Piedmont Historic Homes

715broad

715 Broad Avenue, Greensboro

• Sold for $108,500 on April 16, 2026 (originally $124,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,244 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $87
• Built in 1910
• Listed December 8, 2026
• Last sale: $7,000, February 2013
• Neighborhood: Asheboro Community, South Greensboro Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is protected by preservation covenants held by the Greensboro Redevelopment Commission. The commission bought the house in 1993 and sold it in 1996.
• District NR nomination: “Queen Anne cottage, residence, c. 1905-10”
• The original owners were Lester Hever Hines (1886-1931) and Lillian Clapp Hines (1888-1945), who bought the property in 1909. They were listed at the home’s original address, 711 Broad Avenue, in the city directory only once, in the 1909-10 edition. Lester was a clerk. He worked for Southern Railway for 20 years. They sold the house in 1916.
  • J.D. Johnson (full name and dates unknown) bought the house in February 1916 and the next month sold it to Clara F. Johnson (dates unknown). Clara used it as a rental property until she sold it in 1933.

1412rankin

1412 Rankin Mill Road, McLeansville, Guilford County
The Baxter and Rosa Goodwin House

• Sold for $190,000 on April 8, 2026 (listed at $205,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,876 square feet, 10.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $101
• Built in 1924
• Listed August 23, 2022
• Last sales: $108,200, March 2018; $13,000, December 2017; $145,000, May 2010; $150,000, June 2007
• Neighborhood: Located just outside the Greensboro’s eastern city limit, about 4 miles west of McLeansville. The Greensboro Urban Loop (Interstate 840) runs along the relatively short northeast boundary of the property. The house is at the opposite end in the southwest corner.
• Note: There’s probably little hope for this house, since the listing calls it “an abandoned farmhouse that is not livable.”
  • The listing just six years ago saw it much differently: “Own your own mini farm or start a vineyard on this 10 acre lot with vintage farmhouse. Large rooms, tall ceilings, classic entry hall with banister, over large covered front porch. Affordable price to make this home your own.”
  • Five years later, the 2022 listing said the house and multiple buildings had no value. The house has no heating or air conditioning systems.
  • From 1937 to 2007, the property was owned by the family of Baxter Carr Goodwin (1893-1941) and Rosa Hester Tuck Goodwin (1893-1945). Although he owned 155 acres of land, Baxter wasn’t a farmer. He was listed in census records through the years as a machinist, carpenter and foreman. Baxter and Rosa were married in 1914. They had at least 10 children between 1917 and 1931, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
  • The house was sold in 2007 by a bank handling the estate of the Goodwins’ daughter Betty Jean Goodwin (although she didn’t die until 2013, age 82). The buyer was a residential developer who apparently did nothing with the property but sell it three years later.
  • The 2017 sale was for $13,000 to a nonprofit organization; the price was a large discount to its appraised tax value of $119,700. The organization then sold it a year later for $109,000.

232burlington

232 Burlington Avenue, Gibsonville, Guilford County
The Mann-Owen House

• Sold for $65,000 on March 27, 2026 (listed at $100,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,376 square feet, 0.41 acre
• Price/square foot: $47
• Built in 1923
• Listed February 26, 2026
• Last sale: $6,000, August 1979
• Note: The listing says the house “has been vacant for more than 20 years and sustained fire damage to the rear section approximately 2-3 years ago. The interior has been cleared of debris, however entry is at buyer’s own risk.”
  • “According to the Town of Gibsonville Code Enforcement, the structure must be brought into compliance by 5/17/2026.”
  • The original owners were Osborne Willis Mann (1885-1965) and Sibbie Bowman Mann (1881-1969). Osborne was a lumber dealer. They bought the property in 1919 and sold it in 1927 to Frank Redding Owen (1891-1956). The house is still in the Owen family.
  • Frank was a native of Yadkin College. He was a 1914 graduate of the University of North Carolina and a veteran of World War I. He was superintendent of Puritan Finishing Mills in Burlington. He also served as chairman of the Guilford County school board. After Frank died, his wife, Lucy Belle Totten Owen (1895-1979), continued to live in the house for the rest of her life. Lucy was a 1915 graduate of Greensboro College.
  • After Lucy’s death, ownership passed to daughter Dr. Frances Jeanne Owen (1921-2003). Jeanne was a graduate of the Women’s College, received a master’s degree from Indiana University, a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of North Carolina and a juris doctor degree from the University of Colorado.
  • She taught at various times at Rural Hall High School, Louisburg College, Averett College and Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia. She joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1956 when the college moved to Winston-Salem, retiring in 1991 from the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy.
  • Jeanne was a member of the N.C. Bar Association and American Bar Association, American Association of University Professors and American Association of University Women. She supported Common Cause, the NAACP, Emily’s List, Doctors Without Borders, American Civil Liberties Union, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Southern Poverty Law Center, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and National Legal Aid & Defenders Association.
  • Jeanne’s sister Betty Jane Owen Wooten (d. 2020) of Shelby, Mississippi, took ownership after Jeanne died. It’s still in her name.
  • The 1919 deed locates the property on the North Carolina Central Highway.

278 Old U.S. Highway 52, Mount Airy, Surry County
Miller’s Tavern

• Sold for $90,000 on February 5, 2026 (originally $150,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, three half-bathrooms, 2,179 square feet, 0.34 acre
• Price/square foot: $41
• Built in 1942 (per county, but maybe a bit earlier; see note)
• Listed August 7, 2025
• Last sale: October 1940, price not listed in deed
• Neighborhood: Boone’s Hill
• Note: The building includes the bar and “living quarters.”
  • James William “Bill” Miller (1894-1953) and Mae Nina Barbee Miller (1909-1999) bought the property in 1940. A sign over the door as recently as 2013 read, “Miller’s Tavern, Established 1941.”
  • In 1956, Mae married Harry Lee Tilley (1929-2019). Harry’s obituary says he opened the tavern in 1954, although circumstantial evidence suggests it was already in business by then. In any case, Harry ran the bar for 58 years.
  • The building is now being sold by one of Harry’s cousins.

315lockland

315 Lockland Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $217,500 on January 22, 2026 (listed at $130,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,870 square feet, 0.22 acre
• Price/square foot: $116
• Built in 1930
• Listed January 12, 2026
• Last sale: January 1992, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Ardmore Historic District (NR)
• Note: The house is owned by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
• District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side-facing jerkinhead roof; weatherboard; shed-roof dormer sheathed in wood shingles; nine-over-one windows; engaged porch; battered posts on brick piers. 1924 CD: Julian and Paula Hart, vice president-secretary of Tyatt Tobacco Company.”

329washington

321-329 N. Washington Avenue, Reidsville, Rockingham County

• Sold for $179,000 on January 21, 2026 (listed at $179,000)
• Five houses, each with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 800 square feet; 0.50 acre total
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built circa 1912 (county records say 1900; see note)
• Listed November 18, 2025
• Last sale: March 2011, part of a sale of three properties; no separate prices were broken out.
• Neighborhood: North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District (NR)
• Note: Reidsville has two remarkably tiny historic districts — the Richardson Houses Historic District, with three houses; and the North Washington Avenue Workers Houses Historic District, with these five houses. The Richardson mansions and the workers houses couldn’t be more different. 
  • The five lots have been combined into one with 329 N. Washington as the address.
• District NR nomination: “The cluster of five simple frame houses located on the east side of the 300 block of North Washington Avenue is significant in the history of Reidsville as the only surviving, intact group of a type of house built in the early 20th century for black workers employed by the American Tobacco.Company shortly after construction of its tremendous new facility in Reidsville in 1912.
  • “As such, they are representative of a larger pattern of housing construction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as increasing numbers of industrial workers, drawn from the depressed agricultural sector to work in the cotton mills and tobacco factories, required housing in growing towns across the state. The five essentially identical houses are also closely related to traditional rural house forms, such as the early North Carolina single-pen houses of both log and frame construction. …
  • “The five workers’ houses … are the simplest of frame houses, consisting originally of three rooms — one-over-one with a shed room behind. The side gable roof extending over the rear shed room produces a saltbox form. The central entrance on the single-bay facade is sheltered by an attached, shed-roofed porch which spans approximately two-thirds of the facade.
  • “Basic materials include plain weatherboard siding and a standing seam metal roof. A brick chimney rises between the front and rear rooms, and six over six windows light each room on both stories on the north and south side elevations. Door and window surrounds are flat-board post and lintel with a beaded lintel. The foundation is brick piers with cinder block infill.
  • “At the rear, a ca. 1940 shed-roof addition provided a bathroom and back porch. On three of the five houses, this rear porch has been enclosed. The bathroom is clad in German siding.”

2814cypress

2814 Cypress Park Road, Greensboro

• Sold at auction for $120,000 on January 20, 2026
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,150 square feet, 0.43 acre
• Price/square foot: $56
• Built in 1941
• Last sale: $87,500, March 1997
• Neighborhood: Lamrocton
• Note: The street was known as Laurel Drive, then West Lake Road and later Twin Lakes Drive before being named Cypress Park Road sometime after 1982.
  • The property is across the street from Pinecroft Lake Park.