Piedmont Historic Homes

1707 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn December 30, 2024

• $337,000 (originally $365,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,246 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $270
• Built in 1924
• Listed October 26, 2024
• Last sales: $208,000, March 2018; $196,000, June 2013
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One story; side-facing jerkinhead roof; stucco; six vertical-light transom over single light; front-facing jerkinhead porch; brackets; battered posts on stuccoed piers.”
  • The original owners were Rhodes Estill Pullen (1882-1951) and Nannie Viola Younts Pullen (1894-1986). Rhodes was a salesman at Norfleet-Baggs, Inc., the local Dodge Brothers car dealership.

404 Glenwood Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn December 26, 2024

• $519,900
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,280 square feet (per county), 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $228
• Built in 1935
• Listed November 24, 2024
• Last sales: $435,000, July 2023; $215,000, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Central Heights
• Note: The house was a quick fix-and-flip when it was sold in 2023.
  • Online listings say the house is 2,344 square feet.
  • In 1968 the house was bought by Donald E. Johnson (1934/35-2021) and Sylvia Smith Johnson (1936-1980). Their son sold it in 2022. Donald was a manager at Glen Raven Mills. “A passionate fan of the Duke Blue Devils, Atlanta Braves and NASCAR, he was also the Fast Pitch Softball Batting Champion in 1953,” his obituary said.

520 S. Union Grove Road, Enterprise, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn December 21, 2024

• $350,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,201 square feet, 8.31 acres
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1900
• Listed July 20, 2023
• Last sales: $230,000, October 2023; $3,465, April 1925
• Note: The property is for sale nine months after being sold. The new price is 50 percent higher than the 2023 price, apparently with no improvements being made.
  • Photos from the 2023 listing in three parts, here, here and here.
  • The home’s previous listing said it had 2 bedrooms.
  • The property has a Lexington mailing address but is in the Enterprise community 10 miles north of town.
  • The property was in the 2023 seller’s family since before the 1925 sale, when Lewis Philip Reich (1877-1952) and Annie E. Zimmerman Reich (1882-1964) sold it to their son Willie Eli Reich (1902-1933). Lewis was a farmer and dairyman. He was born in Forsyth County but since childhood had lived in Freidburg in Davidson County and then in Enterprise for 52 years.

1302 Randolph Avenue, Greensboro
The Earley and Lizzie Apple House
Listing withdrawn December 21, 2024

• $199,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,540 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Price/square foot: $130
• Built in 1918 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed November 21, 2024
• Last sales: $195,500, September 2022; $185,000, June 2022; $80,000, March 2021
• Neighborhood: Arlington Park
• Note: Online listings mistakenly show the property being sold in November 2023 for $137,000; no deed can be found online to document such a sale.
  • The original owners were Earley Walker Apple (1891-1982) and Elizabeth Louvella “Lizzie” Gorrell Apple (1888-1970). They were listed at the home’s original address, 1262 Randolph, in 1921, the first year it was included in the city directory. They owned the house until 1964. Earley was a carpenter and later a contractor.
  • In 1964, the house was bought by Denmark L. Poe (1893-1967) and Sallie Belle Enoch Poe (1919-1991). It was sold by their heirs in 1997. Sallie was a nurse’s aide. Denmark worked for Railway Express. His obituary called him the Rev. Denmark Poe, but no record can be found online regarding is ecclesiastical work.

415 W. Academy Street, Madison, Rockingham County
The Robert P. Wall House
Listing withdrawn December 11, 2024

• $425,000 (originally $549,900)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 4,156 square feet, 0.76 acre
• Price/square foot: $103
• Built in 1900
• Listed June 28, 2024
• Last sale: $354,000, January 2021
• Note: An impressive house, although most of the historic character has been renovated away inside.
  • A 1903 deed referred to the property as the “R.P. Wall home place,” most likely referring to Robert Phillip Wall (1850-1900). Few clues about him exist online. One source says he “lived on Academy Street in Madison, N.C. in what is now called the Hutton-Tucker home.” The 1870 census identified him as a student living with his parents and siblings in Beaver Island in Stokes County; in 1880, he was a clerk in a store in Danville. The Reidsville Review reported on April 10, 1900, that “Mr. R.P. Wall, of Madison, is very ill. He is one of the town’s best citizens.” Sadly, they missed the opportunity 10 days later to write his obituary.
  • The property was sold in 1903 by C.P. Wall, presumably Robert’s son Cabel Phillip Wall (1878-1964). The buyer was Andrew Jackson Martin (1856-1928). Andrew was a farmer, a “well-known resident and of a prominent family,” the Greensboro Daily News reported in his obituary. “He had been in his usual health up to the time of his death, though he had been feeble for a number of years.” His son Edward Stuart Martin (1886-1948) sold the house in 1935.
  • From 1935 to 1986, the house was owned by Artemus Hutton Tucker (1897-1953) and later his daughter, Laura Marie Tucker Vernon. Artemus was assistant postmaster in Madison when he died. Marie’s estate sold the house in 1986.

4815 Doris Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn November 22, 2024

• $325,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,834 square feet, 1.01 acres
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1877
• Listed September 12, 2024
• Last sale: $62,500, July 2014
• Note: It’s a restoration project, but it’s not priced like one.
  • The property includes a barn.

329 Pender Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Stephen and Emma Hale House
Listing withdrawn March 11, 2024; relisted July 18, 2024
Listing withdrawn November 16, 2024

• $299,000 (originally $329,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,689 square feet, 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $81
• Built in 1901
• Listed October 13, 2023
• Last sale: $27,000, October 1984
• Notes: The listing says the house is eligible for historic preservation tax credits, but it’s not clear how that could be true, since it’s not in a historic district.
  • County property record card: “UPSTAIRS IN NEED OF COMPL RENV. CENT AIR IN PART OF HSE ONLY”
  • In its earliest days, the house was home to a string of prominent local business owners. The earliest documented owners were Stephen Mason Hale (1862-1942) and Emma Waugh Cooper Hale (1861-1928), who were listed at 132 Pender Street in 1913. Stephen was the owner of S.M. Hale General Merchandise, later Hale’s Department Store. Born in Grayson County, Virginia, he operated a store in Ennice in Alleghany County for 11 years before moving to Mount Airy in 1899. He retired in 1939, spending his later years tending his cattle and peach farm 10 miles outside town..
  • The next known owners were Cecil Forrest Hennis Sr. (1886-1953) and Pearl Campbell Hennis (1896-1968). Cecil was an early auto dealer, proprietor of Hennis Motor Company for 30 years.
  • “No man enjoyed a wider circle of friends and a greater esteem of his countrymen than Mr. Hennis, who could always be found enlisted with the forces for the betterment of the community in which he lived,” his obituary said.
  • In 1925, Hennis sold the house to the remarkably named Bausley Beasley (1876-1955) and Della Jennie Davis Beasley (1877-1934). Bausley was the owner of Beasley Lumber & Milling Company. He served several terms as a city commissioner in Mount Airy.
  • By 1949, the house had been divided into four apartments. It is now a single-family home again.

204 N. 7th Avenue, Mayodan, Rockingham County
Sale pending September 6-30, 2024
Listing withdrawn September 30, 2024; relisted October 28, 2024
Listing withdrawn November 14, 2024

• $249,900 (originally $225,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,681 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $149
• Built in 1930
• Listed September 4, 2024
• Last sale: $61,500, April 2004
• Note: Quickly flipped house (with what appear to be some cheap compromises, like hollow-core doors and replacement windows), caveat emptor.

500 Whitsett Street, Gibsonville, Guilford County
The Opal Mae Isley House
Listing withdrawn November 12, 2024

• $125,000
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,430 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $87
• Built in 1900
• Listed November 9, 2024
• Last sale: $69,000, January 2005
• Note: The home was built by Cone Mills. The company sold it in 1962 to Opal Mae Isley (1920-2008). Opal lived in the house with her widowed mother, Lessie Elizabeth Foster Isley (1896-1987), and widowed sister Dorothy Isley Cutherbertson (1916-2005). Opal worked for Cone Mills. She was a member of the Gibsonville Christian Church for 60 years and a member of the Women’s Missionary Society of Gibsonville. She sold the house in 2004.

917 Walker Avenue, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn July 10, 2023; relisted November 16, 2023
Listing withdrawn February 8, 2024; relisted March 18, 2024
Listing withdrawn August 1, 2024; relisted August 11, 2024
Listing withdrawn November 7, 2024

• $459,000 (originally $545,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,294 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1880 (per county, possibly later; see note)
• Listed March 22, 2023
• Last sale: $280,000, November 2019
• Note: Currently a high-end rental. This is one of three houses the owners put on the market on the same day in March 2023, all at relatively high prices for their neighborhoods. None sold; all three listings were then withdrawn on the same day four and a half months later.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne I-house, Residence, 1895-99”
  • The earliest recorded residents were Joseph E. Blanchard (1841-1898) and Caroline L. “Carrie” Pruden Blanchard (1856-1937) in 1896. They moved to Greensboro that year from their native Northampton County. Joseph’s occupation was listed in the city directory as “repairer clocks, etc.” He had been a sergeant in the Confederate army and was a Mason.
  • Joseph was “a quiet, unassuming, whole-souled christian, ever ready in sickness or trouble to land a helping hand,” his obituary said.
  • By 1899, widowed Carrie was listed as a seamstress, living just down the street at 1006 Walker Avenue (which is now the address of the apartments above Tate Street Coffee and other businesses, built in 1940). Also at that address was Henry Blanchard, probably one of their five children, identified as a newspaper carrier for the Greensboro Record.
  • In 1899, Adolphus D. Jones was listed as the owner of the house. He was co-proprietor of Jones & Cox, which sold pianos and organs. Three other residents were listed as boarders — Julia A. Jones, widow of Alexander or L. Jones (listed differently in different years, relationship to Adolphus unknown); Donald H. Cox, Adolphus’s business partner; and Clifton E. Cox, a salesman for the firm.
  • By 1901, Nellie M. Jones, Adolphus’s wife, was added to the household; Donald and Clifton were no longer listed in the city directory; and the firm’s name had been changed to A.D. Jones & Company. By 1905, the family had moved to 5th Avenue in the Dunleath neighborhood.
  • The house, like much of College Hill, fell into severe disrepair by the 1980s. The neighborhood was designated as a redevelopment area by the city, and this was one of many College Hill houses that were condemned and resold to owners who agreed to restore them.

506 W. 4th Street, Siler City, Chatham County
Listing removed November 2024

• Online auctions started in August
  • Starting bid has ranged from $78,000 to $89,000.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,478 square feet, 0.30 acre
• Built in 1900
• Last sale: April 1955, price unknown
• Note: Bank-owned property
  • No heating or cooling system, according to county records
  • Since 1955, the property has been in the family of William Roe Gilliland (1918-1992) and Myrtle Mae Gilliland (1920-2001). William worked for the Boling Chair Company. Myrtle Mae worked for the Siler City Manufacturing Company. Ownership passed to their son and daughter-in-law, Clarence Gilliland (1943-2003) and Christine Belzora “Cowgirl” Diggs Gilliland (1943-2008). Clarence was a Siler City firefighter for 35 years. He also worked at Western Auto for 36 years. Christine left the house to a daughter.

501 Steele Street, High Point
The Fidello and Mattie Barker House
Sale pending October 7-21, 2024
Listing withdrawn October 21, 2024

• $295,000
• 4 bedrooms, bathrooms, 2,705 square feet, 0.38 109acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1918
• Listed September 25, 2024
• Last sale: $51,000, January 2022
• Note: Originally a single-family home, the house has been divided into two units, upstairs and downstairs, since 1956.
  • The original owners appear to have been Fidello Harris Barker (1861-1942) and Mattie Jane Millikan Barker (1863-1951), who were listed at the address in 1921, when it first appeared in the city directory. Their family owned the house for 88 years. Fidello operated Barker Roller Mills, which produced flour just down the street at 207 Steele. Their son and daughter-in-law, David Luther Barker (1894-1964) and Vera Gertrude Farlow Barker (1901-1997), inherited the house and turned it into a duplex. They lived next door at 503 Steele. David owned High Point Tire and Battery Company.

749 Summit Street, Winston-Salem (house) and 747 Summit Street (office building)
Listing withdrawn October 16, 2024

• $950,000 (originally $1.1 million)
• House: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2 half-bathrooms, 1,850 square feet, 0.99 acre
• Office building: 3,670 square feet, 10 parking spaces, Building Class C
• Price/square foot: $172 (5,520 square feet total)
• Built in 1905 (house), 1967 (offices)
• Listed March 19, 2024
• Last sale: $600,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The house is now being used as an office.
  • Current and former tenants in the office building include Bloom Couples Counseling, Camel City Women’s Wellness, Edwin Bouldin Architect PA, Emergence Body & Spa, McNair Construction, Rising Sun Counseling, Sessions Health, Summit Holistic Healing and Winston Salem Hypnotherapy Services.
• District NR nomination, 749 Summit: “Dunstan-McNair House: “This one-story pebbledash cottage is typical of the smaller-scale houses built in the West End during the early twentieth century. It retains late Victorian massing while introducing Colonial Revival detailing.
  • “Front and side gables intersect the steep pyramidal roof, while the wrap-around porch features Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade.
  • “R.L. Dunstan, superintendent of the cigarette department at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and his wife, Maude, were the first residents listed at this location in the city directory (1915). F. E. Vogler owned the property during the early 1920s.”
  • Grover Cleveland McNair (1885-1955) bought the house in 1925. His family owned it until 2019. Grover served as comptroller of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and as secretary of the Winston-Salem Fair.
  • Grover Jr. (1924-1916) was an architect and builder whose construction company is still listed online at 747 Summit. He served as a corporal in the glider corp during World War II. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Bronze Star. Grover Jr. was a 1949 graduate of N.C. State and worked as an architect before starting his company. “He was involved with running Casstevens Hospital for several years, and later joined Integon Corporation and a group of 50 local doctors in founding Medical Park Hospital,” his obituary said.
• District NR nomination, 747 Summit: “This modern one/two-story office building has a flat roof and a narrow deck along the south side which serves as an exterior walkway. Sliding glass doors are found next to the office entrances. The building is set back from Summit St. with a parking lot (shared with 749 Summit St.) in front.”

354 Archie Yokeley Road, Wallburg, Davidson County
The Joseph and Phoebe Yokeley House
Listing withdrawn October 12, 2024

• $299,000 (originally $369,950)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,132 square feet, 1.07 acres
• Price/square foot: $140
• Built in 1888
• Listed September 6, 2024
• Last sale: $120,000, February 2012
• Neighborhood: The property has a Winston-Salem mailing address but is just over the county line in Davidson County.
• Note: The original owner may have been Joseph Francis Yokeley (1853-1929), who owned the property when he died in 1929 and bequeathed it to his wife, Phoebe Antoinette Rothrock Yokeley (1859-1952), son Damascus Roe Yokeley (1892-1944) and Damascus’s son Archie Damascus Yokeley (1918-2017). Archie was a farmer and operated Yokeley’s Service Station. Deeds indicate he owned an adjoining property, where he probably lived.
• Phoebe and Damascus died, and Archie passed ownership to his mother, Mary Ann Garrison Yokeley (1890-1981). In 1959, she sold the property to daughter Frances Yokeley Kestler (d. circa 2005). Her heirs sold the house in 2012 to the current owner.

34-36 W. Main Street

34 W. Main Street, Unit A, Thomasville, Davidson County
Listing removed October 8, 2024

• $149,000 (originally $155,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 989 square feet
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1916
• Listed July 10, 2024
• Last sale: $110,000, February 2018 (entire building)
• HOA: The listing says there is one, but the monthly fee isn’t given.
• Neighborhood: Downtown Thomasville Historic District (NR)
• Note: One of four new residential condos created in the upper floor of a downtown commercial building. The first floor contains two commercial condos.
  • This unit is the largest of the four residential condos; the others are 922 square feet, 920 and 773.

118 E. Ingram Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County
Listing withdrawn October 2024

• $249,000 (originally $265,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,330 square feet (per county), 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $107
• Built in 1926
• Listed November 2, 2023
• Last sale: $37,000, June 2004
• Note: The interior is ragged, but it appears livable.
  • The lot backs up to Stanback Park.

1860-1880 Sissipahaw Way

1880 Sissipahaw Way, No. 104C, Saxapahaw, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn October 2024

• $515,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, 2 half-bathrooms, 1,272 square feet
• Price/square foot: $405
• Built in 1955 (per county) or 1848 (per listing)
• Listed August 25, 2024
• Last sales: $450,000, August 2022; 295,000, June 2019
• HOA: $400/month
• Note: For sale by owner

1013 N. Elm Street, Unit C5, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn October 2024

• $149,500
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 873 square feet
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1930
• Listed May 23, 2024
• Last sale: $138,000, September 2022
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)

315 N. Spruce Street, Unit 307, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn September 30, 2024

• $239,000
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 939 square feet
• Price/square foot: $255
• Built in 1924
• Listed July 26, 2024
• Last sale: $137,500, July 2019

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95 Paw Paw Road, Gulf, Chatham County
Listing withdrawn September 19, 2024

• $149,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,555 square feet, 2.58 acres
• Price/square foot: $96
• Built in 1887
• Listed September 5, 2024
• Last sale: $14,000, March 1982
• Neighborhood: Just off U.S. 421 in Gulf, about 16 miles southeast of Siler City and 9 miles northwest of Sanford. The geographic center of North Carolina is 10 miles northwest of Sanford.
• Note: The State Historic Preservation Office and deeds identify the property as the former Gulf Masonic Lodge. Lodge 465 was chartered in 1895 and was consolidated into the nearby Goldston lodge in 1927.
  • Tax records show four outbuildings, all built since 1990 — two storage buildings, an “egg/apple house,” and a “car pole shed.”
  • The property was owned by successive members of the Phillips family from 1943 to 1982. James Alton Phillips (1890-1965) bought the property in 1942. Bessie Sarah Phillips Phillips (1904-1979) bought the property in 1961 from Paul Phillips and Mary S. Phillips. Bessie’s estate sold it to the current owners in 1982. The relationships among the various owners is unknown.
  • The listing’s photos are particularly awful, especially for a house listed by a real-estate agent.
  • The property is a relatively rare example of a house for which Google Street View has no photograph.

121 W. McGee Street

121 W. McGee Street, Unit 2A, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn March 19, 2022; relisted July 24, 2024
Listing withdrawn September 16, 2024

• $414,900 (originally $359,900, then $349,900 and $424,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,639 square feet
• Price/square foot: $253
• Built in 1921
• Listed February 18, 2021
• Last sale: $130,000, October 2012
• HOA: $293/month
• Neighborhood: Downtown Greensboro Historic District
• Note: Condo in McGee Lofts, formerly the General Greene Hotel
  • 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.”

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303 Bill Lohr Road, Lexington, Davidson County
Listing withdrawn September 10, 2024

• $399,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,824 square feet, 0.88 acre
• Price/square foot: $219
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 30, 2024
• Last sale: $260,000, July 2021
• Neighborhood: Located south of I-85, about 5 miles south of Lexington. It has a Lexington mailing address.
• Note: The property includes a detached in-law cottage with a kitchen, bathroom and laundry hookup and a two-car garage with space for storage or a workshop.

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1023 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The William and Ella Monday House
Listing withdrawn October 25, 2022
Relisted July 11, 2024
Listing withdrawn September 4, 2024

• $274,000 (originally $274,900, later $244,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,295 square feet, 0.52 acre
• Price/square foot: $120
• 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.

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122 Circle Drive, Thomasville, Davidson County
The Howard and Fran Coker House
Sale pending February 10-24, 2024
Listing withdrawn February 24, 2024
Relisted April 29, 2024
Listing withdrawn September 1, 2024

• $399,000 (originally $449,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,975 square feet (per county), 0.41 acre (per county)
• Price/square foot: $134
• Built in 1964
• Listed July 13, 2023
• Last sale: Before the house was built (Davidson County online records don’t go back that far)
• Note: A rare split-level Mid-Century modern house
  • The house is being sold by the daughter of the original owners, Joseph Howard Coker (1933-1995) and Frances Celestia Coman Coker (1933-2022). Howard was a foreman at Thomasville Furniture Industries. Fran was a graduate of Fair Grove High School and Catawba College, a French and English major. She taught the subjects at Pilot High School and High Point Central. While still teaching, she founded The Fabric Center in Thomasville, which she operated until retiring in 2001.

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533 Carthage Street, Cameron, Moore County
The Leighton and Faye McKeithen House
Listing withdrawn September 2024

• $265,500 (originally $269,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,540 square feet (per county), 1.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1923
• Listed April 11, 2019
• Last sale: $25,000, February 1985
• Neighborhood: Cameron Historic District (NR)
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The house has been owned by successive generations of the McKeithen family since it was built.
  • The listing shows 3,980 square feet.
  • The 1985 deed was signed February 4, 1985, but it wasn’t recorded in the register of deeds office until more than a year later, March 10, 1986.
• District NR nomination: “The Leighton McKeithen House (no. 34), which contains elements of both the Bungalow and Colonial Revival styles, is a large, rambling structure with numerous gables. A porch with a wide cornice supported by heavy columns on brick piers also carries across the front. Fanlights decorate the gable ends. …
• “The large, irregularly massed, gable front structure has a porch with a wide cornice which carries around two sides supported on substantial square posts on brick piers. Square balusters compose the porch railing. A porte cochere is located on the east.
• “The projecting pedimented front gable contains a fanlike window. A gable roof dormer located to the east of the front gable has an arched window flanked by two smaller windows. The main entrance is a single door flanked by sidelights. Windows are 1/1.”
• The original owners were Leighton Black McKeithen (1899-1963) and Faye Ritchie McKeithen (1901-1976). Leighton was in the produce business.

• $259,900 (originally $265,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,204 square feet
• Price/square foot: $216
• Built in 1923
• Listed July 11, 2024
• Last sale: $240,000, October 2023
• HOA: $250/month

• $285,000 (originally $350,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,357 square feet
• Price/square foot: $210
• Built in 1923
• Listed May 6, 2024
• Last sale: $135,000, June 2004
• HOA: $255/month
• Note: Fourth-floor unit

3541 Buena Vista Road, Winston-Salem
Sale pending May 31 to July 2, 2024
Listing withdrawn July 2, 2024; relisted July 16, 2024
Listing withdrawn August 16, 2024

• $775,000 (originally 795,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,860 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1975
• Listed April 24, 2024
• Last sale: $462,000, August 2015
• Neighborhood: Buena Vista
• Note: There’s an in-law suite in the basement.
  • The original owner was Kay Frances Beeker Messick (1937-2021), who bought the property in 1973. Kay had become a real-estate agent after her husband died in a plane crash in 1968. She married David Mack Deese Jr. in 1979. Her obituary said she was a fan of the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees. Her favorite player was Reggie Jackson. Kay and David sold the property in 1982.

216 S. Tate Street, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn August 16, 2024

• $399,000 (originally $429,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,970 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $203
• Built in 1923
• Listed November 16, 2023
• Last sale: $205,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Longtime rental property
• District NR nomination: “Col Rev foursquare, Residence, 1925-30”
  • The address first appears in the 1925 city directory with the residents identified as Charles Lewis Walters (1869-1945) and Mary Maude Dick Walters (1882-1971), who bought the property in 1924. Charles was advertising manager for National Realty and Auction. They sold the house in 1927.
  • After a couple of additional sales and a foreclosure, the house was bought in 1939 by Juliette “Julia” Ballinger Dwiggins (1896-1983) and Charles Wade Dwiggins (1893-1969). They and their children owned the house until 1985. Charles was a mechanic with North State Chevrolet.

101 N. Chestnut Street, Apartment 1, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn July 2024

• $315,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 991 square feet (per county)
• Price/square foot: $318
• Built in 1915
• Listed July 21, 2024
• Last sale: $219,000, September 2021
• HOA: $250/month
• Neighborhood: Innovation Quarter
• Note: For sale by owner

434 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn October 18, 2023; relisted July 10, 2024
Listing withdrawn July 23, 2024

• $399,999 (originally $445,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,901 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $210
• Built in 1925 (per county, but perhaps a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed August 21, 2023
• Last sale: $325,000, January 2022
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC in Philadelphia
  • The original address was probably 430 Ardmore Avenue; the first owners of the house were listed at that address in 1921. In 1923, they were listed at 438 Ardmore. By 1924, the name of the street was changed to Hawthorne Road, and they were listed at 438 Hawthorne. It was still 438 S. Hawthorne when the National Register nomination was written in 2004.
• 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.”
• The lot was originally much deeper. A four-unit apartment house was built behind the house in 1950. It’s accessed by a driveway running along the right side of 434’s lot. When the lot was split, with the apartments kept the 438 address and the house became 434.
• The original owners were Frederick James DeTamble (1886-1961) and Elsie Elliott DeTamble (1888-1961). They bought the house around 1921 and sold it in 1926 to move to Westview, where they had bought land from William Neal Reynolds and Kate B. Reynolds.
• 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, for 37 years
• When he retired in 1953, 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 that day, November 30, 1962, was, “Chimp Safe After Twice Orbiting Earth; Glenn Is Selected For Orbital Flight.”

1503 Wiltshire Street, High Point
Sale pending December 5-19, 2023
Sale pending January 16 to July 3, 2024
Listing withdrawn July 3, 2024

• $250,000 (originally $270,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,871 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $133
• Built in 1933 (per county but probably a couple years earlier; see note)
• Listed September 22, 2023
• Last sale: $195,000, September 2021
• Note: The property first appeared in the city directory in 1930 under its original address, 1427 Wiltshire. The house was built by insurance agent C.G. Burrows and his wife, Ethel M. Burrows. They used it as a rental property until losing it to foreclosure in 1939.
  • Dr. Louis L. Wilkinson (1899-1991) and Cozy Byrd Windham Wilkinson (1899-1995) bought the house when they moved to High Point in 1943 and lived in it until 1953. Louis was born in Suzhow, China. He was an emergency room physician at High Point Memorial Hospital. Louis and Cozy lived in High Point until their deaths.

502 Thomas Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
Listing withdrawn July 2024

• $100,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,724 square feet, 0.23 acre
• Price/square foot: $58
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 26, 2024
• Last sale: $58,500, December 1993

128 Carolina Avenue, Asheboro, Randolph County
Listing withdrawn June 27, 2024

• $259,000
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,514 square feet, 0.35 acre
• Price/square foot: $171
• Built in 1940
• Listed June 12, 2024
• Last sale: $173,000, November 2021
• Note: The property includes a wired storage/workshop outbuilding.
  • The property was bought in 1958 by Connell Livingston Roberts (1910-1965) and Virginia Dare Franklin Roberts (1919-2002). It remained in their family for 53 years. Connell was originally from Madison County, where he had been a school teacher before coming to Asheboro in the 1950s. Their son, Hugh Livingstone Roberts (1943-2003), bought the house from Virginia in 1997. His son, David, inherited the house and owned it until 2011.

72 West End Boulevard

72 West End Boulevard, Apartment 3, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn June 24, 2024

• $240,000 (originally $255,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 825 square feet
• Price/square foot: $291
• Built in 1923
• Listed March 8, 2024
• Last sale: $112,000 January 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• HOA: $199/month
• Note: The condo has been used as a shirt-term rental for five years.
  • Three of the six condos are owned by LLCs.

836 Oak Street, Unit 300, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn June 21, 2024

• $299,900
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,306 square feet
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1920
• Listed May 5, 2024
• Last sale: $249,500, October 2019
• Note: Pretty audacious markup after less than five years, but that’s around the price these condos have been selling for.

801 W. McGee Street, Unit 5, Greensboro
Sale pending June 9, 2024
Listing withdrawn June 2024

• $155,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 735 square feet
• Price/square foot: $211
• Built in 1905
• Listed May 15, 2024
• Last sale: $130,000, May 2021
• HOA: $262/month
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Rental unit

101 W. 5th Avenue, Lexington, Davidson County
The Charles and Elizabeth Wall House
Listing withdrawn December 16, 2023
Relisted January 9, 2023
Listing withdrawn June 2024

• $675,000 (originally $850,000, later $395,000)
• 2 buildings, total of 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, 6,006 square feet, 1.39 acres
• Price/square foot: $112
• Built in 1900 and 1951
• Listed July 5, 2023
• Last sale: $130,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Lexington Residential Historic District (NR)
• Note: Renovation being abandoned part-way through. The historic character of the interior has been almost completely wiped out.
  • “Engineering plans already done for four 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath apartments. … Second building has two 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath apartments that have already been updated and rehabbed.”
• District NR nomination: “Two-story weatherboarded Queen Anne with a blue 5-V crimp hip roof, projecting pedimented bays on the north and east elevations and hip-roofed entry porches supported by square posts; 1/1 sash, sidelights flanking front door, gabled and pyramidal-hip-roofed dormers with vents, brick interior chimney with tall corbelled stack. The house appears on the 1913 Sanborn map. Mr. Wall was the co-owner of C. M. Wall and Son, a lumber company.”
• What it looked like in December 2022:

801 W. McGee Street, Unit 3, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn May 2024; relisted May 3, 2024
Sale pending May 18, 2024
Listing withdrawn May 2024

• $214,900 (originally $239,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,080 square feet
• Price/square foot: $199
• Built in 1905
• Listed March 10, 2024
• Last sale: $132,000, October 2019
• HOA: $179/month
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: For sale by owner

• $325,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,000 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1879
• Listed December 6, 2023
• Last sale: $35,000, November 1995
• Neighborhood: Old West End Historic District (local), Danville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Restored Italianate Victorian house — hidden gutters have been replaced, corbels rebuilt or restored, rebuilt windows.
  • The Old West End website has an extensive history of the house. TL;DR:

1000 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem
The Taylor-Northup House
Listing withdrawn May 26, 2024

• $995,000 (originally $1.09 million)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,200 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $311
• Built in 1920
• Listed December 1, 2023
• Last sale: $425,000, February 2019
• Neighborhood: West End Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Four houses built by members of the Taylor family share this block with Grace Park. The houses came under common ownership between 1976 and 1982. This is the only one currently being sold.
  • Mysterious deed reference: The four properties are identified in deeds, all the way up to the most recent, as having been “property of Elizabeth McCaw Taylor.” The four houses were built between 1905 and 1920 by Elizabeth’s father, William B. Taylor, and her three brothers — Archibald, Henry and William Jr. How Elizabeth’s name became attached to the properties is puzzling. She died at age three in 1889.
• District NR nomination: “The Taylor-Northup House is one of three Tudor Revival-influenced houses in a row built in 1916 by the sons of William B. Taylor on property directly behind the elder Taylor’s house at 915 W. Fourth St.
  • “The house is a two-story stuccoed structure with a gable roof, grouped windows, a Craftsman front door, and a projecting center bay whose second story is ‘half-timbered.’
  • “On the southwest side of the house is a small porch with fat stuccoed columns.
  • “Archibald B. Taylor built the house, but unlike his brothers with their houses, he does not appear to have lived in it. In 1945 the property was sold to Anne N. Northup, the widow of prominent local architect Willard C. Northup. She and her family occupied the house and retained ownership until 1973.”
  • Archibald Boggs Taylor (1892-1962) was president of Taylor Brothers Tobacco Company, “one of the last independent tobacco firms to yield in the post-war merger trend,” The Charlotte Observer said in its obituary (“Arch B. Taylor, ‘Mr. Tobacco,’ Dies in Winston”). The company was started by his father, who remained president until he died in 1933 at age 82 (“City Loses Pioneer Citizen,” Twin City Sentinel) and Archibald succeeded him. It was ultimately sold to the American Snuff Company of Memphis. Archibald had served with an Army hospital unit in Europe during World War I, rising to the rank of sergeant.
  • Anne Noble Northup (1884-1981) was born in Anniston, Alabama. She attended the Ringling School of Arts in Sarasota, Florida, and was a painter active in the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem and the N.C. State Arts Society.
  • Also on the property, behind the house, is a small office, built in 1950. District NR nomination: “This small modern studio is a one-story rectangular building with vertical wood siding, a horizontal band of windows, and a flat roof. While it is an interesting modern structure, it does not relate to the architecture of its surroundings. It was designed by Lamar Northup, son of Williard C. Northup, while he was in architecture school at Illinois Institute of Technology, and was originally used as the art studio of his mother, Anne, who lived in the adjacent associated house, 1000 W. Fifth St. The building is now used as an office.”

623wdavis

623 W. Davis Street, Burlington, Alamance County
The Sharpe-Somers House
Listing withdrawn May 25, 2024

• $1 million
• 5 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, 4,913 square feet (per county), 1.18 acres
• Price/square foot: $204
• Built in 1902
• Listed April 4, 2024
• Last sale: $37,000, November 1985
• Neighborhood: West Davis-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The listing shows 6,145 square feet, a significant discrepancy from county records.
• District NR nomination: “Standing on a large elevated lot at an important corner in the West Davis Street neighborhood, this frame Tudor Revival house is associated with two locally prominent businessmen significant for their roles in Burlington’s late nineteenth and twentieth century development.
  • “Its first owner was Walter E. Sharpe, who, around 1910, transformed the structure from a typical one-and-one-half-story Victorian cottage to a much larger Tudor Revival residence. Sharpe, the developer of the Fountain Place sub-division, was associated with a variety of local business ventures beginning in the early 1890s.
  • “Claude G. Somers, who acquired the house in the early 1930s, was also active in real estate sales and development locally, being one of the principal backers of the Westerwood section in the late 1920s. He also was an organizer of Community Federal Savings and Loan Association.
  • “The house as it stands today is a rambling two-and-one-half-story frame structure clad in weatherboard on the first floor and applied half timbering with stucco on the second.
  • “A gable and clipped-gable roof of slate covers the structure, which features one-over-one double-hung sash windows on the first floor and multi-pane casements, typical of the Tudor Revival, on the second. Brick posts rising from a lozenge-patterned brick balustrade support the one-story wraparound porch, the entrance bay of which is the only section fully roofed.”

500wachovia

500 Wachovia Street, Winston-Salem
Sale pending November 30 to December 15, 2023
Listing withdrawn May 16, 2024

• $473,000 (originally $493,000)
• No bedrooms or bathrooms, 7,620 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $62
• Built circa 1923 (see note)
• Listed August 18, 2023
• Last sale: $330,000, December 2021
  • The next previous sale was for $70,000 in 1999.
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Listing: “Recent rezoning will allow multi family or single family housing”
  • The building has been gutted except for some relatively new-looking framing and hardwood floors that remain on the upper floor.
• Note: County records date the building to 1910, but the address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1923. The first occupant was identified as C.H. Brown & Sons, grocers, which was listed at the address until 1934. Other grocery stores briefly used the building, followed by the Massey Hoisery Mill in 1945 and other industrial occupants.
  • County property records list the property as a triplex.
• District NR nomination: “Commercial Style. Two story; brick; enclosed storefront; parapet steps to rear; segmental arch window heads on second floor; cast iron cornice over storefront; decorative brick sign panel; six-over-one, double-hung sash; one-story wing on west side.”

705morehead

• $405,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,781 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $227
• Built circa 1906
• Listed May 9, 2024
• Last sale: $195,000, January 2023
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing calls it “one of the most beautifully renovated homes in College Hill,” but includes no photos of the interior.
  • County records give the date as 1925, but the address appears in the city directory from 1907.
  • The original owners were Walter S. Jones (1876-1951) and Mary Emma Dwiggins Jones (1880-1966), who bought the property in 1906 and were listed at the address in the city directory in 1907. He was a clerk with the Cone Export & Commission Company and later went into the insurance business. They sold the house around 1920.
  • The house was bought in 1967 by Louis Jefferson Towne III (1929-2022). He owned it for 55 years. Jeff was a landlord/property hoarder most noted for his disinterest in maintaining his many properties and his tireless efforts to resist the city’s orders to bring them up to code.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne, residence, c. 1906”

• $260,000 (originally $229,500, later as low as $210,000 and as high as $290,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,130 square feet
• Price/square foot: $122
• Built in 1885
• Listed April 7, 2022
• Last sale: $142,500, February 2021
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NRHP)
• Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows
  • Now a boarding house
  • The house was sold in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2021. The current out-of-state owner listed it for sale 14 months after buying it.
  • The house is next-door to the 1-acre-plus Apple Green City Farm (if it still exists) and just around the corner from Carolina University (formerly Piedmont Bible Institute, 1946-2012, and Piedmont International University, 2012-20).
  • Homes on Apple Street first appear in the city directory in 1894, but without house numbers. Charles L. Hanes (1868-1900) was listed on Apple Street that year, and his widow, Martha Alice Binkley Hanes (1865-1948), was listed at 927 Apple in 1902, and she apparently lived there the rest of her life. Her obituary in 1948 showed her address as 927 Apple.
• 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.”

• $195,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,600 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $75
• Built in 1931
• Listed March 1, 2024
• Last sale: $112,500, June 2006
• Note: Online listings give the wrong address. Zillow has it as 207 S. 6th Street; others have 207 6th Street.
  • The condition of the interior is unknown. The listing has just one interior photo and says only that the house needs “a little TLC.”

529 Hillcrest Avenue, Burlington, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn May 13, 2024

• $299,000 (originally $344,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,192 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $136
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 30, 2023
• Last sale: $147,000, September 2016

• $459,900
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,494 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $308
• Built in 1927
• Listed January 1, 2024
• Last sale: $228,500, September 2016
• Neighborhood: Sedgefield
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The Sedgefield Country Club is across the street.
  • The property includes a swimming pool.
  • The house is one of the oldest in Sedgefield. Development of the community began in 1923.

The original owners were Sidney Love Alderman (1860-1931) and Bessie Carolina Sherrill Alderman (1870-1939). Sidney was a commercial photographer and artist, “prominently identified throughout the greater part of his life with the civic advancement of Greensboro,” the Greensboro Daily News said upon his death. They bought the property in 1925. Although Bessie died in 1939, her estate didn’t sell the house until 1965.

In 1966 the house was bought by Audrey Herzberg McCrory (1925-2006) and Rollin John McCrory (d. 1995). They moved to Sedgefield from Columbus, Ohio. Audrey was born in Milwaukee. She earned a B.S. in nursing from Marquette University and masters and doctoral degrees in human growth and development from UNC Greensboro. She taught sociology at Elon University, High Point University and Guilford Technical Community College. They were the parents of Pat McCrory, former governor of North Carolina. Audrey sold the house in 2004.

602 Hillcrest Drive, High Point
The Junius W. Woollen House
Listing withdrawn April 26, 2024

• $799,999 (originally $829,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,287 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $243
• Built in 1928
• Listed October 27, 2023
• Last sale: $418,000, October 2018
• Neighborhood: Emerywood
• Note: The property includes a three-car garage with an in-law suite, connected to the house by a breezeway.
  • The property consists of two lots with two addresses, 600 and 602 Hillcrest. The house is on 602 Hillcrest.
• District NR nomination: “This two-story, hip-roofed, Colonial Revival-style house is three bays wide and double-pile with a brick veneer, interior, corbelled brick chimney, and modillion cornice.
  • “The house has six-over-six, wood-sash windows flanked by four-over-four windows on the first-floor facade and a combination of eight-over-eight and six-over-six, wood-sash windows on the second story. The six-panel door has a classical surround with fluted pilasters and a broken swan’s neck pediment.
  • “A one-story, hip-roofed wing on the left (west) elevation has grouped six-over-six windows, a modillion cornice, and a Chinese Chippendale-style railing at the roofline. A one-story, flat-roofed porch on the right (east) elevation is supported by square columns, has a Chinese Chippendale-style railing at the roofline, and has been enclosed with glass.
  • “There are hip-roofed dormers on the right and left elevations, each with a single nine-light casement windows. A two-story, hip-roofed ell extends from the rear (north).
  • “A one-story, shed-roofed porch at the right rear (northeast) has a metal roof and is supported by square posts; it extends as a covered walkway to the garage.
  • The original owners were Junius W. Woollen (1892-1855) and Ruth Millikan Woollen (1897-1978). They owned the house for 43 years.
  • Junius was production manager and later superintendent for Adams-Millis Corporation. His obituary said he worked for the company for 50 years; he died at age 63.

• $259,900 (originally $265,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,980 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $131
• Built in 1922
• Listed November 3, 2023
• Last sale: $186,000, August 17, 2021
• Neighborhood: Central Leaksville Historic District (NR)
• Note: The current owner has added a bathroom.
• District NR nomination on 526 and 528 S. Hamilton: “These nearly identical houses are intact, carefully detailed examples of the basic one-and-one-half story bungalow. Both houses have shed dormers, exterior sheathing of weatherboards on the first story and shingles on the second, engaged full-facade porches with slender columns on brick piers, and interior chimneys with exposed faces in each gable end.”
  • How it looked when the current owner bought it:

1013 N. Elm Street, No. B-5, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn April 25, 2024

• $132,500 (originally $138,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 608 square feet
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1930
• Listed November 9, 2023
• Last sale: $128,000, April 2023
• HOA: $297/month

7055 Old 421 Road, Guilford County
Listing withdrawn April 19, 2024

• $719,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,172 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $331
• Built in 1932
• Listed March 22, 2024
• Last sales: $237,500, September 2017; $227,000, March 2016
• Neighborhood: Located about 3 miles north of Liberty, 20 miles south of Greensboro
• Note: The house has a Liberty mailing address but is in Guilford County. Old 421 Road forms the boundary between southern Guilford and northern Randolph counties.
  • The property is 3 1/2 miles east of the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, the 1,800-acre industrial park where Toyota is building a battery plant.
  • The property includes a detached workshop, tractor shed, “stately” barn and “grand” chicken coop. There’s also a pond, which the listing doesn’t mention.

• $475,000 (originally $550,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,021 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $157
• Built in 1918
• Listed October 18, 2023
• Last sale: $326,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: West Main Street Historic District (local)
• Note: The house was bought in 1968 by Pearl Belle Forkner Beasley (1890-1979). She was the widow of John William Beasley (1889-1959), who owned Pilot Mountain and turned it into a tourist attraction. He bought it in 1944 for $14,500. After his death, Pearl took charge of the mountain. In 1968, she sold it to the Pilot Mountain Preservation and Park Committee for $682,500 so it could become the centerpiece of a new state park.
  • Pearl taught school and was secretary-treasurer of her husband’s car dealership. She apparently used the house as a rental property; she lived across the street for 52 years. Pearl’s estate sold the house in 1981.

• $399,000 (originally $409,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,197 square feet, 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $182
• Built in 1915
• Listed February 3, 2024
• Last sale: $200,000 on May 25, 2023
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house with a huge markup.
• District NRHP nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; weatherboard; ten-light, Craftsman-style transom over single-light windows; front-gable dormer; front-gable porch; battered posts on brick piers; wood shingles in gable ends and on dormer; knee braces; exposed rafter tails. 1915 CD: James and Jessie Prater, a plumber.”

433 N. Logan Street, Burlington, Alamance County
Listing withdrawn March 2024

• $280,000
• 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,745 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $160
• Built in 1910
• Listed November 19, 2022
• Last sale: $110,000, May 2022
• Note: As bad as many flipped houses are, this one really raises some questions. The aggressive color scheme, including the painted masonry (always a bad idea), is new, as is the flat roof on the porch. And what’s that box-like thing sitting on the porch roof in front of a second-floor window?
  • Something you don’t see every day: There’s a wall-mounted drinking fountain in what looks to be a small mud room.
  • How the house looked before its nightmarish 2022 renovation:

305 Swaim Street, Randleman, Randolph County
Listing withdrawn March 2024

• $198,200
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,015 square feet, 0.55 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 26, 2023
• Last sale: $84,000, June 2016
• Note: For sale by owner
  • The listing shows no photos of the interior.

110 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro
The William and Eunice Bogart House
Listing withdrawn March 22, 2024

• $451,560
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,378 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $190
• Built in 1938
• Listed February 22, 2024
• Last sales: $565,000, January 2024 (foreclosure auction); $108,000, May 1987
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NRHP)
• Note: Until the recent foreclosure, the house had had only two owners.
• Listing: Bank-owned, occupied. “NO ACCESS OR VIEWINGS of this property – no interior photos. Please DO NOT DISTURB the occupant. … ‘As is’ cash only sale with no contingencies or inspections. Buyer will be responsible for obtaining possession of the property upon closing.”
• District NR nomination: “Col Rev (brk vnr), Residence, 1935-40, W.H. Bogart, Clerk, Proximity Mfg Co. Brick quoins mark entry and corners of this gable-end house.”
  • The original owners were William Hawkins Bogart Sr. (1901-1991) and Eunice Bowen Bogart (1900-1986), who were listed as residents of the house in 1939, the first year the address was listed in the city directory. William was a clerk at Proximity and later became a technician and a textile designer at Cone Mills. They bought the property in 1938 and sold it in 1988 to the owner who had it until the foreclosure.

• $290,000 (originally $300,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,399 square feet, 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1922
• Listed January 17, 2024
• Last sale: $167,500, December 2019
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The property includes a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom accessory dwelling unit of 919 square feet.
  • The original owners were George Cleveland Stewart (1884-1958) and Lula Ethel Whitaker Stewart (1886-1985). George was a conductor on the Yadkin & Atlantic Railroad and a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Lula sold the house in 1960.

329 Pender Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
Listing withdrawn March 11, 2024

• $319,000 (originally $329,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,689 square feet, 0.97 acre
• Price/square foot: $86
• Built in 1901
• Listed October 13, 2023
• Last sale: $27,000, October 1984
• Sales hype: “the ideal canvas for your real estate dreams. … With a vision and some effort, you can transform it into a beautiful, historically charming residence.”
• Notes: County property record card: “UPSTAIRS IN NEED OF COMPL RENV. CENT AIR IN PART OF HSE ONLY”
  • In its earliest days, the house was home to a string of prominent local business owners. The earliest documented owners were Stephen Mason Hale (1862-1942) and Emma Waugh Cooper Hale (1861-1928), who were listed at 132 Pender Street in 1913. Stephen was the owner of S.M. Hale General Merchandise, later Hale’s Department Store. Born in Grayson County, Virginia, he operated a store in Ennice in Alleghany County for 11 years before moving to Mount Airy in 1899. He retired in 1939, spending his later years tending his cattle and peach farm 10 miles outside town..
  • The next known owners were Cecil Forrest Hennis Sr. (1886-1953) and Pearl Campbell Hennis (1896-1968). Cecil was an early auto dealer, proprietor of Hennis Motor Company for 30 years.
  • “No man enjoyed a wider circle of friends and a greater esteem of his countrymen than Mr. Hennis, who could always be found enlisted with the forces for the betterment of the community in which he lived,” his obituary said.
  • In 1925, Hennis sold the house to the remarkably named Bausley Beasley (1876-1955) and Della Jennie Davis Beasley (1877-1934). Bausley was the owner of Beasley Lumber & Milling Company. He served several terms as a city commissioner in Mount Airy.
  • By 1949, the house had been divided into four apartments. It is now a single-family home again.

828 N. Elm Street, Apartment A6, Greensboro
Listing withdrawn February 14, 2024

• $165,000
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 992 square feet
• Price/square foot: $166
• Built in 1924
• Listed February 8, 2024
• Last sale: $155,000, September 2022
• HOA: $293/month
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Top-floor unit

408 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
The Mark and Zelma Freemon House
Listing withdrawn February 14, 2022; relisted January 30, 2024
Listing withdrawn February 1, 2024

• $450,000 (originally $339,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,388 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $188
• Built in 1910 (per county, but likely much later; see note)
• Listed August 16, 2021
• Last sale: $105,000, July 2018
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “fixer-upper”
  • Online listings show 4,776 square feet, about twice the size shown in county records.
  • The district’s National Register nomination dates the house to between 1924 and 1929, but its original address, 637 Fountain Place, doesn’t appear in the city directory as late as 1930.
  • The house may have been built by Donald Asher and Elizabeth Asher (dates unknown for both). They bought the property in 1934 and sold it in 1936. It was listed in the 1935 city directory with another person as the resident; the Ashers were listed living elsewhere.
  • In 1936, Joseph Mark Freemon (1901-1989) and Zelma W Freemon (1904-2003) bought the house. Mark was secretary-treasurer and later president of Burlington Ice Company and vice president of Burlington Homes Inc. They lived in the house until around 1959. (Some sources, including the National Register district nomination, misspell their surname as “Freeman.”)
• District NR nomination: “[T]his 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.”

409 W. 1st Street, Winston-Salem
Listing withdrawn January 8, 2024

• $429,000 (originally $450,000)
• Single-family house divided into three apartments, each 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom; 1,628 total square feet; 0.11 acre
• Price/square foot: $264
• Built in 1915
• Listed October 4, 2023
• Last sale: $250,000, February 2022
• Neighborhood: Holly Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flip job, owned by an LLC based in Philadelphia
• District NR nomination: “This is a side gable, single pile cottage with a shed dormer and full-width porch. The porch has columns on brick piers. Windows are decorative hexagonal lights-over-one. Two doors have been added on either side of the original entrance to the front facade.”
  • The first known residents were Edward Wright Noble and Brownie Noble (dates unknown for both), who were listed at the address in the 1915 city directory. Edward was a foreman for R.J. Reynolds.
  • By 1918, James Nelson Weeks (1892-1962) and Beulah Amelia Lathers Weeks (1893-1976) were listed as residents. James was secretary-treasurer for Hanes Hosiery Mill.

• $399,000
• 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,480 square feet, 1.09 acres
• Price/square foot: $115
• Built in 1911
• Listed July 10, 2023
• Last sale: $229,000, March 2018
• Neighborhood: Maple Grove
• Note: The property includes an in-ground swimming pool.
• Description in The Historic Architecture of Davie County, North Carolina (published in 1986, some details may have changed): “The large and very impressive Neo-Classical Revival style dwelling is notable for its many classical details and the expansive wrap-around porch which carries across three elevations. Completed in 1911, the house was built for Gustave Alphonso Allison (1861-1934), an agent for the Southern Railroad. Allison’s wife Henrie E. (Morris) Allison (1865-1906) had died before the house was built. Mr. Allison lived here until his death. The property passed to his daughter Ossie Claire Allison (1898-1982), who also died here. The house was subsequently sold out of the family.
  • “The symmetrical appearance of the house is focused on the central entrance. Trios of Tuscan porch columns mark the center bay. Behind, the entrance projects from the wall surface. On the second story pent-gabled bay windows form the end bays and frame a center bay Palladian window. Smaller Palladian windows occupy the pent gables. The symmetry is preserved by the porch which stretches from the two-story pent-gabled bay on the east elevation to its counterpart on the west. The house’s wide eaves are detailed with modillion blocks. Pilasters with Scamozzi capitals are located at the corners of the front elevation. A hip-roofed kitchen ell and an enclosed porch span the rear elevation.
  • “The house’s interior is as richly finished as the exterior. Its broad center hall meets a free-standing open-sting stair located just behind a brick fireplace with a corbeled cornice. Sheathed, darkly stained wainscot is located in the hall and dining room; it has been painted in the parlor. A number of Neo-Classical Revival style mantels survive. Behind the house is a small frame servants’ quarters with a connected garage, and to the south, a two-story board-and-batten building of unknown use.”

6937 N.C. Highway 66 South, King, Stokes County
Listing withdrawn March 2022; relisted July 6, 2023
Listing withdrawn January 7, 2024

• $267,000 (originally $350,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,523 square feet, 14.27 acres
• Price/square foot: $175
• Built in 1890
• Listed May 3, 2020
• Last sale: $140,000, July 2006
• Note: Vinyl siding, replacement windows
  • The listing shows 4.25 acres “possibly 10 more acres,” but county property records show 14.27.
  • Listing: “small wired workshop/storage room attached to house with window unit, 1 car detached carport, concrete building which can be used as workshop or storage that is wired 220, has water and it’s own breaker box, also has a window unit”

160 Johnson Dairy Road, Rockwell, Rowan County
Listing withdrawn January 2, 2024

• $675,100
• 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and “several” half bathrooms, 3,687 square feet, 18.07 acres
• Price/square foot: $183
• Built in 1987
• Listed August 13, 2022
• Last sale: $230,000, February 2006 (part of a multi-property sale)
• Note: Yeah, they’re pyramids. And there are two of them.
  • The blue one “features an open floor plan with kitchen, dining and living room with a wood burning fireplace and oven. Two master suites, one downstairs and one upstairs with a balcony overlooking the 6 fenced in pastures. Tons of storage, laundry room, built-ins, skylights, 5 full baths and several half bathrooms throughout both homes.”
  • The red one is unfinished and described as “a huge garage space with multiple rooms for second living quarters.”
  • The property includes a creek; an outbuilding with electricity and water; and banana, apple and fig trees.
  • Click here for more about the pyramids and James Kluttz, their designer and original owner.

739 N. Main Street, Mocksville, Davie County
The Tatum-LeGrand House
Listing withdrawn January 1, 2024

• $299,999 (originally $325,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,868 square feet, 0.63 acre
• Price/square foot: $161
• Built in 1927 (or a few years earlier; see below)
• Listed June 13, 2023
• Last sale: $66,500, April 1988
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: The historic district’s National Register nomination dates the house to 1924.
• District NR nomination: “three-bay, front-gabled frame Craftsman style house; side gable on west elevation; hipped porch across front with posts on brick piers; triangular knee braces in eaves; shallow bay on north elevation; six-over-one and eight-over-one crossette pattern sash; central chimney; built for professor Ezra C. Tatum; occupied in 1926 by John P. LeGrand (1895-1964), who lived there the rest of his life; LeGrand was a state representative and Mocksville postmaster.”
  • Ezra Carl Tatum Sr. (1898-1959) was veteran of World War I and a graduate of N.C. State College. He taught agriculture in Winston-Salem and Mocksville, according to his obituary in the Winston-Salem Journal, which provided no further details on his teaching career. He also worked for 20 years as a cotton buyer for Erwin Mills and operated a dairy farm.
  • Ezra was a prominent civic leader on the local and state levels as well. He served as chairman of the Davie County Board of Commissioners, chairman of the county civil defense unit, and president of the county Farm Bureau, the North Carolina Farmers Convention and the North Carolina Poultry Association. He served on the boards of the Biblical Recorder and the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation.
  • LeGrand had an unusual career. He operated a drug store and was elected to the state House in 1931. In 1936 he became postmaster of Mocksville, giving up both his political career and his drug store. In 1947 he left his position as postmaster to become a rural mail carrier. He retired from the Post Office just a year before his death.