Piedmont Historic Homes

709 N. Church Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $165,000 on December 30, 2024 (listed at $180,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,198 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $138
• Built in 1926 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed November 14, 2024
• Last sale: $66,000, August 1992
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District
• Note: “Price reflects repairs needed.” It’s not clear from the photos what repairs are needed.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, residence, 1925-30”
  • The address appears in the city directory from 1923. The original owner appears to have been either Matheson-Wills Real Estate or Edward S. Wills (1874-1947), who rented it out. Wills founded Wills Book & Stationery, a longtime Greensboro business, in 1904. He later went into real estate as a partner in Matheson-Wills. He sold the house in 1924 to another absentee owner.
  • The first owner-occupants were Arthur Louis Goodwin (1895-1964) and Alice Olver Goodwin (1898-1981), who bought the house in 1926. Arthur was credit manager for Schiffman’s jewelry store and an Army veteran of World War I. They sold the house in 1931.

1330 W. Ridge Street, Ramseur, Randolph County

• Sold for $115,000 on December 12, 2024 (originally $162,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,668 square feet, 1.38 acres
• Price/square foot: $43
• Built in 1920
• Listed September 17, 2024
• Last sales: $70,000, August 2024; $68,000, May 1994
• Note: The property includes a chicken coop and “whimsical yard art created by the former owner.”
  • Listing: “There is also a building out back that had power/could have it restored/that has a bathroom.”

14600 W. N.C. Highway 268, Ferguson, Wilkes County

• Sold for $74,000 on December 11, 2024 (originally $89,950)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,816 square feet, 2.20 acres
• Price/square foot: $41
• Built in 1807
• Listed August 14, 2024
• Last sales: $89,500, April 19, 2024 (foreclosure); 1979, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: About 2.3 miles southwest of Ferguson, near Rider’s Roost Motorcycle Resort.
• Note: Although the lot is more than 2 acres (No. 4039 on the GIS map above), there’s a house immediately behind this one on a lot that may have been carved out of this one (No. 4189).

2515 N. Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem

• Sold for $138,000 on December 10, 2024 (originally $165,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,040 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $68
• Built in 1925
• Listed May 3, 2024
• Last sale: $90,500, March 2023
• Note: Another renovation being abandoned. The current owner is the fifth LLC to own the house since 2008.

609 N. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro

• Sold for $250,000 on December 9, 2024 (originally $349,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,766 square feet, 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $142
• Built in 1926
• Listed November 14, 2024
• Last sale: $85,000, June 1989
• Neighborhood: Westerwood
• Note: The photos included in online listings are tiny. Expanding them deteriorates the quality, so I’ve left them small.

6037 McLeansville Road, McLeansville, Guilford County

• Sold for $135,000 on December 6, 2024 (originally $199,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,498 square feet, 0.92 acre
• Price/square foot: $54
• Built in 1882
• Listed August 27, 2024
• Last sale: $184,500, January 2011
• Listing: “The home does require some work inside,” which is an understatement.
  • Deeds provide only obsolete descriptions of the property and are somewhat vague as to its owners, but the original owners may have been either John Calvin Cobb (1856-1946) and Mary Emma Starr Cobb (1867-1948) or John’s remarkably long-lived parents, Peter Cobb (1829-1921) and Margaret Jane “Peggy” Summers Cobb (1829-1931). It remained in the Cobb family until 2007.

1084 Foust Road, Siler City, Chatham County

• Sold for $60,000 on November 22, 2024 (listed at $75,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,476 square feet, 0.48 acre
• Price/square foot: $24
• Built in 1900
• Listed October 29, 2024
• Last sale: $44,500, October 2022
• Neighborhood: Located 4 1/2 miles south of Siler City.
• Note: The listing includes no interior photos.

• Sold for $80,000 on November 18, 2024 (originally $175,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,530 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $32
• Built in 1877
• Listed October 28, 2023
• Last sale: April 1943, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Cameron Historic District (NR)
• District NR nomination: “ca. 1870s? This house may have been on this tract in 1887 when M.V.C. Kennedy purchased the 2.65 acres from the Goodmans for $162.50.
  • “At any rate, it is very similar to many others along Carthage Street, being a one-and-a-half-story gable-roof frame house with a front gable. The one story porch is supported by turned posts with brackets. A railing of turned balusters encloses the porch.
  • “An exterior chimney is located on the east elevation. Windows are 6/6.
  • “Kennedy was part owner of the Union Carriage Company with C.E. Jones.”
  • Leighton Black McKeithen (1899-1963) and Fay R. McKeithen (1901-1976) may have purchased the house from Kennedy. They lived next door. Leighton operated a produce market
  • In 1943, the McKeithans sold it to Catherine Fry McDonald (1879-1966), and it has been in her family ever since.

2163 Old Thomasville Road, Davidson County

• Sold for $80,000 on November 18, 2024 (originally $250,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,438 square feet, 5.56 acres
• Price/square foot: $56
• Built in 1910
• Listed June 3, 2024
• Last sale: $58,000, December 1984
• Neighborhood: Located in rural Davidson County just south of Wallburg, about 12 miles from Winston-Salem and 11 miles from High Point. It has a Winston-Salem mailing address.
• Note: No central air conditioning
  • Listing: “will need a lot of repairs”
  • The listing includes no interior photos.

• Sold for $140,000 on November 12, 2024 (originally $200,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,630 square feet, 0.33 acre
• Price/square foot: $53
• Built in 1910
• Listed March 15, 2024
• Last sale: $45,000, March 2019
• Neighborhood: Old Post Road Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
• Note: Yet another restoration being abandoned. Owned by an LLC in Apex.
• District NR nomination: “A standard, but well-articulated example of the Colonial Revival, four-square house, this early 20th century frame dwelling features a two-story, double-pile plan, a high hipped roof of standing seam tin with a hip dormer, and tall interior chimneys on either side of the roof ridge.
  • “The three-bay facade, with paired one over one windows flanking the entrance, is spanned by a one-story, full-facade porch supported by square wooden posts. At the rear southwest corner of the house are a latticed porch on the first floor and a sleeping porch on the second.”

1567 Belmont Road, Linwood, Davidson County (also here)
Beallmont

• Sold for $69,000 on November 6, 2024 (originally $75,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,422 square feet, 2.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $28
• Preservation NC listing: “Rare NC example of 1840s Picturesque Cottage with decorative lattice porch, bay window and early woodwork.”
  • “The original small two-story frame house was built by either Doctor Robert Moore, the original grant holder, or his son Ebenezer, in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century. A two-story log addition was built early on. Ebenezer’s son-in-law Burgess Lamar Beall, a prominent physician and politician, transformed the house into a fashionable picturesque villa in the late 1840’s. … The side wing was added during the picturesque villa remodeling and also featured latticework. The current one-bay wide porch was added in the twentieth century.”
  • The house has been moved to a nearby lot with access to a small pond. The surrounding land will be protected by a conservation easement.
  • The house will require a complete rehabilitation, including structural repair, restoration carpentry, new systems, bathrooms and kitchen.

2064 Rural Hall-Germanton Road, Rural Hall, Forsyth County

• Sold for $55,000 on October 24, 2024 (originally $85,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 780 square feet, 0.38 acre
• Price/square foot: $71
• Built in 1920
• Listed June 21, 2024
• Last sale: $17,500, September 1985
• Note: Rental property
  • Listing: “Public Water Sewer Coming in 2025.”
  • No central air conditioning, wood stove for heat

1626 Greensboro Street Extension, Lexington, Davidson County

• Sold for $75,000 on October 15, 2024 (listed at $75,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,672 square feet, 0.69 acre
• Price/square foot: $45
• Built in 1922
• Listed October 6, 2024
• Last sales: $53,000, August 2024; $1,000, March 1971
• Listing: “Currently uninhabitable, the house requires major repairs and renovations, and lacks working heat and power. There is minor fire damage in the dining room/kitchen area. Evidence of foundational and structural issues … The condition of this house would prevent conventional/FHA financing. Cash offers only.”
• Note: Owned by an LLC that buys houses and resells them at inflated prices.
  • City water, septic tank

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10811 N.C. Highway 119, Caswell County

• Sold for $260,000 on October 9, 2024 (originally $265,410)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,375 square feet, 2.86 acres
• Price/square foot: $189
• Built in 1909
• Listed June 1, 2024
• Last sale: $80,000, October 2016
• Neighborhood: Located about 13 miles north of Mebane in Caswell County
• Note: No heat or air conditioning on the second floor, so it isn’t included in the 1,375 square-foot total. With the second floor included, the house is 2,266 square feet.
  • Heating for the first floor is listed as “multiple systems, propane.” There’s no air conditioning.
  • The property includes three wells, a smoke house, a three-level barn, a metal workshop, greenhouse, fruit trees (apple, figs, pear and plum) nut trees (pecan and walnut) and grape vines.
  • “Sold ‘As-Is,’ No repairs. Cash Buyers Only & Proof of Funds is Required before showings.”
  • A 1957 deed describes the property as, “Lying and being on the North side of Highway leading from Baynes Store to Mebane, North Carolina, in Caswell County. … and being the identical land on which sits the two story building, known as Fitch & Hurdle store, or the old Masonic Hall.”

509 Park Avenue, Greensboro
Sale pending July 26, 2024

• Sold for $122,500 on August 14, 2024 (listed at $147,500)
  • Sold by one LLC to another
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,339 square feet, 0.15 acre
• Price/square foot: $91
• Built circa 1917
• Listed July 19, 2024
• Last sale: $30,500, April 2013
• Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
• Note: This house is condemned (20-page documentation), with many longstanding repair issues.
  • It has no heating or air conditioning systems.
• District NR nomination: “Bungalow, Residence, 1915-20”
  • The address first appears in the city directory in 1917 with Edward Bruce Mastin (1890-1971) and Gertrude Lillian Smith Mastin (1885-1961) listed as residents. The Mastins bought the property in 1917; it was sold by their son in 1976. Edward was a telegraph operator for Southern Railway. Edward and Gertrude had two sons; one died in infancy, the other lived to be 93.

222 W. Chestnut Street, Troy, Montgomery County

• Sold for $185,000 on August 7, 2024 (originally $219,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,242 square feet, 1.17 acres
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1895
• Listed June 14, 2024
• Last sales: $172,000, February 2022; $48,000, October 2019
• Note: No interior photos are included in the listing.
  • The 2019 listing said, “Double lot featuring old ‘home place’ in the back.” No information on the old “home place” was included. County property records described it as an “old hse used for storage”; no other information was provided. The tax value of the building was listed as zero.

1101 S. Elm Street, High Point

• Sold for $83,000 on July 26, 2024 (originally $105,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,012 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1920
• Listed October 7, 2023
• Last sale: $20,000, December 1986

109 E. River Drive, Randleman, Randolph County
Sale pending July 19, 2024

• Sold for $85,000 on July 25, 2024 (originally $130,000)
  • Sold to an out-of-state LLC
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,470 square feet, 0.65 acre
• Price/square foot: $58
• Built in 1900
• Listed May 9, 2024
• Last sale: $29,900, May 2012

• Sold for $325,000 on July 17, 2024 (originally $425,000)
• 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,676 square feet, 1.89 acres
• Price/square foot: $70
• Built in 1893 (see note)
• Listed April 9, 2024
• Last sale: $18,700, November 1966
• Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
• Note: Being sold by an estate. The house has been owned by only three families in its 131 years.
  • County records give the date as 1932, which, based on the style of the house, looks wrong by decades (which isn’t unusual with county property records). The address was listed in the 1909 city directory, the oldest available online.
• District NR nomination (identified as 310 N. Maple): “The large two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne style house with gable and wing form features six-over-six sash windows, plain siding, and two interior brick chimneys with paneled caps.
  • “In the late 1920s, a wide one-story gable wing with shed dormer was added to provide space for an apartment. The overscaled bargeboard on the front gable of this wing and on the front gable of the main block must have been added in the late 1920s when the wing was built.
  • “The house was built in the mid-1890s for A.L. Bain, the superintendent of Oneida Mills for fifteen years.” Bain most likely was Albert Lee Bain (1864-1927). “He was a quiet sort of man, of many fine qualities, and was a citizen of of the substantial, though self-effacing type,” the Greensboro Daily News wrote in his obituary.
  • “In 1900 Bain sold the house to Dr. J.B. Thompson. In 1905 Dr. Thompson willed the property to his son Charles A. Thompson … The Thompsons extensively remodeled the house in the late 1920s, adding on a separate apartment wing.”
  • Dr. John B. Thompson (1848-1905) practiced medicine for more than 30 years in Graham and, previously, Lambsville in Chatham County. He belonged to the Odd Fellows, the nativist Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Knights of Pythias. In the six years before his death, his wife and four of his seven children had died.
  • Charles Aubrey Thompson (1881-1964) was a partner and president of Rich and Thompson Funeral Service and co-owner of Rich and Thompson Furniture Company. He remained active with the furniture company until he was 80.
  • Charles’s widow, Mary Ovella Wood Thomson (1883-1974), sold the house in 1966 to Silas Banks Smith (1925-1910) and Norma Robertson Smith (1931-2019). Silas was a bookkeeper and office manager for Massey Insurance and Real Estate. Norma worked for Western Electric an, later, Lucent Technologies. She was a member of the American Business Women’s Association, the Communication Workers of America and The Telephone Pioneers of America.
  • Norma’s estate is selling the house.

424 Spring Street, Mount Airy, Surry County

• Sold for $160,335 on July 18, 2024
  • Sold to an LLC in Mounty Airy
  • Auction held June 25, 2024
  • Opening bid: $152,700
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,987 square feet (per county), 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: 81
• Built in 1938
• Last sale: $179,000, February 2021
• Neighborhood: Mount Airy Historic District (local and NR)
• Note: The photos above are from auction.com and Google Street View (2022).
  • The house was sold in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
  • Note on county property card: “INTERIOR AND EXT. REMODEL OF HOME COMPLETE +1/2 BATH AND HW FLOORING PER REALTY WEB 2018 TAX YR”
• District NR nomination: Not mentioned

228 Pool Street, East Bend, Yadkin County

• Sold for $90,000 on July 16, 2024 (originally $139,900)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,232 square feet, 0.56 acre
• Price/square foot: $73
• Built in 1940
• Listed February 23, 2024
• Last sale: $35,000, December 1997
• Note: There are no interior photos included in the listing. The original price was relatively high for restoration projects. The 1940 date in county records isn’t impossible, but the house looks considerably older.

405 Old N.C. Highway 86, Yanceyville, Caswell County

• Sold for $158,000 on July 9, 2024 (listed at $168,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,284 square feet, 9.79 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $123
• Built in 1890 (per county)
• Listed June 13, 2024
• Last sale: $175,000, September 2021
• Neighborhood: Located just north of the Yanceyville city limits
• Note: The listed price is less than what the owner paid in 2021. The house is partly gutted and appears to be a yet another restoration project being abandoned.
  • Listing: “This historic home is structurally sound with most of plaster walls removed and ready for a complete remodel. … Plumbing is roughed in. No HVAC.”
  • The listing shows 1880 as the date of the house.
  • The owner is a landscaping company with a Mebane mailing address.

310 Mizpah Road, Rockingham County

• Sold for $27,000 on July 3, 2024 (originally $49,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1,008 square feet, 0.89 acre
• Price/square foot: $27
• Built in 1906
• Listed February 22, 2024
• Last sale: $19,000, May 2022
• Neighborhood: Located about 5 miles south of Reidsville, just off U.S. 29 Business.
• Listing: The listing comes with a remarkable number of caveats. “Condition of the house overall is unknown. Number of Bedrooms, utilities unknown, and location of the fireplace unknown.”
  • “Previous owner disclosed there is a well on the land, but the home has not been occupied for more than 22 years. Previous owner also shared there was never a central heating system.”
  • “Please do not enter the property without professionals. It may not be safe!”
  • “The neighbor built a structure that encroaches on the property.”