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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listing withdrawn February 15, 2023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listing withdrawn February 13, 2023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.

603 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Cicero Holt House
listing withdrawn January 31, 2023

  • $400,000 (originally $432,000)
  • Single-family home divided into 10 units (see note): 8 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,084 square feet, 0.52 acre
  • Price/square foot: $98
  • Built in 1930 (or ca. 1915, see note)
  • Listed August 18, 2022
  • Last sale: $250,000, December 2020
  • Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
  • Note: “Currently serves as a 10 unit home with 3 Full Bathrooms and a common Kitchen. … Could be converted back into a Single Family Home.”
  • District NRHP nomination: “Originally a one-story ca. 1915 structure, this frame residence of Cicero Holt, a partner in Burlington Hardware Company, achieved its present configuration when the shingle-sided second floor was added in the early 1920s.
    • “The house is covered by a hipped roof and features a one-story wraparound porch, enclosed on the east side, with massive tapered wooden posts on brick piers. These tapered posts probably are replacement supports installed when the second story was added.”

1065 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The W.E. Lindsay House
listing withdrawn January 31, 2023

  • $359,900 (originally $449,900)
  • 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,178 square feet, 0.30 acre
  • Price/square foot: $113
  • 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.”

135 W. Dolphin Street, Siler City, Chatham County
sale pending January 4-31, 2023
listing withdrawn January 31, 2023

  • $200,000 (originally $239,000)
  • 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,107 square feet, 0.63 acre
  • Price/square foot: $95
  • Built in 1899
  • Listed December 15, 2022
  • Last sale: $110,000, September 2022
  • Note: Cheap plastic floors, replacement windows and siding. It even has popcorn ceilings.

512 Maple Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
listing withdrawn January 31, 2023

  • $199,000 (originally $288,000)
  • Single family residence divided into 8 units: 3 bathrooms, 3,504 square feet, 0.34 acre
  • Price/square foot: $57
  • Built in 1919
  • Listed August 18, 2022
  • Last sale: $195,000, December 2020
  • Note: “8 Units with 2 Full Bathrooms, Common Kitchen”

604 Boyd Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
sale pending January 11-31, 2023
listing withdrawn January 31, 2023

  • $197,000 (originally $207,000)
  • 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,628 square feet, 0.38 acre
  • Price/square foot: $121
  • Built in 1928
  • Listed October 12, 2022
  • Last sale: $3,500, February 1990
  • Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NRHP)
  • District NRHP nomination: “This attractive one and one-half story frame bungalow was built between 1922 and 1929, according to Sanborn maps.
    • “Clad in brown wood shingles [now vinyl siding], it is topped by a side gable roof and has a wide shed dormer across the facade.
    • “Wood shingles cover the tapered posts [now replaced] supporting the engaged porch which shelters the asymmetrical three-bay porch. Mature trees shade the house.”

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.”

1819 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem
listing withdrawn March 20, 2022; relisted September 2, 2022
listing withdrawn January 27, 2023

  • $1.195 million (originally $1.25 million, later $1.375 million)
  • 7 bedrooms, 5 1/2 bathrooms, 4,062 square feet (per county records), 0.63 acre
  • Price/square foot: $294
  • Built in 1926
  • Listed July 22, 2020
  • Last sale: $445,500, April 1992
  • Neighborhood: Buena Vista
  • Note: Previously for sale by owner for about a year and a half at $1.25 million
    • The original owner appears to have been Miss Delphine Hall Carter (1873-1952), listed as the resident in 1928, the first year the city directory included residents on Buena Vista Road. Delphine for many years was an active member of the Monday Afternoon Book Club and the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of First Presbyterian Church. She lived in the house until around 1939.
    • She was a niece of the apparently much-loved Major Thomas Jethro Brown (1830 or 1833-1914). He died at Delphine’s home; she was living then on West Fourth Street. A very long obituary in The Western Sentinel identified him as “the pioneering tobacco warehouseman in this city.” A native of Caswell County, he was casting about for a place to establish a business after the war and “with prophetic vision he saw the possibilities of Winston-Salem as a tobacco market, and decided to locate here. At that time this was not a tobacco section, and little or no interest was taken in tobacco culture.” The newspaper speculated that the funeral “was perhaps the largest in the history of the city.” The eulogy by the pastor of First Presbyterian Church said, “It is not too much to say that no man has ever lived in the community who was more universally beloved.”

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

227 W. Spring Street, Elkin, Surry County
The Ted and Avis Brown House
listing withdrawn January 1, 2023

  • $449,900
  • 4 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2,447 square feet, 0.56 acre
  • Price/square foot: $184
  • Built in 1939
  • Listed September 26, 2022
  • Last sale: $119,000, May 2007
  • Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-Bridge Street Historic District
  • District NRHP nomination: “Until Avis Brown’s death in 2005, she and Ted were the sole occupants of the house since its construction. To mark the date of construction, they placed a stone date block on the side of the central chimney that says, ‘Avis & Ted Oct 1939.’
    • “Ted Brown was a volunteer fireman in 1936 who later became Elkin’s long-time fire chief. He also owned Brown Machine Company across the river in Jonesville. In 1930, Ted and his brother, Jake Brown, constructed Elkin’s first airplane, a one-passenger Heath-Parasol. In this, they followed in the footsteps of their father, who nearly thirty years earlier had built Elkin’s first automobile.
    • “The one-and-a-half-story Period Cottage is sheathed with irregularly-laid cut stone. The unusual masonry includes flat arches with keystones over the casement windows and a round arch framing the small fanlight above the front door.
    • “The asymmetrical house has a gabled roof with flared eaves, including over the central door. A wing projects forward at the west end of the three-bay facade, a short ell projects from the rear, and a set-back porch extends from the east side. A ground-level terrace fronts the east two-thirds of the house.”