Piedmont Historic Homes

September 24, 2025

Sold without Being Listed: A $3.5 Million Mansion in Greensboro

1603 Carlisle Road, Greensboro

• Sold for $3.55 million on August 13, 2025
• 6 bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, 6,669 square feet, 0.44 acre
• Price/square foot: $532
• Built in 1930
• Not listed publicly for sale
• Last sales: $1.8 million, September 2005; $330,000, June 1985
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The buyer is an LLC associated with the CEO of a reinsurance company based in the Cayman Islands, “closely held with seeded capital from ultra-high net worth financial backing.”
  • The house is across the street from the Greensboro Country Club.

District NR nomination: “Pediatrician Marion Y. Keith was the original owner of this Colonial Revival dwelling. The two-story brick house has a slate-covered gable roof with a dentiled cornice, A five-bay facade with a pedimented central entrance porch, and slightly recessed two-story side wings one bay in width.”

Dr. Marion Yates Keith (1898-1961) and Hattie Caroleen Lambeth Keith (1900-1982) bought the property in a foreclosure sale in 1931. They were listed at the address that year, the first time it was included in the city directory. They lived in the house the rest of their lives. Their grandson sold it in 1985.

September 18, 2025

Two Notable Houses in Winston-Salem’s Washington Park Historic district

418 Acadia Avenue, Winston-Salem
The Charles and Emma Crews House

• $550,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,657 square feet, 0.37 acre
• Price/square foot: $207
• Built in 1900
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sale: $40,000, April 2019
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: In 2018, the house was donated to Preservation Forsyth, which sold it to the current owners. The house is protected by a preservation easement held by Preservation Forsyth.

District NR nomination: “Large frame house with projecting semi-octagonal bay and modified turret roof; interior chimneys with corbelling and caps. One-story hipped-roof wrap porch supported by classical columns. 1/1 sash, metal shingle roofs.”

Charles Anderson Crews, 1868-1952, a tile manufacturer, and Emma Louisa “Lula” Hall Crews (1866-1941) are the earliest known owners, listed in the city directory in 1921. One of their granddaughters sold the house in 2018. Their son Hall Crews (1894-1966), an architect, lived with them and had his office in the house for a time.

215 W. Banner Avenue, Winston-Salem
The William and Gertrude Matsen House

• $565,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,867 square feet (per county), 0.20 acre
• Price/square foot: $301
• Built in 1922
• Listed September 18, 2025
• Last sales: $375,000, August 2020; $290,000, June 2016
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District
• Note: The 2020 listing showed 2 bathrooms.

District NR nomination: “Front-gabled frame Craftsman house with attached gable-front porch supported by triple-grouped square posts on brick piers; plain picket balustrade; false knee bracing at gable ends; paired windows. Asbestos siding. Matsen (wife Gertrude) was a traveling salesman.”

September 17, 2025

A Jeweler’s 1937 French Eclectic House in Greensboro, $2.1 Million

404 Country Club Drive, Greensboro
The Barnet and Esther Saslow House

• $2.1 million
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 3,487 square feet (per county), 0.84 acre
• Price/square foot: $602
• Built in 1936
• Listed September 17, 2025
• Last sale: $520,000, september 1987
• Neighborhood: Irving Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: On a square-foot basis, this is a very ambitious price, though one historic house in Irving Park has sold at that level this year.

Designed by Greensboro architect William C. Holleyman, Jr. (1893-1939). The district’s NR nomination calls it “a two-story brick dwelling of French Eclectic design. It features a slate-covered hipped roof, half-timbered detailing [now painted over and almost invisible], segmental-arched windows, and a recessed front entrance with a French door and a segmental-arched transom. … Barnet Saslow, the first known owner, was president of Saslow’s Inc., dealers in credit jewelry, diamonds, and silverware.”

September 17, 2025

A Tanner’s 1910 House in Yadkinville, $325,000

420 Carolina Avenue, Yadkinville, Yadkin County

• $325,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,581 square feet, 8.3 acres (two lots)
• Price/square foot: $126
• Built circa 1910
• Listed September 15, 2025
• Last sale: $47,500, December 2004
• Note: County records date the house to 1940.
  • Online listings show no pictures of the interior.

State Historic Preservation Office: “The front block of this house appears to be a 1910s addition to an older turn-of-the-century one-story dwelling which is now the ell.” It was the home of Solomon Lee Mackie (1863-1929) and Fannie W. Robertson Mackie (1867-1946) for about 40 years. Lee operated a tannery, which was just southwest of the house. The house is now being sold by one of their granddaughters.

September 17, 2025

A Farmhouse on 39 Acres in Wilkes County, $799,000

3450 Sparta Road (N.C. Highway 18), Mulberry, Wilkes County

• $799,000 (originally $800,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,190 square feet, 39 acres
• Price/square foot: $365
• Built in 1935 (per county, appears older)
• Listed January 27, 2025
• Last sale: $377,500, July 2002
• Neighborhood: In the Mulberry community, 7 miles north of North Wilkesboro

Original listing (January 2025): “Pristine 40-acre organic family farm in North Wilkesboro, NC. 90 years in family, no pesticides or chemicals used, beautiful fertile clay soil fallow since 1980s.” Why would they remove that from the listing? Although county records date the house to 1935, the style looks much older.

September 15, 2025

A Novel 1905 Vernacular queen Anne in Elkin, $249,000

289 N. Bridge Street, Elkin, Surry County

• $249,000
• 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,847 square feet, 0.27 acre
• Price/square foot: $135
• Built in 1905
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sales: $45,000, August 2013; $10,500, July 2012
• Neighborhood: Gwyn Avenue-North Bridge Street Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “The one-and-a-half-story frame house is notable for its metal-shingle-covered steep hipped roof with multiple smaller gables intersecting the main roof on the front and sides of the house. A tall gabled dormer rises between the two front gables. The dormer and all the gables are lit by one-over-one sash round-arched windows.”

September 11, 2025

A 1917 Foursquare in Greensboro’s College Hill, $510,000

129 S. Tate Street, Greensboro
The Jobe-Faust House

• $510,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,620 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $195
• Built in 1917
• Listed September 11, 2025
• Last sales: $365,000, September 2020; $320,000, August 18, 2018
• Note: County records give 1924 as the date of the house, but the address appears. in the city directory beginning in 1917.

The property was owned from 1916 to 1947 by William Sylvester Jobe (1868-1936) and Mary Elizabeth Hinshaw Jobe (1869-1947). William had a varied career — co-founder of a milling company, director of the Greensboro Motor Car Company and then 20 years in the machinery business. Mary’s estate sold the house in 1947.

September 9, 2025

A 1928 Period cottage in Greensboro, $608,000

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208 S. Tremont Drive, Greensboro
The Chloe and Frederick Sarles House

• $609,000
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,698 square feet (per county), 0.18 acre
• Price/square foot: $359
• Built in 1928
• Listed September 8, 2025
• Last sales: $230,000, March 2014; $85,000, July 1993
• Neighborhood: Sunset Hills Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property includes a detached garage.
  • Online listings show 2,377 square feet, an unusually wide 40 percent discrepancy from property tax records.
  • Replacement windows. For such an uncommonly high price for the neighborhood, a buyer should expect better.

District NR nomination: “The one-story, four-bay, side-gabled with returns, brick Period Cottage displays two front-facing, slightly projecting gables with returns and fanlights. The north gable shelters a northeast corner porch with two large arched openings supported by brick posts and a solid brick balustrade. A decorative band of soldier-course brick set in a basketweave pattern extends along the frieze on the visible elevations. …

“The first occupant appears at this address in the 1929 city directory. It remained a rental until June 1936 when the Sarles purchased the house. According to the 1937 city directory, he was the state manager of Inter-Ocean Casualty Company. The house remained under ownership of Sarles heirs until 1993.”

September 6, 2025

A 1903 Restoration Project in Greensboro’s College Hill, $149,900

935 Carr Street, Greensboro
The Weaver-Painter House

• $149,900
• 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, 1,375 square feet, 0.19 acre
• Price/square foot: $109
• Built in 1903
• Listed September 12, 2025
• Last sale: $23,000, March 1979
• Neighborhood: College Hill Historic District (local and NR)

The house has been left to deteriorate since its owner died in 2017. The original owners were Wylie Cromwell Weaver (1846-1906) and Amelia Ann Kirkland Weaver (1847-1914). Wylie was a carpenter, worked as a police officer and served as the city health officer at one time. Subsequent owners included the owner of the neighborhood grocery next door and, for 35 years, a married couple who taught English at the Woman’s College.

September 4, 2025

A 1910 Bungalow in Winston-Salem’s Washington Park, $359,000

112 Gloria Avenue, Winston-Salem
The G.F. Keehln House

• $359,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,433 square feet, 0.24 acre
• Price/square foot: $251
• Built in 1910
• Listed September 3, 2025
• Last sale: $210,000, July 2019
• Neighborhood: Washington Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: Owned by an LLC

District NR nomination: “L-shaped gable-roofed vernacular frame house; hipped-roof porch supported by turned posts and sawn brackets. Steep stone steps from sidewalk have been washed with a Portland cement stucco.”

September 3, 2025

A Blacksmith’s 1915 House in Winston-Salem, $150,000

1024 Franklin Street, Winston-Salem

• $150,000 (originally $160,000)
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,978 square feet, 0.21 acre
• Price/square foot: $76
• Built in 1915
• Listed August 20, 2025
• Last sale: $72,000, July 2004
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: The listing includes only one photo.

The address first appears in the city directory in 1915 with Rufus Augusta Myers (1865-1965) and Flora Hasultine Thomas Myers (1869-1920) as residents. Rufus was a blacksmith with the Winston Vehicle Company.

September 2, 2025

An 1871 Holt Family Mansion in Alamance County, on the National Register, $650,000

2834 Bellemont Alamance Road, Alamance County
Sunny Side

• $650,000
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,411 square feet, 1.77 acres (see note)
• Price/square foot: $191
• Built in 1871
• Listed September 2, 2025
• Last sales: $470,000, September 2021; $275,000, May 2016
• Note: The house has a Burlington mailing address but is well to the south, just off N.C. 62 south of the village of Alamance.
  • County records give two lot sizes. Property records show 1.766 acres. The county GIS system shows 1.766 calculated acres but 2.03 deeded acres.
  • The surrounding lots have no buildings on them (23 acres to the left and rear, 1.77 acres to the right).

National Register nomination: “Sunny Side is a well~detailed, little-altered, two-story T-shaped frame Italianate style house with some Gothic Revival style features constructed in 1871.” The house was built by Lawrence Shackleford Holt (1851-1937), third-generation member of the local family that dominated the Alamance textile industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

September 2, 2025

A Stable Keeper’s 1900 Folk Victorian in Eden, $200,000

749 Morgan Road, Eden, Rockingham County
The Watt and Louella Dunn House

• $200,000
• 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,416 square feet, 1.03 acres
• Price/square foot: $83
• Built in 1900
• Listed August 21, 2025
• Last sale: $75,000, June 2007
• Neighborhood: Carolina Heights, Spray

The house is a Folk Victorian, characterized by its symmetry, wraparound porch, simple trim and siding, and central front gable that breaks up the roofline. Watt Alvis Dunn (1874-1929) and Louella Boaz Dunn (1875-1960) bought the property in 1904. Watt operated the Dunn Livery Stable on the property in a building that stood until around 1990.

September 1, 2025

Two Relatively Affordable 1920s Bungalows in Winston-Salem Historic districts

15 W. Devonshire Street, Winston-Salem
The Henry and Mary Lindley House

• $299,000
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,496 square feet, 0.17 acre
• Price/square foot: $200
• Built in 1917
• Listed September 4, 2025
• Last sale: $75,000, November 2004
• Neighborhood: Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District (NR)

District NR nomination: “This one-and-a-half-story bungalow has a recessed porch with paired square posts on brick piers; nine-over-one windows; Craftsman-style door; knee braces; asbestos shingle siding.”

West Devonshire Street doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1923, but as early as 1919, Henry Columbus Lindley (1894-1979) and Mary A. Lindley (1896-1957) were listed at the corner of Lexington Road and Devonshire. Ownership of the house remained in their family until 1995.

410 Beaumont Street, Winston-Salem

• $279,900 (originally $328,900)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,627 square feet, 0.07 acre
• Price/square foot: $172
• Built in 1920 (per county, but probably a few years later; see note)
• Listed May 30, 2025
• Last sales: $184,000, January 2025; $165,000, January 2025 (the same day); $200,000, March 2022
• Neighborhood: West Salem Historic District (NR)
• Note: Flipped house. Caveat emptor.
  • Since a foreclosure in 2011, the house has been owned by a succession of financial institutions and LLCs. It’s now owned by an LLC in Fuquay-Varina.

District NR nomination: “Craftsman Bungalow. One and a half story; side gable; asbestos shingle siding; front-gable dormer; four (vertical)-over-one, double-hung sash; gable-roof porch; battered posts on brick piers; exposed rafter tails; knee braces.”

The address doesn’t appear in the city directory until 1924, with James Walker Bowles (1862-1930) and Minnie Lee Messick Bowles (1878-1932) and some number of their 12 children as residents. James was a carpenter. The family had moved, probably to a bigger house, by 1926.

September 1, 2025

A Remarkable Architect’s 1923 Bungalow in Greensboro, $375,000

904 Wharton Street, Greensboro
The Lorenzo and Albinia Winslow House

• $375,000
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,142 square feet, 0.16 acre
• Price/square foot: $328
• Built in 1928 (per county, but probably a few years earlier; see note)
• Listed August 22, 2025
• Last sales: $285,000, April 2023; $205,000, June 2021
• Neighborhood: Fisher Park Historic District (NR)
• Note: The property is in the National Register historic district but outside the local Fisher Park Historic District.
• District NR nomination: “Shingled bungalow with stone porch piers and chimney”

The original owners were Lorenzo S. Winslow (1892-1976) and Albinia Daggett Fish Winslow (1889-1969), who bought the property in 1923, the first year the address appeared in the city directory. Lorenzo was one of Greensboro’s most significant architects. He had come to Greensboro to work for Harry Barton and by 1923 was designing homes for A.K. Moore Realty. He may well have designed this house for himself. He went into practice on his own in 1927.

In 1932 Lorenzo moved to Washington. He became the White House architect after he won a competition to design a heated swimming pool for President Franklin Roosevelt’s therapy for polio (photo from National Archives). Between 1948 and 1952 he directed the removal and reconstruction of the entire interior of the White House.