Piedmont Historic Homes

917 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $170,000 on June 27, 2024 (listed at $198,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,488 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $114
• Built in 1932
• Listed May 13, 2024
• Last sale: $67,000, October 1992
• Neighborhood: Ardmore, just outside the historic district (so no tax credits are available for rehabilitation).

121 Bruce Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $105,000 on June 24, 2024 (originally $149,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,370 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $77
• Built in 1910
• Listed March 24, 2024
• Last sale: $16,500, June 1980
• Note: Located across Spring Garden Street from the Lindley Park neighborhood.

• Sold for $200,000 on June 21, 2024 (originally $290,000)
• Two houses:
  • 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 928 square feet, 0.89 acre, built in 1907 (photo above)
  • Duplex: 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1629 square feet (photo below)
• Price/square foot: $78
• Built in 1907
• Listed December 17, 2021
• Last sale: $130,000, November 30, 2016
• Note: The house has a Lexington mailing address but is in the Welcome community, 7 miles north of town.
  • The brick duplex:

• Sold for $121,000 on June 21, 2024 (auction)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,712 square feet, 0.50 acre
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built in 1914
• Listed March 2, 2024
• Last sale: $54,000, June 1977
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “This house was damaged by fire and smoke and has been gutted to the studs. The original floors and fireplaces are there. … Bids must be submitted on listing broker’s website.”
• District NR nomination: “Built early in the twentieth century for the large family of Leander Gross, local fish merchant, this house is one of several Foursquare houses contributing to the character of the West Davis-West Front Streets District.
  • “It features the typical two-story configuration with high hipped roof, symmetrical interior chimneys and one-story full-facade porch with square posts on brick piers. Classical touches include the window surrounds, corner boards, and the entrance with beveled glass sidelights and tripartite transom.”
  • The original owners were Leander Gross (1857-1929) and Susan Francis Shields Gross (1858-1930). The Gross family owned the house until 1972, when it was sold by Dessye Allen Gross (1892-1979), one of Leander and Susan’s three daughters. None of the daughters married. They also had five sons.

• Sold for $85,605 on June 19, 2024 (auction, Case 21 SP 51)
  • Sold to lender
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,248 square feet, 3.98 acres
• Price/square foot: $38
• Built in 1910
• Last sale: $45,000, March 2005
• Note: County property records, which could be outdated, describe the property as wooded with a barn, stables and a miscellaneous building.
  • The building grade is listed as D-.
  • The house is about 2 1/2 miles east of Hamptonville and 10 miles west of Yadkinville, just off U.S. 21 north of U.S. 421.
  • A 1936 deed shows this property being part of a 79-acre tract sold by J.H. Long to Mrs. L.M. Long. They could be John H. Long (1862-1935) and Laura Mittie Teague Long Davis (1880-1966). Their relationship is unknown. John was a farmer. His tragic death was reported across the state: “Farmer Killed as Mules Bolt; John H. Long Thrown From Wagon by Frightened Animals Near Yadkinville.”

974 Yarborough Mill Road, Caswell County
Sale pending May 30, 2024

• Sold for $65,000 on June 18, 2024 (listed at $79,000)
  • The buyer has a mailing address in Ferrum, Virginia.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,150 square feet, 3 acres
• Price/square foot: $57
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 16, 2024
• Last sale: $50,000, October 2003
• Neighborhood: Located off N.C. Highway 62 4 miles south of Milton near the Estelle community. The property has a Milton mailing address.
• Note: County records give the name of the road as Yarborough Mill Road, but online listings and Google Maps show it as Yarboroughs Mill.
  • Out-of-state owner

8756 N.C. Highway 87 S., Eli Whitney, Alamance County

• Sold for $175,000 on June 14, 2024 (listed at $170,000)
• Number of bedrooms and bathrooms unknown, 4,302 square feet, 3.21 acres
• Price/square foot: $41
• Built in 1910
• Listed May 2, 2024
• Last sale: $35,000, April 1985
• Neighborhood: South of Saxapahaw and Eli Whitney. The property has a Graham mailing address.
• Note: Formerly occupied by Cornucopia Cheese and Specialty Food Company. Founded in 1983, it was “one of the leading wholesale gourmet foods distributors in the Southeast USA,” its owner’s LinkedIn page says. It had more than 500 customers, according to a 2012 report. It appears to have gone out of business several years ago. Its owner died in 2020. The property is still in the company’s name.
• Listing: “The house has a commercial cooler installed adjacent to the house. The house is full of personal property that will not be removed.” That property may include a couple large refrigerated trucks sitting outside the house. There are no photos of the interior included in the listing.

110 E. Ingram Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County

• Sold for $145,000 on May 29, 2024 (listed at $140,000)
• 5 bedrooms (per county), 2 bathrooms (per county), 5,096 square feet, 1.56 acres
• Price/square foot: $28
• Built in 1927
• Listed March 15, 2024
• Last sales: $115,000, February 2024 (deed in lieu of foreclosure); $137,000, January 2019
• Note: The listing shows 7 bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms.
  • “Home needs full extensive renovation including roof and AC.”

• Sold on May 29, 2024, price not recorded on deed, “no taxable consideration” (originally $299,900)
  • The buyer is an LLC in Mount Airy.
• 11 apartments, 6,276 square feet, 1.01 acre
• Price/square foot: NA
• Built in 1920
• Listed April 20, 2022
• Last sale: $135,000, May 2021
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District
• Listing: “11 unit apartment building upfit opportunity.”
  • Owned by an LLC in Charlotte
  • District NRHP nomination: “Two-story granite building with hipped roof, gabled dormers, gabled entrance porch with Doric columns, and one-over-one window~ Opened in 1918 as the nursing school serving Martin Memorial Hospital across Gilmer Street (#211). The school graduated its first class of five nurses in 1921. A total of 298 nurses graduated before the school was closed in the mid-1950s.”
  • In the 1980s, the building housed the Surry County health department.

610 Peele Street, Burlington, Alamance County

• Sold for $158,000 on May 25, 2024 (originally $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,870 square feet, 0.40 acre
• Price/square foot: $84
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 17, 2023
• Last sale: $25,000, September 2012
• Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: Restoration being abandoned part way through: “needed repairs include roof, walls, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, as well as updates to the kitchen and baths,” according to a listing on the Preservation North Carolina site. 
  • The early history of the house is obscure. It was built at an unknown address on West Front Street. By 1930 it had been moved to its present location, the address of which was then 508 Peele. That year, the city sold the property and the seven-room house to Cleo Wade Johnson Fonville (1891-1977). The house remained in the Fonville family for 82 years.
  • County records show 1,870 square feet, but the listing says, “Finished square footage is listed as 1278 due to areas that are currently unfinished and/or unheated, however, once rehab is complete, the finished total should be around 2200 square feet.”
• District NR nomination: “This two-story one-room-deep frame house with a rear one-story ell appears to date from the turn of this century. Its earliest known occupants were Mr. and Mrs. John L. Fonville, listed in the 1937 Burlington City Directory [as they had been as early as 1935]; Mr. Fonville was a superintendent of the King Cotton Mills.
  • “At the center bay, classical features distinguish the house. Attenuated columns support the entrance porch, an elliptical fanlight appears above the front door, and there is a Palladian window in the second story.”
  • Cleo and John (1885-1975) had come to Burlington from Cheraw, South Carolina. In 1970 they sold the house to their son Robert Harrell Fonville Sr. (1914-1979) and his wife, Christine Boone Fonville (1914-2017). Robert and Christine operated Fifth Street Cleaners from 1944 to 1980. In 1975 they bought Robert’s Variety Store, which they operated for 11 years with their son. Robert Jr. sold the house in 2012.

506 Oakdale Road, Jamestown, Guilford County

• Sold for $167,000 on May 16, 2024 (originally $249,999)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,550 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $108
• Built in 1907 or 1928 (see note)
• Listed March 22, 2024
• Last sale: $50,000, March 1986
• Note: Built by the nearby Oakdale Cotton Mill. Sold by the mill in 1971.
  • County records give a 1928 date; the listing says 1907, which appears more likely, based on the design of the house.
  • The listing says the house “awaits the loving touch of its next custodian to breathe new life into it.”

151 Hammond Road, Pinebluff, Moore County
Free Liberty United Christian Church

• Sold for $23,000 on May 16, 2024 (originally $60,000)
• 1,448 square feet, 0.31 acre
• Price/square foot: $16
• Built circa 1880
• Listed March 7, 2024
• Last sale: $18,000, October 2020
• Neighborhood: Near the Addor community, about 10 miles south of Southern Pines and Pinehurst. It has a Pinebluff mailing address.
• Note: The property is protected under preservation covenants held by Preservation North Carolina.
  • “The rear section, possibly added in the early 20th century, boasts a striking tongue-and-groove ceiling adorned in brilliant blue paint.”
  • “This historical treasure presents a unique opportunity for complete rehabilitation, necessitating new systems and restoration carpentry.”
  • Little, if any, history of the historically African American church can be found online, apart from a news report of a racist vandalism attack 21 years ago.

• Sold for $95,000 on May 10, 2024 (listed at $129,000)
• 3 bedrooms, no bathrooms, 1,782 square feet, 2.79 acres
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1899
• Listed April 4, 2024
• Last sale: July 1937, no price recorded on deed (but the price would be irrelevant because the sale was for about 500 cares)
• Neighborhood: In the Uwharrie National Forest, about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Biscoe and 7 miles southeast of Troy
• Note: The listing shows no bathrooms in the house; county records show 0.9 bathrooms, whatever that means.
  • No heating or air conditioning systems
  • Listing: “One in a million find. … Needs TLC to get it back to its original look. Out in the country with 2.79 acres, just been surveyed out of a 174 acre tract. … All kinds of outside buildings. Has a 50 foot right of way to get to it from Cedar Creek Rd.”

• Sold for $109,500 on May 9, 2024 (originally $164,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,060 square feet, 10.27 acres (see note)
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1915
• Last sale: Probably $1,650, April 1941 (deeds aren’t completely clear); the land apparently was already owned by the family now selling it
• Listing: The property consists of two tracts, one on each side of the road. The lot with the house is 1.05 acre.
  • Located south of Eden about halfway to Wentworth

• Sold for $42,000 on May 6, 2024 (originally $89,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $37
• Built in 1914
• Listed February 25, 2024
• Last sale: $30,000, December 2021
• Neighborhood: McLewallen
• Listing: “a nice income producing property”
  • For sale by owner, an LLC in Supply, NC
  • No air conditioning
  • Even at its reduced price, its a pretty audacious mark-up on a house that sold for $30,000 in 2021 and doesn’t appear to have seen much investment, if any, since then.

• Sold for $80,000 on April 18, 2024 (listed at $110,000)
• 1 bedroom (per listing; see note), 1 bathroom, 1,014 square feet, 2.74 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1900
• Listed April 1, 2024
• Last sale: $25,000, July 2020
• Note: Another case of a property owner buying a house, letting it deteriorate for years and then jacking up the price to sell it.
  • No central heat. Window air conditioners.
  • The listing says there’s only 1 bedroom, but the pictures show at least three rooms that could be bedrooms.
  • Something the listing doesn’t mention: A right-of-way cuts through the property right behind the house, providing a driveway for an adjoining property that has no road frontage. On the GIS map above, the two properties being sold are numbered 8435 (1691 Pine Hall Road) and 7653 (1685 Pine Hall Road). The landlocked property (6385) doesn’t have any building on it now.
  • A railroad line runs along the back of the property.
  • The earliest known owners were Harry Hinton Williamson (1877-1954) and Mary Carr Chisman Williamson (1877-1963). Harry was born in Danville and attended the Bingham Institute in Asheville. He moved in 1918 to Pine Hall, where he operated a store. He served on the Stokes County school board and the boards of commissioners in Stokes and Rockingham counties.
  • The Williamsons sold the property, then consisting of 5.35 acres, in 1925 to Albert Mitchell (1892-1953) and Flossie Mae Satterfield Mitchell (1898-1975). Their family owned it for 70 years. It was sold by the estate of their daughter Alice in 1995.

• Sold for $155,000 on April 26, 2024 (listed at $150,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,884 square feet, 0.54 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1920
• Listed February 28, 2024
• Last sale: $5,500, February 1952
• Note: The Guilford-Alamance county line runs through the property, through the house, in fact. Most of the house is in Guilford County; the garage is in Alamance.
  • The back side of the property runs along the railroad tracks.
  • The house needs work, but it has a good deal of unpainted woodwork and doors.
  • The seller of the house in 1952 was Friedens Evangelical Luthern church. The property was part of the church parsonage.
  • The property was acquired by James Garland Steele (1893-1962) in three transactions in 1924, 1935 and 1952. He opened Steele Hardware in 1924 and Steele Motor Company in 1935. He served as mayor 1933-37 and 1939-41 (his father, H.W. Steele, was first mayor of the town, elected in 1883).
  • The property is being sold by the estate of his son, Garland Florence Steele (1938-2015). Garland was a graduate of N.C. State University, a truck driver and later an accountant.

653vernon

• Sold for $60,000 on April 12, 2024, (listed at $69,000) to the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina
• Sold by the foundation for $65,000 on April 12, 2024, to an owner who will restore the house
• Bedrooms and bathrooms to be determined, 1,643 square feet, 10 acres
• Price/square foot: $37
• Built ca. 1800
• Last sale: 1785, price not available
• Listing: “The farm has been continuously owned and operated by the King family and was designated a North Carolina Century Farm in 1986 and a Bicentennial Farm by the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture in 2017.”
  • “Early log house with large stone chimneys, exposed beaded ceiling joists, wide wall planks, hand-forged door hardware, and a rear wing, once an early separate kitchen. Family cemetery with ancient soapstone markers nearby all situated on a scenic ridge between Wentworth and Reidsville.”
  • “The house has been covered by rolled asphalt siding. Small sections have been uncovered to reveal lap siding on the main house and board-and-batten siding on the kitchen.”
  • “The house will require a complete rehabilitation including repair of the roof (some 5v metal panels were ripped off in a recent storm), restoration/repair of log structure, installation of new systems including electrical, plumbing and HVAC, a new kitchen and bathrooms.”
  • The property for sale is a 10-acre piece of a 240-acre farm. It includes the cemetery.

• Sold for $95,000 on April 8, 2024 (listed at $95,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2  bathrooms, 1,856 square feet, 3.29 acres
• Price/square foot: $51
• Built in 1910
• Listed March 26, 2024
• Last sales: $75,000, June 2023; $79,764, September 2019 (foreclosure auction); $96,100, August 2002
• Note: The property includes an in-ground pool.

• Sold for $150,000 on April 5, 2024 (listed at $164,900)
  • Bought by an LLC in California
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4,021 square feet, 0.26 acre
• Price/square foot: $37
• Built in 1904
• Listed February 23, 2024
• Last sale: $80,000 on February 11, 2022
• Neighborhood: Colonial Drive School Historic District (local)
• Note: This is another owner abandoning a restoration project.
  • Previous listing: “Out buildings still remaining on the property include a stable and wood-coal shed.”

• Sold for $235,000 on April 1, 2024 (originally $284,500)
• See note in re bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,312 square feet, 0.25 acre
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1922
• Listed March 29, 2023
• Last sale: $230,000, June 2009
• Neighborhood: Draper
• Note: Currently a boarding house. The listing says there are 14 rooms available for rent.
  • “Most tenants heat with a space heater but there is a gas boiler for the building. Full kitchen in the basement.”
  • “There is an old house on the property that might be able to rehab & rent.”

• Sold for $202,000 on March 25, 2024 (originally $225,900)
  • The buyer is an individual with a California address.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,840 square feet, 4.40 acres
• Price/square foot: $110
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 26, 2023
• Last sale: $201,000, June 2023 (foreclosure)
• Note: The property has a Staley mailing address but is about 3.5 miles south. It’s also 5.5 miles east of Ramseur, just north of U.S. 64.
  • “Bring your designer touches to work wonders …”
  • The property includes “a barn, buildings and log play house.”

• Sold for $174,000 on March 25, 2024 (had been scheduled for auction)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,457 square feet (per county), 3.08 acres
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1930
• Listed March 1, 2024
• Last sale: February 1961, price unknown
• Neighborhood: The property is located about 3 miles south of Tobaccoville and about 13 miles northwest of Winston-Salem, just beyond Bethania.
• Listing: “Property subject to purchase prior to auction.” No price is given.
  • “Need lots of TLC.”
  • The listing says the house is only 1,928 square feet.
  • The house is an unusual mix of old and new. The front-facing gable appears to be the only original part of the house visible on the front. The wing on the left, the front porch and the porte-cochere on the right appear to date from 1971, when the owners received a building permit for an “addition to front, rear, left and right sides of dwelling on Bowen Road.”
  • The house was bought in 1961 by Bobby Lee David Wood (1928-2015) and Ruby Dean Johnson Wood (1929-2022). It is being sold by their descendants.

• Sold for $90,000 on March 25, 2024 (listed at $90,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,160 square feet, 0.12 acre
• Price/square foot: $42
• Built in 1920
• Listed March 8, 2024
• Last sale: $30,000, May 2003
• Note: No heating or air conditioning system

• Sold for $180,000 on March 21, 2024 (listed at $190,000)
• 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, 2,624 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $69
• Built in 1931 or 1951
• Last sale: September 2023, price not recorded on deed
• Note: Former church, previously known as Wayside Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Church and Summerfield Baptist Temple.
  • County records give 1931 as the date, but a 1952 deed appears to state the building was constructed in 1951 or 1952 as a new Wesleyan church. The Wesleyan conference rejected the applicants’ bid to join, and the building was sold to a Baptist congregation.
  • Rhondan Road was formerly Martha Ronda Street.

• Sold for $117,000 on March 19, 2024 (listed at $117,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,500 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $78
• Built in 1927
• Listed February 28, 2024
• Last sale: $9,900, June 1951
• Note: The house was bought in 1951 by William Owen Calloway (1904-1990) and Flora Angeline Hanks Calloway (1909-1993). William operated several Esso gas stations (later Exxon) from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1970. It is being sold by their descendants.
  • Zillow’s listing for this house has an incorrect address, 2526 S. Main.

• Sold for $165,000 on March 12, 2024 (listed at $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,876 square feet, 0.36 acre
• Price/square foot: $88
• Built in 1910
• Listed November 17, 2023
• Last sale: $75,000, August 2001
• Note: A second house on the property has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 836 square feet:

• Sold for $139,900 on March 12, 2024 (originally $169,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,952 square feet, 0.98 acre
• Price/square foot: $72
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 12, 2024
• Last sale: $8,000, March 1968
• Note: The house needs work but has some remarkable detail, including unpainted woodwork and doors.

• Sold for $300,000 on March 6, 2024 (listed at $300,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 4,616 square feet, 1.13 acres
• Price/square foot: $65
• Built in 1900
• Listed February 28, 2024
• Last sale: $74,000, May 1985
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• Listing: “Has roof damage and water damage to interiors main and upper floor.”
• District NRHP nomination: “Two-and-one-half story brick veneer Colonial Revival style house …Two tall corbelled chimneys and hipped and gabled dormers pierce the moderately high hip roof; the central dormer is lighted by a Palladian style window.
  • “A sweeping wrap-around porch is carried by Doric columns set on granite plinths; granite is also used in the lintels and sills of the one-over-one sash windows. The handsome entryway is composed of an oval bevelled glass door, topped with a leaded glass transom, and flanked by twelve-light beveled glass sidelights.
  • “The house was constructed by 1910 for Dr. R.W. Reece, a local dentist.”
  • Dr. Robert Wilson Reece (1865-1926) was born in Yadkin County and graduated from the Baltimore School of Dental Surgery. He practiced for 33 years, mostly in Elkin and Mount Airy. He was remembered as “one of Surry County’s most prominent citizens” in an obituary in The Charlotte Observer. He had been in poor health for eight to ten years, suffering four strokes.
  • “Dr. ‘Bob’ Reece, as he was familiarly called by his friends, was one of those men whom it was a privilege to know, for he always met the world with a pleasant word and a friendly smile and his life was an inspiration to all with whom he came in contact,” the Greensboro Daily News said.

• Sold for $22,500 on March 5, 2024 (listed at $40,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,074 square feet, 0.75 acre
• Price/square foot: $11
• Built in 1910 (per county)
• Listed February 9, 2024
• Last sales: $30,000, March 2021; $5,000, January 1973
• 2021 listing: “The Haywood-Taft House requires a comprehensive rehabilitation including all new systems (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical), significant carpentry repairs, and updates to the kitchen and baths.”
• State Historic Preservation Office: “c. 1905 1-1/2-story side gable center passage double pile frame Queen Anne house w/ weatherboard siding”

• Sold for $75,000 on March 1, 2024 (listed at $85,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,744 square feet, 0.81 acre
• Price/square foot: $43
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 12, 2023
• Last sale: $38,000, May 1996
• Note: The house has an Asheboro mailing address but is about 8 miles southeast of town.
  • The house has no heating or air conditioning systems.
  • Although it needs a lot of work, much of its historic character is intact (no vinyl floors, windows or siding).

1803 Britton Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $87,500 on February 2, 2024
  • The buyer is an LLC based in San Francisco
• 5 bedrooms,1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,840 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $48
• Built in 1928
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: $1,000, April 2004
• Neighborhood: Clinton Hills

• Sold for $500 on February 9, 2024
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,265 square feet, 0.09 acre
• Price/square foot: $0.40
• Built in 1919 (per county, but probably a couple years earlier)
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sale: August 1982, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, residence, c. 1920”
  • The address appears in the 1917 city directory, listed as vacant. In the 1918-19 edition the listed resident was the Earthquake Carpet Cleaning Company. In 1920, Moore & Company, a general merchandise store, was at the address. Also in 1920, John Sylvester Barnes Jr. (1894-1979) and Helen H. Barnes (dates unknown) bought the property and lived there until 1928. By 1929 they had sold the house and moved in with his parents around the block on East Whittington Street.

• Sold for $165,000 on February 5, 2024 (listed at $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,076 square feet, 0.53 acre
• Price/square foot: $79
• Built in 1900
• Listed January 22, 2024
• Last sale: $90,000, August 2020
• Listing: “GRAB YOUR TOOLBELT!”

• Sold for $55,000 on February 5, 2024 (originally $99,997)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 540 square feet, 0.28 acre
• Price/square foot: $102
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 2, 2023
• Last sale: January 2014, multiple properties, individual prices not listed
• Note: Former neighborhood grocery store

• Sold for $211,000 on January 31, 2024 (listed at $200,000)
  • The sale closed nine days after the house was listed for sale.
  • The buyer is an LLC based in Greensboro.
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,692 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $125
• Built in 1934
• Listed January 22, 2024
• Last sale: $9,900, September 1944
• Neighborhood: Lake Daniel
• Note: “This home needs total renovation including all systems replaced … The electricity is on, but there is no heat, no air conditioning. Water can not be turned on for inspections due to high possibility of broken pipes.”
  • The original owner was William Howard Jennings (dates unknown), who bought the property from neighborhood developer Garland Daniel in 1935. Within months, he sold it to Marshall Jennings Gardner (1914-1985). They may have been related, but they weren’t father and son. Marshall was a dyer who later rose to vice president of Print Works at Cone Mills.
  • Marshall sold the house in 1944 to Yancey Coleman Hines Sr. (1906-1983) and Eleanor Williams Hines (1913-1985). Yancey was manager of the American Agricultural Chemical Company. The house is still in their family.

• Sold for $105,000 on January 31, 2024 (originally $119,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 930 square feet, 0.47 acre
• Price/square foot: $113
• Built in 1925
• Listed November 3, 2023
• Last sale: $40,000, May 2015

• Sold for $181,000 on January 30, 2024 (listed at $189,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,978 square feet, 5.12 acres
• Price/square foot: 92
• Built in 1915
• Listed December 5, 2023
• Last sale: $125,000, November 2023
• Note: Located 5 miles north of Reidsville

• Sold for $140,000 on January 25, 2024 (originally $129,900)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,428 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $98
• 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). Scovia outlived her husband by 59 years, never remarrying. She was the sixth of 11 children. Four died in infancy or childhood. Two survived her, living well into their 80s.

• Sold for $105,500 on January 25, 2024 (listed at $99,000)
  • Sale closed 15 days after the house was listed for sale.
  • The buyer is an LLC in Cary.
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,676 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $63
• Built circa 1913
• Listed January 10, 2023
• Last sale: $30,750, June 2011
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community
• Note: County records give a 1928 date, but the address appears in the city directory from 1913.
  • The original owner was William Henry Glasgow (1871-1933), who bought the property in 1913 and was listed there with his wife, Annie Ethel Kemp Glasgow (1869-1928), and daughters Eula Mae (1894-1926), Jewel (1896-1979) , Etha (February 24, 1908-1972), and Wilsie (September 13, 1908-1987).
  • William and Annie divorced, and he disappeared from the city directory after 1921 (Annie was listed in the directory as a widow, but William actually outlived her by five years). After their divorce, she bought the house in a sheriff’s auction in 1924.
  • Following Annie’s death in 1928, daughter Etha and husband, Paul Winstead Hall (1901-1970) took ownership of the house. They sold it in 1935 to her sister Jewel and her husband, Critz Montrose Coxe (1893-1945). Jewel sold it in 1945 after Critz died.

2522 Reid School Road, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $785,000 on January 22, 2024 (listed at $950,000)
  • The sale closed after the property was under contract for 17 months.
  • The buyer is an LLC in Huntersville.
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,800 square feet, 63 acres
• Price/square foot: $436
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 22, 2022
• Last sale: July 1986, price unknown
• Note: There are two houses on the property. The other is an 1,800 square foot ranch built in 1947.
  • Listing: “Price does not reflect house values or any guarantees of square footage or any components of the two houses.”
  • “City water and sewer available nearby”
  • The property includes at least six outbuildings.

• Sold for $190,000 on January 12, 2023 (listed at $232,500)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,549 square feet, 0.14 acre
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1924
• Listed November 7, 2023
• Last sale: $4,000, May 1989
• Neighborhood: Downtown
• Listing: “… needs major renovation to achieve habitable condition. Will not qualify FHA financing in current condition.”
• Note: Priced at tax value. $150/square foot is relatively very high for a house in this condition in this location (on the corner of two busy downtown streets).
  • The original owners were Charles Owen Forbis Sr. (1869-1957) and Martha Grace Smith Forbis (1883-1963). They bought the house as a rental property in 1924 and sold it in 1947. Charles was in the insurance business (the city directory wasn’t ore specific). A 1938 article in the Greensboro Record described the Forbises as “one of the pioneer families of this section.”
  • By 1929, the tenants were Clyde W. Livengood and Mildred H. Livengood. They bought the house in 1947 and sold it 1952. Clyde was an electrician with Southern Railway.
  • In 1952, Grace W. McDowell (1897-1977) bought the house. It is now being sold by heirs of her daughter Emily Anne McDowell Buchanan (1927-2018). Grace, a widow, lived in the house until a least 1968.

• Sold for $90,000 on January 5, 2024 (originally $109,999)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,250 square feet, lot size not recorded
• Price/square foot: $72
• Built in 1940
• Listed October 26, 2023
• Last sale: $51,000, July 1999
• Neighborhood: Spray
• Note: Being sold by an estate