elm Street. They sold the house in 1920.
• District NRHP nomination: “Eclectic foursquare: A central band of shingles, broken by an elevated side bay, adds an unusual Prairie style accent to this weatherboarded, late-teens, Craftsman and Colonial Revival style foursquare; brick piers support its classical porch columns, and its hip roof has wide overhanging eaves.”

926 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
listing withdrawn February 13, 2023

• $319,900 (originally $329,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,832 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1910 (per county, but probably earlier; see note below)
• Listed September 28, 2022
• Last sale: $120,000, May 1997
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District
• District NRHP nomination: “Q Anne/Colonial Rev, Residence, 1900-05, 2 [floors].”
  • The property was owned by James M. May from 1903 to 1918. He bought it as the result of a legal dispute among the heirs of previous owner N.A. Jeffries. It was probably a rental; May was never listed as living there.
  • The address first appears in the 1903-04 city directory with W.S. Powell listed as the resident (oddly, he wasn’t listed in the alphabetical directory). The 1905-06 directory lists William L. Manning, superintendent of the Greensboro Table Company, as the resident, along with Miss Annie Manning, a telephone operator.
  • From about 1909 to 1916, the house was occupied by Thomas O. Ralls, his wife, Flora Etta York Ralls and their family. Ralls was a woodworker and a merchant. Three of their sons operated grocery stores.
  • By 1917, the residents were listed as Robert L. Sapp Sr. (1868-1938), his wife, Louise (or Lula) M. Clendenin Sapp (1868-1937), and their son Robert Jr. (1898-1985). Father and son were electricians.
  • Lula apparently was related to James May. In 1918 she bought the house from him for $5. It remained in the Sapp family for 27 years, but her ownership had to withstand a legal challenge, presumably from other relatives.
  • Lula’s deed stipulated that “she will provide for, take care of, maintain and support (clothing, hospital and doctor’s bills excepted) the party of the first part [May], and furnish for him a reasonably comfortable room for and during the balance or remainder of his natural life, or so such or such part thereof as the party of the first part shall remain in the house or home of the party of the second part, as a member of her family …”
  • The sale was disputed by Simpson A. May and others, presumably more relatives of James May. Lula ended up having to buy the house again in 1921, this time for $3,955.
  • After his parents’ deaths, Robert Jr. owned the house until 1945.
  • In 1945, Minnie Ardena Bennett Heath (1881-1969) and daughter-in-law Lucy Talley Heath (1909 or 1910 to 1996) bought the house and lived there. Although they were both married — Adrena and her husband, John Lee Heath (1879-1953), were the parents of Lucy’s husband, Howard Arnold Heath (1905-1963) — the deed was in the names of the two women. After Adrena died in 1969, Lucy’s ownership continued until her death in 1996, 51 years after they bought the house.

4248 Princeton Avenue, Greensboro
The Frank and Mildred Rogers House
listing withdrawn April 26, 2022; relisted January 2, 2023
listing withdrawn February 13, 2023

• $310,000 (originally $305,000, later $288,888)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,089 square feet (per county), 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $285
• 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.

907 N. Church Street, Greensboro
listing withdrawn February 13, 2023

• $200,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,050 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1910 (per county)
• Listed September 6, 2022
• Last sale: $42,000, June 2004
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NRHP)
• Note: The listing refers to it as “your very own historic home project.” In the listing’s photos house looks to be in good shape, so that may refer to something that can’t be seen.
• The district’s NRHP nomination identified it as a bungalow built between 1925 and 1930. The address first appears in the city directory in 1917.

2854 Robinhood Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn February 1, 2023

• $750,000 (originally $850,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,646 square feet, 0.58 acre
• Price/square foot: $206
• Built in 1969
• Listed August 17, 2022
• Last sale: $436,000, August 2015
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: Original owner and architect unknown.

7225 N.C. Highway 62, Trinity, Randolph County
listing withdrawn July 18, 2022; relisted August 11, 2022
sale pending October 7 to October 12, 2022; relisted November 15, 2022
sale pending January 13-30, 2023
listing withdrawn January 30, 2023

• $70,000 (originally $95,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,265 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $55
• Built in 1925
• Listed June 2, 2022
• Last sale: $35,000, March 2005
• Listing: “needs some TLC in order to restore it to its former glory.”

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; relisted October 17, 2022
listing withdrawn January 15, 2023

• $329,900 (originally $499,000, later as low as $219,999)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,604 square feet
• Price/square foot: $206
• 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 significantly from the original price, it’s still priced far higher that what you would expect to pay for a house in Glenwood.

5712 McLeansville Road, McLeansville, Guilford County
listing withdrawn January 11, 2023

• $150,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,064 square feet, 0.81 acre
• Price/square foot: $141
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 10, 2022
• Last sale: $3,000, August 1977
• Listing: “Home needs paint but wood seems to be in good condition.”

464 Sheffield Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn January 4, 2023

• $1.995 million
• 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 6,292 square feet, 1.25 acres
• Price/square foot: $317
• Built in 1925
• Listed December 1, 2022
• Last sale: $1.35 million, April 2018
• Neighborhood: Westview/Buena Vista
• Note: Ludowici tile roof, stucco exterior
  • The property includes a four-car garage.

1412 Rankin Mill Road, McLeansville, Guilford County
The Baxter and Rosa Goodwin House
listing withdrawn January 4, 2023

• $230,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,990 square feet, 10.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 23, 2022
• Last sale: $109,000, May 2018
• Note: The listing says the house and multiple buildings are considered to have no value.
  • The house has no heating or air conditioning systems.
  • From 1937 to 2007, the property was owned by the family of Baxter Carr Goodwin (1893-1941) and Rosa Goodwin (1893-1945). Although he owned 155 acres of land, Baxter wasn’t a farmer. He was listed in census records through the years as a machinist, carpenter and foreman. Baxter and Rosa were married in 1914. They had nine children between 1917 and 1928, six of whom survived to adulthood.
  • Located just outside the Greensboro city limit, about 4 miles west of McLeansville