September 30, 2024
A 1925 House in Greensboro’s Latham Park, $550,000
1122 & 1124 Cridland Road, Greensboro
- $550,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,276 square feet (per county), 0.58 acre (two lots)
- Price/square foot: $242
- Built in 1925
- Listed September 19, 2024
- Last sale: $108,000, two transactions in 1981 and 1983
- Neighborhood: Latham Park
- Note: Latham Park is across the street.
Oddly, the listing includes no photos of the interior. The house has been owned since 1981 by Patricia “Parker” Washburn (1946-2024) and Arthur Washburn. Parker took over Leon’s Beauty School and Salons from her mother and step-father (Leon Oldham’s first salon opened on Tate Street in 1945; the school opened in 1963, also on Tate Street).
September 30, 2024
A 1914 cottage with Period Charm in Carthage, $340,000
104 Rockingham Street, Carthage, Moore County
- $340,000 (originally $360,000)
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,990 square feet, 0.4 acre
- Price/square foot: $171
- Built in 1914
- Listed July 14, 2023
- Last sale: $145,000, February 2012
September 30, 2024
A 1900 House Near Wallburg in Davidson County, $700,000
3775 Friendship Ledford Road, Davidson County
The Motsinger-Jackson House
- $700,000
- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,656 square feet, 2.9 acres
- Price/square foot: $264
- Built in 1900 (per county)
- Listed September 21, 2024
- Last sale: $90,000, August 1987
- Neighborhood: Located about 2.7 miles southwest of Wallburg in Davidson County, 11 miles southeast of Winston-Salem. It has a Winston-Salem mailing address.
The listing says the house is “believed to be built in the early post-Civil War period.” The State Historic Preservation Office identifies it as the Motsinger-Jackson House but provides no further information.
September 30, 2024
A 1933 restoration Project in Haw River, $249,000
359 Trollingwood Road, Haw River, Alamance County
- $249,000
- 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,274 square feet, 0.52 acre
- Price/square foot: $195
- Built in 1933
- Listed September 24, 2024
- Last sale: $66,000, September 2015
September 30, 2024
A 1920 Restoration Project in Ramseur, $162,000
1330 W. Ridge Street, Ramseur, Randolph County
- $162,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,668 square feet, 1.38 acres
- Price/square foot: $61
- Built in 1920
- Listed September 17, 2024
- Last sales: $70,000, August 2024; $68,000, May 1994
The property includes a chicken coop and “whimsical yard art created by the former owner.”
September 28, 2024
A 1925 Cottage in High Point with a Swooping roofline, $410,000
412 Edgedale Drive, High Point
The Robert H. Walker House II
- $410,000
- 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,729 square feet (per county), 0.31 acre
- Price/square foot: $237
- Built in 1925
- Listed September 26, 2024
- Last sales: $330,000, June 2021; $280,000, June 2020
- Neighborhood: Emerywood/Uptown Suburbs Historic District
District NRHP nomination: “This two-story, front-gabled, English Cottage-style house is three bays wide with a flared roofline and gabled dormers on the right(east) and left (west) elevations. The house has a stuccoed exterior, interior stuccoed brick chimney, and vinyl windows with wood lintels. An arched opening on the left end of the facade leads to a recessed six-light batten door. An inset, enclosed porch on the right elevation has arched openings.”
September 28, 2024
An 1888 Restoration Project in Stokesdale, $165,000
8201 Stokesdale Street, Stokesdale, Guilford County
- $165,000 (originally $175,000)
- 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,260 square feet, 0.65 acre
- Price/square foot: $73
- Built in 1888
- Listed August 26, 2024
- Last sales: $52,500, December 2023; $76,250, October 2023
For sale by owner. The owner was advertising this house for rent as recently as August.
September 28, 2024
A Restoration Project in Yanceyville’s Historic District, $83,900
102 W. Main Street, Yanceyville, Caswell County
- $83,900
- 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,064 square feet, 0.25 acre
- Price/square foot: $79
- Building date unknown (see note)
- Listed September 4, 2024
- Last sale: $12,000, June 1981
- Neighborhood: Yanceyville Historic District (NR)
County records give the date as 1945, but the style of the house makes that doubtful. Before the 1891 sale, the house was owned for decades by Herman Lafayette Gunn (1912-1991) and Ruth Roach Gunn (1909-1977). Herman owned Gunn Appliances of Yanceyville.
September 27, 2024
The Granite Carriage House of a Greensboro Mansion on the National Register, $599,000
418 Fisher Park Circle, Greensboro
The Latham-Baker House (carriage house)
- $599,000
- 2 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,294 square feet, 0.03 acre
- Price/square foot: $261
- Built in 1900 (per county, but probably later; see note)
- Listed September 26, 2024
- Last sale: $350,000, September 2003
- Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
The Latham-Baker House and its carriage house were built around 1913, when cotton broker J.E. Latham began buying the five lots (1.9 acres) where the two properties now stand (one of the lots was bought from next-door neighbor George Grimsley). The carriage house became a separate property around 1983, when developers converted the main house into three condos and added four more buildings to the property (one single-family house and three condo buildings — a triplex and two duplexes).
September 27, 2024
A 1916 Foursquare in Greensboro’s Dunleath Historic District, $598,700
808 Cypress Street, Greensboro
- $598,700
- 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,372 square feet (per county), 0.25 acre
- Price/square foot: $178
- Built in 1916 (per county)
- Listed September 25, 2024
- Last sales: $332,000, January 2019; $287,000, August 2014
- Neighborhood: Dunleath Historic District (local), Summit Avenue Historic District (NR)
Located across the street from Swann Middle School. District NR nomination: “Foursquare, residence, 1920-25”
September 25, 2024
A 1926 Tudor Bungalow in High Point’s Emerywood, $415,000
602 W. Parkway Avenue, High Point
The Philip and Sylvia Silver House
Sale pending September 22, 2024
- $415,000
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,266 square feet, 0.20 acre
- Price/square foot: $183
- Built in 1926
- Listed September 20, 2024
- Last sales: $365,000, November 2022; $314,000, May 2021
- Neighborhood: Emerywood, Uptown Suburbs Historic District (NR)
The address appears in the city directory for the first time in 1928 with Philip Abraham Silver (1897-1959) and Sylvia Goldenberg Silver (1904-2001) as residents. Philip was president of N. H. Silver Company, a clothing store. Sylvia’s heirs sold the house 74 years later, in 2002.
September 25, 2024
An 1880 Queen Anne Restoration Project in Reidsville’s Gov. Reid Historic District, $235,000
401 E. Harrison Street, Reidsville, Rockingham County
- $235,000
- 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,117 square feet, 0.44 acre
- Price/square foot: $75
- Built in 1880
- Listed September 23, 2024
- Last sale: $22,000, November 2009
- Neighborhood: Governor Reid Historic District (local), Reidsville Historic District (NR)
- Red flag: No photos of the interior
- Note: Rental property
District NR nomination: “A stone retaining wall marks the front property line of the ample corner lot on which this large two-story Queen Anne house stands. The main block features an irregular plan with several intersecting pedimented, gable-roofed bays, the most prominent of which is a semi-octagonal one on the facade; its roof is a bellcast gable with pendentive brackets under the eaves, and there are paired attic windows. A smaller pedimented gable is centered above the two-bay recessed section of the facade and has three attic windows.”
September 15, 2024
A 1903 House on 20 Acres Once Owned by a Prominent Distiller, $695,000
2685 Williams Road, Lewisville, Forsyth County
- $695,000 (originally $749,900)
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3,039 square feet, 19.9 acres
- Price/square foot: $229
- Built in 1903
- Listed July 11, 2021; relisted September 15, 2024
- Last sale: $100,000, October 2012
- Listing: The house was originally built as a log cabin.
Most of the properties in the immediate area, including this one, are owned by members of the Williams family. The colorful Nicholas Glen Williams Sr. (1865-1913) may have been the home’s original owner. Deeds indicate he owned the land, but he could have passed the property on to one of his children by then. Glen was a prominent farmer whose 1,500 acres produced corn and that he put to use himself. He had been a fourth-generation distiller — all named Glen Williams — when North Carolina enacted prohibition in 1903.
September 14, 2024
A 1957 Mansion in Mocksville with 17 Acres of Alpacas, Pumpkins and Christmas Trees, $2.2 million
1347 U.S. 64 East, Mocksville, Davie County
The George and Brook Martin House
Koren Farms
- $2.2 million
- 7 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 4,816 square feet, 17.36 acres
- Price/square foot: $457
- Built in 1957
- Listed July 19, 2024
- Last sales: $765,000, June 2021; $475,000, August 2006
- Neighborhood: About 2 1/2 miles east of Mocksville
Koren Farms is an alpaca, pumpkin and Christmas tree farm with a 4,200 square-foot event barn. The barn “is currently leased most weekends into 2025.” The house was designed by architect William Van Eaton Sprinkle (1906-1965).
September 14, 2024
An Impeccable 1915 Shingle-Style House in Greensboro’s College Hill, $850,000
124 S. Mendenhall Street, Greensboro
The Junius Ayers Matheson House
- $850,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,115 square feet, 0.27 acre
- Price/square foot: $273
- Built in 1915 (per county)
- Listed September 12, 2024
- Last sales: $380,000, June 2008; $324,000, November 2003
- Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)
District NR nomination: “Its walls and oversized gambrel roof clad in shingles, this house is a rare Greensboro example of the shingle style.” Among its other distinctive features, the house has a remarkably wide front porch that wraps around on the right with French doors opening onto the foyer along the wall and another door at the end of the porch. Interior features include unpainted pocket doors in the living room, a long window seat along a triple window in the dining room and a kitchen island with a counter that seats five.
September 13, 2024
One of Forsyth County’s ‘Most architecturally striking’ Homes of the 1920s, on the National Register, $429,900
2715 Old Salisbury Road, Winston-Salem
The John Wesley Snyder House
- $429,900
- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,373 square feet, 2.19 acres
- Price/square foot: $127
- Built in 1922
- Listed September 12, 2024
- Last sale: $296,000, July 2016
- Note: Designated as a Forsyth County Historic Landmark in 2000.
National Register nomination: “Located just south of Winston-Salem, the John Wesley Snyder House is one of the most architecturally striking dwellings erected in Forsyth County during the early 1920s. The two-story house with its matching garage/apartment and smokehouse is a rare domestic example of solid stone construction in the county, particularly outside the city.”
September 12, 2024
An 1877 House that needs work in Winston-Salem
4815 Doris Street, Winston-Salem
- $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
It’s a restoration project, but it’s not priced like one.
September 12, 2024
A 1924 Bungalow in High Point, $429,900
- $315,000
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1,710 square feet, 0.22 acre
- Price/square foot: $184
- Built in 1924
- Listed August 30, 2024
- Last sale: $193,000, September 2019
- Neighborhood: North Park
The address first appears in the city directory in 1928, with Gaston Ingram (1870-1928) and Idella May Israel Ingram (1873-1935) as residents. They were the proprietors of the North Park Grocery. Della continued to operate the store after Gaston’s death.
September 12, 2024
A 1937 Dutch Colonial in Burlington Once Owned by a Former Hollywood Actress, $675,000
808 W. Willowbrook Drive, Burlington, Alamance County
- $675,000
- 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,053 square feet, 0.34 acre
- Price/square foot: $221
- Built in 1937
- Listed September 12, 2024
- Last sale: $285,000, December 2022
- Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place (but outside historic district)
- Note: The house is across the street from the Burlington Arboretum.
Robert N. Atwater (1914-2006) and Julia Brent Byrum Atwater (1916-2022) bought the house in 1955. They divorced around 1977. Julia kept the house, which was sold by their son in 2022 after her death at the age of 106, God bless her. She was born in Oxford, graduated from Greensboro High School and North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro. “In 1938 she went to Hollywood, California, where she worked for 20th Century Fox Studios. While there she made several movies, one with Shirley Temple,” her obituary said.
September 11, 2024
An 1888 House in Wallburg, $369,950
354 Archie Yokeley Road, Wallburg, Davidson County
The Joseph and Phoebe Yokeley House
- $369,950
- 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,132 square feet, 1.07 acres
- Price/square foot: $174
- 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.
Historic character has been renovated away, but it is an 1888 house. 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. The house remained in the Yokeley family until 2012.
September 10, 2024
For Sale Again: A 1910 Queen Anne Restoration Project in Mount Gilead, $41,000
200 S. Main Street, Mount Gilead, Montgomery County
The Haywood-Taft House
- $41,000
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,074 square feet, 0.75 acre
- Price/square foot: $20
- Built in 1910 (per county)
- Listed September 10, 2024
- Last sales: $22,500, March 2024; $30,000, March 2021; $5,000, January 1973
Six months after buying the house, the owner wants to sell it at almost double the amount she paid after apparently making no improvements. Are speculators growing impatient? The previous owner ignored the house for three years before selling at a loss. 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.”
September 10, 2024
A 1922 Dutch Colonial in a Mount airy Historic District, $429,900
1004 N. Main Street, Mount Airy, Surry County
The Grover and Anna Lovill House
- $429,900
- 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,210 square feet, 0.52 acre
- Price/square foot: $195
- Built circa 1922
- Listed September 13, 2024
- Last sales: $375,000, April 2022; $240,000, July 2010
- Neighborhood: Lebanon Hill Historic District (NR)
District NR nomination: “Colonial treatments include a scrolled and broken pediment with a center urn over the front entry and half and quarter-circle attic windows at the top of the end elevations and the gambreled rear wing. … The house appears on the 1922 Sanborn map (with the address as 370 North Main) and was probably built shortly before. Grover Cleveland Lovill, born in Surry County in 1884, worked for a Mount Airy general store beginning in 1900, went into business on his own in 1905, and in 1910 enlarged the scope of his enterprise and became a wholesale grocery, feed and produce dealer.”
September 9, 2024
An English Professor’s 1941 Mid-Century Modern Classic on a Lake in Greensboro, $1.5 Million
108 Kemp Road West, Greensboro
- 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3,851 square feet (per county), 0.99 acre
- Price/square foot: $390
- Built in 1941
- Listed September 3, 2024
- Last sale: $225,000, March 1982
- Neighborhood: Hamilton Lakes
- Note: The house is located on Lake Euphemia.
The original owners were Marc and Clara Mae Friedlaender. Marc was a professor of English and a significant figure in the history of the Women’s College. The house was designed by architect Jack Pickens Coble. Coble was born in Greensboro and practiced in New York City. He designed Cole Porter’s home in Williamstown, Massachusetts; other notable clients included Stephen Sondheim, Bennett Cerf and Mrs. Marshall Field. He also designed the “Contemporary House” in the “House of Good Taste” exhibit for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York (there were three houses; Edward Durell Stone designed one of the others).
September 8, 2024
An Interior designer’s 1926 Foursquare in Greensboro’s fisher Park, $865,000
805 Magnolia Street, Greensboro
The Wolff-Reece House
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,180 square feet, 0.22 acre
- Price/square foot: $272
- Listed September 7, 2024
- Last sales: $329,000, June 2015; $83,000, April 1984
- Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (local and NR)
- Note: For sale by the owners, an interior decorator and an engineer
The house has had only four owners. It was featured in the Fall 2020 issue of Seasons magazine (page 38). District NR nomination: “Boxy brick-veneered structure; brick columns at full-facade front porch and porte cochere; wide overhanging hipped roof; L-shaped brackets at eaves extend into facade, same brackets as porch.”
September 8, 2024
A 1917 Bungalow in Winston-Salem’s West End, $399,000
1100 West End Boulevard, Winston-Salem
- 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,002 square feet, 0.14 acre
- Price/square foot: $199
- Built in 1917
- Listed September 7, 2024
- Last sale: $280,000, April 2019
This would be the sixth time the house has been sold in this century. District NR nomination: “This handsome bungalow is nearly identical to the house across the street, 1101 West End Blvd, (11540), It is a one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling with a weatherboarded first story, a wood shingled upper story, a broad gable roof with widely overhanging braced eaves with simple bargeboards, and a matching front dormer with four sets of casement windows.
“The engaged front porch with heavy brick posts and a plain balustrade shelters a Craftsman front door and three-part bungalow windows with fancier-than-usual diamond-patterned upper sash.”
September 8, 2024
A Dentist’s 1928 House on Fountain Place in Burlington, $435,000
617 Fountain Place, Burlington, Alamance County
- 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,791 square feet, 0.26 acre
- Price/square foot: $156
- Listed September 8, 2024
- Last sales: $295,000, June 2021; $180,000, January 2017
- Neighborhood: West Davis Street-Fountain Place Historic District
The family of Dr. A.J. Ellington (1890-1980) and Ruth Martin Norwood Ellington (1899-1988) owned the house for 68 years, 1924 to 1992. Their sons, A.J. Jr. and Robert, were doctors in obstetrics and gynecology and founded Alamance Clinic for Women.
District NRHP nomination: “Constructed in the late 1920s for Dr. A.J. Ellington, a local dentist, this two-story brick T-plan period house features elements derived from the Colonial Revival style.”
September 6, 2024
In Chatham County, an 1860 Cottage and a Former Masonic Lodge Built in 1887
95 Paw Paw Road, Gulf, Chatham County
- $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
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. Located just off U.S. 421 in Gulf, about 9 miles northwest of Sanford. The geographic center of North Carolina is 10 miles northwest of Sanford.
323 Coral Avenue, Goldston, Chatham County
- $449,000 (originally $499,000)
- 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,463 square feet, 2.4 acres
- Price/square foot: $181
- Built in 1860 (per listing)
- Listed July 17, 2024
- Last sale: $70,000, June 2006
- Location: Just off South Church Street near the city limits
September 5, 2024
An Unusual and Quite elegant 1935 House in Burlington, $624,900
525 Circle Drive, Burlington, Alamance County
- 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 2,738 square feet, 0.40 acre
- Price/square foot: $228
- Listed September 4, 2024
- Last sale: $375,000, March 2019
- Neighborhood: Central Heights
The original owners were Samuel Tilden Ross Sr. (1886-1976) and Lucy Pennette Corbett Ross (1893-1979), who bought the property in 1934. Lucy sold the house in 1977. Samuel was a foreman at May Hosiery Mills.
September 4, 2024
A 1900 Classical Revival Mansion in Mocksville, $925,000
1085 N. Main St, Mocksville, Davie County
The Phillip and Sallie Hanes House
- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 4,384 square feet, 4.57 acres
- Price/square foot: $211
- Listed September 4, 2024
- Last sales: $548,000, July 2020; $153,000, June 2012
- Neighborhood: North Main Street Historic District (NR)
Previous listing: Outbuildings include an office with fireplace dating back to 1861, a barn with loft, and a garage. The district’s NRHP nomination called it a “substantial, three-bay, high-hipped frame Classical Revival style house.” It was built for Philip Hanes (1851-1903) and Sallie Clement Booe Hanes (1857-1927). Phillip was a tobacco manufacturer and brother of Pleasant Huber Hanes and John Wesley Hanes, who founded the mills that eventually merged to become the Hanes Corporation.
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