Forsyth County – Piedmont Historic Homes

Huntlyholme, A 1924 Mansion in Winston-Salem, $3 Million

October 7, 2023

The rise of Charlotte and Raleigh as nationally prominent cities makes it easy to overlook Winston-Salem’s status 100 years ago as North Carolina’s biggest and richest city. Its heyday is long past, but an outstanding collection of historic mansions is a legacy that lives on. A particularly remarkable example now for sale is Huntlyholme, a 9,300 square-foot mansion in the Westview neighborhood.

Built in 1924, the house was designed by architects Charles Barton Keen and William Roy Wallace with original landscaping by Thomas Sears, all prominent names in Winston-Salem architectural history. The address is 2900 Country Club Drive.

A Remarkable 1905 Home in Winston-Salem’s Waughtown, now Needing a Heroic Restoration, $189,900

May 5, 2022

The Ernest Nissen House is one of the most striking and historic homes in the Waughtown-Belville Historic District, and this is the entire description in its new for-sale listing: “PROPERTY HAS NO PERMANENT HEATING.” May St. Joseph protect it, because the owner and listing agent don’t appear to care much what happens to it.

The house is associated with the Nissen family and the more than 100-year history of the Nissen Wagon Works just down the street. It’s listed at $189,900. It needs cosmetic work, but a surprising amount of interior detail has survived.

Sold: The 1946 Home of a Winston-Salem Family That Conquered an Industry, $980,000

March 12, 2022

The Reynolds and Hanes families are as emblematic of Winston-Salem as Old Salem or Bethania. The Lewallens came along a bit later and never achieved the same profile, but they, too, built a business and made their brand the industry leader and a household name (in the Southeast, at least).

The Thad and Nell Lewallen House in Buena Vista sold last week for $980,615. It was designed by William Roy Wallace (more here), one of the state’s more prominent architects of the period. It’s a big (4,700 square feet), Georgian mansion with a slate roof and a view of the Forsyth Country Club golf course. Its rooms are elegant and spacious, as is the well-landscaped 1.28-acre lot.

This Fabulous 1906 House in Winston-Salem Shows Just How Quickly Homes Can Sell These Days

February 26, 2022

*137 N. Spring Street, Winston-Salem, the Walter and Ethel Conrad House*

A sign of the times: 137 N. Spring Street in Winston-Salem was listed for sale January 21. The price was $499,000. The sellers accepted an offer four days later. The sale then closed in 16 days. The buyers paid $552,500, more than 10 percent above the asking price.

It’s a great house — built in 1906, located in the Holly Avenue Historic District, beautifully designed and impeccably restored. Still, though, that sale went through at nearly the speed of light in terms of home sales, and even just a few years ago that almost ever happened. Now, it does. A $1.6 million mansion in Greensboro’s Irving Park went from listing to closing in 10 days this month, also selling at a premium to the asking price.

New Listing: Northup & O’Brien’s 1933 Lasater Mill House in Clemmons, $1.99 million

August 9, 2021

The Lasater Mill House is a mansion that was originally an outbuilding for a bigger mansion. It was designed by Northup & O’Brien for a niece of R.J. Reynolds, Nancy Margaret Lybrook Lasater (1877-1952), and her husband, Robert E. Lasater (1867-1954), an RJR executive. Nancy’s mother, Mary Josephine Reynolds Lybrook (1844-1888), was a sister of RJR; she was the first of 12 children, only seven of whom survived to adulthood.

The house is at the west end of Lasater Lake, where Blanket Creek runs down to the nearby Yadkin River. The exterior and the interior are spectacular. I’d love to know what Northup and O’Brien would say about how the house has been updated. If those bathrooms wouldn’t blow their minds, nothing would.

An 1889 Restoration Candidate in Kernersville: The First Thing It Needs Is a Good, Sturdy Fence

October 20, 2019

4981 george west road kernersville.jpg

Update: The house sold for $30,000 on November 6, 2019.

The owner of 4981 George West Road in Kernersville apparently doesn’t think much of the house. The listing mainly is concerned with two other things. One is how nice the flat, 1-acre lot would be for a home site. The other is this goat:

4981 george west road goat.jpg — Listing: “If there is an Old Billy Goat Gruff in the yard, RUN! He is the neighbors and shouldn’t be there!”

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